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Talk to Your Processes: How Conversational AI Changes Work

Written by Joyce van den Burg | Sep 10, 2025 2:12:08 PM

Stop searching for documents and start talking to your processes. Learn how Conversational AI is transforming how we work by providing instant, secure, and accurate answers.

How Conversational AI is Changing the Way We Work

How much time do you spend every day just searching for information? Documents, policies, and workflows are scattered across different folders, drives, and systems. You know the exact information you need is out there somewhere, but finding it feels like a full-time job. This constant hunt for answers costs your business time and money. This is where Conversational AI comes in.

What Is Conversational AI?

Think of Conversational AI as a smart assistant who knows everything about your business. Instead of typing keywords into a search bar, you simply ask a question, just as you would a colleague. This technology understands what you’re really asking for and gives you a direct, accurate answer. It transforms static documentation - like PDFs, spreadsheets, or text files - into a dynamic, conversational resource. This makes your company’s process knowledge not just accessible, but truly active and secure. You stop searching and start understanding.

Why Your Current Methods Are Holding You Back

Finding information today often means hitting roadblocks. The average employee spends almost two hours every day just searching for the right document. That's a huge amount of lost time. Here’s where traditional approaches fall short:

  • Traditional Search: A keyword search often gives you a long list of documents without context. You have to open dozens of files and piece together the full picture yourself. This is slow, frustrating, and can lead to mistakes.

  • Help Desks: Waiting for a response from a help desk or a process expert can cause major delays. It also puts a lot of pressure on a few key people, making their knowledge inaccessible to everyone else.

  • Generic AI Chatbots: These tools can be risky. They might give you a plausible-sounding but incorrect answer - a problem known as "AI hallucinations." They often can’t trace their answers back to a source, so you can’t verify the information. Plus, when you enter sensitive company data, it can expose that information to external platforms. Implementing AI successfully requires overcoming these and other barriers. To learn more about how to navigate these challenges, read our related blog post on What AI Needs to Succeed: Overcoming Barriers to Enterprise Adoption.

An effective Conversational AI assistant solves these problems by providing precise, verifiable, and secure answers, all while understanding the unique context of your business.


How Conversational AI Can Improve Your Business

Conversational AI helps teams work smarter and faster. By delivering instant, context-aware guidance, it empowers employees to make confident decisions without wasting time searching through siloed documents or waiting for a response from an expert. Instead, teams can focus on high-value activities, knowing that accurate, reference-backed answers are just a question away. Here are a few examples:

  • For Operations: Onboarding new employees can be slow. A Conversational AI assistant can help new hires immediately get reliable, personalized answers to questions like, “How do I get a new project approved?” It also provides quick, step-by-step instructions for routine tasks, reducing the burden on managers and experts.

  • For Change Management: When new policies or processes are introduced, people need to quickly understand what's changed. With Conversational AI, teams can ask, “What’s different in the new procurement process?” and get a personalized, clear overview, reducing confusion and friction.

  • For Audits and Compliance: Compliance officers spend weeks gathering documents. A Conversational AI assistant can quickly retrieve specific workflows and compliance checks, drastically cutting down on audit prep time. You can ask, "Which processes have changed in the last 12 months?" to get a complete overview instantly.

These examples show how a smart assistant gives teams fast, accurate, and relevant answers to operational and process-specific questions.

Meet Mavim ConversAI: Your Smart Process Assistant

These examples show how a smart assistant gives teams fast, accurate, and relevant answers to operational and process-specific questions. But how do you get a Conversational AI that truly understands your unique business?

That’s where Mavim ConversAI comes in. It's a specialized conversational AI assistant built on Microsoft Azure, designed to work directly with your company's own process data. 

Unlike generic chatbots, Mavim ConversAI understands your business. It knows your terminology and the relationships within your processes. Your data stays completely secure in your own Azure environment, so it's never exposed to external platforms. Every answer comes with a direct link to its source document, so you can always verify the information.

Curious how Mavim can turn your process documentation into a living, intelligent resource? Download our factsheet and discover the four foundational principles of Mavim ConversAI.