In artificial intelligence (AI) integration company Jentic, Sean Blanchfield believes he has founded one of the last businesses which will not be replaced by AI. His early interaction with AI made it clear its software generation capabilities would really “change the future of software companies”, he says. That business would go on to become booking management software company Phorest, whose revenue is threatening to reach €50 million this year. There were online video games on “nearly every screen in every computer lab”, he says. The team decided to “build a networking stack for video games and sell it the same way that Havoc sells physics for video games”.

Source: The Irish Times December 29, 2025 07:32 UTC