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A1 Group and Wonderful partner to bring enterprise AI into business operations. Oct 1, 2026 * Wonderful's AI OS enables companies to orchestrate AI agents, workflows and applications across the enterprise * A1 Group combines enterprise, technology and integration expertise to bring AI into customers' business operations A1 Group and Wonderful are joining forces to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in enterprises. Through the partnership, A1 Group will bring Wonderful's AI Operating System to its business customers, enabling companies to move beyond isolated AI applications and integrate AI more deeply into their day-to-day operations. The partnership brings together A1 Group's strong enterprise customer relationships, technology and expertise and with Wonderful's platform and local deployment capabilities. As part of this partnership, A1 Group will also deploy Wonderful within its own operations, bringing first-hand implementation experience into its customer projects. A1 Group CEO Alejandro Plater: "Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. For companies, the key question is no longer whether they use AI, but how they turn it into real business value at scale. This is exactly where our partnership with Wonderful comes in. We combine a powerful enterprise AI platform with A1 Group's technology expertise, customer relationships and deep understanding of our markets. Together, we want to make AI a productive part of how companies operate and turn its potential into tangible business value." "We're proud to welcome the A1 Group as a Wonderful customer and partner," said Bar Winkler, co-founder and CEO of Wonderful. "With their robust AI agenda, A1 is demonstrating the leadership needed to advance enterprise AI adoption and set the pace for the region and industry." From individual AI applications to enterprise-wide deployment AI agents go beyond traditional chat and voice bots. They can support complex tasks and connect processes across different systems. Wonderful's AI Operating System provides a common platform to orchestrate AI agents, workflows and applications across an organization, allowing companies to start with concrete use cases and expand them across processes and business areas. Through this partnership, dedicated engineers from A1 Group and Wonderful work together with customers' business experts to translate these use cases into productive AI solutions. A1 Group CTO Alexander Kuchar: "The real value of enterprise AI emerges when it becomes part of everyday business processes. That requires not only powerful technology, but also a deep understanding of the customer's environment and the ability to integrate AI into existing systems and processes. This also requires skilled teams that can translate business requirements into working AI solutions. This is where A1 Group and Wonderful complement each other. Together, we can turn promising AI use cases into solutions that work in real enterprise environments and can be scaled across the organization." From business case to productive operations Together, A1 Group and Wonderful cover the path from the first business case to productive operations: identifying where AI can create value, integrating it into existing processes and systems, and scaling successful applications across the organization. About Wonderful Wonderful helps large enterprises become AI-native, unlocking their full potential. The company offers the only AI OS purpose-built for the entire enterprise, allowing organizations to automate and improve work, modernize their tech stack, and serve and grow their customers. Forward-deployed engineering pods co-build alongside customer teams in every market, getting AI into production fast and transferring capability so enterprises can increasingly build on the platform themselves. Founded in 2025, Wonderful operates across 35+ markets around the world, works with enterprise customers across verticals, and is backed by leading investors Index Ventures, Insight Partners, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards, Salesforce, and Bessemer Venture Partners. See more at www.wonderful.ai.

A1 Group, Wonderful partner to bring enterprise AI into business operations. A1 Group and Wonderful are joining forces to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in enterprises. Through the partnership, A1 Group will bring Wonderful's AI Operating System to its business customers, enabling companies to move beyond isolated AI applications and integrate AI more deeply into their day-to-day operations. The partnership brings together A1 Group's strong enterprise customer relationships, technology and expertise and with Wonderful's platform and local deployment capabilities. As part of this partnership, A1 Group will also deploy Wonderful within its own operations, bringing first-hand implementation experience into its customer projects. From individual AI applications to enterprise-wide deployment AI agents go beyond traditional chat and voice bots. They can support complex tasks and connect processes across different systems. Wonderful's AI Operating System provides a common platform to orchestrate AI agents, workflows and applications across an organization, allowing companies to start with concrete use cases and expand them across processes and business areas. Through this partnership, dedicated engineers from A1 Group and Wonderful work together with customers' business experts to translate these use cases into productive AI solutions. From business case to productive operations Together, A1 Group and Wonderful cover the path from the first business case to productive operations: identifying where AI can create value, integrating it into existing processes and systems, and scaling successful applications across the organization. A1 Group CEO Alejandro Plater Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase. For companies, the key question is no longer whether they use AI, but how they turn it into real business value at scale. This is exactly where our partnership with Wonderful comes in. We combine a powerful enterprise AI platform with A1 Group's technology expertise, customer relationships and deep understanding of our markets. Together, we want to make AI a productive part of how companies operate and turn its potential into tangible business value. Bar Winkler, co-founder and CEO of Wonderful We're proud to welcome the A1 Group as a Wonderful customer and partner. With their robust AI agenda, A1 is demonstrating the leadership needed to advance enterprise AI adoption and set the pace for the region and industry. A1 Group CTO Alexander Kuchar The real value of enterprise AI emerges when it becomes part of everyday business processes. That requires not only powerful technology, but also a deep understanding of the customer's environment and the ability to integrate AI into existing systems and processes. This also requires skilled teams that can translate business requirements into working AI solutions. This is where A1 Group and Wonderful complement each other. Together, we can turn promising AI use cases into solutions that work in real enterprise environments and can be scaled across the organization. Ray Sharma is an Industry Analyst and Editor at The Fast Mode. He has over 15 years of experience in mobile broadband technologies and solutions, conducting research and analysis on various technology segments and producing articles and write-ups on the latest developments within the sector. He is also in charge of social media engagement and industry liaisons. The Fast Mode 9658 likes TWEETS 28.4K FOLLOWING 3479 FOLLOWERS 13.2K

Wonderful AI opens London office and plans to hire hundreds. Wonderful AI, a Dutch-Israeli start-up that helps companies adopt artificial intelligence, has opened an office in London and plans to recruit "hundreds" of people, as it targets businesses that have yet to show measurable returns from the technology. The company's new site is on St Martin's Lane in Covent Garden. Wonderful did not set a timeline for the recruitment. The 18-month-old business was valued at $5bn after raising $550m in a funding round announced on 2 September, backed by investors including Salesforce, Index Ventures and Insight Partners. It now employs more than 700 people across 35 countries. Free newsletters The stories that matter to UK business, straight to your inbox. Jason du Preez, Wonderful's UK chief operating officer, said the funding gave the company the "muscle to invest materially in this market... we see a huge market opportunity in the UK". Targeting the gap on returns. Du Preez said many UK companies had moved quickly on AI but had yet to demonstrate what it had delivered. "Many companies here in the UK actually have very active AI agendas and were very early to adopt some of the tools but are yet to show tangible, coherent stories on ROI [return on investment]," he said. Research published by Accenture in April found that only one in ten UK organisations had successfully scaled AI or embedded it into core operations. Matt Prebble, chief executive of Accenture UK and Ireland, has since said that nine in ten companies are still waiting for AI to pay off. Adoption itself has risen. According to the Office for National Statistics, the proportion of UK businesses with 10 or more employees using at least one AI technology rose from around 12 per cent to around 35 per cent between late 2023 and 2026. A separate PwC study found that UK businesses were falling behind on AI investment and returns compared with global leaders. How the model works. Wonderful places its engineers directly inside client businesses, where they help design custom AI software on top of the company's own platform. That platform sits between businesses and the underlying AI models. The platform is model agnostic, meaning it can route queries to a range of different AI models. "We work with all the frontier companies and we enable our customers to choose which models are used for specific purposes," du Preez said. Wonderful's router decides which model is best suited to a given task, taking into account factors such as data sensitivity and cost. The company also trains clients to build and expand their technology systems independently, and allows all customers to export any intellectual property built on the platform, which it says protects against vendor lock-in. "We're not trying to create some sort of long-term dependency on Wonderful," du Preez said. "I think that provides strong support for the sovereignty story, in that we're giving customers choice and no lock-ins." Regulated sectors in focus. Du Preez said Wonderful was "agnostic to sector", but added that he was "very excited about the regulated industries", including insurance, banking and telecoms, as well as life sciences and healthcare. The opening adds to a run of AI companies expanding in the capital. OpenAI earlier this year leased its first permanent London office in King's Cross, with capacity for 544 staff. Jamie Young. Jamie Young is Senior Reporter at Business Matters, covering SME finance, employment law and Westminster policy since 2016. He has reported on every Budget and Autumn Statement since 2018, helped make sense of the 'covid era' and the bounce-back loan scheme from launch through the fraud investigations, and broke the magazine's coverage of the 2024 late-payment reforms. He joined Business Matters straight from completing his BA in Administration from Exeter University and is NCTJ-qualified. Reach him at [email protected]