Tomorro Managing Director Ed Brassard laid out ambitious expansion plans for the AI startup. Photo: Tomorro
An AI company plans to pay developers up to £135,000 each as part of an ambitious program to expand its operations in Edinburgh.
Startup Tomoro aims to develop custom AI agent technology and plans to create 20 Scottish AI roles over the next 12 months.
The company, which has teamed up with ChatGPT creators OpenAI and recently announced a partnership with NIVIDIA, is investing £4m to expand its business over the next three years.
The company recently claimed that AI will transform productivity so much that employees will be able to work three days a week without losing income within five years.
Ed Broussard, Managing Director of Tomoro, said: “At Tomoro, we are focused on helping our clients transform their businesses through deeply embedded AI. We are already working on some of the world’s most ambitious AI projects in our London office, and we are also working in Scotland. Similarly, we believe we have the talent, ecosystem and ambition to push the boundaries.”
“We see this investment in Scotland as a great opportunity to accelerate our growth and play an active role as one of Europe’s most thriving data and AI centres.”
Unlike automation, custom AI agents are designed to be self-sufficient in understanding requests, gathering the right data, making decisions, and taking or initiating actions, Broussard added.
They can be used to perform a specialized set of business activities and can think, reason, make decisions, and take actions just like humans or groups of humans.
“For example, they can serve as customer service representatives, tax experts, research assistants, or even graphic designers dedicated to creating collateral for a particular brand.”
Brousard added that his company is ensuring that its AI is as secure as possible.
“The important thing here is that it’s not one big AI black box and you just hope the output is correct,” he said. “For each application, we consider different risk factors and set controls on each factor. This allows us to control the knowledge the agents use, how they reason, and the documentation they use to explain their decisions to us. can be made available for reference.
Broussard has a history of bringing AI jobs to Scotland, with similar investments in Mudano, the last business he co-founded. He established an AI Research and Development (R&D) department in Edinburgh for Mudano in 2018. Mudano later grew into a financial services data and AI consultancy and was acquired by Accenture in 2020.
Les Bain, Chairman of DataLab, Scotland’s data and AI innovation centre, said: “It’s an exciting moment for Scotland’s data and AI community and it shows that one of Europe’s most exciting AI start-ups is making such a significant investment in Scotland.” Scotland’s role in the AI revolution A role that leads the world. ”
Tomoro works with large enterprises in financial services, energy, media, telecommunications and other industries to help them adopt AI through custom-built AI agents to drive new revenue and reduce their cost base. Broussard said he also hopes to apply the technology to public sector technology procurement in the coming years.
The new roles will cover all levels, from graduates to experienced AI engineers. Jobs created include AI engineers, AI solutions architects, and AI consultants. Individuals leverage large language models and organizational datasets and knowledge to design, build, and deploy AI applications. The team will be based across Scotland and will be hybrid, with employees also working on-site with clients.
