A big thank you to all of our Premium and Enterprise Alpha Tracker clients who joined CTO Jack and MD Robin yesterday for our private AI webinar. We were delighted to see so many of you online, eager to understand where AI is taking Alpha Tracker — and our industry.
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| Robin ready to present - including his ZX81 & ChatGPT supermarket mag! |
AI can sometimes feel like the latest in a long line of “next big things” in technology. Robin still remembers working with punched cards*, ZX81s, BBC Micros and Amstrad word processors… then PCs, spreadsheets, Windows, the birth of the Internet, mobile phones, smartphones and more recently WhatsApp, IoT and broadband. Each of those felt transformational in its time. But AI is bigger than all of them. What’s changed in the last five years has been nothing short of extraordinary.
That’s why we’re not waiting on the sidelines. AI is already embedded in Alpha Tracker today, with features that many of you are already using. AlphaValidator is helping check and improve report quality, FLS is scheduling more effectively, Ask Alfie is answering support queries, and screen summaries are making it easier to navigate information quickly. These aren’t “future ideas” — they’re working, live, and already saving our users time and effort every day.
Behind the scenes, we’re busy working on even more AI-driven capabilities. Without giving too much away (our competitors read this blog too 👋), we shared a glimpse of what’s “in build”: smarter tools to analyse photos and reports, new ways to check quality and consistency, and even features that will make communicating results quicker and easier. All of these are being designed with one aim in mind — to help you deliver faster, more accurate, and more insightful services to your clients.
We also touched on the bigger picture: how agent-based AI could become part of everyday business life, what that means for asbestos professionals, and the opportunities (and challenges) that lie ahead. One thing is certain — AI will reshape our industry, and we want Alpha Tracker users to be at the front of that wave.
And we’re putting our money where our mouth is. Next month we’re taking the entire Start Software team to Amsterdam for the World Summit AI. It’s the global event for AI, and we’ll be learning from the very best so that we can bring the latest thinking straight back into Alpha Tracker.
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| World Summit AI in Amsterdam - we're taking the whole team |
So once again, thank you to all who attended. Your feedback, your questions, and your ideas are helping guide our AI journey. We’ll keep innovating, keep building, and keep listening — because our goal is simple: to make Alpha Tracker the smartest and most powerful platform in the industry.
* not Robin, actually, but he worked alongside people who did!
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