In this strategic consulting challenge, your team will design and develop an intelligent virtual assistant that revolutionizes how EY professionals access, navigate and leverage the firm's vast knowledge ecosystem.
Your solution will harness EY's internal documentation and process frameworks to create an intuitive, responsive interface that enhances professional productivity and knowledge accessibility.
As consultants tackling this challenge, your goal is to combine technical innovation with a solid understanding of how professionals work, in order to build a virtual assistant that improves how employees access and use internal company knowledge.
🎯 Objective:
Demonstrate how strategic application of conversational AI can:
- Enhance workforce effectiveness
- Accelerate onboarding
- Reduce operational friction
- Create sustainable competitive advantage through superior knowledge mobilization
Your solution should address real business challenges while showcasing the transformative potential of AI in professional services environments.
The provided dataset includes multiple file types representing internal company information:
- Text Files — documents containing transcripts of video recordings and other information
- Excel File — listing EY’s service lines/subservice lines, along with the name of the responsible partner for each
- PDF Files — Partner CVs and EY News Articles (from the official website)
- Knowledge Flow Strategists: Reimagine how information moves between systems and people
- Experience Designers: Create intuitive interfaces that professionals will naturally adopt
- Sell the Solution, Not Just the Process: Present a valuable solution for the client — highlight business impact, keep it strategic, and propose improvements
- ✅ A working prototype of your strategic virtual assistant
- ✅ Organized and well-documented code, that can be reproducible
- ✅ A strategic presentation pitching your solution to the judging panel as if they were EY executive stakeholders
🔹 Optional Enhancements:
- A brief live demo showcasing how the solution works
- Performance analysis vs traditional knowledge access methods
Submit a zip folder with:
- The Google Colab notebook (with all cells run & outputs shown).
- Screenshots of all external tools/visualizations used.
Submit via email to: eyaichallenge@pt.ey.com
Subject: Virtual Agent – GroupName
Include group member names in the email.
- Choose Your LLM Strategically:
- Gemini = fast, limited context
- LLaMA = more context, slower
- Master the Knowledge Architecture:
Consider EY's diverse ecosystem of professionals - Prove the Value:
Use metrics — time saved, accuracy improved, fewer support queries, faster onboarding - Innovate with Purpose:
Move beyond chatbot basics - Tell a Strategic Story:
Frame your pitch to highlight real-world value and long-term impact
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Mandatory:
- Google Colab
- Python
app.py
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Free to Choose:
- Libraries/Packages: e.g.,
Pandas,Scikit-learn,LangChain, etc. - Visualization:
Matplotlib,Seaborn,Power BI,Tableau, etc. - AI Assistants: ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, others
- Libraries/Packages: e.g.,
- Total Time: 4 hours – No extensions
- Final Presentation: 5 minutes – Simulate a client-facing pitch
- Support:
- 🧑💻 1 technical session (max 5 minutes)
- 💼 1 business session (max 5 minutes)
- Note: Assistants guide only — no direct solutions
- Assign Roles Early — e.g., data analyst, business strategist, presenter
- Work in Parallel — Divide and conquer
- Start the Presentation Early — Don’t wait until the last 10 minutes
- Be Realistic — Focused and clear beats complex and incomplete
💡 Pro Tip:
Judging includes teamwork, structure, and communication, not just technical quality
This challenge represents an opportunity to redefine how a knowledge-intensive organization mobilizes one of its most valuable assets: institutional expertise.
The most successful teams will demonstrate:
- Technical proficiency in conversational AI
- Strategic understanding of professional workflows
- A transformative approach to knowledge mobilization