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About AI Edge

Artificial Intelligence is sweeping through the economy, and the construction industry, causing anxiety and excitement in leaders and workers. AI Edge was formed as a partnership offering between BBi, a tech strategy consultancy, and The Link.ai, an AI software and services firm. This partnership brings together decades of experience in construction, AI, software development, technology strategy, training, and change management, to provide best in class outcomes for our clients.

Core Principles

We believe:

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AI should serve to elevate human expertise, creativity, and judgment.

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Humans add value in the work, not just as approvers at the end. Over-automating processes creates both project risk and lower quality outcomes.

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AI is an unreliable technology by design, and it is the role of consultants and solution developers to make that unreliable component part of a reliable system.

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Our job is to improve your business through AI. Sometimes that will mean keeping AI out of some processes. It will almost always mean broadening your understanding of risks and means to manage risk.

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AI implementations need to be purposely designed to provide the best input to human decision making. Often that means matching the AI system to the task, situation and user.

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Wherever possible, AI Edge must de-risk our advice and recommendations. While risk can never be completely eliminated, we will do what we can to minimize risks, and make clients aware of those we cannot.