'Hello world!'- Launching Veloceo

Supercharge innovation and enterprise growth with AI

Picture the scene. You’re the CIO or Head of Transformation at a large enterprise somewhere in Australia. Or the MD or proprietor of a business that is always looking for a competitive edge. You're hearing all these signals about how AI is going to revolutionise your industry but you’re not sure what is real or where to start. Big Tech and Big Consulting have been in touch, but you don’t have time for 17 requirements gathering meetings and you’ve seen one too many art of the possible demos.

If any of this sounds familiar - we’re here for you.

After an extended period in ‘stealth’ mode, Jason Paizes and I are thrilled to finally unveil our new venture, Veloceo, which helps businesses reinvent their workflows to capture the value that AI can offer.

Having both been part of the exceptional IBM Garage team, we had a shared drive for helping businesses tackle problems that move the needle, developing groundbreaking products and a mutual passion for creating startup energy and culture. We saw the emergence of Generative AI as a technology that could accelerate these outcomes and thus Veloceo was born!

Addressing Industry Pain Points

Amid the excitement in the market, we identified some recurring pain points that were common in the countless consulting reports on the subject:

• High Barriers to Entry: The perceived high costs and complexities involved in developing enterprise-grade AI products and solutions.
• Capability Gaps: A dependency on vendor-driven initiatives and a rise of 'shadow IT on steroids', exacerbated by a lack of expertise in aligning technology with business value.
• Workflow Integration Issues: Tools like ChatGPT were great for creating an initial ‘wow' factor but only produced ‘toy apps’ that were neither hardened not scalable for enterprise adoption.

Championing Human-Centred Outcomes

Additionally, there is a fourth factor that was conspicuous by its absence from the emerging AI landscape: the need for human-centric solutions that address real-world business problems, deliver measurable results and, most importantly, enrich lives by creating the ultimate commodity—time.

Velocity from Vision to Value

Inspired by this opportunity, we have been on a mission to democratise generative AI for Australian businesses, focusing on three value pillars:

• Accessible Enterprise-Grade Technology: Our platform, VeloceoAI, lowers the barriers to entry by enabling companies to securely develop rapid AI prototypes that prove value, leveraging their own datasets, without the need for large capex projects.
• Comprehensive Full-Stack Service: Our team offers an end-to-end service, from ideation and prioritisation to implementation and dedicated support, to ensure maximum benefits realisation, user adoption and ROI.
• Seamless Workflow Integration: We don’t just build zombie products that leave you to build / fine-tune / train custom AI models using your own data - we help you reinvent new workflows that will define how your future business will operate in the new era of post-Gen AI efficiency.

Remember the early days of the cloud? We’re old enough to recall the uncertainty that businesses had around moving from local servers to data centres. Arguably, we’re at a similar stage in the emergence of AI, so we wanted to build a platform that made the first step less daunting, reduced enterprise risk and proved feasibility, making the business case for future development a ‘no-brainer’.

What's Next?

The essence of our company is that we help C-suite executives innovate fast, hence the name: Velo-ceo. We had been holding off on our launch until we had a solid base of real-life use cases. During this time, we’ve been busy building, working with our first 3-4 clients on products that will really turbocharge their operations. Over the next couple of months we will be releasing:-

• A rostering solution for a large industrial services company;
• A complex financial reporting product for an accounting firm; and
• An investor relations platform for public companies.

This is just scratching the surface of our business solution roadmap and we’ll be announcing more in the very near future.

Let's Connect

In the meantime, we’d love to talk to any businesses that this article resonates with: companies that have innovation in their DNA. We’ve designed a process that enables us to identify AI opportunities for your organisation - not just your industry, your specific business - based on publicly available sources of information and applying some traditional techniques with some new technology. We’ll do this for you at no cost and give you the guarantee that it will be the most useful report you’ll get from a technology or consulting company all year!

Reach out to us at hello@veloceo.com to find out more.