“Sixfold’s ability to move beyond document extraction and deliver genuine underwriting intelligence, helping insurers make faster, more informed, and more consistent decisions at scale, was demonstrated through exceptional evidence of real-world adoption and measurable impact. The solution stood out at The AI Awards for combining AI-powered reasoning with carrier-controlled autonomy in a highly regulated industry, allowing organizations to increase efficiency without sacrificing governance or trust. Multiple customer examples demonstrated significant business outcomes, while the platform showed strong adoption, scalability, and practical value in production environments. Overall, Sixfold presented an exceptionally complete and commercially proven AI solution.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Cytora provides a genuinely innovative approach to commercial insurance, moving beyond document automation toward intelligent, agentic underwriting workflows that can understand, structure, and action complex submission data. The platform’s combination of LLM-first architecture, natural language risk configuration, and unified risk reasoning represents a meaningful evolution in how insurance workflows are designed and executed. Cytora stood out at The AI Awards by addressing a long-standing industry challenge in a fundamentally different way, enabling insurers to process unstructured submissions with significantly greater speed, accuracy, and automation, and in doing so, combining technical innovation with proven commercial value.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Mercor impressed the judges at The AI Awards with an ambitious application of artificial intelligence to one of the most fundamental challenges facing organizations: finding the right people for the right work. By placing AI at the heart of talent evaluation and matching, Mercor has created a highly scalable platform while demonstrating exceptional commercial momentum. Mercor’s combination of technological ambition, rapid growth and clear market demand made it a compelling choice for AI Startup of the Year.”

Maneet Bansal, Lead Judge

“PagerDuty impressed the judges at The AI Awards with an AI platform that brings intelligence and automation to some of the most demanding operational environments. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines sophisticated AI with real-time operational data to help organizations identify, understand and resolve critical issues faster. Its maturity, scalability and ability to turn AI insight into meaningful action made it a standout in an exceptionally competitive category.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Diadia Health impressed the judges at The AI Awards with an approach to responsible AI in which ethics and governance are embedded into the design of the technology itself. By prioritizing transparency, traceability and clearly defined boundaries around the role of AI in clinical decision-making, Diadia demonstrates how powerful AI can be deployed while preserving appropriate human oversight. Its thoughtful approach to evidence, accountability and the particular responsibilities of AI in healthcare made it a deserving winner.”

Christopher Bennett, Lead Judge

“Rogervoice impressed the judges at The AI Awards with a powerful demonstration of how artificial intelligence can make everyday communication more accessible. By using AI to help deaf and hard-of-hearing people communicate independently by telephone, Rogervoice applies sophisticated technology to a fundamental human need. Its clear social purpose, thoughtful application of AI and ability to remove a barrier many people encounter every day made it an outstanding example of AI for Good.”

Christopher Bennett, Lead Judge

“Sixfold impressed the judges at The AI Awards with an AI solution built around the highly specialized demands of insurance underwriting. By combining sophisticated artificial intelligence with deep understanding of underwriting workflows, Sixfold helps professionals navigate complex risk information and reach informed decisions more efficiently. Its depth of specialization, practical application and clear understanding of the industry it serves made it an outstanding example of purpose-built AI.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Super Agent (Smart Repair + Chatbot LENA) by Lenovo demonstrates an outstanding real-world implementation of AI, embedding intelligent automation directly into customer support, diagnostics, and repair workflows rather than deploying AI as a standalone feature. It impressively combines multiple AI capabilities into a unified customer experience while providing strong evidence of deployment at scale. Super Agent stood out at The AI Awards for moving beyond AI experimentation and basic implementation, demonstrating how AI can be successfully embedded within complex operational environments.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Forward Predict shows a genuinely innovative combination of AI reasoning and mathematically accurate digital-twin technology. Within a highly competitive category at The AI Awards, Forward Predict stood out by enabling changes proposed by either people or AI agents to be tested and deterministically verified before reaching production. Forward Predict provided meaningful named customer results, including a substantial reduction in onboarding time and removal of routine network-team involvement. Forward Predict presented the strongest overall balance of technical originality, production validation, measurable impact, and future industry significance. A brilliant entry.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Stuut demonstrated one of the clearest examples of true agentic AI in production at The AI Awards, with agents actively executing work across collections, payments, cash application, disputes, and credit workflows rather than simply providing recommendations. The level of real-world evidence was particularly impressive, as was significant reductions in manual effort across a diverse customer base. Stuut stood out through its ability to orchestrate multiple workflows from a single inbound event, demonstrating genuine decision-making and autonomous execution across interconnected finance processes. The platform successfully shows the transition from AI assistance to AI execution while maintaining governance, control, and trust.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“IQVIA impressed the judges at The AI Awards with an intelligent approach to automating one of the complex and time-consuming processes underpinning global clinical research. The eCOA Translation Accelerator demonstrates how AI can dramatically streamline specialist workflows while maintaining the rigor and oversight demanded in a highly regulated environment. Its combination of sophisticated automation, practical impact and potential to accelerate clinical research made it a standout winner.”

Maneet Bansal, Lead Judge

“SnapLogic’s ambitious approach to connecting AI with the applications, data and processes on which modern organizations depend impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards. Its Agentic Integration Platform demonstrates how intelligent automation can simplify complex integration while providing the foundations needed for increasingly autonomous AI systems to operate effectively across the enterprise. Its strong category fit, technical depth and forward-looking approach made SnapLogic a clear winner.”

Maneet Bansal, Lead Judge

“CVS Health Clinical Insights Engine (CIE) shows clear innovation within a highly competitive category at The AI Awards. CIE stood out for its ability to apply AI within one of the most complex and heavily regulated environments, while combining technical sophistication with real-world impact. CIE demonstrates a solution that provides strong measurable outcomes, auditable decision-making, and regulatory compliance. It is a compelling example of how advanced AI can be deployed safely and effectively within mission-critical healthcare settings.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Penguin Solutions impressed the judges at The AI Awards with an innovative approach to one of the most significant infrastructure challenges facing large-scale AI: memory. MemoryAI KV Cache Server delivers striking improvements in latency, throughput and energy efficiency while enabling organizations to make better use of existing GPU resources. Its combination of technical ingenuity, compelling benchmark results and potential to improve the economics of AI infrastructure made it a standout winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Runloop stood out at The AI Awards as an exceptionally strong interpretation of an advanced AI environment, providing the secure execution, coordination, evaluation, and measurement infrastructure required by production AI agents. The solution impressed in a highly competitive category through its sub-second isolated environment provisioning, reproducible state management, and ability to support more than 10,000 concurrent agent environments. Its combination of high performance and structural security provides a flexible foundation for production agents, large-scale evaluations, and reinforcement learning workloads. Furthermore, Runloop demonstrated meaningful customer impact by replacing months of bespoke infrastructure development and significantly accelerating the path from prototype to production. An all-around excellent solution.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“ConnexAI is a worthy winner of Best Use of AI in NLP at The AI Awards. ConnexAI provides one of the most complete applications of NLP in production, spanning speech recognition, language understanding, conversational reasoning, voice generation, and interaction analytics. It stood out through detailed real-world evidence, including a telephony benchmark demonstrating its speech recognition performance. Combined with strong technical performance and substantial enterprise adoption, the platform demonstrates how NLP can move beyond simple transcription and chatbot responses to deliver meaningful business outcomes at scale.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Maestro by Kinaxis is a deserved winner at The A.I. Awards, demonstrating that the solution isn’t simply applying AI to a single part of a workflow, but improving and connecting the entire workflow. Maestro proves to be a highly effective AI-powered workflow solution by connecting planning, forecasting, scenario modeling, and operational execution within a single orchestrated environment. Particularly impressive is its ability to transform complex, fragmented supply-chain processes into data-driven workflows, allowing for faster and more confident decision-making. In addition, the integration of predictive, generative, and agentic AI directly into business-critical workflows makes Maestro a worthy winner of Best AI-powered Workflow Solution.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Fabriq Personalization AI by BCG X impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with its sophisticated approach to delivering personalization at enterprise scale. Combining AI-driven customer intelligence with measurable improvements in engagement, sales, marketing efficiency and retention, Fabriq demonstrates how advanced personalization can translate directly into substantial business value. Its breadth of deployment and compelling evidence of real-world impact made it a standout winner.”

Maneet Bansal, Lead Judge

“LexisNexis impressed the judges at The AI Awards with Nexis+ and its AI assistant, Protégé, demonstrating how generative AI can become a genuinely valuable partner within professional workflows. It combines intelligent research, analysis and content generation with trusted information sources, helping users move from complex questions to meaningful insight with remarkable efficiency. Its depth, usability and thoughtful application of AI made it a deserving winner in this category.”

Maneet Bansal, Lead Judge

“Revenue Growth Management AI by BCG X impressed the judges at The AI Awards with its sophisticated use of artificial intelligence to improve some of the most consequential commercial decisions organizations make. By turning complex data into actionable intelligence across pricing, promotions, assortment and revenue growth, the solution demonstrates AI delivering value far beyond simple automation. Its combination of technical sophistication, practical application and measurable commercial impact made it a standout winner.”

James Williams, The Cloud Awards CEO

“Corelight impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with an intelligent approach to network detection and response that combines the speed of AI with the depth of evidence security teams need to act with confidence. Open NDR helps analysts identify, investigate and understand threats within increasingly complex environments while preserving the context required for effective human decision-making. Its technical depth and thoughtful application of AI to a critical cybersecurity challenge made Corelight a deserving winner.”

Jason Ford, Lead Judge

“Eightfold AI impressed the judges at The AI Awards with a sophisticated approach to understanding talent, skills and potential across the workforce. Its Talent Intelligence platform demonstrates how AI can help organizations look beyond conventional job histories to identify capabilities, connect people with opportunities and make more informed workforce decisions. Its combination of technological depth, practical application and potential to improve how organizations understand and develop their people made it a clear winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Blue Stream Fiber impressed the judges at The AI Awards with a thoughtful and highly effective application of AI across the customer service journey. Metis combines intelligent automation with customer-facing support to deliver faster resolutions, greater operational efficiency and an excellent customer experience. Particularly impressive were the strong satisfaction and first-call resolution results, demonstrating that AI can enhance service at scale without losing sight of the customer.”

Maneet Bansal, Lead Judge

“New Relic Intelligent Observability Platform demonstrates a strong and measurable application of AI to core DevOps challenges, helping organizations reduce alert noise, accelerate issue resolution, and improve engineering productivity. The solution stood out at The A.I. Awards through the strength of the supporting evidence provided, including platform-wide analysis covering millions of users and measurable improvements in issue correlation, incident resolution, and deployment velocity. The combination of Ground Truth, Autopilot, and Preflight provided an excellent example of AI being applied across the software lifecycle rather than within a single isolated task, helping teams improve reliability, operational visibility, and delivery performance at scale.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Lloyds Banking Group intelligent and highly practical application of AI to everyday banking impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards. By transforming complex financial and behavioral data into timely, relevant insight, Everyday Banking Intelligence demonstrates how AI can help financial institutions deliver more useful and personalized experiences for their customers. Its combination of technological sophistication, real-world deployment and clear customer focus made it a deserving winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Diadia Health impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with an exceptionally sophisticated application of AI to precision healthcare. By bringing together complex genomic, metabolic, microbiome and clinical information, Diadia helps clinicians uncover meaningful relationships within each patient’s individual biology while significantly reducing the time required to interpret that data. Its combination of technical ambition, clinical relevance and compelling evidence of real-world impact made it a standout winner.”

Jon Whittall, Judge

“Simbe stood out at The AI Awards for its innovative and highly practical application of AI to the realities of modern retail. Store Intelligence transforms complex, real-world store data into actionable insight, helping retailers improve inventory visibility, operational efficiency and the customer experience. The judges were particularly impressed by its combination of sophisticated AI, proven deployment and clear commercial impact.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“United Airlines impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with an ambitious application of artificial intelligence to the extraordinary complexity of modern airline operations. ORCA demonstrates how AI can support faster, better-informed operational decisions across an interconnected transportation network, helping teams respond intelligently to changing conditions and disruption. Its combination of technical sophistication, real-world scale and direct relevance to the movement of millions of passengers made it a standout winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“LeanDNA impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with a highly practical application of artificial intelligence to the complex realities of modern manufacturing. APEX helps manufacturers turn vast quantities of supply and inventory data into prioritized, actionable intelligence, enabling teams to address material challenges before they disrupt production. Sophisticated AI, a strong industry focus and tangible operational value made LeanDNA a deserving winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Eve Legal impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with its ambitious approach to transforming legal practice through artificial intelligence. EveOS brings AI capabilities into connected legal workflows, helping professionals manage complex casework, streamline routine processes and focus their expertise where it matters most. Its thoughtful mix of automation, practical functionality and a clear understanding of the legal profession’s needs made it a deserving winner in this category.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Buzz Solutions stood out at The A.I. Awards for demonstrating the extraordinary potential of AI to transform the inspection and maintenance of critical energy infrastructure. PowerAI combines sophisticated computer vision with deep utility-sector expertise to turn vast volumes of inspection data into actionable intelligence at remarkable speed. The judges were particularly impressed by its proven deployment at scale, substantial efficiency gains and clear contribution to safer, more reliable and resilient infrastructure.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Ellucian impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with its thoughtful application of artificial intelligence across the student experience. Ellucian Student demonstrates how AI can help institutions simplify complex processes while delivering more responsive, personalized support to students, educators and administrators. Innovation, educational expertise and the ability to deliver meaningful value at scale made Ellucian a thoroughly deserving winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“RHEI impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with Made, demonstrating how artificial intelligence can help creators and media businesses navigate an increasingly complex digital entertainment landscape. By transforming audience and content data into useful intelligence, Made enables smarter decisions while supporting the people and businesses behind the content itself. Its strong industry relevance and thoughtful application of AI made RHEI a compelling winner in this category.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Alison.ai impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with its intelligent approach to one of advertising’s most persistent challenges: understanding what makes creative content perform. By using AI to uncover the relationship between creative decisions and campaign outcomes, Alison.ai gives marketers powerful insight that can inform better, more effective creative work. By demonstrating sophisticated analysis, practical application and clear relevance to the advertising industry Alison.ai are a standout winner.”

James Williams, The Cloud Awards CEO

“Monsha’at impressed the judges at The A.I. Awards with a highly effective application of artificial intelligence to public service delivery. By intelligently analyzing thousands of advisory consultations, the solution enables faster investigation, stronger quality oversight and deeper understanding of the needs of the businesses it serves. Its exceptional efficiency gains, deployment at meaningful scale and thoughtful retention of human oversight demonstrate the considerable potential of AI to improve public administration.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO

“Keyway impressed the judges at The AI Awards with its sophisticated application of artificial intelligence to the complex world of commercial real estate. By transforming fragmented property and market data into actionable intelligence, Keyway enables professionals to identify opportunities, evaluate assets and make better-informed decisions. Their specialist industry understanding, intelligent technology and practical commercial value made Keyway a standout winner.”

Annabelle Whittall, The Cloud Awards COO