“What can AI really do for my business?” This is the question we hear constantly from organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence. While many see AI primarily as a customer service tool, its capabilities extend far beyond simple question-answering into every corner of your operations.
Profound AI, our groundbreaking development environment, unlocks sophisticated AI capabilities for businesses of all sizes—without requiring a team of data scientists or massive technology overhauls.
As the only AI platform built from the ground up to support IBM i systems while seamlessly integrating with leading large language models (LLMs), Profound AI empowers companies to enhance operational efficiency, sharpen decision-making, and drive innovation in ways that deliver immediate, measurable value.
Let’s explore ten powerful applications that demonstrate how Profound AI can transform your business operations through natural language interaction.
1. Real-Time Data Analysis and Visualization
Businesses often struggle to transform raw data into actionable insights quickly enough for time-sensitive decisions. Profound AI bridges this gap by directly connecting to multiple databases including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle.
By analyzing real-time data, Profound AI generates dynamic visualizations on demand that make complex information immediately comprehensible. Imagine a manufacturing supervisor asking, “What’s our current production efficiency compared to last month?” and instantly receiving a comparative chart showing trends and anomalies—all generated from live production data.
2. Document Processing and Knowledge Extraction
Organizations store vast amounts of valuable information in various document formats that often become siloed and underutilized. Profound AI transforms this landscape by analyzing data from diverse sources, including PDFs, spreadsheets, and Word documents.
Legal teams can quickly extract relevant clauses from of contracts. Compliance officers can identify potential issues across policy documents. Customer service representatives can instantly access product specifications from technical manuals. All through intuitive natural language queries, eliminating the learning curve associated with complex search tools.
3. Automated Workflow Initiation
Routine business processes consume valuable employee time with manual initiation, monitoring, and follow-up steps. Profound AI goes beyond answering questions by executing actions through its innovative low-code routines.
When an employee asks, “Can you process the month-end inventory adjustment?” the AI agent doesn’t just acknowledge the request—it executes it by updating database records, generating reconciliation reports, and notifying stakeholders. One simple command frees your team to focus on strategic decisions rather than routine processes.
4. Legacy System Integration and Futurization
Organizations with legacy systems face a daunting dilemma: how to modernize applications while preserving substantial investments in existing infrastructure. Profound AI offers a revolutionary middle path as the only AI platform designed from the ground up to support IBM i systems.
Rather than requiring complete system overhauls, Profound AI seamlessly layers intelligent capabilities onto your existing applications. It can directly call RPG programs and service program procedures, consume web services, and access databases without intermediary systems.
For many organizations, this represents the ideal first step in their journey from modernization to futurization—moving beyond updating legacy systems to reimagining what those systems can do with cutting-edge AI capabilities integrated at their core.
5. Personalized Business Intelligence
Despite significant investments in BI platforms, most employees still depend on IT specialists or data analysts to create and modify dashboards. Profound AI democratizes business intelligence through its advanced data analytics capabilities.
Instead of learning complex reporting tools or submitting IT tickets, business users can simply ask questions in natural language. A sales manager can ask, “Show me the top-performing products in each region for Q2, compared to Q1,” and immediately receive a customized visualization revealing actionable insights—no BI team required.
6. Automated Customer Communication Management
Delivering consistent, personalized communications at scale often results in generic messaging and inconsistent voice. Profound AI transforms this landscape through intelligent automation that maintains the human touch.
Account managers can request, “Send quarterly performance updates to all our premium clients,” and the AI agent handles the heavy lifting—generating personalized reports for each client, drafting appropriate emails with custom highlights, and queuing them for review or immediate sending. This ensures consistent quality and timely delivery while freeing your team to focus on high-value interactions.
7. Guided Process Execution
Complex business processes spanning different systems create challenges for consistent execution and training. Profound AI serves as an intelligent guide that combines procedural knowledge with system interaction capabilities.
A new employee processing a return can simply ask, “How do I handle this customer’s refund request?” and receive step-by-step guidance tailored to the specific situation. Behind the scenes, the AI agent retrieves order details, checks return eligibility, calculates refund amounts and can initiate transactions—all while keeping the employee informed and in control.
8. Contextual Data Retrieval and Analysis
Critical business data often resides in multiple systems, creating information silos that impede comprehensive analysis. Profound AI eliminates these barriers through its unique ability to integrate with diverse data sources simultaneously.
When a financial analyst asks about profit margin trends correlated with marketing spend across multiple quarters, Profound AI handles the complex information gathering behind the scenes. It compiles comprehensive analysis with appropriate visualizations that reveal meaningful patterns and relationships, enabling more sophisticated analysis that might otherwise be impractical.
9. Internal Knowledge Base Assistance
Organizations struggle with efficiently accessing their own internal documentation and policies. Profound AI can ingest company handbooks, policies, and process documents, then provide employees with immediate answers to internal policy questions.
Users can ask, “What’s our current policy on remote work?” or “What steps do I need to take to approve a purchase order over $5,000?” and receive accurate, contextual guidance based on your organization’s specific documentation.
10. Predictive Maintenance and Operations
Unplanned downtime can cost organizations thousands or even millions of dollars per hour. Profound AI combines sophisticated analysis of historical patterns with real-time operational data monitoring to identify subtle anomalies that might indicate future issues.
Operations managers can simply ask, “Based on current performance metrics, which manufacturing lines are at risk of downtime in the next week?” and receive specific predictions with supporting evidence and recommended preventive measures. The result is improved operational reliability, optimized resource allocation, and significant cost savings.
Transforming Your Business with Accessible AI: From Modernization to Futurization
While many technology providers focus merely on modernization—updating existing systems to current standards—Profound Logic takes you beyond modernization into futurization. This strategic approach doesn’t just refresh your technology; it reimagines what your business systems can achieve by infusing them with forward-looking AI capabilities.
Profound AI removes the traditional barriers that have kept sophisticated AI out of reach:
- No specialized expertise required – Build intelligent agents using natural language instructions and intuitive tools without specialized AI knowledge.
- Direct, real-time data access – Connect directly to your existing databases and systems for insights based on the most current information.
- Seamless integration with legacy systems – Respect your existing technology investments while extending their capabilities through our futurization approach.
- Flexible AI model support – Switch between various commercial and open-source LLMs with a simple configuration change.
- Low-code extensibility – Extend agent capabilities through intuitive routines without extensive development.
Ready to transform your business operations and unlock AI’s full potential? Visit profoundlogic.com/ai to learn more about our futurization approach and get started today.
