SE05E05 - Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC)

The thirty-ninth episode of the podcast that you know and love as "We Love Ugly Data!" is out; available in audio form everywhere you get your podcasts from and additionally in video form via YouTube (which we've embedded below). It's Matt and Alan again this month, talking about new vendor profiles, a brand-new report on the AEC industry, and 4 key areas for agentic automation to focus on.

In this month’s episode:

Topic 1: New Vendor Profiles

It's time for new vendor profiles, and we've just published 6. In this podcast, Matt and Alan talk about 3 of them (when Dan joins Matt for the June edition, they'll cover the other three). This time, they discuss agentic automation and Hyland's content platform (and how it fits into their new strategy under their new leadership). Then, Papyrus's Owlfie conversation AI approach to automation, and finally, novel AI-led retail process automation from European start-up Duvo (whose profile is available to read for free on its website). The pair also hints at a number of related reports, including a market sizing report soon to come.

Topic 2: AEC Report

On top of those vendor profiles, we've also just released a new report on the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industry and the technological approaches to managing the plethora of complex documents across a wide range of projects undertaken by the industry's piece-parts and processes. There's a blog post that explains the scope of the report both upfront and throughout the discussion. Alan decides that everyone should get access to the report and open-sources it on the fly. Matt also notes that there's a whole wealth of further AEC material to come from Deep Analysis over the next few months.

Topic 3: Runtimes and Processes

Last month you'll remember that Matt and Alan discussed the latest release of the Work Intelligence research and since, Matt has been writing a little about what the near-future looks like the all those runtimes and how agentic platforms start to fit within that future. Here he talks about 2 recent posts: "What if AI gets stuck at the task and never reaches the process?" and "Enterprises don’t need another automation runtime unless you give them an excellent reason". The second of these contains "4 potential points of value" that agentic automaton platforms need to fit in order to add real value: problem-solving, flexibility, inheritance, and fraternity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQAElcD9k2w

Related Links for Series 5 Episode 5
New vendor profiles in a brief blog post: "Six New Reports. No Hype. Just the Good Stuff."
....and here's the one on Duvo, which you can read on their website for free right now.
Here's the blog post Alan wrote about the AEC report, which you can now also download for free.
Matt's 2 blog posts on automation, runtimes, and an agentic future: "What if AI gets stuck at the task and never reaches the process?" and "Enterprises don’t need another automation runtime unless you give them an excellent reason".
Finally, here's the blog post that Matt mentions in passing on the "elastic zone of plausibility".