Edinburgh, July 22, 2025 – smartR AI™ is celebrating a major win, taking home the coveted "Best AI Implementation in Information Technology" award at the highly competitive 2025 Business Awards UK. This prestigious recognition underscores the groundbreaking success and transformative impact of smartR AI’s flagship product, SCOTi®.
The 2025 Business Awards UK, renowned for honoring excellence and innovation across all sectors, selected smartR AI for its exceptional application of "assistive intelligence" in its ESL assessment implementation. The award specifically highlights the power of SCOTi, smartR AI's cutting-edge, modular AI platform that's redefining how businesses leverage data.
"We are absolutely thrilled and incredibly honored to be recognized with the 'Best AI Implementation of the Year' award," exclaims Oliver King-Smith, Founder and CEO of smartR AI. "This award is a powerful validation of our team's relentless dedication, ingenuity, and passion for innovation. It fuels our commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI and delivering unparalleled value to our clients through SCOTi. And the best is yet to come! We're on the cusp of releasing a new version of SCOTi that will revolutionize complex product management, further demonstrating the transformative potential of our AI solutions."
The UK Business Awards panel specifically lauded smartR AI for SCOTi’s commitment to responsible AI integration. Their citation highlighted SCOTi's focus on secure, explainable analytics, and its user-friendly tools like automated report generation and data harmonization. This approach, according to the judges, exemplifies how AI can be responsibly and effectively woven into the fabric of business decision-making.
SCOTi: The Assistive Intelligence Companion That Works Designed to tackle real-world data challenges, SCOTi empowers businesses by augmenting, not replacing, business intelligence and data analysts. Imagine having a smart, reliable partner that delivers:
- Cost-effective, personalized insights
- Actionable results you can immediately implement
- A secure and private environment for your data
"We're not just building AI; we're building a bridge to business transformation," adds King-Smith. "SCOTi helps clients build a successful AI strategy, prioritizing human oversight and collaboration rather than replacement, and delivering tangible business results. It's the assistive intelligence companion that truly works."
This prestigious award further cements smartR AI's position as a leader in the AI landscape. The company remains dedicated to providing innovative solutions that drive tangible business success and empower organizations to thrive in the age of intelligent automation.
About smartR AI
smartR AI augments your team with AI expertise. We work closely with all stakeholders to drive enterprise-wide implementation of AI, streamlining workflows. At smartR AI, we spend the time to learn about your business and collaborate closely with your teams to develop a customized AI solution unique to you. Our award-winning smartR team has years of experience adapting AI solutions to real world needs. We've developed proprietary model building blocks to accelerate the development of your project.
- For business applications we have SCOTi – your loyal AI pal.
- For medical, health and wellbeing applications, we have alertR – a behavioral intelligence-based alerting system.
We specialize in providing safe private models, that manage risk, while providing high reward. As our models are specifical trained for you, they work naturally with people to enhance and optimize productivity, and reveal previously unseen insights from your vast data pools. But most importantly, smartR is committed to providing safe AI programs within your own secure and private ecosystems.
We invent tomorrow’s products today by breaking free from pre-programmed rules. As intelligence moves to the edge of the network, smartR AI is all about doing things the smartest way. smartR AI improves your life intelligently by empowering your workforce with actionable insights.
About the Business Awards UK
Business Awards UK is owned by parent company, Not Just Another Agency Ltd., a novel marketing and consultation agency based in the North of England. Business Awards UK is an enterprise with a big mission: Making business awards accessible to all! We removed upfront costs, all risk, and lowered the barrier to entry for everyone, because this is the change we wanted to see in the business awards arena. We celebrate the diversity of UK businesses by making awards accessible to all, and levelling the playing field. Our awards programme is designed to allow even the smallest business to compete with multi-national enterprises.
