Mexico-based Cemex, a worldwide constructing supplies firm, is rolling out an AI-powered monetary agent that’s already reworking how prime executives work, plan and make higher knowledgeable selections.

About 100 senior leaders have already got entry to the agent, known as LUCA Bot. It’s skilled on hundreds of inner, typically confidential, financial and monetary knowledge factors – like month-to-month gross sales and cement, prepared combine and aggregates vegetation’efficiency. LUCA Bot can be particularly designed to rapidly present insights into Cemex’s funds to assist executives act quicker on crucial enterprise issues.

LUCA Bot helps Cemex’s digital controllership technique by offering entry to monetary key efficiency indicators (KPIs) throughout a number of channels, which promotes a data-driven tradition and ongoing enterprise efficiency evaluation, the corporate says.

Approved customers – from government committee members to mid-level officers – can work together with LUCA Bot by way of a pure language chat by way of net and cell. The info is granular sufficient to permit detailed evaluation of any enterprise line’s efficiency worldwide.

After a profitable trial interval, the agent was formally launched final 12 months. Cemex’s executives say the software has been a sport changer, saving them treasured time and offering entry to dependable inner monetary data across the clock.

By streamlining inner processes, LUCA Bot makes it simpler to get quick solutions to urgent issues, boosting effectivity throughout the corporate, Cemex executives level out. It additionally supplies them with real-time updates on month-to-month targets.

“It’s an enchancment in monetary data visibility that allows you to activate operational levers,” says Fausto Sosa, Cemex’s data know-how vp. “It’s a self-service software that ought to assist to seek out operational efficiencies.”

For Sosa, LUCA Bot represents “a chance to work together with data, to have a extra enriching dialogue with knowledge because of prompts.”

One other government accessed crucial monetary knowledge throughout a visit to Madrid – even whereas colleagues in Mexico have been offline. A 3rd obtained an in depth monetary evaluation inside seconds, offering a stable basis for a quarterly government committee presentation.

Earlier than LUCA Bot, executives typically relied on telephone calls, prolonged electronic mail chains or hours – generally days – of looking by way of stories to seek out the knowledge they wanted. Now, it’s only a click on away.

“It’s all about agility, alternative and ease,” says Jaime Martínez, Cemex’s head of worldwide controllership. “It’s much more environment friendly than having a lot of folks answering questions, and one main benefit is having a unified supply of knowledge– you now not should depend on who you ask.”