PE­TER CHRISTO­PHER

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

pe­ter.christo­pher@guardian.co.tt

For “less than the cost of an em­ploy­ee” In­tel­li­Co AI Agency Lim­it­ed has vowed to change the busi­ness land­scape of the coun­try.

The com­pa­ny of­fi­cial­ly launched its pi­o­neer­ing plat­form, In­tel­li­Co Au­tonomous ERP, a suite of en­ter­prise-class soft­ware which com­pa­ny founder Gre­go­ry Fer­nan­dez has stat­ed will make com­pa­nies in the re­gion in­ter­na­tion­al­ly com­pet­i­tive.

“One of the things that we’re go­ing to be able to achieve is for large com­pa­nies, glob­al com­pa­nies from the Caribbean and else­where, to be able to scale their op­er­a­tions at a re­duced cost. So it would al­low Trinidad com­pa­nies, Caribbean com­pa­nies, to en­ter mar­kets over­seas,” said Fer­nan­dez at the launch event at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce build­ing in West­moor­ings on Wednes­day.

Fer­nan­dez, who stat­ed he had 35 years of ex­pe­ri­ence in en­ter­prise soft­ware, ex­plained that us­ing AI pro­gram­mers en­abled his team to bridge re­source gaps via the soft­ware.

He ex­plained the plat­form has over 150 spe­cialised AI agents that act as vir­tu­al em­ploy­ees who pos­sess their own email ac­counts, en­abling them to au­to­mate in­ten­sive work­flows like ac­counts payable and re­ceiv­able. This he ex­plained would al­low sup­pli­ers to email bills di­rect­ly to the AI, which us­es vi­sion ca­pa­bil­i­ties to process in­voic­es, match in­ven­to­ry, and draft ledger en­tries.

He, how­ev­er, ex­plained that “strict hu­man guardrails re­main in place,” such as the re­quire­ment of man­u­al ap­proval for all fi­nan­cial ac­tions.

He added the In­tel­li­Co soft­ware would of­fer an all-in-one suite span­ning hu­man re­sources, op­er­a­tions, and mar­ket­ing. The sys­tem, Fer­nan­dez ex­plained, in­clud­ed a Stan­dard Op­er­at­ing Pro­ce­dure (SOP) gen­er­a­tor, sen­ti­ment analy­sis for emails and meet­ings, a built-in vir­tu­al PBX to min­imise com­mu­ni­ca­tion costs, and re­al-time trans­la­tion fea­tures.

He stat­ed while the soft­ware was de­vel­oped in T&T, and would cost busi­ness­es about $4,000 to pur­chase, with the pric­ing ad­just­ed with Small and Medi­um En­ter­pris­es in mind and ad­just­ed to scale of busi­ness size, the busi­ness would al­so pay In­tel­li­Co a US$50 month­ly fee for the ser­vice.

Fer­nan­dez said due to its in­ter­na­tion­al ap­peal, the in­ter­face is set to ac­cept pay­ments in US dol­lars as it is the cur­ren­cy that is ac­cept­ed around the world. He stressed that In­tel­li­Co is de­signed with mas­sive glob­al am­bi­tions with sup­port for mul­ti-cur­ren­cy and mul­ti-lan­guage ca­pa­bil­i­ties.

Fer­nan­dez said he is plan­ning an­oth­er launch next month in Ghana, while al­so look­ing at open­ing in Colom­bia and Cos­ta Ri­ca be­fore the end of the year.