Startup Tales | Revolt, the innovative SME bringing artificial intelligence into business processes
Revolt is an innovative startup specializing in Intelligent Process Automation. Through software that combines AI and data analytics, it helps companies reduce operational friction and improve the efficiency of their business processes.
In recent years, many companies have started investing in artificial intelligence, driven by the promise of making work faster, more efficient, and smarter. However, the value of AI does not stem from adopting the technology itself; it comes from the ability to integrate it into everyday processes, existing systems, and the activities people perform every day. Without this integration, there is a risk of creating interesting but isolated tools that do not truly impact the way a company operates.
This is where Revolt, an innovative SME specializing in Intelligent Process Automation, comes into play: a cross-functional approach that combines AI, data analytics, and software development to help companies reduce operational friction, unlock the value of available information, and improve the efficiency of business processes.
"Regardless of the industry, many organizations face similar challenges: data scattered across systems, documents, and emails; activities still managed manually; limited visibility into process progress; and operational knowledge that depends too heavily on the experience of individual people," explains Alex De Cesare, COO and co-founder of Revolt.
Revolt addresses precisely these friction points, transforming information, operational rules, and organizational expertise into digital tools capable of supporting people's daily work.
To achieve this, the company developed BIstudio, a proprietary platform designed to accelerate the creation and validation of tailored solutions while integrating seamlessly with the technological ecosystem already in place within an organization. The goal is not to replace existing systems, but to enhance them by connecting data, systems, and people within an operational environment that makes information more accessible, processes more traceable, and decision-making faster.
BIstudio: Revolt's proprietary technology in action
At the core of Revolt's technological approach is BIstudio, the company's proprietary platform, which enables organizations to move quickly from needs analysis to the testing of an initial prototype, all the way to the development of custom applications built around the real requirements of a given process.
BIstudio is not tied to any specific industry. Instead, it addresses a common element across all organizations: the way information, operational activities, and decisions flow within a company. It is within these flows that often-hidden yet highly tangible inefficiencies emerge: manual steps, misaligned data, documents that are difficult to query, requests that need classification, anomalies that require interpretation, and reports that must be recreated from scratch every time.
BIstudio enables organizations to connect diverse sources—from enterprise management systems and databases to emails, documents, reports, and internal knowledge bases—and transform them into operational tools that are easier to use. The objective is to bring AI precisely where it is needed most: alongside the people who every day must analyze information, coordinate activities, monitor processes, and make decisions. From operational teams to finance and HR functions, and from maintenance personnel to sales teams and managers, technology becomes a tool that enhances rather than replaces those responsible for managing the process.
Its main applications involve processes found in almost every company: document management, email routing, and internal knowledge management; monitoring obligations, deadlines, alerts, and anomalies; and generating insights and reports to support decision-making. In these areas, the value of technology can be measured in concrete terms: less time spent on manual tasks, greater traceability of information, improved quality of available data, fewer operational errors, and faster decision-making.
The relationship with Intesa Sanpaolo and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center
Revolt's relationship with Intesa Sanpaolo began at SMAU in 2023, where the company came into contact with Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, which was present with a dedicated space for innovative businesses within its ecosystem. That first meeting led to a deeper relationship, resulting in Revolt's involvement in various networking and business matching initiatives organized by the Innovation Center.
"Through events such as the Intesa Innovation Meetups, speed-dating sessions, and other networking opportunities across the country, we have had the chance to present our approach to many companies. In several cases, these meetings have generated qualified contacts and opportunities for dialogue with potential clients, and some of these interactions have progressed to the launch of an eight-week Proof of Concept to validate the proposed solutions," confirms Antonio Giovannelli, Chief Business Officer of Revolt.
The value of this relationship lies above all in the quality of the connections it has created. For a cross-market company such as Revolt, engaging with organizations from different sectors means being able to identify common needs, validate new use cases, and bring its solutions into a variety of operational contexts. At the same time, the cross-functional nature of Revolt's approach provides the Innovation Center with a partner capable of contributing to initiatives that span very different industries and business processes.
The relationship with Intesa Sanpaolo and Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center
Revolt's relationship with Intesa Sanpaolo began at SMAU in 2023, where the company came into contact with Intesa Sanpaolo Innovation Center, which was present with a dedicated space for innovative businesses within its ecosystem. That first meeting led to a deeper relationship, resulting in Revolt's involvement in various networking and business matching initiatives organized by the Innovation Center.
"Through events such as the Intesa Innovation Meetups, speed-dating sessions, and other networking opportunities across the country, we have had the chance to present our approach to many companies. In several cases, these meetings have generated qualified contacts and opportunities for dialogue with potential clients, and some of these interactions have progressed to the launch of an eight-week Proof of Concept to validate the proposed solutions," confirms Antonio Giovannelli, Chief Business Officer of Revolt.
The value of this relationship lies above all in the quality of the connections it has created. For a cross-market company such as Revolt, engaging with organizations from different sectors means being able to identify common needs, validate new use cases, and bring its solutions into a variety of operational contexts. At the same time, the cross-functional nature of Revolt's approach provides the Innovation Center with a partner capable of contributing to initiatives that span very different industries and business processes.
Revolt's future goals: making AI accessible to more businesses
Looking ahead, Revolt intends to continue pursuing the objective that inspired its creation: to influence the culture of work by providing people with tools that amplify their skills, operational capabilities, and the quality of their decisions. Alongside the path developed with large organizations, the company aims to open a new avenue focused on mid-sized enterprises, which face equally complex challenges but often operate with more limited budgets and resources.
The experience gained over nine years of projects and the assets progressively developed within BIstudio provide the foundation for making this approach more accessible. The goal is to continue addressing specific business processes while reducing implementation time, costs, and complexity through components, methodologies, and expertise that have already been validated in enterprise environments.
In this way, Revolt aims to democratize access to technologies and approaches that have so far been adopted mainly by large companies, enabling less structured organizations to integrate artificial intelligence into real-world processes and turn it into a practical tool that supports people in their everyday work.
