Rapidly Scaling Management Consultancy Optima Partners Announces Exciting New Partnership With Visionary Leaders H2O.ai

Optima Partners, an insight-led business consultancy based in the UK and headquartered in Edinburgh, has announced a new partnership with AI cloud leader, H2O.ai.

The two organizations will work together to produce a range of specialist resources and solutions for financial services organizations that aim to overcome the challenges of operationalizing advanced machine learning in credit risk, strong fraud defenses and intelligently serving customers with next best action and decisions.

Since 2020, Optima Partners has witnessed rapid year-on-year growth, and this new partnership with H2O.ai, a global visionary leader in the democratization of artificial intelligence (AI), means that the finance side of the business will only grow in strength.

Alan Crawley, CEO of Optima Partners, said: “We are delighted to be working together with H2O.ai and feel optimistic about our plans going forward. Together, we can be a powerhouse for businesses looking to evolve, adapt, evolve and succeed as they embrace the power of advanced AI and machine learning to better serve their customers.

Optima Partners, a team of trusted advisors, consultants, technologists and data scientists, uses digital and AI technologies to help businesses improve their services, manage costs and navigate complex customer decision-making processes in finance, sales and marketing.

Alan continued: “H2O.ai is undoubtedly one of the best in its field, which makes us even more excited to be working with them. We look forward to seeing how many businesses we can help succeed over the next 12 months . With an initial focus on financial services, we look forward to working with our current clients, and new opportunities, to bring the power of massively scalable AI and machine learning to support and protect consumers in their day-to-day interactions with banks and insurers.”

Both Optima Partners and H2O.ai have experience with capacities and competences that can add value and increase profits from both a strategic and tactical point of view.

“Financial services data brings with it a number of unique challenges from a scale, security and compliance perspective for which automated AI and machine learning applications are particularly well-suited” said Rod Hamlin, SVP of Global Business Development and GM of EMEA at H2O.ai. “Our partnership with Optima Partners will further enable financial institutions to better serve their customers through increased access to AI-powered data models.”

H2O.ai uses AI to turn data into a business asset while maintaining expert levels of accuracy, speed and transparency in its algorithms. H2O AI Cloud solves complex business problems and accelerates the discovery of new ideas with results that can be understood and trusted. The low code and flexible architecture make it easy to explain and improve machine learning (ML) operations in all sectors.

In recent months, H2O.ai’s technical expertise was recruited by a major financial institution to optimize credit portfolios and verify proof of income by automating credit decisions in milliseconds. This led to significantly improved results, including better predictions with networks, real-time score updates such as factors such as spending habits and employment, change and reduced model building time from six months to just a few days.