previously built an AI system<\/a> to answer questions for call centre staff and other business users.<\/p>\nAt Databricks\u2019 Data + AI Summit in the United States, Alinta\u2019s general manager of data and AI Brad Walker outlined the executive-focused AI use case, which the company calls \u2018Alinta Intelligent Strategic Engine\u2019 or AISE – pronounced \u2018ace\u2019.<\/p>\n
Walker said that AISE was born out of a collaboration between Alinta\u2019s CEO and CIO.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conversation came to us that they thought we’d invested heavily in our [Databricks] platform over the last six-and-a-half to seven years, so they wanted to see what it could do for the executive team on the AI front,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe collaborated with Databricks and over a period of four weeks with about 70 person days, we managed to build a multi-agent system that brings together 500 of our structured data metrics and over 9000 documents that the board and the executive team rely on: board papers, strategy decks, market research.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur system leverages a supervising agent that decides what is the nature of the question being asked by the executive and then returns the result.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every result also comes with a \u201cconfidence score\u201d that is intended to guide executives in how much weight they should put into the response.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt tells them \u2018You can make a decision on this\u2019, [or that] \u2018this is directional but good for your thinking\u2019, or \u2018this is generally correct but don’t bet the farm on it just yet\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also links to the specific document or the specific metric \u2026 that the insight is [derived] from.\u201d<\/p>\n
AISE is now in production use, with ongoing work to build out AI agents to interact with metrics and documents from each of the company\u2019s business units.<\/p>\n
Ry Crozier attended Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 in San Francisco as a guest of Databricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alinta Energy has built a multi-agent system that connects executives to insights, and the underlying source data, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-804119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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