Vertical-Specialist AI Operating Intelligence

One AI engine. Three industries transformed.

Decades of operator experience crystallised into a real-time decision partner. Proactive intelligence for lottery, sportsbook, and hospitality operators.

The Thesis

From administering software to harmonising with it.

For two decades, operators have related to their technology by administering it — logging in, running queries, generating reports, deciding. GroupIQ is built on a different model. The AI watches everything, prompts the right move at the right moment, and surfaces both opportunities and threats the operator wouldn't have seen.

Crystallised Experience

Not generic AI. Decades of operator experience codified into vertical-specific playbook layers. Every recommendation is grounded in real operational decisions.

One Engine, Many Verticals

A shared AI spine — engine, data platform, privacy architecture, brand grammar — with vertical-specific towers on top. Adding a new vertical is a 90-day exercise.

Named IP Partners

Where we don't hold deep domain experience directly, we engage named IP partners whose reputations underwrite our playbooks. Accountable, not anonymous.

Cross-Vertical Signal

Payment-failure shapes, retention curves, anomaly patterns — these compound across industries when properly anonymised. Three verticals make the system smarter.

How It Works

A proactive AI partner, not a dashboard.

Three layers, working together inside the operator's daily workflow.

01

The Chat Partner

Ask anything in plain language — why GGR dropped last Tuesday, which agents are under-performing, what would happen if margins were narrowed. The AI answers with charts, tables, and source data.

Delivered through Telegram, with web view for deep analysis and Slack/Teams as enterprise options.

02

The Proactive Engine

The operator never has to remember to look. Early-warning alerts with root causes attributed, opportunity prompts where revenue is being left on the table, and executive briefings assembled automatically.

This is what separates GroupIQ from every BI tool on the market.

03

The Data & Learning Platform

Real-time ingestion from core systems — platform, payments, CRM, BI warehouse, PMS, POS — plus external context feeds. A modelling layer that re-trains continuously as the business evolves.

The system gets more valuable the longer it is used.

Why This Is Different

Four things competitors can't replicate.

Telegram-First Delivery

For operators across Africa, LATAM, MENA, and Eastern Europe, Telegram is the daily comms tool. No new login, no new app, no IT-buyer involvement. The COO already has Telegram open.

Domain IP, Not Generic AI

Every recommendation is grounded in vertical-specific operating playbooks signed off by named domain experts. The engine has been instructed by people who have lived inside the operations.

Real-Time, Not Retrospective

BI tells the operator what happened. GroupIQ tells them what is happening, what is about to happen, and what to do about it — while there is still time to act.

Cross-Vertical Signal

Payment-failure shapes, retention curves, anomaly patterns — these compound across industries when properly anonymised. The system is more valuable because there are three verticals.

Who Is Building It

Operator heritage. Builder partnership.

Built on the operational experience of Digital Gaming Services — 15+ years of senior commercial leadership in the global lottery and gaming industry.

Ed Mouton

Founder & CEO

15+ years C-level lottery and gaming experience across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and beyond. Former Chairman of the European Lottery Betting Association. Former CEO/COO of Gameworx (Malta). Founder of Digital Gaming Services.

Shaun Marriner

Co-founder & CTO

Technical co-founder responsible for product, engineering, and the AI platform that powers every vertical. Architect of the shared intelligence engine.

Ready to see it in action?

Whether you're a partner, customer, or investor — we'd love to show you what proactive AI intelligence looks like for your vertical.

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