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Bowsy's strong track record in driving innovation

Bowsy has been recognised across Ireland’s technology, education, and innovation ecosystem, including:

  • Winner: Irish Tech Startup of the Year
  • Irish Times Innovation Awards Finalist
  • Chambers Ireland National Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award Winner
  • Irish Digital Media Awards Finalist
  • DLR Chamber Ecommerce Innovation Winner
  • Talent Summit Ireland Finalist

Bowsy has delivered student project work for organisations including CRH, Dell, Molson Coors, the Department of Further and Higher Education and the Institute of Bankers. We now bring that managed project model to AI implementation for Irish SMEs.

Our verified clients are also listed on the Enterprise Ireland Innovation Directory, recognising innovative Irish companies delivering high-impact solutions.

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Meet our Team

John Brady (B.Comm)

John Brady

John is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bowsy, with over 15 years’ global experience as a C-Suite executive leading innovation and digital transformation within a FTSE 10 company.

Renata Covisi Pereira

Renata Covisi Pereira

Renata is a Co-Founder of Bowsy where she is Head of Product and Operations. Her background is as a software engineer, specialising in data analytics, with over 10 years experience working in the education sector.
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Kristi Vollgraaff

Kristi is a registered Organisational Psychologist (HPCSA) with experience in organisational design and development, change management, talent management, and behavioural analytics.
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Dr. Juan Swartz

Juan joins us from the team at Pivotal Talent and is an AI Strategist with 25+ years of experience across corporate strategy, digital transformation, and workforce transformation.
Andrijana Djuric

Andrijana Djuric

Andrijana is responsible for international business development at Bowsy and has a strong track record working with bluechip companies to build highly motivated and high performing international teams that deliver outstanding business results.
Esther Ajomiwe

Esther Ajomiwe

Esther is a project and marketing operations professional at Bowsy, with qualifications in agile project management, data analytics and extensive experience in the EdTech industry.
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Our philosophy: Practical AI solutions for small businesses

At Bowsy, we believe AI should be useful, accessible and focused on real business improvement. Many Irish SMEs know AI could help them save time, reduce admin or improve customer service, but they do not have the internal resources to know where to begin. Bowsy helps small businesses identify practical AI opportunities and turn them into working solutions through supervised graduate and postgraduate project teams.

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Practical AI, not hype

We focus on useful AI tools, workflow automation and business improvements that can make a practical difference to day-to-day operations.

Business problem first

Every project starts with the business process, pain point or opportunity — not with a tool, trend or generic AI recommendation.

AI support for Irish SMEs

Bowsy helps small businesses explore AI in a structured, affordable and realistic way, without needing to hire a full-time technical team.

Graduate and postgraduate project teams

Our model gives SMEs access to capable student talent while giving students meaningful, commercially relevant project experience.

Managed project delivery

Bowsy scopes the project, matches suitable talent and supervises delivery so the business receives a practical handover, not just an idea.

Workflow automation

We help identify repetitive admin, reporting, customer support and follow-up tasks that can be improved through AI and automation.

Built around existing tools

We look at the systems a business already uses — such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, HubSpot, spreadsheets, ChatGPT or Zapier — and identify realistic improvements.

Better outcomes for business and students

Small businesses get practical AI implementation support, while students build real-world experience on projects that matter.

AI opportunity for Irish SMEs

Bowsy was built around the belief that student talent and real project work can create better outcomes for both businesses and young people. Today, we are applying that same model to AI implementation for small businesses.

Irish SMEs are under pressure to work faster, reduce admin and make better use of digital tools. At the same time, many do not have the time, budget or internal expertise to turn AI interest into practical action.

Bowsy bridges that gap by combining business scoping, supervised graduate and postgraduate project teams and practical implementation support. The result is a model that helps small businesses adopt useful AI while giving students commercially relevant experience.

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