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“This is how we grow our economy – if you can release your workforce from working on menial work, you can have them focus on what really matters. This will do wonders, especially in the utilities, manufacturing, and engineering sectors.” Richard Sansom,  East Midlands Network Director for Cadent Gas, shares his experience creating custom software with Cogna, and his perspective on why technologies like Cogna will be transformative for utilities companies.

Everything we care about—healthcare, education, social support—relies on productivity growth. Since the financial crisis, it feels like we’ve stopped prioritizing investments that drive long-term productivity. So, our focus is on finding ways to make productivity improvements as cheap and accessible as possible for everyone.

Victoria’s story of how Network Plus overhauled customer communications using precision Cogna apps, built and launched in weeks, is a brilliant example of what can be achieved with our AI-driven end-user programming platform. Thanks so much to Victoria for sharing her experience!

> A rough prototype of a precision solution after just a one hour conversation. > Go-live of the first precision app only a few weeks after the first iteration. > Launch of a second app one month later. > Manual workload slashed, regulatory compliance ensured, and happier customers. This is what’s possible with end-user programming. Thank you so much to Victoria Grayson from Network Plus for sharing their journey with Cogna, we’re delighted to have delivered results for her teams and excited to roll out these apps in other territories.

It’s kinda wonderful that so many of the world’s best software engineers are working on software that helps everyone else write software. I can’t think of another profession that is working so hard to reduce its exclusivity.

Our first Cogna Tech Talk is coming up tomorrow. We're excited to host Prof Philip Guo, a leader in HCI and AI, speaking next week about his vision for how generative AI can transform data science. Do join us - message me with your email to be added to the call.

15 months into starting Cogna, I'm blown away by how many people are eager to improve their business areas, often without any personal financial incentive. People say Europe's productivity problem is down to laziness, but we’ve seen the exact opposite – it's all about awareness, access and enablement - much easier to solve - so there's lots to be optimistic about!

Cogna is committed to deep relationships with the research community. We're excited to host Prof Philip Guo, a leader in HCI and AI, speaking next week about his vision for how generative AI can transform data science. Do join us - message me for the online link.

“...The CEO logs in as usual, and gathers daily updates from the team. The Chief Technology Officer is suggesting a new feature to ship. The Chief Product Officer wants to redesign the ERP integration. The Chief Revenue Officer is showing off the new pipeline. The CCO is discussing the latest customer health and product feedback. The CISO has found a new privacy conflict, which they are addressing with a newly-revised infrastructure set-up. This sounds like every software business you’ve ever heard of. But the difference is that the CEO’s teammates are entirely AI, not human.” 💡 Our latest deep dive looks at the potential of AI agents and its impact on software development and beyond. Our investors Shamillah, Nils and Zoe interviewed leaders at five of the most exciting companies in the space: Ben Peters at Cogna, Anton Osika at Lovable, Dimitri Masin at Gradient Labs, Hasan Sukkar from 11x.ai, and Iván Martínez Toro at Zylon by PrivateGPT. Thanks also to Owen, our former colleague and Meryem Arik CEO of TitanML for their input to the article. 🔗 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ey3AfG5E

Following the publication of Andy Gordon’s research paper ‘Requirements are All You Need: The Final Frontier for End-User Software Engineering’ (co-authored by Diana Robinson, Christian Cabrera, Neil Lawrence and Lars Mennen) Andy and Diana spoke with Christian Owens about the real-life applications that work in this field could have. From maintaining and ensuring compliance to enabling the full expression of user needs through requirements engineering, read more of Andy’s thoughts here: https://lnkd.in/dTk6wB3u And the full research paper here: https://lnkd.in/dGtGPXyy