Digamma.ai CEO Q&A Series: Amar Chokhawala, CEO of Reflektion
Reflektion seeks to give retailers a deeper understanding of customer intent. How does your company do this from a technology perspective?
In today’s world, everyone is sharing everything. So, the customer’s intent almost starts with temporal signals. When I’m looking for a place to eat in the morning, that means I’m looking mostly at restaurants which are actually serving a breakfast or lunch. Here’s an example of how the temporal aspect comes into play. Imagine a three year old—if you asked her what an “apple” is, she would say it was a fruit. If you posed that same question to a thirteen year old, she would say that it’s the technology company. So, in order to understand customer intent in retail, we need to build a comprehensive user profile that takes into account this temporal dimension. Because if you don’t know the consumer, then you won’t know what the intent of that particular consumer is. Our technology is capable of building those user profiles. We focus on the user first and, to date, have built 600 million plus profiles. That allows us to gain a deeper understanding of customer intent. We use machine learning because, unlike other technology, it works more effectively with more data. The more data you have, the better the model performs. Read More
Last month, we’ve attended HIMSS19. If you are not familiar with the event, Healthcare information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is an annual healthcare information conference, which brings together more than 45,000 healthcare and information technology professionals from all over the world. 
