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When generative AI started making waves, Vedanta Cairn didn’t rush to buy the hottest tool in the market. Instead, the company paused and asked itself: where could AI actually move the needle for the business?“When Generative AI emerged as a game-changing force, we saw its potential,” Sandeep Gupta, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Cairn Oil & Gas tells ET Enterprise AI. “Teams were spending excessive time manually reading, curating, and analysing documents. These weren’t just inefficiencies; they were roadblocks to strategic thinking and fast decision-making.”That insight led to iCAIRN, a home-grown generative AI platform built on Vedanta’s own cloud.Gupta’s team began with a proof-of-concept on well completion reports. The conclusion came quickly.“It was very clear we didn’t want to get stuck with license fees in a technology that’s still evolving,” he says. “We needed a secure, flexible, vendor-agnostic solution that could scale across functions and understand our business context.”The platform is open-architecture, hosted entirely in-house, and designed to keep full control of data and costs. Security and explainability stay front and centre, Gupta highlights. Making sense of messy dataOil and gas operations generate a huge amount of unstructured information every day such as scanned well reports, technical manuals, contracts, operational logs. Generic AI tools often choke on that kind of technical content. The iCAIRN platform tackles it head-on, says Gupta.
