This week’s version of Finovate World takes a take a look at one of many modern fintech firms headquartered in Estonia: Ender Turing. The agency, which focuses on voice dialog intelligence and automation, made its Finovate debut earlier this yr at FinovateEurope in London.
Headquartered in Tallinn, Ender Turing was based in 2020. The founding workforce consisted of two AI researchers with expertise in computerized speech recognition and pure language processing (NLP), in addition to a 3rd member with expertise in enterprise-level name middle software program. Collectively, the workforce fashioned Ender Turing and have since launched Ender Turing AI Speech Analytics. The brand new answer routinely analyzes and assesses the communication content material between monetary establishments and their prospects. This helps FIs improve the client expertise, in addition to meet high quality tips and compliance necessities in areas resembling customer support, gross sales, and debt assortment.
We corresponded with Ender Turing CEO Olena Iosifova through e mail. Beneath are her responses to our questions.
Learn extra about fintech in Estonia on this Finovate World column from earlier this yr.
What drawback does Ender Turing clear up and who does it clear up it for?
Olena Iosifova: Eight hundred million voice conversations are recorded each day in Europe and plenty of extra worldwide. A tiny 1% of those conversations are checked for high quality management, worker coaching, and enterprise outcomes enchancment. Ender Turing is a conversations intelligence and automation platform to shut 99% of the dialog hole for enterprise development.
Our each day enterprise customers are customer support, gross sales, and assortment departments. However advertising and product groups additionally get worth from making shopper’s analysis proper on our platform.
How does Ender Turing clear up this drawback higher than different firms?
Iosifova: Ender Turing created the fastest-to-value platform that performs in 24 languages. We use a proprietary speech-to-text engine to fine-tune fashions for each shopper to realize the very best accuracy. Our machine studying pipelines are very environment friendly, and we are able to fine-tune speech recognition without cost.
Additionally, the consumer interface does all of the system setup for reaching enterprise KPIs. There is no such thing as a want to attend for the time slot on the IT division to assist a enterprise unit make it.
Who’re Ender Turing’s major prospects? How do you attain them?
Iosifova: Our major prospects come from monetary business. These are banks, debt assortment corporations, and different monetary companies firms. However we even have shoppers within the public sector and in healthcare.
Direct outreach is our essential channel of getting observed by potential prospects – in addition to our partnership community. We cooperate with system integrators and name middle software program distributors and supply added worth to their buyer base.
Participation in conferences serves as a fantastic supporting contact.
Ender Turing CEO Olena Iosifova demoing Ender Turing AI Speech Analytics at FinovateEurope 2023.
Are you able to inform us a couple of favourite implementation or deployment of your know-how?
Iosifova: We have now two nice examples of our know-how implementation. One is OTP Financial institution, and one other is Creamfinance Group.
In OTP Financial institution it began with the decision middle customer support division. One month after we began, the debt assortment division joined, seeing nice outcomes. OTP Financial institution noticed lots of of hours of saved time each month for high quality administration, worker coaching, and improved conversion charges – outcomes we mutually take pleasure in.
With Creamfinance Group, one of the best indicator of nice enterprise outcomes is that after implementation of their headquarters in Poland, we now serve additionally their places of work in Spain, Mexico, and the Czech Republic.
What in your background gave you the arrogance to answer this problem?
Iosifova: Three founders in Ender Turing have optimistic expertise and abilities in synthetic Iitelligence R&D, enterprise administration, and a ardour for constructing extremely performing groups. We take pleasure in analyzing our potential prospects’ methods and market developments to foresee the challenges they could face within the subsequent three to 5 years. With fixed improvements inside our R&D, we construct our product to ship worth for right now and the long run.
What’s the fintech business like in Estonia? How do conventional monetary establishments deal with Estonian fintechs?
Iosifova: Other than the massive title in fintech, Clever, coming from Estonia, different thrilling fintechs are rising right here. To call a couple of – Grunfin, Scrambleup, Tuum, Salv, Montonio.
They associate with conventional monetary establishments actively. For instance, LHV Financial institution is one of the best shopper of Tuum. And Salv is the AML answer that works precisely in a conventional monetary companies market.
You latterly demoed your know-how at FinovateEurope in London. What was that have like?
Iosifova: That is really a world occasion the place we met firms from everywhere in the world. This was a nice shock. We are going to take part once more.
What are your targets for Ender Turing?
Iosifova: Our objective is to grow to be a number-one selection platform for banks and monetary companies firms concerning dialog intelligence and automation, offering the highest quality of service, gross sales dialog charge, and restoration charge.
What can we count on from Ender Turing over the steadiness of 2023?
Iosifova: Our development in 2023 will get us to broaden to the U.S. and Latin America. However what’s extra attention-grabbing is that we carry real-time agent help to fill the hole between the top-performing brokers and the remainder of the workforce and guarantee real-time compliance monitoring in each dialog.
Picture by Marlene Leppänen