Venn Brown sat down with Idan Schmorak (CEO) and Sytze Voulon  (Chairman) from Unith to discuss the current state of the business and what the future holds.

Thanks for meeting with us today, Idan and Sytze. To start with, can you give us a brief overview of Unith?

Unith is a leading conversational AI  company. Using proprietary machine learning tools, we create AI-powered interactive digital humans that provide a responsive, screen-based interface that businesses can provide their customers or employees.

For example, a bank could have a teller, or a cosmetics brand could have a host to communicate with clientele or employees. An obvious application is healthcare; the platform can communicate with patients before or after surgery or deliver crucial information about taking a specific medicine or preventing a specific disease. There are countless use cases, but essentially, we provide a platform that enables our clients to provide their customers, patients or employees with a digital interface through which they can interact with a conversational AI with a human face specifically trained to help them in that particular situation. And the face and voice, including accent, tone and cadence, can be based on a specific person or entirely synthetic.

The second part of the business is a legacy B2C [business to consumer] division, which now develops simple AI-driven apps. The apps are monetised through mobile operators, active in over 36 countries [not Australia], and available in several languages. One of the services is a bedtime story service where kids get a bedtime story from a digital grandparent, which you can also personalise. If I want to have a bedtime story, for example, how wonderful is it if someone’s real grandma reads them a story. We can make a talking head out of her. In the evenings, mom or dad can say, “Hey, grandma’s here,” and they get their iPad. And again, it’s interactive.