Generate Applications - Not Just Text, Images and Videos

Kim Technologies 2014 Patent

Here to stay

Being excited about Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT and other tools) is easy. I use it when appropriate and continue to learn. As a business, we use it to save time by generating first drafts of documents in different functions. Our customers can use it to tag documents that initiate Kim's wizard and make a quick and easy process even quicker.

It is also very easy to be cautious. It hallucinates (which is a great triumph of marketing and PR over reality because 'hallucinate' reads 'it lies, convincingly'). There are significant other challenges relating to intellectual property, security, data confidentiality, environmental impact, plus a potential existential threat to humankind. The rush for all software companies to claim Generative AI capability is damaging and creates confusion. But in the land of the blind …

Whatever your view. Whether you think it is the next big technological event that changes everything. Or it is incremental and just another solid step forward in a process that has been ongoing for decades. We can all agree that it is challenging thinking, changing behaviour, impacting corporate tactics and strategies and enhancing productivity. It will evolve. It is here to stay, even if it does not sustain some of its more grandiose claims.

Generate Applications

At Kim, we have watched developments with excitement, surprise and occasional confusion (some press releases and articles are 'interesting').

Our excitement comes from what Kim does. Generative AI refers to a class of artificial intelligence systems that can generate novel and creative content, such as images, text, music, or videos, closely resembling human-created output.

Kim generates whole applications with no training or IT development skills required.

Open one of your existing documents (maybe you created a new one in ChatGPT). Tag the variable fields (which you may have done automatically through ChatGPT prompting). Select 'Create Application' in Kim. Once you have used the Kim Wizard to create the web form plus added the properties, not only do you have full document automation (of one or multiple documents), but you can use the data in the documents to populate other systems. Within 30-60 seconds, Kim automatically:  

• Generates the data model.
• Maps the data model using the incoming document to the variable fields.
• Makes the format of the document a universally and automatically controlled entity that maintains all formatting, bullets, fonts, images, tables, page numbering, etc.
• Maps the audit profile and then automatically maintains it.
• Maps the Inbound and Outbound API. 
• The Kim generated application is then automatically hosted for end users to use, becoming an organization's standard operating procedure.

Kim creates the application! Which can also include conditional document assembly and automatic generation of multiple documents off one document. For the latter, consider generating all the documents a new employee needs when HR creates the onboarding checklist in Kim. Once the checklist is submitted, it automatically generates the welcome letter, the company handbook, etc.  

Beware False Prophets

Can anyone else do this? Only if they infringe Kim's 2014 patent (yes, 2014). 

Kim's patent is easy to explain. When a DOCX template is uploaded into the Kim software, it gains additional knowledge by learning the structural composition of each template, and it can interface with any authenticated and authorized client over HTTPS with an intelligent understanding of the correctness of the data being supplied. This enables the automatic extraction of tags from the multiple sample documents, the storing of the tags in a data schema separate from the documents, automatically generating structural schemes from the tags, automatically creating document templates from the sample documents and processing the document templates to create unique identifiers (see 'Patent Headlines' section and the Kim patent: https://patents.justia.com/patent/10817662).

Return on Investment (RoI)

Kim generates a minimum 50% RoI for organizations. During a recent PoC, where Kim was being compared with two market-leading competitors in document automation, the then prospective client advised us that Kim had achieved in two working days what the other organizations had taken several weeks to deliver. When the client reviewed the costs, Kim was (is) 90% cheaper. No wonder customers describe Kim as a 'no-regrets, just do it' decision.