UK professional services firm KPMG has partnered California-based business AI firm Uniphore to develop AI-powered agents across internal and client-facing workflows. The development aims to enhance services provided to regulated industries.

KPMG will use Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud platform to build industry-specific small language models (SLMs) that can be integrated into existing enterprise systems. The goal is to enable teams to deliver outcomes through a combination of human judgement and AI execution.

“We are working together with Uniphore to use AI to transform regulated industries,” said Prasad Jayaraman, advisory principal at KPMG. “Our objective is to evolve how expertise is applied and scaled.”

The agents are designed for production environments where data is fragmented, processes are interconnected, and governance is non-negotiable. They operate directly alongside modern enterprise data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake, allowing AI agents to work against governed, enterprise-grade data foundations without forcing migrations or creating parallel data stacks.

Initial client solutions being developed through the partnership include an AI-powered procurement and contracting capability that can classify high-value contracts, compare terms against approved standards, and extract obligations.