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Emerging Technology Solutions for Smarter, Scalable Businesses

The Runner Software Solutions helps businesses in the United States and Canada put artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning, conversational AI, and SaaS engineering to work on real operational problems — not as standalone experiments, but as integrated parts of the software your business already runs on.

Whether you need a custom AI-powered feature inside an existing product, a generative AI assistant built on your own knowledge base, an AI chatbot handling customer inquiries, a machine learning model driving forecasting or recommendations, or a full SaaS product built from the ground up, we design and build technology that solves a defined business problem.

These technologies aren't independent of each other. A SaaS product often becomes more valuable with an AI-powered feature inside it. A generative AI assistant is frequently the technology underneath what a business experiences as an "AI chatbot." Machine learning models frequently power the predictions that make an AI application useful in the first place. We approach emerging technology adoption as a connected set of engineering decisions, not five separate services bolted together.

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What Are Emerging Technology Solutions?

Emerging technology solutions, in a business software context, refer to the application of artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning, conversational AI, and modern SaaS architecture to solve concrete operational and product problems. These technologies can help organizations:

  • Automate repetitive processes that currently consume staff time on predictable, rules-based work
  • Improve customer experiences through faster response times, personalized interactions, and self-service tools that actually work
  • Analyze data to surface patterns and trends that would be impractical to find manually
  • Support decision-making with predictive models and structured insights rather than intuition alone
  • Build new digital products — SaaS platforms, AI-powered tools, and applications that didn't previously exist in the business
  • Improve operational efficiency by reducing manual handoffs and repetitive administrative work
  • Create scalable software that supports growth without a proportional increase in operational overhead
  • Personalize user experiences based on behavior, preferences, or context
  • Modernize legacy workflows that have outgrown spreadsheets, manual processes, or outdated internal tools

These are genuine capabilities, not guaranteed outcomes — the actual value any of these technologies deliver depends on how well they're matched to a real business problem, how good the underlying data is, and how carefully the solution is built, tested, and maintained. We don't present AI or SaaS adoption as an automatic path to specific revenue, cost savings, or ROI figures, since actual results depend on factors specific to each business and implementation.

Emerging Technology Services

Our emerging technology work spans five connected service areas — each addressing a distinct technical need, but frequently combined within a single project.

A. AI Development

Custom AI software and AI-powered applications built around a specific business problem — from AI-powered search and recommendation systems to intelligent document processing and decision-support tools. AI development covers both building new AI-native applications and integrating AI capabilities into existing software through APIs and custom models.

AI Development Services

B. Generative AI Development

Generative AI development covers applications built on large language models (LLMs) — knowledge assistants that answer questions from your own documents, AI copilots embedded in internal tools, semantic search that understands meaning rather than just keywords, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems that ground LLM responses in your actual data rather than the model's general training.

Generative AI Development

C. AI Chatbot Development

AI chatbot development covers conversational assistants for customer support, sales lead qualification, internal employee support, and FAQ automation — built on modern conversational AI rather than the rigid, decision-tree chatbots of a decade ago.

AI Chatbot Development

D. Machine Learning Solutions

Machine learning solutions cover predictive analytics, classification, recommendation systems, forecasting, and anomaly detection — the statistical and algorithmic layer that often sits underneath what businesses experience as "AI."

Machine Learning Solutions

E. SaaS Development

SaaS development covers building multi-tenant software products from the ground up — subscription billing, user and role management, dashboards, APIs, and the cloud infrastructure a scalable software product depends on. AI capabilities are increasingly a differentiating part of modern SaaS products.

SaaS Development Services

AI Development

What is AI development?

AI development is the process of designing, building, and integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into software applications to solve a specific business problem — whether that's automating a decision, extracting structure from unstructured data, or powering a recommendation or search experience.

AI development work typically includes:

  • Custom AI software — applications built specifically around your data and workflows, rather than a generic AI tool
  • AI application development — building new products where AI capability is core to the value proposition
  • AI integrations — adding AI capability to existing software through APIs, without a full rebuild
  • AI automation — applying AI to reduce manual effort in specific, well-defined processes
  • Enterprise AI — AI systems built to operate reliably within larger organizational and technical environments
  • AI-powered search — search that understands meaning and context, not just exact keyword matches
  • Intelligent document processing — extracting structured data from documents, forms, or unstructured text
  • Recommendation systems — surfacing relevant products, content, or actions based on data patterns
  • Predictive systems and decision support — using historical data to inform forecasts or flag items needing attention

When should a business consider AI development?

Generally, when there's a specific, recurring problem — a manual process that's genuinely repetitive and pattern-based, a volume of unstructured data that's hard to use as-is, or a decision that would benefit from structured, data-driven support — rather than pursuing AI because it's currently a prominent industry topic. AI development tends to deliver the most value when it targets a problem clearly defined before development begins.

Generative AI

Generative AI refers to a specific class of AI models — most commonly Large Language Models (LLMs) — capable of producing novel text, structured content, code, or other output based on a prompt, rather than simply classifying or predicting from fixed categories.

Building a genuinely useful generative AI application involves more than connecting an API to an LLM:

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — grounding LLM responses in your organization's actual documents and data
  • Embeddings — numerical representations of text meaning that allow content to be compared and searched by semantic similarity
  • Vector databases — specialized databases optimized for storing and searching embeddings efficiently at scale
  • Semantic search — search that understands the intent and meaning behind a query
  • AI agents — systems that can take multi-step actions, potentially calling tools or APIs, to complete a task
  • AI copilots — AI assistants embedded directly within an existing workflow or application
  • Document intelligence — extracting, summarizing, or answering questions about content from large document sets
  • Content generation — producing drafts, summaries, or structured content as a starting point for human review
  • Enterprise knowledge assistants — internal tools that let employees query organizational knowledge in natural language

Building a successful generative AI application requires deliberate attention to:

  • Data — the quality and structure of the content the system draws from directly determines output quality
  • Prompts — prompt design meaningfully affects output reliability and needs iteration
  • Retrieval — how relevant content is found and surfaced to the model matters as much as the model itself
  • Evaluation — systematically testing whether outputs are actually accurate and useful
  • Security — protecting sensitive data referenced in prompts and retrieved content
  • Monitoring — ongoing visibility into how the system performs in real use
  • Guardrails — constraints that keep the system's outputs within appropriate bounds
  • Cost management — LLM API usage costs scale with volume and need to be architected with cost awareness

We don't claim access to proprietary models or specific vendor partnerships beyond what's independently verifiable — generative AI applications are typically built using publicly available LLM APIs, integrated thoughtfully into your specific data and workflow context.

AI Chatbots

Modern conversational AI has moved well beyond the rigid, decision-tree chatbots most businesses associate with the term. AI-powered chatbots use LLMs and natural language understanding to handle a genuinely wider range of conversational scenarios:

  • Customer service — answering common questions, resolving straightforward issues, and reducing ticket volume
  • Lead generation and sales — qualifying inbound interest and guiding prospects toward a next step
  • Internal support — answering employee questions about policies, benefits, or internal processes
  • Knowledge base access — letting users ask natural-language questions instead of searching through static documentation
  • Appointment workflows — handling scheduling and rescheduling conversationally
  • FAQ automation — resolving the high-volume, repetitive questions that consume support team time
  • Human escalation — recognizing when a conversation needs a human agent and handing off smoothly
  • CRM integration — logging conversation data and outcomes directly into existing sales or support systems
  • Analytics — tracking conversation volume, resolution rates, and common topics to inform ongoing improvement

Traditional chatbot vs. AI-powered conversational assistant

A traditional chatbot follows a fixed decision tree — if a user's input doesn't match a pre-programmed pattern, the conversation breaks down. An AI-powered conversational assistant, built on an LLM, can understand varied phrasing, maintain context across a conversation, and handle a much broader range of inputs without needing every possible phrasing pre-programmed. This makes AI-powered assistants substantially more capable for genuinely open-ended interactions, though they still need well-defined guardrails, clear escalation paths, and careful testing to perform reliably in a business context.

Machine Learning

What is machine learning?

Machine learning is a subset of AI focused on building systems that identify patterns in data and use those patterns to make predictions or decisions, rather than following explicitly programmed rules for every scenario.

Core machine learning approaches:

  • Supervised learning — training a model on labeled historical data to predict outcomes for new data
  • Unsupervised learning — finding patterns or groupings in data without predefined labels
  • Classification — predicting which category something belongs to
  • Regression — predicting a continuous numerical value
  • Clustering — grouping similar data points together to reveal natural segments
  • Recommendation — predicting what a user is likely to want based on behavior patterns
  • Forecasting — predicting future values based on historical trends
  • Anomaly detection — identifying data points that deviate meaningfully from expected patterns

The machine learning lifecycle:

  1. 1Data collection — Gathering the historical data the model will learn from
  2. 2Data preparation — Cleaning, structuring, and validating data quality before modeling begins
  3. 3Feature engineering — Selecting and transforming the specific data attributes the model will use
  4. 4Model development — Building and training the model on prepared data
  5. 5Evaluation — Testing model accuracy and reliability against held-out data before deployment
  6. 6Deployment — Integrating the trained model into production systems
  7. 7Monitoring — Tracking real-world model performance on new data
  8. 8Retraining — Updating the model periodically as new data becomes available

Machine learning work is only as good as the data behind it — a model trained on incomplete, biased, or poorly structured data will produce unreliable predictions regardless of the underlying algorithm's sophistication. Data quality assessment is typically the first real technical step in any machine learning project, before model selection.

SaaS Development

What is SaaS development?

SaaS (Software as a Service) development is the process of building software products delivered over the internet on a subscription basis, typically serving many customers ("tenants") from a shared, centrally managed platform rather than software installed and run separately for each customer.

Building a SaaS product involves specific architectural requirements:

  • Multi-tenant architecture — supporting multiple customer organizations securely from shared infrastructure
  • User authentication and role-based access — managing user accounts and permissions across roles
  • Subscription management and billing — handling recurring billing, plan tiers, and payment processing
  • Dashboards — the core interface customers use to interact with the product
  • APIs — enabling customers or partners to integrate the SaaS product with their own systems
  • Integrations — connecting to the other tools your customers already use
  • Cloud infrastructure — architecture that scales reliably as the customer base grows
  • Scalability — designed from the outset to support growth in users and data volume
  • Analytics — usage tracking that informs product decisions and customer-facing reporting
  • Monitoring — visibility into system health and performance in production
  • Security — particularly important in multi-tenant systems, where a security gap can expose one customer's data to another

How AI and SaaS work together

Modern SaaS products increasingly differentiate through AI-powered features embedded directly in the product — AI-assisted search, automated reporting, predictive insights, or an in-app AI assistant. Building this well requires both solid SaaS architecture and thoughtful AI integration; adding AI without a strong underlying product tends to produce a feature nobody uses, not a competitive advantage.

AI + SaaS: Building AI Into Software Products

AI capability is increasingly a differentiator inside SaaS products rather than a standalone offering. Common patterns include:

  • AI-powered dashboards — surfacing the insights that matter most rather than requiring users to dig through raw data
  • AI assistants embedded in the product — helping users accomplish tasks within the application itself
  • Automated reporting — generating summaries or reports that previously required manual compilation
  • Predictive analytics within the product — surfacing forecasts or risk flags directly in the user's workflow
  • Intelligent search — letting users find what they need using natural language rather than exact-match filters
  • Recommendations — surfacing relevant content, actions, or next steps based on usage patterns
  • Workflow automation — using AI to handle steps in a process that previously required manual judgment
  • Document processing — automatically extracting or structuring data from documents uploaded to the product
  • AI customer support — embedding conversational AI directly into the product experience

The key principle: AI should solve a real problem your product's users actually have — not be added because AI is currently a prominent industry trend. An AI feature that doesn't measurably improve how users accomplish their goals adds engineering and maintenance cost without corresponding value, and can actively hurt the product if it produces unreliable or confusing results.

Emerging Technology Use Cases by Industry

Illustrative use cases based on common patterns — not claims of completed projects or specific outcomes.

Healthcare

Intelligent document processing for patient records, AI-assisted appointment scheduling, and conversational assistants for routine patient questions

Finance

Anomaly detection for fraud monitoring, predictive models for credit or risk assessment, and AI-assisted document review for compliance

Ecommerce

Product recommendation systems, AI-powered search, demand forecasting for inventory planning, and conversational shopping assistants

Education

AI-assisted content generation for course materials, intelligent tutoring or Q&A assistants, and predictive models for student support

Logistics

Route optimization models, demand forecasting, and anomaly detection for shipment tracking irregularities

Real Estate

AI-powered property search and matching, automated lead qualification, and predictive pricing models

Manufacturing

Predictive maintenance models that flag equipment issues before failure, and anomaly detection in quality control data

Retail

Customer segmentation for targeted marketing, demand forecasting, and recommendation engines

Travel

Dynamic pricing models, personalized recommendation systems, and conversational booking assistants

SaaS

AI-powered features embedded directly into product dashboards, intelligent search, and usage-pattern-based recommendations

Professional Services

Document intelligence for contract or case review, AI-assisted drafting tools, and internal knowledge assistants

Business Benefits of Emerging Technology Adoption

Actual outcomes depend heavily on implementation quality and fit to the specific business problem.

  • Automation of genuinely repetitive, pattern-based work, freeing staff time for higher-value tasks
  • Operational efficiency gains from reducing manual handoffs and administrative overhead
  • Faster workflows where AI or automation removes a bottleneck in an existing process
  • Improved customer experience through faster response times and more relevant, personalized interactions
  • Better decision support from data-driven insight rather than intuition alone
  • Personalized experiences that adapt to individual user behavior or context
  • Scalable software that supports business growth without proportional increases in operational cost
  • Data-driven insights that surface patterns not easily visible through manual analysis
  • Product innovation — new capabilities that differentiate a product in its market
  • Reduced manual work on tasks that are well-suited to automation

We don't make guaranteed financial claims — specific ROI, cost savings, or revenue figures depend on your business, your data, and how well the solution is implemented.

Emerging Technology Development Process

Each phase produces a clear deliverable, reducing the risk that an emerging technology project turns into an open-ended experiment.

Step 1

Business Discovery

We learn your business, goals, and the operational context surrounding the problem you're trying to solve.

Step 2

Problem Identification

We clarify the specific problem worth solving, since emerging technology should target a defined need.

Step 3

Technology Assessment

We evaluate which technology — AI, generative AI, machine learning, a chatbot, or SaaS — actually fits the problem.

Step 4

Data Assessment

We evaluate what data is available, its quality, and what gaps might need to be addressed.

Step 5

Solution Architecture

We design the technical approach, including how the solution will integrate with your existing systems.

Step 6

UX/UI Design

We design the interface for the parts of the solution users will interact with directly.

Step 7

Prototype / Proof of Concept

We validate the technical approach on a smaller scale before committing to full development.

Step 8

Development

We build the solution according to the validated architecture and design.

Step 9

AI/ML Model Integration

We integrate trained models or AI capabilities into the broader application.

Step 10

API & System Integration

We connect the solution to existing business systems — ERP, CRM, databases, or other applications.

Step 11

Testing

We test functionality, accuracy, and reliability before launch.

Step 12

Security Validation

We review data handling, access controls, and API security.

Step 13

Performance Optimization

We tune the solution for real-world usage patterns and scale.

Step 14

Deployment

We release the solution into production with a controlled rollout.

Step 15

Monitoring

We track system health and, for AI/ML components, ongoing output quality and accuracy.

Step 16

Continuous Improvement

We support ongoing refinement as usage patterns, data, and business needs evolve.

AI & Data Security

Security for AI-powered and data-driven applications requires attention beyond standard application security practices:

  • Data protection — safeguarding the data these systems are trained on, retrieve from, or process
  • Authentication and authorization — controlling who can access AI systems and what data or actions they can access
  • Encryption — protecting sensitive data both in transit and at rest
  • API security — securing the endpoints that AI models and services expose
  • Secure storage — appropriate handling of training data, embeddings, and sensitive content
  • Access controls — restricting AI system access to only the data and functions genuinely needed
  • Data minimization — limiting what sensitive data is actually exposed to AI models or included in prompts
  • Logging and monitoring — tracking system access and behavior for accountability
  • Model access controls — restricting who can modify, retrain, or reconfigure deployed models
  • Prompt security — protecting against prompt injection and other attacks specific to LLM-based systems
  • Sensitive data handling — particular care around personally identifiable or business-confidential information
  • AI output validation — checking AI-generated outputs before they're acted on automatically

We do not claim compliance with HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO standards, or GDPR unless specifically verified for a given engagement — these frameworks involve organizational and process requirements beyond technical implementation.

Responsible AI Development

Responsible AI development matters for businesses because AI systems that behave unpredictably, unfairly, or opaquely create real operational and reputational risk. Our approach considers:

Transparency

Understanding and being able to explain, to a reasonable degree, how an AI system arrives at its outputs

Human oversight

Keeping humans in the loop for consequential decisions rather than fully automating high-stakes outcomes without review

Data privacy

Handling personal and sensitive data used by AI systems with appropriate care and minimization

Bias considerations

Recognizing that models trained on historical data can reflect and perpetuate patterns present in that data

Output validation

Systematically checking AI outputs for accuracy and appropriateness before automating downstream actions

Hallucination management

Building in retrieval grounding, validation, and appropriate uncertainty signaling for generative AI

Model evaluation

Ongoing, structured assessment of whether a model continues to perform reliably

Security and monitoring

Sustained attention to how AI systems behave in production, not just at initial deployment

Responsible AI isn't a separate add-on step — it's a set of practices integrated throughout discovery, development, testing, and ongoing maintenance of any AI system we build.

Technology Stack

Technology selection is scoped to what the specific project actually requires, not a fixed template applied regardless of fit.

AI

Python for AI/ML development; LLM APIs for generative AI; vector databases and embeddings for RAG; established ML frameworks for predictive modeling

Backend

Node.js and Express, or PHP and Laravel — serving as the integration layer connecting AI/ML components to the rest of an application

Frontend

React and Next.js for building interfaces through which users interact with AI-powered features, dashboards, and SaaS products

Databases

PostgreSQL and MySQL for structured application and tenant data; MongoDB where a flexible, document-based data model fits better

Cloud infrastructure

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — choice depending on project requirements, existing organizational relationships, and cost considerations

AI Integration With Existing Software

Emerging technology solutions rarely operate in isolation — most deliver value by connecting to systems a business already runs on:

  • ERP systems — feeding AI-driven insights or automation into operational and inventory data
  • CRM platforms — connecting AI chatbots or predictive models to customer and lead data
  • Ecommerce platforms — powering product recommendations, search, or demand forecasting
  • Websites — embedding chatbots, AI-powered search, or personalization directly into an existing site
  • Mobile applications — bringing AI capability into an existing app
  • Internal business systems — connecting AI tools to whatever operational software a business already depends on
  • Databases — the underlying data source most AI and ML applications draw from
  • APIs — the standard mechanism connecting AI/ML components to everything else

Technically, this relies on REST APIs, and GraphQL where flexible, client-driven queries add genuine value, along with webhooks for event-driven integration, authentication to secure connections, and data synchronization to keep connected systems consistent.

For businesses whose emerging technology needs are part of a broader web presence, our web development and mobile app development teams can support the surrounding application these capabilities get embedded into.

Emerging Technology for Startups

Startups exploring AI, machine learning, or SaaS development face a particular tradeoff: the appeal of building something technically ambitious versus the discipline of validating demand before investing heavily. Our approach for startups emphasizes:

  • MVP development — building the smallest version of the product that validates the core value proposition
  • Proof of concept — validating technical feasibility on a small scale before committing to full development
  • AI MVP and SaaS MVP approaches that avoid overbuilding before there's evidence of real demand
  • Product-market validation — treating early usage data as a signal to inform what to build next
  • Rapid iteration — building in a way that supports quick changes as you learn what resonates with users
  • Analytics from day one — instrumenting the product so decisions are grounded in real usage data
  • Scalable architecture — building the technical foundation so a validated MVP can grow without a full rebuild

Startups can avoid overengineering by resisting the temptation to build every AI capability that seems technically interesting, and instead focusing engineering effort on the smallest set of features that tests the actual value proposition to real users.

Enterprise Emerging Technology

Enterprise adoption of AI, machine learning, and SaaS technology involves distinct challenges compared to smaller-scale implementations:

  • Enterprise AI — systems that need to operate reliably across larger, more complex organizational environments
  • Internal AI assistants — knowledge tools that need to respect existing access controls and data governance
  • Workflow automation — automating processes that often span multiple departments and existing systems
  • Knowledge management — making large, often siloed bodies of institutional knowledge searchable and usable
  • Predictive analytics — models that need to integrate with existing business intelligence infrastructure
  • Enterprise SaaS — internal or customer-facing SaaS products built to enterprise scale and governance requirements
  • Integrations — connecting new AI/ML capability to a larger number of existing enterprise systems
  • Security — meeting enterprise security expectations, often stricter than smaller-scale deployments
  • Scalability and monitoring — supporting real enterprise usage volume with production-grade visibility

Enterprise technology adoption challenges commonly include navigating data that's siloed across multiple legacy systems, aligning a new AI or SaaS initiative with existing IT governance and security requirements, and managing organizational change as new tools shift how teams actually work.

For enterprise initiatives that extend beyond a single AI or SaaS component, our software product development team can support the broader technology roadmap.

Emerging Technology Solutions for USA Businesses

We work with businesses across the United States adopting AI, machine learning, generative AI, and SaaS technology, including organizations based in New York, California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Illinois, and Massachusetts, among other states. Whether you're a startup in California validating an AI-powered SaaS MVP, a logistics company in Texas exploring predictive forecasting, or an enterprise on the East Coast building an internal knowledge assistant, we scope technology solutions around your specific business problem rather than a generic AI offering. As an emerging technology development partner serving the USA, our team works remotely with distributed stakeholders throughout discovery, development, and ongoing support.

Emerging Technology Solutions for Canadian Businesses

We also support Canadian businesses adopting AI, machine learning, and SaaS technology, including companies in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, Ottawa, and Edmonton. Canadian projects sometimes involve bilingual requirements — particularly for AI chatbots and SaaS products serving both English and French-speaking users — which we factor into design and content architecture where relevant. As with our US engagements, Canadian projects are handled remotely across discovery, development, and post-launch support.

Why Choose The Runner Software Solutions?

Custom software engineering

Solutions built around your specific business problem, not a generic AI or SaaS template

AI integration expertise

Genuine experience connecting AI and machine learning capabilities to real applications and business data

Modern technology stack

Current, well-supported frameworks and tools selected for project fit, not defaulted regardless of requirements

Business-first approach

Technology recommendations grounded in a real, defined problem rather than adopting AI for its own sake

Scalable architecture

Systems designed to grow with your business, whether that's a SaaS product's user base or an AI system's usage volume

API integration

Deep experience connecting emerging technology to ERP, CRM, ecommerce, and other existing business systems

Security-conscious development

Security addressed throughout the development lifecycle, including AI-specific considerations like prompt security and data minimization

Maintainable software

Built for long-term supportability, not just a working prototype

Structured QA

Dedicated testing, including evaluation of AI/ML output quality and reliability, not just standard functional testing

Long-term support

Available for ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and improvement after launch

We don't claim official OpenAI, Google, or other vendor partnerships, guaranteed ROI, guaranteed AI accuracy, or guaranteed rankings — these outcomes depend on factors specific to each business and implementation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Emerging technology solutions refer to the application of artificial intelligence, generative AI, machine learning, conversational AI, and modern SaaS architecture to solve concrete business problems — automating repetitive work, improving customer experience, supporting data-driven decisions, and building new digital products. These technologies help organizations modernize legacy workflows, personalize user experiences, and create more scalable software, though actual outcomes depend on how well the technology fits the specific business problem and how carefully it's implemented, tested, and maintained.

Let's Build Your Emerging Technology Solution

Whether you're exploring AI for the first time, ready to build a generative AI assistant on your own data, need a conversational AI chatbot, want to add machine learning-driven predictions to an existing product, or are building a new SaaS product from scratch, we can help you define a realistic path forward.

  1. 1Discuss your business goals
  2. 2Identify the specific technology opportunity worth pursuing
  3. 3Define requirements
  4. 4Evaluate technical feasibility, particularly important for AI and ML initiatives
  5. 5Create a solution architecture
  6. 6Develop an MVP or prototype to validate the approach
  7. 7Build and deploy the full solution
  8. 8Monitor and improve after launch
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