Knowledge Is Difficult to Access
Important information is distributed across documents, applications, inboxes, collaboration platforms, and individual experts.
KNOWLEDGE
APPLIED AI SOLUTIONS
Turn Artificial Intelligence Into Business Capability
Sapiens designs and builds AI Assistants, AI Agents, intelligent workflows, Knowledge Systems, and custom AI applications around your organization's people, processes, data, and goals.
AI Creates Value When It Solves the Right Problem
The opportunity is not to add AI everywhere. It is to identify where intelligence can remove friction, improve decisions, and create capabilities traditional software could not deliver.
Skilled People Perform Repetitive Work
Employees spend valuable time searching, summarizing, reviewing documents, updating systems, routing requests, and coordinating routine processes.
PRODUCTIVITY
Processes Stop for Manual Decisions
Many workflows depend on people interpreting information, validating requests, selecting actions, and handling predictable exceptions.
OPERATIONS
Generic AI Does Not Understand the Business
Off-the-shelf tools lack the organizational context, integrations, controls, and specialized functionality needed to support important business operations.
BUSINESS FIT
Five Ways to Put AI to Work
Each solution addresses a different level of interaction, knowledge, automation, autonomy, or product capability.
AI Assistants
Help employees and customers find information, create content, analyze context, and complete work through natural conversation.
- Contextual assistance
- Employee productivity
- Customer support
- Guided task completion
AI Agents
Deploy governed digital workers that can monitor events, make contextual decisions, and execute multi-step work across systems.
- Autonomous execution
- Cross-system coordination
- Exception escalation
- Continuous operations
AI Workflow Automation
Add intelligence to processes that require documents, context, classification, validation, routing, or conditional decisions.
- Faster processing
- Fewer manual handoffs
- More consistent execution
- Human oversight by design
Knowledge Systems
Transform fragmented organizational information into a secure, searchable, and trusted intelligence layer.
- Natural-language search
- Grounded answers
- Permission-aware access
- Reusable knowledge foundation
Custom AI Applications
Build intelligent products and applications around your organization's customers, workflows, data, and competitive advantage.
- Differentiated experiences
- Enterprise integration
- Purpose-built functionality
- Production-ready foundations
AI Assistants
Give employees and customers an intelligent, business-aware interface.
AI Assistants help people retrieve information, understand context, generate content, analyze situations, and initiate work through natural conversation. Unlike generic chat tools, custom assistants can understand your terminology, connect with approved organizational information, integrate with enterprise applications, and operate according to user permissions. They assist people. The user remains in control of the interaction and the resulting action.
ConversationalContext-awareUser-directed
Best for
- Less time searching for information
- Faster completion of routine work
- More consistent customer and employee support
- Easier access to business tools and knowledge
COMMON APPLICATIONS
- Employee productivity assistant
- Customer-service assistant
- Sales and account assistant
- Operations support assistant
- Financial or analytical assistant
- Meeting and communication assistant
- Specialized professional copilot
- In-application AI assistance
AI Agents
Move from software that responds to software that performs work.
AI Agents are governed software systems that can observe events, evaluate context, select appropriate actions, interact with applications, and complete multi-step processes. Unlike assistants, agents do not always wait for a person to initiate each step. They can operate toward a defined objective within explicit permissions, rules, approval requirements, and escalation boundaries. Agents should not be autonomous everywhere. Sapiens designs the right level of independence around the risk and consequence of each decision.
Goal-directedMulti-stepGoverned autonomy
Best for
- Continuous execution of routine work
- Fewer coordination bottlenecks
- Faster operational response
- More time for human judgment and leadership
COMMON APPLICATIONS
- Customer-request processing
- Operational monitoring and response
- Service and support operations
- Finance and administrative execution
- System and record updates
- Document and report generation
- Multi-agent coordination
- Software-engineering agents
AI Workflow Automation
Help important processes understand context-not just follow fixed rules.
Traditional automation works well when every input, step, and decision is predictable. AI Workflow Automation extends what can be automated by interpreting documents, classifying requests, extracting information, recommending actions, and responding to changing context. The workflow remains structured and observable. AI supports specific steps where understanding or judgment is required, while business rules, approvals, exception handling, and auditability keep the process controlled.
Process-focusedObservableHuman oversight
Best for
- Shorter processing cycles
- Reduced manual effort
- More consistent decisions
- Fewer handoffs and operational delays
COMMON APPLICATIONS
- Intelligent document processing
- Request classification and routing
- Customer or employee onboarding
- Invoice and transaction processing
- Approval orchestration
- Compliance-support workflows
- Reconciliation and exception handling
- Case and ticket management
Knowledge Systems
Turn fragmented information into trusted organizational intelligence.
Knowledge Systems connect documents, knowledge bases, enterprise platforms, and specialized information into a secure intelligence layer. Using retrieval, semantic search, permissions, and grounded generation, these systems help users and AI applications find relevant information and produce answers based on approved organizational sources. A Knowledge System can operate as a standalone search experience or provide the trusted foundation behind assistants, agents, workflows, and custom applications.
Grounded answersPermission-awareReusable foundation
Best for
- Faster access to reliable information
- Fewer repeated questions and interruptions
- More consistent answers
- Greater confidence in AI-generated responses
COMMON APPLICATIONS
- Enterprise knowledge search
- Policy and procedure assistant
- Customer-support knowledge
- Technical documentation intelligence
- Contract and document discovery
- Research and insight systems
- Institutional knowledge preservation
- Knowledge foundation for other AI solutions
Custom AI Applications
Build AI around the way your organization creates value.
Custom AI Applications combine modern software engineering with assistants, agents, intelligent workflows, Knowledge Systems, predictive models, or other AI capabilities. They are appropriate when the opportunity requires a differentiated customer experience, specialized business logic, deep enterprise integration, or functionality that generic AI platforms cannot provide. Sapiens designs the complete application around the business problem-not around a predetermined model or technology.
Purpose-builtIntegratedProduction-ready
Best for
- AI capabilities differentiated around your business
- Better fit with existing workflows and systems
- Greater control over the product experience
- A scalable foundation for continued evolution
COMMON APPLICATIONS
- AI-native SaaS products
- Customer-facing AI experiences
- Intelligent internal platforms
- AI-enabled web and mobile applications
- Decision-support applications
- Predictive business systems
- AI features for existing software
- Industry-specific AI products
Which AI Solution Fits the Problem?
The right choice depends on who initiates the work, how structured the process is, how much autonomy is appropriate, and whether the solution requires a complete application experience.
| Criterion | AI Assistants User-directed | AI Agents Goal-directed | AI Workflow Automation Process-focused | Knowledge Systems Grounded answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Who initiates the work | Person via conversation | Events and defined objectives | Process and request triggers | People or AI applications querying |
How structured the process is | Flexible, conversational | Multi-step toward an objective | Structured and observable | Search and grounded retrieval |
How much autonomy is appropriate | User remains in control | Governed autonomy with escalation | Human oversight by design | Permission-aware answers |
Complete application experience needed? Custom AI Applications remain available via the Solutions section above when you need a purpose-built product. |
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