In this in-depth interview with PureAI, Vantiq Co-founder and CTO Paul Butterworth unpacks how real-time, intelligent applications are changing the way businesses respond to the world around them. Paul shares how Vantiq’s platform can ingest and analyze millions of live events per second, spot critical situations the moment they happen, and trigger the right response—whether that’s solving a problem before it escalates or seizing an opportunity as it emerges.
He explains why predictive AI still plays a vital role, how combining it with generative AI leads to faster and more accurate decision-making, and why keeping AI tightly focused on a specific domain is critical for reliability. Paul also dives into the challenges of building distributed, low-latency systems that operate seamlessly between the edge and the cloud, the pitfalls of moving from prototype to production, and the real-world risks of unleashing generative AI without guardrails.
Whether you’re building your first real-time system or scaling production-ready AI across your organization, Paul’s insights will help you see what’s possible—and what to watch out for—when speed, intelligence, and reliability matter most.
