Japeto Labs Shortlisted for Outstanding Achievement at the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2026
Japeto builds AI chatbots for charities and healthcare organisations — safe, compliant, and deployable in days. We’ve been shortlisted for the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2026 for this work. Key Takeaways: Japeto has been shortlisted for the Medilink Midlands Outstanding Achievement Award 2026 The shortlisting recognises our AI chatbot platform, […]
Japeto Labs Recognised as One of Essex’s Top Tech Companies
We’re excited to share that Japeto has been recognised as one of the Ambitious Essex Tech 50 for 2025. Ambitious Essex – Essex County Council’s business support branch – has just released the list, and we’re honoured to be included. This recognition is particularly special for us as a small team, and it marks our […]
Japeto Labs’s a Finalist for Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2025
We’re absolutely over the moon to announce that Japeto has been named a finalist for the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2025 in the Outstanding Achievement category! Our journey began with Pat, the UK’s first sexual health AI chatbot, developed in collaboration with Positive East an HIV charity. Pat provides confidential, around-the-clock support, helping people access […]
The algorithm maze: an intern’s tale of chatbot optimization
Imagine being a 19-year-old who recently arrived in the UK, completed just one semester of a BSc in Computer Science, and secured an internship typically reserved for second and third-year students. That was me! Welcome to my journey of creating a chatbot evaluation system during my internship—a journey filled with challenges, learning, and triumph. The […]
Presenting Pat at BHIVA Spring 2024 Conference
Japeto was absolutely delighted to be asked to present alongside Positive East, at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) 2024 Spring Conference. This year it was held in Birmingham, UK from April 29 through May 1. Clinicians and community-organisations came together to share new research and developments around HIV in the United Kingdom. We’ve added the […]
Meet Michael
What’s your job title? Non-executive director (NED) What do you actually do? As a NED, I help with the strategic direction of Japeto. You’ll also find me fine-tuning operations, building relationships, and sharing new developments in AI. What’s your journey getting here been like? I graduated from university in the late 1990s with a history […]
Chatbot Club: Demo Day
Japeto partnered with Harlow College’s Games Design students to build Hart, a 24/7 AI safeguarding chatbot for students, in just 11 weeks. Key Takeaways Japeto ran an 11-week enrichment programme with Harlow College Games Design students in 2023 Students built Hart from scratch: a wellbeing and safeguarding chatbot for college students Hart offers 24/7 support […]
Chatbot Club 2023
We’re pleased to introduce a project that has been cooking at Japeto over the past few months: the Chatbot Club. Over an 11-week long enrichment program, Japeto worked with top students to build a chatbot from zero to prototype. This has been a fantastic opportunity to partner with Harlow College to create a one-of-kind enrichment […]
The Move to The Arise Innovation Hub
Our New Home We’re excited to announce that Japeto has moved from Harlow Enterprise Hub to our new home at Arise Innovation Hub. We’ve had an excellent experience at the Enterprise Hub, the active community and convenient location have made for a productive working environment. Our move to Arise Innovation Hub is the next step […]
Meet Andy
What’s your job title? Junior Software Developer. What do you actually do? I primarily focus on the frontend of our projects. My role mainly involves converting the team’s designs and logic specifications into React code and implementing testing for the components that form the user interfaces in our applications. What made you get into it? […]