Romania presents an interesting paradox when it comes to artificial intelligence. While businesses have been slow to adopt AI, some of the country’s most complex public institutions are already putting it to work. The experience gained from developing these solutions has helped shape AISIV, an AI platform created by Software Imagination & Vision (SIMAVI) and SIVECO Technology (SIVTEC), which has now won the Business Software Innovation Award at AI Expo Europe 2026.
SIMAVI received the Business Software Innovation Award at AI Expo Europe 2026 for AISIV, an artificial intelligence platform developed by the Romanian companies SIMAVI and SIVTEC. The awards ceremony took place in Bucharest in early November.
The award highlights an important shift in how artificial intelligence is being used: from applications that answer questions to systems that can carry out real tasks, analyse information and automate complex business processes.
More than Chatbots: AI That Gets Things Done
AISIV can take on everyday tasks that consume considerable time and resources: reading and checking documents, processing invoices, retrieving information from databases, generating reports and carrying out operations within the software systems a company already uses.
A manager can simply ask, “What were last month’s sales by region?” and receive a report generated directly from company data, without having to involve the IT department. An AI agent can process financial documents, flagging only those cases that require human review.
And all of this can run on the company’s own infrastructure, without sending confidential information to external AI providers.
“Our experience has taught us that AI doesn’t become valuable when it produces impressive answers. It becomes valuable when it can do real work, within real systems, where rules, accountability and consequences matter. AISIV grew out of that experience. We didn’t start with a technology looking for a problem. We started with real problems and built solutions to address them,” says Alexandru Coșbuc-Ionescu, Vice President of SIMAVI.
Built on Experience Where the Stakes Are High
In his presentation at AI Expo Europe, Alexandru Coșbuc-Ionescu explained how the two companies’ experience delivering complex public-sector projects helped shape the development of AISIV.
At Romania’s Ministry of Economy, AI technologies are being used to turn archives into structured, searchable information and identify personal data within documents. In agriculture, solutions developed for the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture (APIA) verify photographs submitted by farmers, cross-checking the images against field locations and the rules governing agricultural subsidies.
SIMAVI also leads a programme to automate 240 administrative processes across at least 18 public institutions. In a separate project for Romania’s 112 emergency service, AI tools are being developed to support emergency call operators.
In public institutions, where sensitive information must be protected and every decision must be accountable, AI faces a demanding test. The experience gained from these projects has become one of AISIV’s strengths: technology designed not only to perform, but also to earn trust.
From Public Administration to Business
AISIV brings together nine categories of AI technologies in a single platform, allowing organisations to start small and expand at their own pace. It can be used across industries, including financial services, insurance, manufacturing, retail, logistics, energy, healthcare and agriculture, while integrating with existing IT systems.
“For businesses, the real challenge is no longer gaining access to AI. It’s making AI part of everyday operations. A company shouldn’t have to rebuild its IT systems to benefit from artificial intelligence. With AISIV, it can start by automating a single process and expand as the results prove their value. That’s the kind of innovation that matters in business: technology that adapts to the organisation, not the other way around,” says Gabriel Lospa, General Manager of SIVECO Technology.
The Business Software Innovation Award at AI Expo Europe 2026 recognises technology developed in Romania, drawing on years of experience in national and European projects.
For SIMAVI and SIVTEC, the award reinforces a clear direction: AI should no longer simply tell us what needs to be done. It should help us get it done.
About AISIV
AISIV is a modular artificial intelligence platform developed by Software Imagination & Vision (SIMAVI) and SIVECO Technology (SIVTEC). It combines AI agents, process automation, intelligent document processing, data analytics and other AI technologies. The platform can run on an organisation’s own infrastructure or in a private cloud and integrates with existing business applications.
Learn more: https://aisiv.ro/
Award details: https://aiexpoeurope.com/awards
