A 2 week executive AI lab where top university talent, Facio’s Org2Vec platform, and leading AI models turn your hardest operational bottleneck into a working, governed solution.
For financial institutions, insurers, infrastructure companies, logistics operators, and public-sector organizations across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Bring us the problem your team keeps postponing. Leave with a working prototype, an implementation path, and a safer way to adopt AI.
Every serious organization is being pushed to “use AI.”
But regulated and operationally complex organizations cannot simply paste sensitive records into a chatbot and hope for the best.
Your concerns are real:
Your data cannot become training material, leak into public tools, or move outside proper controls.
One wrong answer can approve the wrong claim, misread a contract, miss a deadline, or create financial exposure.
If an AI system cannot show where its answer came from, it cannot survive audit, compliance review, or board scrutiny.
Most AI pilots look impressive in a demo and then die because they are not connected to real workflows, real approvals, or real business ownership.
The Org2Vec Innovation Lab was built for this gap: the space between AI ambition and operational trust.
The Org2Vec Innovation Lab pairs your organization with high-performing student teams from partner universities, guided by Facio’s product and AI leadership.
Together, we target one meaningful business problem and turn it into a working solution concept using:
A semantic connection engine mapping files, policies, cases, and rules in real time.
Ensure sensitive operational directives and policies are followed without exposure risk.
Multiple model benchmarking to choose the highest performing, most efficient option.
Deterministic escalation rules ensure your staff checks every key automated output.
Full audit traceability linking recommendations to precise files and policies.
Reconstruct how decisions were reached to survive compliance and audit reviews.
Practical execution roadmap extending beyond the lab for permanent integration.
We identify high-friction workflows where AI can reduce review cycles, manual handoffs, rework, and operational delay.
The system is designed around human approval, rule-based guardrails, and full traceability.
We test multiple leading AI models against your actual problem. You see which one performs best instead of betting on vendor hype.
Yes. The winning concept becomes an implementation candidate, with a practical path for deployment inside your organization.
For eligible finance and insurance projects, the Lab is designed to align with the NC Regulatory Sandbox framework.
North Carolina’s Innovation Council is now accepting applications for regulatory waivers. The Council reviews applications, admits participants, and assigns admitted participants to the applicable state agency for regulatory collaboration and oversight.
That matters because serious AI adoption in finance and insurance cannot happen in a vacuum. It needs a setting where innovation, compliance, and regulators can move together.
Most AI tools are search boxes with better manners. They wait for a question, answer from a document, and forget the operational context behind the work.
That is not enough for organizations where decisions have consequences.
Your organization lives in two worlds:
The official world: Policies, procedures, manuals, contracts, authority limits, compliance rules.
The living world: Emails, exceptions, approvals, claims, customer requests, vendor conversations, decisions, and institutional memory.
The biggest operational failures happen in the gap between those two worlds. Org2Vec connects them. It creates a governed network of your organization’s knowledge, communications, cases, rules, people, and decisions — so AI can work with context, not guesswork.
New documents, messages, cases, and decisions update the organization’s memory.
Cases, rules, outcomes, and institutional knowledge stay connected, even when people leave or teams change.
Authority limits, escalation rules, deadlines, and compliance triggers are enforced through deterministic controls — not left to model judgment.
Every answer links back to the records, policies, or communications that support it.
The AI recommends, drafts, summarizes, and prepares. Your people decide.
That is the difference between a chatbot and an operational AI layer.
The Lab is designed around high-value use cases, not toy projects.
Agents that help carry complex work from intake to decision: claim triage, vendor screening, policy review, permit review, compliance investigation, customer request routing.
Manual processes currently buried in email, spreadsheets, and shared folders rebuilt into structured, trackable workflows.
The bottleneck everyone knows exists but no one has had time to fix.
Controls, monitoring, evidence trails, and review structures designed from day one.
The Lab is built for organizations where judgment, compliance, and execution all matter.
Banks, credit unions, insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, TPAs, brokers, asset managers, accounting firms, payment companies, fintech platforms.
General contractors, EPC firms, engineering firms, inspection companies, utilities, airports, ports, toll operators, safety-regulated field operations.
Freight carriers, 3PLs, customs brokers, freight forwarders, ports, terminal operators, cold-chain logistics, fleet operators, warehouses.
State and municipal agencies, licensing and permitting teams, procurement offices, public records departments, courts, benefits administration, public health operations.
We meet your leadership team and identify the problem worth solving — the one with real cost, risk, friction, or strategic upside.
We translate the problem into a clear hackathon brief with success criteria, data boundaries, workflow constraints, and compliance requirements.
Top university talent is matched to your challenge, supported by Facio’s AI, product, and regulated-workflow expertise.
Teams compete to build the strongest solution concept using Org2Vec, leading AI models, and governed workflow design.
Your leadership team sees what was built, compares approaches, and selects the most promising path forward.
The winning concept becomes a candidate for real deployment, supported by a practical plan for integration, governance, and next steps.
The Org2Vec Innovation Lab is accepting a limited number of organizations across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia for the Fall 2026 cohort.
Participation is designed for organizations with a meaningful operational, compliance, or AI adoption challenge — and leadership commitment to explore a real implementation path.
Submit one strategic business problem for the Lab and work with Facio and student teams toward a governed solution concept.
Sponsor multiple challenges, student teams, or sector-focused innovation tracks.
Continue beyond the Lab into pilot deployment, sandbox-readiness, integration, and operational rollout.
Program contribution is scoped based on challenge complexity, data readiness, sector requirements, and implementation pathway.
For organizations in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.