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LAIF

Data Democracy: AI made accessible to SMEs.

LAIF is a Bologna startup that builds custom artificial-intelligence and software solutions for SMEs, automating workflows and turning company data into decisions.

What it does

LAIF develops end-to-end AI solutions and tailored IT integrations for small and medium enterprises: from data analysis to software development and design, through to training and onboarding. It industrializes AI on a standard architecture to deliver fast, reliable, personalized models, starting from an assessment that maps needs and builds a digitalization roadmap.

Its mission — “Data Democracy” — is to democratize the informed use of data, bringing quality technology within reach of Italian SMEs. It was founded in Bologna in 2024 by a team with engineering, mathematics and physics backgrounds.

Forecasting

Sales- and demand-forecasting systems built on company data.

Document agents & chatbots

Document management and conversational agents to query your documents.

Tailored AI

Segmentation, anomaly detection, automated quoting and recommendation engines.

Junto ecosystem

Part of the Junto ecosystem

Junto Innovation Hub builds and grows startups in Modena — incubating, accelerating and investing in them, and connecting founders, skills, capital and territory. This is one of the companies born or grown within that ecosystem.

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