Capabilities:
Artificial IntelligenceJohn Collins
Biography
John Collins is the founder of Deep Vertical AI, a cutting-edge AI boutique that specializes in developing bespoke, state-of-the-art AI solutions for complex industry challenges. With a focus on leveraging advanced AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and autonomous AI agents, Collins and his team are redefining the landscape of AI consulting and implementation.
At Deep Vertical AI, Collins leads the development of revolutionary AI systems that transform how businesses operate. A prime example is Research AI, a sophisticated web application built for a leading private banking and asset management group. This system exemplifies Collins’ approach to AI development, combining advanced natural language processing, multi-model AI integration, AI-based agentic workflows, and innovative ontology-enhanced understanding to revolutionize the analysis of sell-side research reports in the financial sector.
Collins’ expertise spans a wide range of AI technologies, including agents, LLMs, deep learning, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing. He is recognized for pioneering deep vertical domain-specific AI solutions tailored to the unique needs and challenges of specific industries. This approach ensures businesses leverage AI in ways directly relevant to their operations, driving meaningful results and ROI through an immersive collaboration between users and AI.
With a strong background in finance and risk management, Collins brings a unique perspective to AI development in the financial sector. His experience covers various aspects of risk and extensive capital markets knowledge, allowing him to develop AI solutions that address complex financial challenges. Research AI, for instance, can analyze hundreds of research reports simultaneously, providing unprecedented breadth in market analysis and portfolio insights.
Collins holds a PhD in Finance from EDHEC Business School and maintains strong ties with the academic community. His current research focuses on using LLMs for price and volatility prediction in financial markets. At Deep Vertical AI, Collins continues to push the boundaries of AI application, exemplifying the power of specialized AI boutiques in delivering transformative, tailored solutions across industries.
Area of Expertise
• Fast Prototyping: Helping clients to develop processes and infrastructure to quickly test and validate AI proof-of-concepts before fully building out production AI systems. Showing clients the art of the possible with AI by solving specific business problems.
• AI Ecosystems: Helping clients to build integrated environments to support the development, deployment and management of various AI solutions across the organization. Helping clients to select, evaluate, integrate, and deploy the various components of their nascent AI Ecosystems.
• Generative AI: Helping clients unlock the potential of multi-modal generative AI that can create and manipulate text, images, video, audio, and code. Service offerings traverse training data, algorithms, GenAI applications, regulatory, ethical and social implications, limitations and challenges.
• Deep Verticals: Helping clients to strategize, design, build, implement, and manage proprietary deep vertical solutions, especially when information security is paramount. Unlike broader AI applications, a deep vertical has a narrow and highly specialized focus, unique to a particular domain and/or client.
• AI Governance: Helping clients to establish oversight processes to ensure their AI systems are developed and used responsibly, ethically, safely, and effectively. Providing ongoing independent oversight once appropriate AI governance frameworks have been established.
Group Overview
• Deep Vertical AI is revolutionizing AI consulting. We define state-of-the-art for AI services and deep vertical AI solutions delivered as AIaaS services.
Firm Overview
• We specialize in rapidly prototyping AI solutions, integrated AI ecosystems, generative AI, AI governance, and domain-specific deep verticals.