AI case study

Faster & inclusive item listings

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Goodwill of Orange County
Context

Goodwill of Orange County developed an AI-powered app using Microsoft's Azure AI Services, including Azure AI Custom Vision and Azure AI Vision, to streamline the e-commerce listing process on ShopGoodwill.com. The app uses AI to identify clothing items, extract information from photos of labels, and generate listing descriptions using generative AI. This enables more people, including those with disabilities, to work in e-commerce positions and increases revenue for their mission.

Results

Expected 35% increase in listing productivity, potentially increasing monthly clothing sales from $9 million to over $12 million.

Results not reported in the source
ICE score
336
The ICE framework in this database provides a quick way to assess the feasibility and potential impact of AI use cases, with higher scores signaling more actionable opportunities.

Impact: Potential benefits to the business.

Confidence: Likelihood of achieving expected results.

Ease: Simplicity of implementation in terms of resources and time.

ICE Score: Calculated by multiplying the component scores.

Note:
Each score is AI-generated based on available data and should be viewed merely as a general guideline for deeper exploration of the use cases.
Impact
8
Confidence
7
Ease
6

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Kenya Red Cross Society

Non-profit
Use case
Expand mental health access
Context

Kenya Red Cross worked with Pathways Technologies to develop an AI-powered mental health chatbot called Chat Care using Azure AI services. The chatbot initiates conversations on mental health, suggests ways to help such as breathing exercises and in-person services, operates in English and Swahili, and is available 24/7. It expands the reach of mental health services without overstretching human counselors and helps overcome stigma.

Models/tools

British Heart Foundation

Non-profit
Use case
Increased employee productivity
Context

British Heart Foundation, Europe's largest funder of heart and circulatory disease research, is testing Microsoft 365 Copilot with about 300 employees. Staff are using the AI assistant to stay up to date on office communication, craft emails and documents, and search across the nonprofit’s tech platforms. They delegate tasks to Copilot, which helps them save time on routine tasks and focus on their mission.

Models/tools

Materiom

Non-profit
Data Agents
Quick win
Use case
Accelerating compostable material development
Context

Materiom, a startup researching zero-waste, bio-based alternatives to fossil-fuel-made products like plastics, is creating a gen AI tool that enables entrepreneurs to develop novel compostable materials with broad applications.

Models/tools
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Faster manga translation
Context

Orange uses Anthropic's Claude to automate manga translation, combining translation agent models with inpainting technology and direct image input to handle visual elements, streamlining localization and allowing translators to focus on nuance.

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Use case
Efficient customer support interactions
Context

Uber uses OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise to enhance customer support by providing AI assistants that offer empathetic and efficient responses, automate investigations, and augment human agent capabilities. The AI also helps personalize and optimize interactions across their multi-sided platform.

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Efficient customer service
Context

Amazon uses Claude to power their AI-driven customer service assistant, Amazon Q in Connect, which serves agents and end-customers. It provides real-time AI assistance to agents handling complex cases and offers end-customers instant, personalized self-service options.

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solutions powered by

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Faster customer issue resolution
Context

Vodafone uses Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Copilot, and Azure AI Search to enhance their virtual assistant TOBi and develop SuperAgent to assist customer service agents. TOBi uses conversational AI to handle customer inquiries, while SuperAgent helps agents solve complex problems faster.

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4
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Faster medical report generation
Context

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Faster writing of appeal letters
Context

Acentra Health developed MedScribe, a web app that uses Azure OpenAI Service to generate draft letters responding to healthcare service appeals.

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Efficient engineering team management
Context

LaunchNotes leverages Claude in Amazon Bedrock in their product 'Graph' to transform engineering data into actionable insights. Graph functions as an ETL platform with Claude managing data pipelines, helping engineering managers understand development metrics, reduce incident identification time, automate updates, and generate customized release notes and technical documentation.

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Faster data insights
Context

Snowflake integrated Anthropic's Claude into their platform to enable natural language queries on complex databases, allowing customers to extract insights without SQL expertise while maintaining security and governance.

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Automated financial research
Context

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