What is Vertical AI?
AI that understands your business, speaks your industry language,
structures your data with the right context, and acts — not just analyzes — for measurable ROI.
Horizontal AI isn’t enough.
Horizontal AI starts from a blank slate — powerful models, but no context. It doesn’t understand retail shelves, risk profiles, or refinery sensors. It can experiment, but it can’t execute.
Why Vertical AI is different
It comes pre-loaded with the domain knowledge, ontologies, and workflows that define your industry — so it performs from day one, not year one.
Knowledge Graphs
Connect enterprise data into a single semantic network that understands relationships across entities — products, assets, customers, transactions, and events. E.g., Connect “organic yogurt” to its brand, shelf placement, and store.
Vision and Multimodal Models
Interpret visual, audio, and sensor data alongside structured business data to detect anomalies, track performance, and trigger automated responses. E.g., Video flags missing Coke end caps during a promotion, triggering a real-time fix.
Predictive Models
Use historical and real-time data to anticipate outcomes, forecast demand, detect risk, and recommend proactive actions before issues occur. E.g., Predicting a spike in iced tea sales because of a heat wave and moving stock from one warehouse to another.
Generative AI | LLMs
Domain-tuned large language and generative models that synthesize insights, summarize findings, and generate human-like narratives or recommendations grounded in enterprise data.
AI Agents
Specialized, task-oriented AI components that coordinate across systems to execute multi-step workflows — from investigation triage to maintenance scheduling. E.g., Product launch and promotion optimization agents.
Human-in-the-loop, When You Need It
Ensures expert supervision where judgment, governance, or compliance is critical — allowing humans to review, approve, or refine AI-driven recommendations.. E.g., Approving a nationwide price reset recommendation before it goes live.
The Implementation Reality Gap
Most enterprise AI efforts don’t fail in theory—they fail in scaling. Generic tools struggle to connect models, data, and workflows into real business systems. The result? Endless pilots that never reach global scale. Vertical AI closes that gap with pre-built context, governance, and integration—because outcomes scale, not experiments.
Why do pilots stall?
How does Vertical AI close the gap?
Generic AI vs. Vertical AI: A Fundamental Difference
Challenges of Generic AI
- Starts from zero context
- Needs custom engineering to deploy
- Produces interesting insights
- Struggles to scale beyond POCs
Why Vertical AI Wins
- Starts pre-trained on industry ontologies
- Delivered as a product, not a project
- Drives auditable, governed actions
- Proven ROI in weeks, at enterprise scale
See what Vertical AI can do for you
Retail and CPG — CINDE Connected Retail
Optimize shelves, pricing, and promotions to lift sales, reduce waste, and deliver smarter shopper experiences.
Financial Services — Sensa Risk Intelligence
Stop fraud faster and cut false positives by up to 80% with end-to-end AI automation across AML, fraud, and sanctions.
Industrial — IRIS Foundry
Predict failures before they happen and turn plant data into real-time action that boosts uptime and saves millions.
Enterprise IT — Apex
Resolve issues automatically with AI-driven IT agents that boost uptime and accelerate service delivery.
Every quarter you wait is a win for your AI-powered competitors.
While your competitors are scaling AI pilots into real business results, are you still testing what AI might do? Vertical AI comes ready with your industry’s knowledge, data, and guardrails built in, delivering measurable results in weeks, not months. Every quarter you wait means your competitors turn AI into market share.
Production-ready results with Vertical AI
Production-grade Vertical AI delivers measurable impact in weeks, not quarters. Why wait for results? Join the 2,000+ global leaders who do more with SymphonyAI.