Catalog record · Customer Experience
Stage as of source date not established · historical report, not live reconfirmation.
Josie SME digital avatar
Primary workflow source. A named organization's workflow supported by a reviewed primary source. Stage is reported separately; this label does not establish measured outcomes or independent validation.
Last researched Oct 26, 2026. Source access and reported stage are recorded below; deployment evidence does not establish ROI.
What the research supports
Planned conversational avatar helps prospective small-business owners obtain startup guidance.
- Reported stage
- Announced
- Technology
- NLP
- Business function
- Front Office
- Impact (legacy label)
- Not labeled
- Catalog date · unconfirmed
- Not reported
- Imported
- Oct 29, 2026
- Last researched
- Oct 26, 2026
Measures & evidence
No quantified measure recorded. This is a gap in the evidence, not a finding of no value.
Documented vendor relationships
No vendor relationship has been linked to this specific workflow in the curated overlay. This does not mean it was built without vendors.
See the company’s documented relationshipsDeployment evidence & limits
Issuer describes planned mid-2018 launch and development. Status date not established.
Stage is as reported in the cited evidence. Current operating status has not been independently reconfirmed; the research date is an editorial review date.
Historical announcement only; current operation unverified. Later ASB mobile chatbot shares name; identity with original SME avatar not established, so not conflated.
Source register
- ASB employs digital assistantasb.co.nz · opens in a new tab
ASB · issuer · full-text · Publication date not recorded
Research lanes: asia_pacific_banking · Batch global-discovery-2026-10-26. Coverage and remaining gaps