MERCED keeps your data & insights PRIVATE to you and only you

Did you know that most AIs require you to send them your data, which they then can keep and use to continue building their database of knowledge which is then used by others, including your competitors?

Unlike other AIs on the market, MERCED™ doesn’t keep or share your data or insights with other companies. You maintain complete control over your financials, strategies, content, contracts, and other sensitive information.

At EDC®, we prioritize the privacy and security of your business data. Unlike other AI platforms, MERCED™ does not require sending your data to external third-party providers for processing. By keeping your data within your organization, we ensure that your sensitive information remains confidential and is not accessible to unauthorized parties or competitors.

Our platform is purpose-built for business users and industries where data privacy and security are paramount, as required by law, contractual obligations, or simply good business practices. By maintaining control over your data, you can trust that your insights remain your competitive advantage.

At EDC®, we prioritize the privacy and security of your business data. Unlike other AI platforms, MERCED™ does not require sending your data to external third-party providers for processing.

MERCED is your PERSONALIZED AI

One size never fits all, and with MERCED™, your AI tools and business solutions are just that – yours! You control who can access and what they can do. You control MERCED™’s features and how they reflect not just general knowledge, but understanding of your business, your goals, your business insights, and your predictive next steps for success.

Where other AIs force you into their category of what they think you would be, MERCED™ sees YOU, knows YOU, and responds in the way that YOU want and need.

You gain the competitive edge with MERCED™’s personalized insights and AI functionality that works for YOU.

MERCED is POWERFUL & limitless

For any industry and, any size company, whether you want the power of easy to use, plug-and-play AI tools or are interested in MERCED™’s powerful platform enabling you to develop your own solutions, MERCED™ offers endless possibilities without compromising security or quality. Integrate with existing systems to put MERCED™’s AI to work for you seamlessly, or create stand-alone solutions to engage with MERCED™’s tech and business tools. The possiblities of what you can do with MERCED™ are endless.

MERCED™ assists you 24/7/365 while protecting your data, reflecting your needs and preferences, and growing with you as your vision and business expand.

If you can think it, MERCED™ can make it a reality.
What is MERCED and how does it work?

The official, techie answer:

MERCED™ is an advanced artificial intelligence (AI), application development, and database security system designed to enhance the functionality and security of existing systems and applications.

MERCED™ integrates seamlessly into your existing EDC® or third-party systems, using advanced AI algorithms to analyze data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights.

It also offers robust application development capabilities and top-tier database security features to help protect your data and streamline your operations.

The fun, “how can it help me” answer:

MERCED™ is a set of sophisticated software and AI tools that make it easier to use and secure your current systems and applications. It works well with your existing system or other outside programs.

MERCED™ uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to understand data, find patterns, and give you practical suggestions. It also has strong tools for creating new applications and keeping your data safe.

What does this mean to you? Check below for some of the many ways you can put MERCED to work for you!

What can MERCED do for you?
The possibilities are endless!

MERCED™’s tech platform, tools, & AI (Artificial Intelligence) can benefit software creation and delivery in several ways:

  • Automated coding: MERCED™ can be used to write code automatically based on predefined rules and patterns. You can save time and reduce errors in the development process.
  • Predictive analysis: MERCED™ can analyze historical data and patterns to predict future trends and requirements. This can help your development team create software that meets the needs of users and stays ahead of the competition.
  • Testing and debugging: MERCED™ can be used to efficiently test software and identify bugs . It can also help your developers understand the root cause of bugs and suggest solutions.
  • Personalized user experiences: MERCED™ can be used to create personalized user experiences by analyzing user behavior and preferences. This can lead to increased user engagement and satisfaction.
  • Continuous integration and delivery: MERCED™ can be used to automate the continuous integration and delivery process, ensuring that your software is always up-to-date and free of bugs.
  • Natural language processing: MERCED™ can be used to understand and process natural language, making it easier for your developers to interact with software development tools and platforms.
  • Enhanced security: MERCED™ can be used to detect and prevent cyber attacks by analyzing patterns and identifying anomalies in real time.
Business use case: MERCED™ can help your software development team work more efficiently, create better software, and provide more personalized user experiences.

  • Lead Scoring and Prioritization: MERCED™ can analyze large amounts of data to identify potential leads and prioritize them based on their likelihood to convert. This can help your sales teams focus their efforts on the most promising leads, and can also focus MERCED™’s attention on responding to inquiries, preparing quotes, following up, and assessing best practices, compliance, and predictive actions to convert more revenue and increase customer satisfaction.
  • Personalized Marketing and Sales: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data to identify patterns and preferences, enabling your sales team to deliver personalized marketing messages and sales pitches. This can help increase engagement and conversions.
  • Chat and Virtual Assistants: MERCED™ AI-powered chat and virtual assistants can help answer customer queries and provide product recommendations, freeing up your sales team to focus on more complex sales interactions.
  • Predictive Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze historical sales data to identify trends and patterns, enabling your sales team to make more accurate forecasts and adjust their strategies accordingly.
  • Automated Scheduling and Follow-up: MERCED™ can automate scheduling and follow-up tasks, freeing up your sales team to focus on more complex sales interactions and building relationships with customers.
  • Improved Customer Service: MERCED™ can help improve your customer service by providing quick and accurate responses to customer queries, reducing wait times and improving overall customer satisfaction.
  • Enhanced Sales Training: MERCED™ can analyze your sales data to identify best practices and provide personalized training to your sales team, helping improve performance and close more deals.
  • Fraud Detection: MERCED™ can help your sales team detect and prevent fraud by analyzing patterns and identifying anomalies in sales data, reducing the risk of financial losses.
Business use case: Your sales team can use MERCED™ to automatically assign scores to each new lead or potential customer, allowing them to focus their efforts on the highest-scoring leads and increasing their chances of closing deals.

MERCED™ OCR technology extracts text or information from scanned documents, tables, or images. MERCED™ works by analyzing and recognizing the patterns of letters, numbers, and symbols, even if they are distorted or of poor quality. This can lead to several benefits, such as:

  • Improved accessibility: MERCED™ makes it possible to search and read text from your scanned documents, PDFs, and images, making your information more accessible and easier to use.
  • Increased efficiency: MERCED™ reduces the need for manual data entry, saving you time and resources.
  • Enhanced data management: MERCED™ enables your company to store and manage large volumes of data in digital format, making it easier to retrieve, analyze, and share information.
  • Cost savings: MERCED™ can help your business save costs by reducing the need for manual data entry, paper storage, and other related expenses.
  • Better search capabilities: MERCED™ makes it possible to search for specific text within large volumes of data, making it easier to find and retrieve relevant information.
Business use case: If you’re still receiving handwritten weight tickets, inventories, orders, etc., MERCED™ can convert those to text that can then be searched, actioned, inserted into needed forms, and more.

MERCED™ language translation can benefit your business in several ways by enabling effective communication with international clients, partners, employees, and their documents. Here are some key advantages:

  • Expanding markets: MERCED™ allows you to communicate with customers and partners in their native languages, making it easier to expand into new markets and build stronger relationships.
  • Increasing efficiency: MERCED™ can automate the translation process, saving you time and resources compared to manual translation. This can help you respond more quickly to customer inquiries and process international transactions more efficiently.
  • Improving customer experience: Providing customer support in your customers’ preferred language can lead to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty. MERCED™ can help your business offer multilingual customer service, reducing language barriers and improving the overall customer experience.
  • Enhancing collaboration: MERCED™ can facilitate communication between your employees and teams working in different locations or speaking different languages. This can lead to more effective collaboration and a more inclusive workplace culture.
  • Reducing errors: MERCED™ can help reduce errors in translation, ensuring that important messages are accurately conveyed. This can help prevent misunderstandings and potential legal or financial issues.
  • Cost savings: MERCED™ can be more cost-effective than hiring human translators for every translation need. This can help you save money on translation services and reduce the need for in-house translation resources.
  • Scalability: MERCED™ can handle large volumes of translation requests quickly and efficiently, making it a scalable solution for companies with high translation demands.
Business use case: Overall, MERCED™ can help your business communicate more effectively and efficiently with international clients, partners, and employees, leading to increased revenue, improved customer experience, and a more inclusive and productive workplace.

MERCED™ can bring numerous benefits to your customer service in several ways:

  • Faster Response Time: MERCED™’s AI-powered chat and virtual assistants can respond to your customer's queries instantly, reducing the response time and improving customer satisfaction.
  • 24/7 Availability: MERCED™’s AI-powered customer service tools can be available round the clock, allowing your customers to get their queries resolved at any time, even outside business hours.
  • Personalized Experience: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and interactions to provide you with personalized recommendations and solutions, enhancing your customers’ experience.
  • Cost Savings: MERCED™ can handle routine customer queries and tasks, freeing up your customer service agents to focus on more complex issues, resulting in cost savings for your business.
  • Improved Efficiency: MERCED™ can automate repetitive tasks, such as data entry and ticket routing, improving the efficiency of your customer service operations.
  • Enhanced Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze your customer interactions and feedback to provide you with valuable insights and trends, helping you improve your customer service strategies and processes.
  • Consistency: MERCED™ can provide consistent responses and solutions to customer queries, ensuring that all your customers receive the same high-quality service, regardless of the agent they interact with.
  • Scalability: MERCED™ can handle a large volume of customer queries and interactions, allowing you to scale your customer service operations to meet the demands of a growing customer base.
Business use case: MERCED™’s 24/7/365 chat and virtual assistance capabilities can help automatically resolve your customers’ inquiries in real time, so no customer has to wait on hold, and so you can save more time, money, and customer service resources.

MERCED™ can score conversation outcomes; summarize and log conversations; action next steps; suggest helpful messaging; and more. Here are some of the benefits:

  • Automated Call Handling: MERCED™ can automatically route calls to the appropriate department or agent based on the caller's needs or the nature of the call. This can help reduce wait times and improve your customers’ satisfaction.
  • Speech Recognition: MERCED™ can transcribe and analyze calls in real-time. This can help you gain valuable insights from customer interactions, identify trends, and improve your call center operations.
  • Predictive Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze historical call data and identify patterns and trends. This can help you anticipate customer needs, optimize call center operations, and improve overall customer experience.
  • Personalized Interactions: MERCED™ can personalize interactions with customers based on their past interactions, preferences, and behavior. This can help your business build stronger relationships with your customers and improve customer loyalty.
  • Automated Responses: MERCED™'s chat and virtual assistants can handle routine customer inquiries and provide automated responses. This can help reduce the workload on your customer service agents and improve response times.
  • Improved Call Quality: MERCED™ can monitor and analyze call quality in real-time, identifying issues and providing recommendations for improvement. This can help you maintain high call quality standards and improve overall customer satisfaction.
  • Cost Savings: By automating routine tasks and improving call center efficiency, MERCED™ can help you save costs and improve you bottom line
Overall, MERCED™ can help you improve your call operations by providing more efficient, personalized, and effective customer interactions, while also helping you reduce costs and improve overall customer satisfaction.
Business use case: MERCED™ can help you automate routine customer service tasks and general phone inquiries, reducing your customers’ wait time and providing personalized, efficient, and consistent solutions to your customers.

MERCED™ can assist in drafting communications; summarizing and scoring of interactions; providing suggestions for training & improvement; logging and actioning next steps and more. Examples of benefits

  • Automated responses: MERCED™'s chat and virtual assistants can handle routine inquiries and customer service requests, freeing up your customer service agents to focus on more complex issues.
  • Personalized communication: MERCED™'s can analyze your customer data and communication history to provide personalized recommendations and responses, improving your customers’ satisfaction and engagement.
  • Language translation: MERCED™ can translate languages in real-time, enabling you to communicate effectively with international clients and partners.
  • Sentiment analysis: MERCED™ can analyze the tone and sentiment of your customer communications to identify potential issues and provide proactive solutions, improving customer experience and loyalty. MERCED™ can also escalate an alert in real time if the tone or sentiment of the caller is unhappy or negatively trending. It can also trigger suggested messaging and training, as well as provide scoring of team member performance.
  • Time-saving: MERCED™ can automate repetitive tasks such as email sorting and scheduling, saving your team time and resources.
  • Enhanced productivity:MERCED™ can help prioritize and manage communication channels, enabling your employees to focus on high-value tasks and increasing overall productivity.
  • Improved accuracy: MERCED™ can help reduce errors in communication by analyzing your business data and providing suggestions for correct responses, improving the overall quality of your business communications.
  • Cost savings: By automating routine tasks and improving efficiency, MERCED™ AI can help you save on communication-related costs.
  • Better collaboration: MERCED™ can help facilitate better collaboration between your teams by automating scheduling, providing real-time feedback, and enabling seamless information sharing.
Business use case: Your management team can use MERCED™ to have instant access to customer service call transcriptions, service rep ratings, and customer sentiment ratings in any language.

MERCED™ can assist your marketing team with content generation; measure campaign effectiveness metrics, provide predictive insights on target markets, competitor analysis, and more. Examples of benefits

  • Personalized Marketing: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and behavior to provide personalized marketing messages and recommendations. This can lead to increased customer engagement and sales.
  • Predictive Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze your historical data and trends to predict future customer behavior and market trends. This can help your team make informed marketing decisions and stay ahead of the competition.
  • Automated Campaigns: MERCED™ can automate your marketing campaigns, such as email marketing and social media advertising, based on your customer's behavior and preferences. This can save your team time and resources while also increasing the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
  • Chat: MERCED™ AI-powered chat technology can provide customer service and support around the clock, answering common questions and providing product recommendations. This can improve customer satisfaction and free up your customer service agents for more complex tasks.
  • Content Creation: MERCED™ can generate content, such as blog posts and social media updates, based on your customer's preferences and trends. This can save you time and resources while also ensuring that marketing content is relevant and engaging.
  • Lead Scoring: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data to identify and prioritize leads based on their potential value to your business. This can help your sales team focus their efforts on the most promising leads and close more deals.
  • Ad Targeting: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and behavior to target ads more effectively, increasing the likelihood of conversions and reducing marketing costs.
  • Customer Segmentation: MERCED™ can analyze you customer data to segment customers into different groups based on their behavior and preferences. This can help you tailor your marketing messages and offers to specific customer segments, increasing the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.
  • Improved Customer Experience: MERCED™ can provide a more personalized and efficient customer experience, from product recommendations to customer support. This can lead to increased customer loyalty and repeat business for your company.

MERCED™ can securely analyze your data and provide trends & analytics, predictive indicators, identify outliers and gaps, identify your sweet spot for greatest profitability, and provides easy initiation of new reporting inquiries Examples of benefits

  • Faster and more accurate data processing: MERCED™ can process large volumes of data much faster than people, reducing the time it takes to generate reports and insights. Additionally, MERCED™ can identify patterns and anomalies in your data with greater accuracy, leading to more reliable and actionable insights for your team.
  • Automated data analysis: MERCED™ can automate the process of data analysis, freeing up time for your team to focus on more strategic tasks. For example, MERCED™ can identify trends, correlations, and patterns in your data, as well as generate reports and visualizations based on that analysis.
  • Predictive analytics: MERCED™ can make predictions based on your historical data, helping you anticipate future trends and make informed decisions. This can be used for a variety of purposes, such as forecasting sales, identifying customer churn, and predicting maintenance needs for equipment.
  • Natural language processing: MERCED™ can analyze unstructured data, such as text from emails, social media postings, and customer feedback. MERCED™ extract insights from this data, helping you gain a deeper understanding of your customers’ sentiment and preferences.
  • Personalized reporting: MERCED™ can create personalized reports and dashboards for individual users, based on their role, preferences, and data usage patterns. This can help ensure that your users have access to the information they need, in a format that is easy to understand and use.
  • Continuous monitoring: MERCED™ can continuously monitor your data and generate alerts when anomalies or trends are detected. This can help you respond quickly to changing market conditions or customer behavior, and take action to mitigate risks or capitalize on opportunities.
Overall, MERCED™ can help you gain deeper insights from your business data, make more informed decisions, and respond more quickly to changing market conditions and customer needs. By automating data processing and analysis, and providing personalized reporting and predictive insights, MERCED™ can help you stay competitive and drive growth.
Business use case: Your marketing team can ask MERCED™ to generate social media campaigns and posting schedules, write blogs, or help segment customers, helping your team provide more personalized and higher-converting marketing efforts.

Large Language Model AI (LLM) refers to artificial intelligence systems designed to understand and generate human-like language. These models are trained on vast amounts of text data, enabling them to learn the intricacies of language, including grammar, syntax, semantics, and even some nuances of meaning and context.

The benefits of MERCED™ LLM for your business are numerous. Here are some of the most significant ones:

  • Automated Customer Support: MERCED™ can power chat and virtual assistants, providing your customers with instant responses to their queries. This not only improves customer satisfaction but also reduces the workload on your customer support agents.
  • Content Generation: MERCED™ can generate high-quality content for your marketing copy, product descriptions, and social media postings. This can save your team time and resources while ensuring consistent brand messaging.
  • Data Analysis: MERCED™ can analyze large amounts of text data, such as customer reviews, social media postings, and market research reports, to extract insights and trends. This can help your business make informed decisions and improve your products and services.
  • Language Translation: MERCED™ can translate text from one language to another, enabling you to expand your reach to new markets and customers.
  • Personalized Recommendations: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and generate personalized product or service recommendations based on their preferences and past purchases. This can increase sales and customer loyalty.
  • Automated Writing: MERCED™ can help you automate various writing tasks, such as writing emails, reports, and even entire articles or blog posts. This can save you time and resources while ensuring high-quality output.
  • Improved Accessibility: MERCED™ can improve accessibility for people with disabilities, such as those with visual or hearing impairments, by converting text to speech or vice versa. This can help you meet accessibility requirements.
Overall, MERCED™ can offer your business significant benefits in terms of automation, content generation, data analysis, language translation, personalized recommendations, and improved accessibility. By leveraging the power of MERCED™, your company can save time and resources, improve customer satisfaction, and gain a competitive edge in your industry.
Business use case: MERCED™ can understand and respond to your customers’ questions in a human-like manner, providing instant and accurate answers. This improves your customers’ experience and reduces your customer service agents’ workload.

Speech-to-text technology, also known as speech recognition, can bring numerous benefits to businesses in various industries. Here are some ways speech-to-text can improve your business operations:

  • Increased productivity: MERCED™ can help you save time and increase productivity by allowing your employees to dictate emails, reports, or documents instead of typing them out manually. This can be particularly useful for employees who spend a significant amount of time typing, such as customer service representatives or administrative staff.
  • Improved accuracy: MERCED™ can help your team reduce errors and improve accuracy in data entry and transcription tasks. This can lead to fewer mistakes and fewer corrections, saving you time and resources.
  • Streamlined workflows: MERCED™ can help streamline your workflows by automating certain tasks, such as transcribing audio recordings or dictating emails. This can help reduce the workload on your employees and free up their time for more strategic tasks.
  • Improved customer service: MERCED™ can help you improve customer service by allowing your customer service agents to dictate responses to customer inquiries while multitasking, such as entering data into a CRM system or searching for information on a database.
Business use case: MERCED™ can automatically transcribe customer interactions in real time. This can save your customer service agents 30+ seconds per call, allowing them to handle more calls per hour and improving overall productivity.

Object detection technology can bring numerous benefits to businesses in various industries. Here are some ways object detection can benefit your business:

  • Enhanced Security: MERCED™ can be used in security systems to identify and alert security personnel about potential threats. For instance, it can be used to detect intruders, suspicious packages, or abandoned objects in restricted areas.
  • Improved Inventory Management: MERCED™ can help you manage your inventory more efficiently by counting and tracking stock levels, reducing overstocking, minimizing shrinkage, and optimizing your inventory levels.
  • Automated Quality Control: MERCED™ can help detect defects or anomalies in products, thereby helping your business improve production processes, reduce waste, and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Increased Productivity: MERCED™ can help your businesses increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks. For instance, it can be used to sort and categorize products, automate inspections, or automate data entry.
  • Improved Safety: MERCED™ can help you improve safety by detecting potential hazards. For instance, it can be used to detect falling objects, spills, or other hazards in the workplace, enabling businesses to take preventative measures to ensure employee safety.
Overall, MERCED™ can bring significant benefits to your businesses by improving efficiency, enhancing security, increasing productivity, and providing valuable insights into operations and customer behavior.
Business use case: MERCED™ can help you manage your inventory more effectively by analyzing images, providing real-time inventory data. You can use this information to optimize stock levels, reduce waste, and improve order fulfillment.

Software creation and delivery

MERCED™’s tech platform, tools, & AI (Artificial Intelligence) can benefit software creation and delivery in several ways:

  • Automated coding: MERCED™ can be used to write code automatically based on predefined rules and patterns. You can save time and reduce errors in the development process.
  • Predictive analysis: MERCED™ can analyze historical data and patterns to predict future trends and requirements. This can help your development team create software that meets the needs of users and stays ahead of the competition.
  • Testing and debugging: MERCED™ can be used to efficiently test software and identify bugs . It can also help your developers understand the root cause of bugs and suggest solutions.
  • Personalized user experiences: MERCED™ can be used to create personalized user experiences by analyzing user behavior and preferences. This can lead to increased user engagement and satisfaction.
  • Continuous integration and delivery: MERCED™ can be used to automate the continuous integration and delivery process, ensuring that your software is always up-to-date and free of bugs.
  • Natural language processing: MERCED™ can be used to understand and process natural language, making it easier for your developers to interact with software development tools and platforms.
  • Enhanced security: MERCED™ can be used to detect and prevent cyber attacks by analyzing patterns and identifying anomalies in real time.
Business use case: MERCED™ can help your software development team work more efficiently, create better software, and provide more personalized user experiences.

Sales

  • Lead Scoring and Prioritization: MERCED™ can analyze large amounts of data to identify potential leads and prioritize them based on their likelihood to convert. This can help your sales teams focus their efforts on the most promising leads, and can also focus MERCED™’s attention on responding to inquiries, preparing quotes, following up, and assessing best practices, compliance, and predictive actions to convert more revenue and increase customer satisfaction.
  • Personalized Marketing and Sales: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data to identify patterns and preferences, enabling your sales team to deliver personalized marketing messages and sales pitches. This can help increase engagement and conversions.
  • Chat and Virtual Assistants: MERCED™ AI-powered chat and virtual assistants can help answer customer queries and provide product recommendations, freeing up your sales team to focus on more complex sales interactions.
  • Predictive Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze historical sales data to identify trends and patterns, enabling your sales team to make more accurate forecasts and adjust their strategies accordingly.
  • Automated Scheduling and Follow-up: MERCED™ can automate scheduling and follow-up tasks, freeing up your sales team to focus on more complex sales interactions and building relationships with customers.
  • Improved Customer Service: MERCED™ can help improve your customer service by providing quick and accurate responses to customer queries, reducing wait times and improving overall customer satisfaction.
  • Enhanced Sales Training: MERCED™ can analyze your sales data to identify best practices and provide personalized training to your sales team, helping improve performance and close more deals.
  • Fraud Detection: MERCED™ can help your sales team detect and prevent fraud by analyzing patterns and identifying anomalies in sales data, reducing the risk of financial losses.
Business use case: Your sales team can use MERCED™ to automatically assign scores to each new lead or potential customer, allowing them to focus their efforts on the highest-scoring leads and increasing their chances of closing deals.

OCR- Text and image recognition/information generation

MERCED™ OCR technology extracts text or information from scanned documents, tables, or images. MERCED™ works by analyzing and recognizing the patterns of letters, numbers, and symbols, even if they are distorted or of poor quality. This can lead to several benefits, such as:

  • Improved accessibility: MERCED™ makes it possible to search and read text from your scanned documents, PDFs, and images, making your information more accessible and easier to use.
  • Increased efficiency: MERCED™ reduces the need for manual data entry, saving you time and resources.
  • Enhanced data management: MERCED™ enables your company to store and manage large volumes of data in digital format, making it easier to retrieve, analyze, and share information.
  • Cost savings: MERCED™ can help your business save costs by reducing the need for manual data entry, paper storage, and other related expenses.
  • Better search capabilities: MERCED™ makes it possible to search for specific text within large volumes of data, making it easier to find and retrieve relevant information.
Business use case: If you’re still receiving handwritten weight tickets, inventories, orders, etc., MERCED™ can convert those to text that can then be searched, actioned, inserted into needed forms, and more.

Language translation of documents, content, & conversations

MERCED™ language translation can benefit your business in several ways by enabling effective communication with international clients, partners, employees, and their documents. Here are some key advantages:

  • Expanding markets: MERCED™ allows you to communicate with customers and partners in their native languages, making it easier to expand into new markets and build stronger relationships.
  • Increasing efficiency: MERCED™ can automate the translation process, saving you time and resources compared to manual translation. This can help you respond more quickly to customer inquiries and process international transactions more efficiently.
  • Improving customer experience: Providing customer support in your customers’ preferred language can lead to higher customer satisfaction and loyalty. MERCED™ can help your business offer multilingual customer service, reducing language barriers and improving the overall customer experience.
  • Enhancing collaboration: MERCED™ can facilitate communication between your employees and teams working in different locations or speaking different languages. This can lead to more effective collaboration and a more inclusive workplace culture.
  • Reducing errors: MERCED™ can help reduce errors in translation, ensuring that important messages are accurately conveyed. This can help prevent misunderstandings and potential legal or financial issues.
  • Cost savings: MERCED™ can be more cost-effective than hiring human translators for every translation need. This can help you save money on translation services and reduce the need for in-house translation resources.
  • Scalability: MERCED™ can handle large volumes of translation requests quickly and efficiently, making it a scalable solution for companies with high translation demands.
Business use case: Overall, MERCED™ can help your business communicate more effectively and efficiently with international clients, partners, and employees, leading to increased revenue, improved customer experience, and a more inclusive and productive workplace.

Customer service

MERCED™ can bring numerous benefits to your customer service in several ways:

  • Faster Response Time: MERCED™’s AI-powered chat and virtual assistants can respond to your customer's queries instantly, reducing the response time and improving customer satisfaction.
  • 24/7 Availability: MERCED™’s AI-powered customer service tools can be available round the clock, allowing your customers to get their queries resolved at any time, even outside business hours.
  • Personalized Experience: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and interactions to provide you with personalized recommendations and solutions, enhancing your customers’ experience.
  • Cost Savings: MERCED™ can handle routine customer queries and tasks, freeing up your customer service agents to focus on more complex issues, resulting in cost savings for your business.
  • Improved Efficiency: MERCED™ can automate repetitive tasks, such as data entry and ticket routing, improving the efficiency of your customer service operations.
  • Enhanced Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze your customer interactions and feedback to provide you with valuable insights and trends, helping you improve your customer service strategies and processes.
  • Consistency: MERCED™ can provide consistent responses and solutions to customer queries, ensuring that all your customers receive the same high-quality service, regardless of the agent they interact with.
  • Scalability: MERCED™ can handle a large volume of customer queries and interactions, allowing you to scale your customer service operations to meet the demands of a growing customer base.
Business use case: MERCED™’s 24/7/365 chat and virtual assistance capabilities can help automatically resolve your customers’ inquiries in real time, so no customer has to wait on hold, and so you can save more time, money, and customer service resources.

Telephony

MERCED™ can score conversation outcomes; summarize and log conversations; action next steps; suggest helpful messaging; and more. Here are some of the benefits:

  • Automated Call Handling: MERCED™ can automatically route calls to the appropriate department or agent based on the caller's needs or the nature of the call. This can help reduce wait times and improve your customers’ satisfaction.
  • Speech Recognition: MERCED™ can transcribe and analyze calls in real-time. This can help you gain valuable insights from customer interactions, identify trends, and improve your call center operations.
  • Predictive Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze historical call data and identify patterns and trends. This can help you anticipate customer needs, optimize call center operations, and improve overall customer experience.
  • Personalized Interactions: MERCED™ can personalize interactions with customers based on their past interactions, preferences, and behavior. This can help your business build stronger relationships with your customers and improve customer loyalty.
  • Automated Responses: MERCED™'s chat and virtual assistants can handle routine customer inquiries and provide automated responses. This can help reduce the workload on your customer service agents and improve response times.
  • Improved Call Quality: MERCED™ can monitor and analyze call quality in real-time, identifying issues and providing recommendations for improvement. This can help you maintain high call quality standards and improve overall customer satisfaction.
  • Cost Savings: By automating routine tasks and improving call center efficiency, MERCED™ can help you save costs and improve you bottom line
Overall, MERCED™ can help you improve your call operations by providing more efficient, personalized, and effective customer interactions, while also helping you reduce costs and improve overall customer satisfaction.
Business use case: MERCED™ can help you automate routine customer service tasks and general phone inquiries, reducing your customers’ wait time and providing personalized, efficient, and consistent solutions to your customers.

Communications

MERCED™ can assist in drafting communications; summarizing and scoring of interactions; providing suggestions for training & improvement; logging and actioning next steps and more. Examples of benefits

  • Automated responses: MERCED™'s chat and virtual assistants can handle routine inquiries and customer service requests, freeing up your customer service agents to focus on more complex issues.
  • Personalized communication: MERCED™'s can analyze your customer data and communication history to provide personalized recommendations and responses, improving your customers’ satisfaction and engagement.
  • Language translation: MERCED™ can translate languages in real-time, enabling you to communicate effectively with international clients and partners.
  • Sentiment analysis: MERCED™ can analyze the tone and sentiment of your customer communications to identify potential issues and provide proactive solutions, improving customer experience and loyalty. MERCED™ can also escalate an alert in real time if the tone or sentiment of the caller is unhappy or negatively trending. It can also trigger suggested messaging and training, as well as provide scoring of team member performance.
  • Time-saving: MERCED™ can automate repetitive tasks such as email sorting and scheduling, saving your team time and resources.
  • Enhanced productivity:MERCED™ can help prioritize and manage communication channels, enabling your employees to focus on high-value tasks and increasing overall productivity.
  • Improved accuracy: MERCED™ can help reduce errors in communication by analyzing your business data and providing suggestions for correct responses, improving the overall quality of your business communications.
  • Cost savings: By automating routine tasks and improving efficiency, MERCED™ AI can help you save on communication-related costs.
  • Better collaboration: MERCED™ can help facilitate better collaboration between your teams by automating scheduling, providing real-time feedback, and enabling seamless information sharing.
Business use case: Your management team can use MERCED™ to have instant access to customer service call transcriptions, service rep ratings, and customer sentiment ratings in any language.

Marketing

MERCED™ can assist your marketing team with content generation; measure campaign effectiveness metrics, provide predictive insights on target markets, competitor analysis, and more. Examples of benefits

  • Personalized Marketing: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and behavior to provide personalized marketing messages and recommendations. This can lead to increased customer engagement and sales.
  • Predictive Analytics: MERCED™ can analyze your historical data and trends to predict future customer behavior and market trends. This can help your team make informed marketing decisions and stay ahead of the competition.
  • Automated Campaigns: MERCED™ can automate your marketing campaigns, such as email marketing and social media advertising, based on your customer's behavior and preferences. This can save your team time and resources while also increasing the effectiveness of marketing efforts.
  • Chat: MERCED™ AI-powered chat technology can provide customer service and support around the clock, answering common questions and providing product recommendations. This can improve customer satisfaction and free up your customer service agents for more complex tasks.
  • Content Creation: MERCED™ can generate content, such as blog posts and social media updates, based on your customer's preferences and trends. This can save you time and resources while also ensuring that marketing content is relevant and engaging.
  • Lead Scoring: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data to identify and prioritize leads based on their potential value to your business. This can help your sales team focus their efforts on the most promising leads and close more deals.
  • Ad Targeting: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and behavior to target ads more effectively, increasing the likelihood of conversions and reducing marketing costs.
  • Customer Segmentation: MERCED™ can analyze you customer data to segment customers into different groups based on their behavior and preferences. This can help you tailor your marketing messages and offers to specific customer segments, increasing the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.
  • Improved Customer Experience: MERCED™ can provide a more personalized and efficient customer experience, from product recommendations to customer support. This can lead to increased customer loyalty and repeat business for your company.

Reporting

MERCED™ can securely analyze your data and provide trends & analytics, predictive indicators, identify outliers and gaps, identify your sweet spot for greatest profitability, and provides easy initiation of new reporting inquiries Examples of benefits

  • Faster and more accurate data processing: MERCED™ can process large volumes of data much faster than people, reducing the time it takes to generate reports and insights. Additionally, MERCED™ can identify patterns and anomalies in your data with greater accuracy, leading to more reliable and actionable insights for your team.
  • Automated data analysis: MERCED™ can automate the process of data analysis, freeing up time for your team to focus on more strategic tasks. For example, MERCED™ can identify trends, correlations, and patterns in your data, as well as generate reports and visualizations based on that analysis.
  • Predictive analytics: MERCED™ can make predictions based on your historical data, helping you anticipate future trends and make informed decisions. This can be used for a variety of purposes, such as forecasting sales, identifying customer churn, and predicting maintenance needs for equipment.
  • Natural language processing: MERCED™ can analyze unstructured data, such as text from emails, social media postings, and customer feedback. MERCED™ extract insights from this data, helping you gain a deeper understanding of your customers’ sentiment and preferences.
  • Personalized reporting: MERCED™ can create personalized reports and dashboards for individual users, based on their role, preferences, and data usage patterns. This can help ensure that your users have access to the information they need, in a format that is easy to understand and use.
  • Continuous monitoring: MERCED™ can continuously monitor your data and generate alerts when anomalies or trends are detected. This can help you respond quickly to changing market conditions or customer behavior, and take action to mitigate risks or capitalize on opportunities.
Overall, MERCED™ can help you gain deeper insights from your business data, make more informed decisions, and respond more quickly to changing market conditions and customer needs. By automating data processing and analysis, and providing personalized reporting and predictive insights, MERCED™ can help you stay competitive and drive growth.
Business use case: Your marketing team can ask MERCED™ to generate social media campaigns and posting schedules, write blogs, or help segment customers, helping your team provide more personalized and higher-converting marketing efforts.

LLM – Large Language Model

Large Language Model AI (LLM) refers to artificial intelligence systems designed to understand and generate human-like language. These models are trained on vast amounts of text data, enabling them to learn the intricacies of language, including grammar, syntax, semantics, and even some nuances of meaning and context.

The benefits of MERCED™ LLM for your business are numerous. Here are some of the most significant ones:

  • Automated Customer Support: MERCED™ can power chat and virtual assistants, providing your customers with instant responses to their queries. This not only improves customer satisfaction but also reduces the workload on your customer support agents.
  • Content Generation: MERCED™ can generate high-quality content for your marketing copy, product descriptions, and social media postings. This can save your team time and resources while ensuring consistent brand messaging.
  • Data Analysis: MERCED™ can analyze large amounts of text data, such as customer reviews, social media postings, and market research reports, to extract insights and trends. This can help your business make informed decisions and improve your products and services.
  • Language Translation: MERCED™ can translate text from one language to another, enabling you to expand your reach to new markets and customers.
  • Personalized Recommendations: MERCED™ can analyze your customer data and generate personalized product or service recommendations based on their preferences and past purchases. This can increase sales and customer loyalty.
  • Automated Writing: MERCED™ can help you automate various writing tasks, such as writing emails, reports, and even entire articles or blog posts. This can save you time and resources while ensuring high-quality output.
  • Improved Accessibility: MERCED™ can improve accessibility for people with disabilities, such as those with visual or hearing impairments, by converting text to speech or vice versa. This can help you meet accessibility requirements.
Overall, MERCED™ can offer your business significant benefits in terms of automation, content generation, data analysis, language translation, personalized recommendations, and improved accessibility. By leveraging the power of MERCED™, your company can save time and resources, improve customer satisfaction, and gain a competitive edge in your industry.
Business use case: MERCED™ can understand and respond to your customers’ questions in a human-like manner, providing instant and accurate answers. This improves your customers’ experience and reduces your customer service agents’ workload.

Speech to Text

Speech-to-text technology, also known as speech recognition, can bring numerous benefits to businesses in various industries. Here are some ways speech-to-text can improve your business operations:

  • Increased productivity: MERCED™ can help you save time and increase productivity by allowing your employees to dictate emails, reports, or documents instead of typing them out manually. This can be particularly useful for employees who spend a significant amount of time typing, such as customer service representatives or administrative staff.
  • Improved accuracy: MERCED™ can help your team reduce errors and improve accuracy in data entry and transcription tasks. This can lead to fewer mistakes and fewer corrections, saving you time and resources.
  • Streamlined workflows: MERCED™ can help streamline your workflows by automating certain tasks, such as transcribing audio recordings or dictating emails. This can help reduce the workload on your employees and free up their time for more strategic tasks.
  • Improved customer service: MERCED™ can help you improve customer service by allowing your customer service agents to dictate responses to customer inquiries while multitasking, such as entering data into a CRM system or searching for information on a database.
Business use case: MERCED™ can automatically transcribe customer interactions in real time. This can save your customer service agents 30+ seconds per call, allowing them to handle more calls per hour and improving overall productivity.

Object Detection

Object detection technology can bring numerous benefits to businesses in various industries. Here are some ways object detection can benefit your business:

  • Enhanced Security: MERCED™ can be used in security systems to identify and alert security personnel about potential threats. For instance, it can be used to detect intruders, suspicious packages, or abandoned objects in restricted areas.
  • Improved Inventory Management: MERCED™ can help you manage your inventory more efficiently by counting and tracking stock levels, reducing overstocking, minimizing shrinkage, and optimizing your inventory levels.
  • Automated Quality Control: MERCED™ can help detect defects or anomalies in products, thereby helping your business improve production processes, reduce waste, and improve customer satisfaction.
  • Increased Productivity: MERCED™ can help your businesses increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks. For instance, it can be used to sort and categorize products, automate inspections, or automate data entry.
  • Improved Safety: MERCED™ can help you improve safety by detecting potential hazards. For instance, it can be used to detect falling objects, spills, or other hazards in the workplace, enabling businesses to take preventative measures to ensure employee safety.
Overall, MERCED™ can bring significant benefits to your businesses by improving efficiency, enhancing security, increasing productivity, and providing valuable insights into operations and customer behavior.
Business use case: MERCED™ can help you manage your inventory more effectively by analyzing images, providing real-time inventory data. You can use this information to optimize stock levels, reduce waste, and improve order fulfillment.
And new capabilities to be released soon. Keep watch here for more, or contact us to be added to our updates!

For our existing EDC® customers

We've added the first wave of several new EDC® MERCED™ AI features to our EDC® platforms. These AI-enhanced features include compose-assist, notes summaries, image-to-text digitization, speech-to-text, translations, & more to come! We’ll also provide opportunities for existing EDC® customers to license MERCED™ independently as a separate solution.

And as a reflection of how excited we are about the power of MERCED™, we're also implementing MERCED™ within our own internal business processes.

We've added the first wave of several new EDC® MERCED™ AI features to our EDC® platforms.
The solution's robustness, versatility, and ability to streamline processes captivated us, and we became increasingly passionate about sharing it with the world.

How MERCED was born
We’ll let you in on a secret!

Originally conceived as an innovative tech and business solution to address our own internal needs, MERCED™ quickly evolved into something much more substantial and exciting for us. As we delved deeper into its development, we realized the immense potential it held for businesses across various industries.

We recognized that many businesses, regardless of their size or sector, could benefit significantly from the features and capabilities of MERCED™. With this in mind, we expanded our efforts and dedicated ourselves to building a comprehensive, scalable solution that could cater to the unique requirements of businesses both large and small.

Please reach out if you have questions on MERCED™, and how it can revolutionize the way you do business.