New AI Hub strengthens 99x’s AI-first method, whereas its agentic AI platform wins the Gold award because the “Greatest Agentic AI Resolution” on the Nationwide AI Awards 2026
99x, a world product engineering firm headquartered in Norway, has launched AI Hub, an observability platform designed to offer better visibility into AI-assisted workflows and efficiency metrics. The occasion additionally celebrated 99x’s xians.ai platform being recognised as Sri Lanka’s Greatest Agentic AI Resolution on the Nationwide AI Awards. The 99x management additionally shared updates on the Group’s international development, evolving market outlook and the alternatives rising for Sri Lankan know-how expertise within the AI period.
The occasion introduced collectively members of the 99x management group together with Odd-Sverre Østlie, Group CEO, 99x Norway, Kalana Wijesekara, Chief Developer Expertise Officer, 99x Product Engineering, Shehani Seneviratne, Chief Working Officer, 99x Product Engineering, and Chrishan de Mel, Chief Advertising and Company Affairs Officer, 99x Product Engineering.
Opening the occasion, Chrishan de Mel shared how 99x’s Agent Management Airplane xians.ai was awarded because the “Greatest Agentic AI Resolution” at lately concluded Nationwide AI Awards. The platform was additionally awarded nationwide recognition on the SLASSCOM Nationwide Ingenuity Awards because the “Greatest Innovation in Inside Processes, Expertise or Framework” class. Earlier this 12 months, the 99x’s AI-first initiatives gained the General Gold award on the Greatest Administration Practices awards.
As 99x more and more adopts AI instruments and brokers throughout engineering, assist and different capabilities, the corporate recognized the necessity for better visibility into how these AI-assisted workflows carry out. This aligns with 99x’s AI Improvement Lifecycle (AI-DLC) method, which focuses on integrating AI throughout the completely different phases of creating and delivering digital merchandise.
As AI continues to reshape conventional engineering workflows, it additionally creates new alternatives to enhance productiveness, high quality and pace. This want led to the event of AI Hub, 99x’s new platform for observing and measuring AI-assisted workflows.
Talking on the AI Hub launch, Kalana Wijesekara, Chief Developer Expertise Officer of 99x, stated, “AI adoption is going on at a outstanding tempo, however adopting extra instruments doesn’t routinely imply reaching higher outcomes. AI Hub offers groups the visibility to know what is going on inside their AI-assisted workflows, measure what issues to them and make knowledgeable choices about how these workflows ought to evolve.”
Sharing an replace on the 99x Group’s international journey and market outlook, Odd-Sverre Østlie highlighted the corporate’s continued growth throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, alongside rising demand from clients in search of to combine AI into their merchandise and operations. He said, “AI is essentially altering the expectations our clients have from their know-how companions. They need to transfer quicker, experiment extra rapidly and more and more perceive how AI can create measurable enterprise worth. Our ambition is to be a long-term engineering associate that may assist clients navigate this transformation,”.
The dialogue additionally explored how AI is reshaping the know-how workforce and the alternatives this creates for Sri Lanka’s IT business. Shehani Seneviratne, COO of 99x Product Engineering, highlighted the emergence of roles such because the Ahead Deployed Engineer (FDE), engineers who work carefully with clients to know real-world challenges and apply know-how immediately to resolve them. As AI accelerates the tempo of product growth, the power to mix engineering experience with enterprise understanding, problem-solving and buyer engagement is turning into more and more necessary.
She additionally highlighted 99x’s continued engagement with universities by way of business classes, mentoring and hackathons, serving to develop the following era of know-how expertise and strengthening Sri Lanka’s place as a vacation spot for international know-how and product engineering.
The launch of AI Hub advances 99x’s AI-first technique, shifting past the adoption of AI instruments in direction of better visibility, measurement and steady enchancment of AI-enabled work.
AI-Hub FAQ
1. What’s AI-Hub in short?
AI-Hub is an observability platform for AI-assisted workflows that create visibility into course of and metrics.
2. Why AI Hub?
At 99x we use AI instruments and brokers by way of our engineering actions in addition to assist and administration duties. This creates the necessity for us to have full observability into AI assisted workflows in order that we are able to make sure the the AI assisted workflows are optimally designed and metrics from the AI instruments and brokers might be centrally measured. This additionally permits us to quickly change processes whereas having visibility into metrics that matter.
3. How do groups use it?
Groups first visualise their workflows with AI hub, then seize metrics from all AI instruments they use. That is achieved by simple establishing integration strategies utilizing webhooks. Groups seize metrics about efficiency, value, high quality and every other metric they want to monitor centrally in order that they can enhance their instrument utilization and workflows. Primarily based on observations they modify their processes and instruments.
4. What are the priorities of AI-Hub?
AI-hub priorities 3 points.
- Being easy and simple to adapt so groups can begin utilizing it with a 10mins setup.
- Having minimal opinion on what metrics groups want to trace, so groups can determine what they should measure and enhance.
- Making reporting and traceability simpler
5. What’s upcoming for AI hub?
AI hub is already in use throughout many engineering groups. Two focus areas we’re engaged on are to uniformly adapt it throughout all our engineering and assist groups and lengthen its reporting capabilities.
