BookAI Selected as Featured Case in Taiwan-Belgium Startup Delegation
In late June, ten Taiwanese startups traveled to Belgium's Wallonia region for a five-day business matching program, organized by NCTU's Industry Acceleration and Promotion Center (IAPS) and facilitated by AWEX, the Wallonia foreign trade and investment agency. Each company was matched with local enterprises, accelerators, and investors based on their specific technology profile.
Taiwan's Economic Daily News covered the delegation and singled out BookAI as the trip's "most celebrated case."
That recognition came from a single meeting in Liège.
The pain point that needed no explanation
BookAI was introduced to a multinational intellectual property consulting firm based in Europe. What followed was a conversation that required very little introduction.
The firm performs patent prior-art searches — confirming, before a client files a new patent, that the invention is genuinely novel. Each search returns 300 to 500 public patent documents. Attorneys read through all of them to identify the 5 most relevant.
Time required: nearly 10 hours per search.
Time billable to the client: none.
The firm's IT manager described what they were looking for:
"We want somebody who knows those 500 documents by heart — and will not hallucinate."
After hearing BookAI's technical overview, the firm's CEO responded:
"Which is avoiding hallucination."
Different industries. The same problem.
BookAI was founded to solve a problem in publishing: rights catalogs that sit silent, unable to surface to the right buyers at the right time, because the content inside them was never structured in a way AI could reliably navigate.
This firm's world is intellectual property law. The two industries share an identical structural challenge — a large corpus of specialized documents that requires an AI capable of reading precisely, without fabricating answers.
When a user with a real, urgent problem reaches unprompted for the word "hallucination" to describe what they need to avoid — that is validation no pitch deck can replicate.
Future Outlook
The firm is currently evaluating BookAI for integration into its workflow. This marks BookAI's first cross-industry enterprise application in Europe.
If your team is working with large volumes of specialized documents and needs AI that won't hallucinate, we'd love to talk.
Source: Economic Daily News (Taiwan), June 26, 2026
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