Korean startup SmartMind Inc. (“SmartMind”), servicing LIGHTHOUSE – an Applied AI Transformation solution based leveraging its proprietary cloud-based big data AI modeling platform and technologies, recently announced its successful completion of a digital transformation testbed project for the largest gas company in South Korea Samchully.

Samchully partnered with SmartMind for the project, highly valuing its technical capability after SmartMind successfully helped internalize the concept of data science. “Samchully will partner with SmartMind to further implement initiatives for work process informatization and processing, management system improvement, AI modeling of the internally identified quick-win projects, and internalization of the 1st-party data processing capabilities on top of the platform built from the testbed project. And we highly anticipate the partnership will help Samchully reinforce its core competency and market position,” said Samchully.

SmartMind, which has already successfully provided AI solutions to more than 30 clients and in various industries in partnership with top-tier universities including MIT, KAIST, and Hanyang University just in 2 years since its inception, was also invested by one of the world’s best accelerators Techstars in 2020 via Techstars Korea Accelerator.

“This successful implementation of the digital transformation testbed for the largest gas company Samchully reveals how corporates can expedite their decision-making processes by internalizing the decision-making pipeline from their data adopting AI,” said Brandon Sangsoo Lee – the founder and CEO of SmartMind. “Corporates are gradually identifying the needs for applied AI transformation to expedite their decision-making processes, and seeing it as a necessity for their survival, SmartMind will continue to power more clients to transform into data-driven organizations and strive to lead in the space of applied AI transformation,” added Lee.