Sage, Augusta Labs partner to accelerate AI goals

Together, the teams say they will deliver AI at startup speed and global scale to help customers run higher performing businesses. By Dumisani Sigogo

As the race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption heats up, Sage has announced a new global partnership with Augusta Labs, an applied AI lab based in Portugal.

In a statement, the company said the partnership accelerates the development of Sage's AI Centre of Excellence by embedding Augusta Labs' engineering teams directly into Sage's product organisation.

This collaboration, according to the company, is designed to help Sage deliver AI-powered features faster across its finance, HR, and payroll solutions combining startup speed with enterprise scale as the company works toward becoming an AI-first organisation.

Sage is a provider of accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and mid sized businesses.

The news alliance with Augusta expands Sage’s AI and data engineering capacity and strengthens its shift toward becoming an AI first company, the statement said.

It went on to say: “Businesses now expect more from the software they rely on, including faster insights, smarter automation, and experiences that feel effortless.

“Delivering that level of performance depends on how quickly AI can be designed, engineered, and deployed into real workflows.

“McKinsey’s latest The State of AI report notes that companies capturing the most value from AI are those able to move from experimentation to production at speed and scale intelligence across their products.”

To meet this rising expectation and push its own high-performance goals, Sage is growing its applied AI engineering capacity through its new partnership with Augusta Labs.

The company said: “With Augusta Labs’ multidisciplinary teams working directly inside Sage’s product organisation, Sage can build and deploy production ready intelligence faster, deepen automation across its solutions, and bring the benefits of AI to customers at a pace that matches how businesses operate today.”

Manav Thiara, SVP, Technical Fellow, Data Digital Services and Engineering, Sage, commented: “This partnership gives Sage the startup speed we need while strengthening our internal AI and data engineering capabilities.

“With Augusta Labs fully embedded into our product organisation, everything we build together aligns with the Sage Platform, our AI roadmap, and the needs of our customers. This approach accelerates delivery for our AI Centre of Excellence and supports our transformation into an AI-first company.”

Rodrigo Fernandes, Co-Founder, Augusta Labs, added: “AI is entering its execution era, and Sage is one of the few companies positioned to realise its full value at scale, thanks to the depth of its data and the reach of its global distribution.

“By combining Sage’s platform vision and unique data assets with our applied AI expertise, we are helping create a new generation of intelligent, adaptive software for businesses everywhere. It’s an exciting step for both organisations and for the future of work.”