Which sectors BigLearn works in
BigLearn is a Portuguese artificial intelligence consultancy, founded in 2017 and
based in Lisbon. We work in hospitality and tourism, local government and
public administration, insurance, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing and professional
services — with organisations that already have working processes and want to know
where AI improves them.
Four of those sectors have a case published here: hospitality, local government, insurance and
real estate. The others do not — and until we have a project worth explaining, they will not.
A sector listed without a case is a sector we work in, not one where we have public
proof. It is the same distinction we draw between a delivered project and an
architecture description.
What the cases share is not the technology, it is the shape of the problem: someone doing by
hand what is already written down somewhere, and a wait between the intent of the person
searching and the first useful answer. If that sounds familiar, the route starts with a
proof of concept, with a written success criterion
agreed before we begin.
How we write these case studies
Clients are not named. We describe the sector, the size and the problem
with enough precision for the work to be understood, and we stop there. Naming a client
requires written permission, and we would rather publish without a name than wait for it.
The numbers are catalogue figures, not results. We say how many rooms, how
many items, how many languages — verifiable things, with a date attached. We do not publish
revenue-increase or cost-reduction percentages we cannot show the source of.
We tell you the decisions, including the ones that ruled out AI. A case
study where everything went well and the technology solved everything teaches the reader
nothing. The interesting choices are the ones that had an alternative.
We say when it is architecture rather than delivery. Some of these describe
completed projects; others describe what one of our architectures can do, written in the
conditional. They are different things and they are labelled as such — in the list above and
at the head of each page. A catalogue of capabilities presented as a track record is the
fastest way to lose the reader.