Publicis Sapient

About

Publicis Sapient describes itself as a technology company that combines industry expertise with its own AI platforms, and its clients include financial services organisations. It was founded as Sapient in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1990 as a digital consulting firm, and states that it has 20,000 people across 72 offices worldwide. Its platforms are Sapient Slingshot, which modernises legacy systems and builds new software, Sapient Bodhi, which builds and orchestrates AI agents and was created in 2021, and Sapient Sustain, for IT operations. In financial services it applies these platforms to use cases including core banking modernisation, lending operations, real-time payments and back-office automation, with Bodhi agents for tasks such as customer onboarding and KYC, and scam checking. Its company history cites building a digital trade finance bank with AGTB in 2019.