Q1 2026 Honorees in Champions in AI
Congratulations to all honorees in the inaugural Champions in AI!
AI Start-up of the Year |
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Airia |
Read more about Airia |
| Launched by the team behind AirWatch and OneTrust, Airia is aiming to solve one of the most urgent challenges facing organizations today: how to scale AI securely, seamlessly, and without lock-in, by providing a unified, model-agnostic environment for securely orchestrating AI agents, workflows, and data across the enterprise.
From the judges: The judges were most impressed with Airia’s wide client base and those clients’ successes in reducing costs, cutting time and improving overall effectiveness of their AI implementations. |
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Fastest Growing Company of the Year in AI |
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Invisible Technologies |
Read more about Invisible Technologies |
| Invisible Technologies aims to change the way enterprises, across industries spanning AI and technology, finance, insurance, and healthcare and retail, operationalize AI with its end-to-end process platform that unites AI, automation, and a global network of over 5,000 exports.
From the judges: The judges were impressed with the strength of Invisible’s executive team, as well as by the time savings various clients have achieved by using Invisible’s integration platform. |
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AI Solution of the Year |
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SIB Fixed Cost Reduction |
Read more about SIB Fixed Cost Reduction |
| SIB helps organizations create a permanent spend advantage by transforming fragmented financial data into continuous operational intelligence. Powered by SpendBrain™, SIB combines AI-driven cost intelligence with more than 35 years of category expertise to uncover savings opportunities, billing discrepancies, and procurement inefficiencies that traditional systems might miss.
At the core of the platform is a proprietary spend ontology that connects vendor data, contracts, invoices, pricing, and purchasing behavior into a continuously learning intelligence layer, enabling organizations to move beyond reactive audits and disconnected reporting toward proactive, scalable financial optimization. The result, as reported in customer case studies, is greater visibility, stronger financial control, and measurable cost savings delivered in less than 60 days. From the judges: The judges were impressed with the immense cost savings delivered for clients across various sectors including education, government and healthcare, and also lauded its military-grade security architecture. |
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TrueCommerce |
Read more about TrueCommerce |
| ReplenishAI, launched by TrueCommerce in October 2024, is an industry-first artificial intelligence solution that transforms inventory management through advanced demand pattern analysis, leveraging AI algorithms to replace traditional forecasting methods that used to require months of manual analysis with limited accuracy.
From the judges: The judges were impressed with the results achieved for a CPG client and the innovative “human-in-the-loop” approach. |
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AI Implementation of the Year |
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Incedo |
Read more about Incedo |
| Incedo’s proprietary Generative AI platform, brAInspark, has enabled large-scale enterprise adoption of contextual, domain-specific AI solutions, by bridging the gap between broad-based large language models and enterprise needs.
From the judges: The judges were impressed with the tangible user impact delivered across Fortune500 clients in industries ranging from telecom and hi-tech to wealth management, as well as with the ongoing collaborations and vision for the product’s future. |
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Best Use of AI in Communications |
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Deepgram |
Read more about Deepgram |
| With breakthroughs in both speech-to-text and text-to-speech, Deepgram has aimed to strengthen its place as the #1 go-to for companies looking for serious, enterprise-ready voice AI technology.
From the judges: The judges were impressed with the company’s growth, both in terms of revenues and client numbers, and particularly with the company’s Startup Program, helping early-stage companies process millions of minutes of audio every month. |
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Best Use of AI in Finance |
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Q4 |
Read more about Q4 |
| Traditionally, investor relations (IR) has relied on fragmented tools and highly manual workflows, despite being one of the most high-stakes functions in modern finance. Q4 aims to be at the forefront of AI innovation in IR through its unified IR operations platform — bringing together IR website management, earnings preparation and execution, investor intelligence, CRM, analyst consensus management, and secure AI in a single ecosystem. And with Q, the industry’s first AI agent for investor relations officers, IR teams can rapidly analyze investor sentiment, prepare for earnings calls, summarize competitor activity, and more.
Supporting more than 2,600 public companies — including McDonald’s, Visa, Netflix and Spotify — Q4 helps IR teams uncover (and act on) deeper insights, reduce manual workloads, and work with greater precision and confidence. From the judges:
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Best Use of AI in Healthcare |
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Transcarent |
Read more about Transcarent |
| Transcarent’s WayFinding is the first application of generative AI designed to enhance the healthcare consumer experience, by combining conversational generative AI with instant access to clinical guidance, benefits navigation, and care delivery.
From the judges: The judges lauded the human-centered approach to AI, reflected in the high client retention rates. They were impressed with the staggering amounts of calls one of the clients said could be solved with the use of WayFinding and with the savings and reductions in ER visits another client reported. | ||
Best Use of AI in Hospitality |
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Cloudbeds |
Read more about Cloudbeds |
| Cloudbeds aims to revolutionize hospitality technology with Signals, the industry’s first AI foundation model designed specifically for hotels, that delivers not just accurate predictions, but actionable explanations.
From the judges: The judges applauded that Cloudbeds has spent over a decade collecting hospitality-specific data, which has otherwise been lacking in LLMs. The judges were particularly impressed with the occupancy rates and revenues boosts achieved by hotel chains using Signals. | ||
Best Use of AI in Retail and eCommerce |
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Constructor |
Read more about Constructor |
| Built with AI at its core, Constructor has aimed to be at the forefront of retail AI innovation. Retailers use Constructor’s search and product discovery platform to help online shoppers find items they’ll love: personalizing search results, browse functionality, product recommendations, AI agent interactions, on-site ads and more. And with strong results: For instance, Belk increased revenue by $35 million, Rugs Direct grew average order value by 17%, Bonobos saw a 92% increase in recommendations conversions — and a lot more. Designed specifically for ecommerce, Constructor’s platform helps shoppers discover items aligned with their tastes, preferences and intent, while enabling retailers to optimize experiences for ecommerce metrics that matter.
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Winners’ resources in the inaugural Champions in AI
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Since 2011, Best in Biz Awards has recognized countless successful companies, both in North America and around the world. Tech giants. Blue chip brands. Household names. Cutting-edge innovators. Both well-funded and boot-strapped start-ups. Shark Tank sensations. Mom-and-pop businesses beloved in their communities. You’d be surprised what names you’ll discover and recognize on our winners’ lists over the past 15 years.
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