KOBALT MUSIC
Internally, Kobalt is already a mature adopter of AI to manage its massive data flows:“ From an internal perspective, as with most organisations at the moment, we’ re rolling out AI to enable us to gain efficiency, free up time to focus on work that is meaningful and remove as much repetitive manual work as possible.”
And it’ s not just theoretical. Nuno continues:“ One of the use cases where we have historically rolled out AI is on the matching of works and recordings, allowing us to match more than 99 % of all works automatically. We are also using AI throughout the development process and have seen significant gains from adopting coding assistants.”
Accelerating modernisation through partnership Driving such technological change, after the 2022 acquisition by private equity firm Francisco Partners, was no small feat. Nuno describes the period as one of“ substantial investment in technology modernisation and to support considerable business growth”.
The transformation meant a fresh approach to resourcing, resulting in a strategic partnership with global software engineering firm DataArt.
Nuno reflects:“ Following the acquisition, we established a stronger long-term partnership to augment our product development teams – both in capacity and skills – helping us deliver a comprehensive transformation programme.”
238 December 2025