Barclays Collaborates With ExpectAI on AI Sustainability Tools
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Barclays, a major British multinational universal bank offering consumer and corporate banking, wealth management, and investment banking services, recently announced its collaboration with ExpectAI.
Barclays and ExpectAI To Help SMEs Grow Using Artificial Intelligence
In a statement published yesterday, December 17, Barclays said that it is entering a partnership with ExpectAI, a pioneering technology company that uses AI capabilities with the aim of helping small and medium-sized businesses. Through the use of AI, ExpectAI can help companies grow their profits, particularly through the use of sustainability insights.
“At Barclays, we are harnessing artificial intelligence to drive efficiency, create capacity and fuel innovation, helping our people to become more productive and improving client service,” the UK bank explained.
The announcement continued to say that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) generate about half of the private sector turnover in the UK. They also employ nearly 60% of the workforce, which is why strengthening their energy resilience while reducing emissions is essential to the country’s economic transition.
Along the way, the initiative will also work on assessing how advanced artificial intelligence solutions can make this both practical and commercially attractive for targeted businesses.
The plan for the future is for Barclays to test ExpectAI’s Una platform using publicly available information, starting only weeks from now, in early in 2026. Una is an AI-driven platform that creates digital twins of SME operations to deliver clear and actionable insights.
Furthermore, the platform can provide businesses with an adaptive carbon profile, specifically tailored to provide energy-efficiency recommendations and provide connections to verified and reliable solutions providers. In addition to that, it can also connect firms with the right funding partners in order to speed up implementations of solutions.
What Is The Next Step?
Barclays will start by testing the process, which will assess the potential of platforms to create value for UK-based businesses, including how insights provided by artificial intelligence translate sustainability opportunities into measurable improvements in productivity, cost efficiency, and competitiveness.
Commenting on the matter, ExpectAI’s founder and CEO, Anand Verma, said “We are delighted to be working with Barclays on this important initiative. ExpectAI was founded to help SMEs become more profitable, productive and sustainable. Barclays’ long-standing focus on SMEs and their commitment to supporting clients through the transition make them the ideal organisation to advance this work. We look forward to demonstrating how this could create real value for UK-based businesses.”
Meanwhile, Barclays’ Group Head of Sustainable and Transition Finance, Daniel Hanna, added that the bank believes that AI platforms will play an important role in supporting businesses with sustainability-related initiatives and decision-making.
“Our ambition with this initiative is to support the development of an emerging climate tech business and help our clients understand the connection between sustainability and business value creation,” he added.
