AI O2O (CEO Ahn Sung-min), a vertical AI specialist that proved its global technological prowess with an ITU award, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with KT to target the hyper-local marketing automation platform market for small business owners. Bridging the Market Gap with Strategic Collaboration This agreement is a strategic alliance designed to resolve the practical vacuum in the domestic and international marketing automation markets. While various marketing automation solutions exist globally, their accessibility for small business owners and SMEs is significantly low due to complex configurations and steep learning curves. Expert Insight: Vertical AI experts point out that existing solutions are designed for large corporate marketing organizations, making them virtually "impossible tools" for small businesses without dedicated marketing staff. Rising Demand: The demand for marketing automation is expanding beyond small businesses to all sectors, including hospitality, food service, B2B/B2C manufacturing, and franchise management. Cost Efficiency: In a 20-trillion-won domestic digital advertising market, AI marketing automation has emerged as a key solution to simultaneously reduce production costs and improve targeting accuracy. Introducing 'ADO2': The One-Click AI Solution AI O2O and KT are jointly developing 'ADO2' (Ad-O-Two), a platform designed to eliminate market barriers through one-click usability. Automated Content Creation: By simply entering a business URL, the AI automatically collects and analyzes store information to generate multimodal content—including lyrics, images, songs, and videos—tailored to specific industries. Speed and Quality: Users can launch high-quality marketing campaigns in under 5 minutes without complex settings or prior training. Enhanced Visibility: The platform automatically inserts SEO/AEO optimization tags, improving search exposure by over 25%. Integrated Distribution: Content can be simultaneously distributed across YouTube, Instagram, Naver Clip, in-store Digital Information Displays (DID), and the "Genie TV Our Neighborhood" service. Industry Leadership and Market Outlook Park Byeong-jun, Team Leader of KT's Advertising Convergence Team, emphasized: "While existing solutions were tools for marketers, ADO2 is a tool for non-professionals". He added that it is rare to find a solution in the global market that provides such intuitive usability while supporting multimodal content generation and integrated online/offline distribution. KT plans to use its nationwide sales network to provide services starting with small business owners and moving to customers of various sizes across all industries. The market outlook is highly promising. It is estimated that less than 5% of Korea's 7 million small business owners have currently adopted digital marketing automation. Considering the 2-trillion-won small business marketing market and the broader SME market, the potential for growth is substantial.

AI O2O (CEO Ahn Sung-min), a vertical AI specialist that has proven its global technological prowess through an ITU global award and the Korea AI Innovation Grand Prize, announced on the 18th that it has been selected as an "Outstanding Performance Company" in the ‘2025 AI Voucher Support Project (Small Business Sector).’ The project is a national initiative organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA). It supports demand-side companies (SMEs, ventures, mid-sized firms, and medical institutions) in adopting optimal AI solutions within a short period, while providing supply-side companies with opportunities to create new markets. Through this project, AI O2O developed an AI marketing automation solution focused on small business owners and local service-based companies, and is currently pushing forward with technological advancement and full-scale platform commercialization. Following this selection, AI O2O presented its success story at the ‘AI Voucher Performance Briefing & 2026 Direction Session’ held on December 17th at the COEX Grand Ballroom in Seoul. The presentation covered the current status of copyrights and intellectual property for its ‘AI Multimodal Marketing Automation Solution,’ as well as future business plans including domestic and international MOUs. Core Technology and Impact AI O2O’s AI marketing automation solution enables small business owners and SMEs to easily create and distribute high-quality marketing content without the need for specialized personnel or high costs. Key features include: Automatic Data Collection: Automatically collects and analyzes store information simply by entering a URL. Multimodal Generation: Automatically generates customized images, text, music, and videos tailored to specific industries. SEO/AEO Optimization: Dramatically improves search visibility through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). While the digital transformation rate for small businesses in Korea currently stands at only 15.4%, AI O2O’s solution is evaluated as significantly lowering the entry barrier to digital marketing. Small business owners who adopted the solution experienced: 90% reduction in marketing content production time. 70% reduction in costs. 25% average increase in sales. Market Outlook and Future Roadmap Vertical AI industry experts noted that demand for AI-based automation is surging in the 2 trillion won marketing market targeting Korea's 7 million small business owners. They anticipate that trust in government-verified AI solutions will grow, especially as economic conditions toughen and instances of marketing fraud increase. Ahn Sung-min, CEO of AI O2O, stated, “Through the AI Voucher project, we identified the practical needs of small businesses and local service providers and successfully delivered solutions reflecting those needs. We plan to rapidly expand these solutions to local businesses and provide optimized services for industry-specific content strategies and hyper-local marketing.” Building on the success of this project, AI O2O plans to: H1 2026: Formally launch services for the domestic lodging industry. H2 2026: Expand the market to target high-unit non-benefit hospitals, private academies (hagwons), and local governments.

AI O2O (CEO Ahn Sung-min), a specialist in vertical AI solutions, announced on the 20th that it is officially entering the Asia-Pacific media market by participating in the '2025 APAC TV Summit,' held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand, from November 18th to 20th. The APAC TV Summit, hosted by Google, is the largest TV and streaming media summit in the Asia-Pacific region, attended by senior executives from broadcasters, OTT platforms, content producers, and media tech companies from over 30 Asian countries. At this summit, AI O2O achieved success in finding partners to accelerate the global expansion of its 'Multimodal AI Content Automatic Generation and Distribution Platform.' The company is currently preparing joint proposals for solutions to InnoPia Tech, Deutsche Telekom, and Orange S.A. (a French broadcasting operator). Furthermore, the solution will be introduced to business representatives from Humax Networks' clients, including Charter Communications, Direct TV, and AT&T in the US. Through Marusys and Marusys Vina, AI O2O plans to officially launch sales of the solution in Vietnam, starting with Viettel, next year. The core features of this solution include: automatic generation of customized promotional content for target viewers, integrated production of multimodal content such as lyrics, songs, music, images, and videos, simultaneous distribution across multiple channels (IPTV, OTT, social media), real-time viewer response analysis and content optimization, and maximizing marketing ROI through A/B test automation. AI O2O's confidence in differentiating itself within the media market stems from its robust intellectual property portfolio. It holds over 50 intellectual properties, a significant portion of which are core technologies directly applicable to the media and content industry. Notable patents include: 'System and Method for Extracting Movie Metadata,' 'Customized Movie Recommendation System based on Metadata of Movie Complex Data,' 'System and Method for Constructing Movie Scene Metadata,' and 'AI-based Card News Content Quality Assurance Processing System.' These patents cover key areas of IPTV/OTT platform operation, such as automated analysis of media content, metadata extraction, personalized recommendations, and quality control. The Asia-Pacific media market is experiencing rapid changes in content consumption patterns with the explosive growth of IPTV and OTT platforms. Broadcasters and OTT platforms are actively considering adopting AI-based automation solutions to cope with the surge in content demand. Especially, APAC media companies operating in multi-country and multi-language environments face challenges such as customizing content localization for viewers in each country, managing content creation burdens due to simultaneous multi-channel operations, and optimizing content based on real-time viewer data. AI O2O CEO Ahn Sung-min emphasized, "In the age of IPTV and OTT, the ability to produce large quantities of personalized content in real-time and distribute it optimized for multi-channels is key to competitiveness. AI O2O's content automation solution helps broadcasters and OTT platforms maximize viewer experience while simultaneously reducing operating costs." Since its establishment in 2017, AI O2O has commercialized numerous AI voice and metadata-based services, verifying the effectiveness of its vertical AI solutions in diverse industries including distribution, finance, and healthcare. This participation in the APAC TV Summit is a strategic move to expand its domestically proven vertical AI capabilities into the media and broadcasting industry and officially enter the high-growth Asia-Pacific market. In particular, the media industry is seeing an explosive increase in demand for AI automation across the entire process of content production, distribution, and marketing, indicating that AI O2O's vertical AI approach perfectly aligns with market needs. This year, AI O2O has consecutively received recognition for its technology both domestically and internationally, including winning the ITU 'AI for Good-Innovate for Impact Awards 2025,' the '1st Korea AI Innovation Grand Prize,' being designated a 'High-Growth Company in Future New Industries' by Daegu Metropolitan City, and winning the Big Data/AI sector at the 'National Quality Innovation Competition.' CEO Ahn Sung-min stressed, "The media AI market is an area that requires complex domain knowledge that cannot be solved by general-purpose generative AI alone," and highlighted, "AI O2O's core media industry technologies—such as multimedia streaming, metadata analysis, and content quality assurance—are protected by patents, allowing us to provide both technological reliability and legal stability to global media companies." AI media industry experts anticipate that AI O2O will successfully enter the Asia-Pacific media market using this APAC TV Summit as a stepping stone, growing into a global enterprise that leads the South Korean vertical AI and AI media ecosystem.

AI O2O (CEO Ahn Sung-min), a specialist in vertical AI solutions, announced that it received positive evaluations from global Venture Capitalists (VCs) after showcasing its 'AI Marketing Automation Platform' and 'AI Negotiation Agent' solutions at 'Microsoft Ignite 2025,' held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from November 18th to 21st. Microsoft Ignite is Microsoft's premier global conference, bringing together IT professionals, businesses, and investors from around the world. This year, the event particularly focused on 'Agentic AI' and enterprise AI innovation. AI O2O demonstrated the tangible results of its vertical AI solutions, which automate real business tasks, drawing attention from global enterprises and specialized vertical AI investors. The two core solutions AI O2O presented at the event were the 'AI Marketing Automation Platform' and the 'AI Negotiation Agent.' The 'AI Marketing Automation Platform' is a solution that uses AI to automate the entire lifecycle of content marketing for businesses and small merchants. It supports the integrated creation of multimodal content—such as customized lyrics and songs, images, and videos—based on promotional keywords, and includes integrated support for A/B testing and performance analysis. The 'AI Negotiation Agent' is a solution that automatically performs repetitive price negotiations, term adjustments, and supplier management that occur in Business-to-Business (B2B) transactions. It analyzes past transaction data, current market conditions, and real-time lowest prices to suggest optimal negotiation strategies. It provides a real-time conversational negotiation service and can conduct simultaneous negotiations with multiple suppliers. The negotiation results are accumulated in the negotiation strategy data, feeding back into Reinforcement Learning. Based on the clear differentiation that its strategies become more sophisticated as usage accumulates, the solution contributes to a substantive increase in corporate profits. During the event, AI O2O received positive feedback from global vertical AI investors. In particular, the company was praised for its differentiation through a "vertical AI approach that automates actual tasks in specific industries, rather than a general-purpose AI." Furthermore, its proven track record of actual performance through collaboration with large enterprises "instills confidence." A representative from a global vertical AI investment firm commented, "AI O2O possesses a business model verified in Korea and has a clear strategy for expansion into the global AI SaaS market," adding, "Marketing automation and negotiation automation are universal corporate needs, regardless of industry or region, giving the company excellent global scalability." Through its participation in MS Ignite 2025, AI O2O held meetings with potential customers and partners from various regions, including North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia, to prepare for global market entry. The company plans to follow up with discussions on pilot projects and strategic alliances. AI O2O CEO Ahn Sung-min emphasized, "MS Ignite 2025 was a meaningful occasion that confirmed AI O2O's competitiveness beyond the domestic market and on the global stage," and stressed, "Vertical AI solutions solve universal corporate needs regardless of industry or geography, giving them huge potential for global expansion." He concluded, "Based on the references and technological prowess built up in Korea, we will formally enter the global enterprise market and grow into a leading specialist in customized AI solutions representing Korea." The AI investment industry anticipates that AI O2O will use this global stage debut as a springboard to prove the global competitiveness of Korean B2B AI solutions and grow into a global leader in the vertical AI sector.

AI O2O (CEO Ahn Sung-min), a company specializing in vertical AI solutions, participated in the 'Photonics Korea 2025' exhibition held in Gwangju, where it showcased an AI-based raw material purchase negotiation automation solution for optical convergence manufacturing companies, signaling a full-scale entry into the manufacturing market. At the exhibition, AI O2O demonstrated a solution that automates the raw material purchase process for manufacturing companies in the optical convergence industry using AI. Key manufacturers in the optical convergence sector participated in the event and showed high interest. The optical convergence industry is a future core industry that merges optical technology with advanced manufacturing fields such as semiconductors, displays, sensors, and telecommunications. Given the nature of dealing with highly segmented raw materials like optical components, lasers, optical fibers, and photonics devices, manufacturers often dedicate significant time and personnel to complex specification negotiations and repetitive price bargaining. AI O2O emphasized that the uniquely inefficient purchase negotiation process in manufacturing can be innovated with AI, drawing a positive response from optical convergence manufacturers. AI O2O's AI negotiation solution dramatically reduces the workload of purchasing managers by providing a conversational negotiation agent based on learning from past transaction data to suggest optimal prices, compare real-time market prices, and analyze supplier-specific terms. Optical convergence manufacturers, who previously thought there was little room for negotiation due due to complex raw material specifications and a limited number of suppliers, were impressed by how the AI analyzes past data to present optimal purchase timing and negotiation strategies. They evaluated it as a practical solution that can enhance the purchasing competitiveness of small and medium-sized manufacturers. AI O2O is using its participation in the 'Photonics Korea 2025' exhibition, held to commemorate 'Optical Convergence Industry Day,' as an opportunity to formally extend its existing B2B negotiation solutions, which were primarily focused on distribution and logistics, into the realm of raw material purchasing for manufacturing. The optical convergence industry is one of the government's 'Six Strategic Technologies' and is a high value-added sector projected to grow to a market size of over 100 trillion won by 2030. Small and medium-sized manufacturers often struggle to secure cost competitiveness due to weaker purchase negotiation power compared to large corporations and inefficient, manual processes. AI O2O's solution helps these smaller manufacturers reduce purchase costs and standardize negotiation processes by leveraging AI technology. "Because optical convergence manufacturers deal with raw materials of complex specifications, AI negotiation automation will become a core tool that goes beyond simply saving time, by enhancing cost competitiveness through data-driven decision-making," emphasized Ahn Sung-min, CEO of AI O2O. In line with the growing demand for manufacturing Digital Transformation (DX), AI O2O plans to provide a SaaS-based subscription model that is easily adoptable by small and medium-sized manufacturers, thus lowering market entry barriers. Building on successful collaborations with optical convergence manufacturers, the company aims to expand its influence across the advanced manufacturing sector and establish itself as a practical AI solution provider that strengthens the purchasing competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises.

도메인 특화 버티컬 AI 솔루션 전문기업 AI오투오(대표 안성민)가 신한투자증권과 IPO를 위한 대표주관 계약을 체결했다고 밝혔다. AI오투오는 AI 기반 협상 자동화, 멀티모달 콘텐츠 마케팅 자동화 등 버티컬 AI 솔루션을 제공하는 기업용 AI 솔루션 전문기업이다. 특히 반복적이고 비효율적인 기업 간 거래 협상을 AI로 자동화하는 독자적 기술력으로 업계 주목을 받고 있다.신한투자증권은 AI·디지털 전환 분야의 IPO 경험과 전문성을 바탕으로 도메인 특화 AI 기술 혁신을 주도하는 AI오투오와의 시너지를 높게 평가받아 주관사로 선정됐다.

버티컬 AI 솔루션 전문기업 AI오투오(AIO2O, 대표 안성민)는 KT IPTV사업본부 광고사업담당 광고융합사업팀과 컨소시엄을 구성해 중소기업기술정보진흥원(TIPA)이 주관하는 '2025년 중소기업기술혁신개발사업(상생협력형)'에 최종 선정됐다고 3일 밝혔다. 이번 선정은 AI오투오의 '온오프라인 광고·마케팅 혁신, AI 하이퍼로컬 마케팅 자동화 플랫폼' ADO2(애드오투)가 경기침체로 인한 폐업 위기와 마케팅 사기 피해로 이중고를 겪고 있는 소상공인들에게 실질적인 해결책을 제시할 수 있는 혁신 플랫폼으로 평가받은 결과다. 한국소비자원에 따르면 소상공인 대상 마케팅 사기 피해 상담 건수가 2024년 1만1천건을 넘어서며 매년 증가하고 있는 상황에서, AI오투오와 KT의 협업은 신뢰할 수 있는 대안으로 주목받고 있다.ADO2는 독자적인 기술력으로 차별화된다. 업체 측에 따르면 이는 누구나 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 직관적인 사용성을 제공하며, 네이버 플레이스·맵의 URL만 입력하면 AI가 매장 정보를 자동으로 수집·분석하고, 업종별 맞춤형 홍보성 가사·이미지·노래·영상을 멀티모달 방식으로 생성한다.

ITU 국제 어워드 수상에 이은 정부 인증까지 공신력 확보…글로벌 AI 에이전트 시장 선도 기업으로 도약 발판 마련 도메인 특화 버티컬 AI 솔루션 전문기업 AI오투오(AIO2O, 대표 안성민)는 대구광역시가 주관하는 '2025 미래신산업 유망벤처·고성장기업'으로 최종 선정됐다고 13일 밝혔다. 특히 지원 후보 기업 중 '고성장기업' 부문에 단독으로 선정돼 독보적인 성장 잠재력을 공식적으로 인정받았다. AI오투오는 이번 지정으로 자사가 보유한 ABB(AI, Big Data, Blockchain) 기반 핵심 기술력과 함께 PoC 단계를 넘어 실제 매출 창출에 성공한 검증된 비즈니스 모델을 인정받았다. 앞서 7월 국제전기통신연합(ITU)의 'AI for Good-Innovate for Impact Awards 2025' Finance 부문 수상에 이어 정부 차원의 공식 인증까지 획득하며 '수익성 있는 성장을 실현한 극소수 AI 기업'으로서의 위상을 확고히 했다.

320개 지원 기업 중 수상 기업으로 선정…AI 에이전트 골드러시 속 글로벌 인증 기업 지위 확보 AI 도메인 특화 솔루션 전문기업 AI오투오(AIO2O, 대표 안성민)는 AI 협상 솔루션으로 국제전기통신연합(ITU)의 'AI for Good-Innovate for Impact Awards 2025'를 수상했다고 14일 밝혔다.

20만 달러 규모 AI 기반 멀티모달 콘텐츠 자동 생성 배포 플랫폼과 메타데이터 자동 생성 기반 콘텐츠 추천 솔루션 개발 협력 AI 기반 도메인 특화 솔루션 전문기업 에이아이오투오(AIO2O, 대표 안성민)는 마르시스 베트남(Marusys Vina)과 'AI 기반 멀티모달 콘텐츠 자동 생성 플랫폼'(AI-Based Platform for Automated Multimodal Content Generation) 개발 계약과 '메타데이터 자동 생성 기반 콘텐츠 추천 솔루션'(Automated Metadata Generator based content recommendation solution) 개발을 위한 업무협약(MOU)을 체결했다고 3일 밝혔다.