After a successful collaboration and lucrative exit with Dunn & Bradstreet, Jean-Philippe M.L. Schepens (Founder & CEO) and Tobias Meffert (Co-Founder & CTO) began developing the world’s only Transparent, Decentralized, and Green AI platform two years ago. The AxonJay Self-ML Platform™ allows you to accurately and predict in Real-Time which prospects are ready to buy and why.
The algorithms are running, the first customers (including SAP) are onboard, so AxonJay is ready for global scaling, confirms CEO Jean-Philippe: “The best salespeople combine experience, knowledge, and intuition to keep their deal sizes large and sales cycles short. A significant success factor is accurately capturing and interpreting ‘Buying Signals’ from potential customers. Until recently, this approach was challenging to roll out in Real-Time and nearly impossible to scale. Thanks to our Proprietary Deep Tech, that is now possible. A human cannot track and analyze all possible languages and data streams from all potential prospects 24/7. The AxonJay AI Sales Assistant can handle that entire universe.
Our PAAS monitors all data, interprets which information is relevant to your sales process, and ranks in real time which prospects are ready to buy at this moment and why. Each user can click through to see the logic behind the predictions and easily provide feedback, so your personal algorithm continues to be refined. Naturally, all data, algorithms, and translated strategies remain the company’s protected property and operate on proprietary servers if desired. Our AxonJay AI Sales Assistant is a must-have for any company looking to sell products, services, and solutions efficiently.”
The “Holy Grail of Sales”? That’s what Baylund Investment thought, one of the first visionary investors who has financially supported the company from the beginning. “Jean-Philippe and Tobias are AI & Data veterans who have already proven to form a successful tandem. Their innovative idea to build an AI Self-ML machine™ via DataPeeling that helps business people make better decisions was progressive and brilliant. During their time together at Dunn & Bradstreet, they had the opportunity to experiment fully as intrapreneurs with innovative Data AI solutions for their Forbes 500 clients. The lessons learned there provide a competitive edge today.
AxonJay was compliant with the regulations even before the emergence of the ‘EU AI Act’ since the whole setup was designed to create a trainable, transparent, and energy-efficient product that any user can train with a simple feedback system. While other companies must now recode parts to comply with regulations, we are ready to scale up with a functional PAAS. Moreover, many AI companies and consultants have a highly undemocratic business model, where the client must regularly purchase additional services to retrain their model.
Every business is volatile and requires strategic adjustments. We help the business manager in real-time. As a result, we are the only company in the world offering Augmented Intelligence at an affordable price and with unparalleled ease of use. That is revolutionary and currently doesn’t exist anywhere else. I am very proud to be part of this incredible team.”
The hands-on involvement of investors is part of the rapid success of AxonJay. Another investor, Veronique Goussard (with a successful exit at Cliqk), will soon open the Singapore Office for Trajectoires Invest. For the New York office, AxonJay is still looking for a suitable candidate.
Not only the investors but also the early customers are amazed by the results of the Self-ML Platform™. Werner Vergult from Q4Talent exemplifies customer satisfaction, deciding to become an investor in the company in addition to being a customer. SAP is training no fewer than 15 AxonJay AI assistants across various business cases, which will soon be used by over 1000 employees. BLCC CEO Michel Vanhoonacker is also incredibly enthusiastic: “In the last two months, we’ve acquired more customers than in the past year! It is crucial for us to detect at the right moment which companies are considering establishing themselves in the UK. Thanks to AxonJay, we now have these prospects served to us at breakfast. Our salespeople no longer waste time on research. Consequently, they spend 80% more time on actual follow-up. They contact the companies suggested by AxonJay and close deals five times faster than before.”
With the €1.5 million Seed Round, AxonJay is set to roll out its AI products internationally. Offices in Singapore, New York, and Paris are in the works.
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