Chad Steelberg
Analyst · JMP Securities. Please go ahead.
Hey, Pat. Great question. At a macro level, I think Veritone is in very different part of the AI ecosystem. As you know, we've been spending an exorbitant amount of time building an AI operating system that both can operate very easily and in any cloud environment, but also can be deployed on a local basis, yet access remotely. So, you still protect customers, security of their data and information. And what that's really created, Pat, that infrastructure and then building applications on top of that, that are specific for certain use cases as we like to think about them, human in the loop processes, as this entire movement has moved, literally hundreds of millions, if not billions, on a global basis, so working from home it's completely disrupted and changed the way in which their jobs need to be processed. And not only from a communication standpoint, which is one of the first things that you've touched on, which is how do you -- how do you communicate effectively with employees and staff and customers, which customers -- companies like Zoom and others have obviously capitalized on. And then the second wave, which is cyber security, how do you -- when you're working everyone from home, how do you ensure the safety and security of not only your corporate information, but also your customer data is mission-critical. Veritone really tackles the third. And I think the biggest opportunity there, which is how do you leverage remote systems in a very effective way and automate and drive efficiency in automation and collaboration where before humans were forced to be in the loop to really sort of tackling, communicate and solving crime and identifying suspects and processing evidence for Department of Justice even in media and entertainment. So, as those as those employees have moved to home, they've become more and more reliant upon technology to do the heavy lifting. And I'm not just talking about computational lifting, I'm talking about actual cognitive capabilities of solving very challenging problems that heretofore were only able for humans. And honestly, a lot of that data was only available in the corporation themselves. So, when they wanted to view the footage or do the analysis on the crime scene, they were required to be at the precinct or at the corporation. With aiWARE our new applications, they can never do all that remotely. So, I think what you're seeing is a real resurgence of people in corporations and institutions looking at AI as a disruptive technology to enable them to continue to move forward. But -- and what they're finding -- at least what we're seeing is the adoption rate of our technology is accelerating, and they're finding great success with it as it rolls out.