Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — Delta Y, an international data and artificial intelligence company, has built a data platform for the Andijan regional hokimiyat that helps officials prepare reports and plan decisions more effectively. Delta Y co-founder Tiago Neto and Head of Institutional Relations Martim Oliveira discussed the project in an interview with UzDaily.uz at ICT Week Uzbekistan 2026.
The platform is Delta Y's first pilot project in the country. Its public version brings together data from the national and regional statistics bodies, the Central Bank of Uzbekistan and government portals in a single interface.
According to company representatives, AI advisers to hokims use the platform to prepare reports and explore recommendations. Its models can also calculate, for example, where to open new hospitals so that as many residents as possible live within a 15-minute walk of one.
Delta Y was founded in Lisbon in 2025. Three of its founders have previously built technology start-ups. The company is running an exploratory project in Abu Dhabi, is discussing cooperation in Portugal and has chosen Uzbekistan as its Central Asian hub.
Data scattered across silos
Delta Y describes itself as a company that tackles the most complex data problems of countries and cities. According to Martim Oliveira, the team comes from the private sector, including fintech unicorns, cybersecurity companies and major consulting firms, and saw that the world's largest companies have a level of analytical depth that public institutions rarely match.
"We have been in touch with policymakers in Asia, Europe and America, and we see that institutions at the national and regional level often lack an understanding of the data they already hold," Martim Oliveira said. "We want to be the data partner for the economies and societies that want to make the best decisions possible – even mathematically speaking – based on all the information available and the data that is yet to be mined."
He said the problem looks similar in every environment the company has worked in. Millions of new data points are recorded every day, but they are stored in separate departments and institutions, and in different formats.
"Governments find it hard to build one unified picture from this, not only because it requires a lot of technical work but also because these ecosystems are far more complex than a single company," Oliveira said. "As a result, decisions are made suboptimally, often in reaction to public sentiment. Action tends to be corrective rather than preventive, because decision-makers see an incomplete picture."
Delta Y's answer is a unified view of a city's economy, demography and society, and of how their parts interact, with tools built on top of it. According to Oliveira, an administration can use these tools to simulate, for example, how a tax incentive would affect employment, residents' wellbeing, or household spending and savings.
Three steps from raw data to decisions
Tiago Neto, Delta Y's co-founder, said every new engagement follows the same three steps. The first is mapping the data that already exists. At this stage, the company may suggest new, untapped sources of information or point to quick wins.
The second step is bringing the silos together and standardising the data. "This is mandatory if you want to build any kind of intelligence on top of it," Neto said. The third is the intelligence layer itself: a policy simulation environment, a statistical AI analyst, GIS analytics, real-time dashboards and other tools tailored to the specific use case.
What the Andijan platform does
Oliveira described two main scenarios the Andijan administration is exploring. The first is reporting. Staff at the administration and at IT Park regularly prepare reports, for example on education trends, the number of graduates or preschool enrolment.
"A user asks the AI for the report they need," Martim Oliveira said. "The value lies in the data behind it: our models are adapted to the specific region's data, so they give accurate figures and build dynamic visuals." The finished report includes text, charts, findings, next steps and proposals, and can be edited and exported.
The second scenario uses mathematical optimisation. "Say there is a healthcare problem in the city and the administration wants to open two new clinics," Oliveira said. "You can ask the AI where to place them so that the largest share of the population lives within a 15-minute walk of a clinic." The system then runs an optimisation model and calculates the exact coordinates.
According to Oliveira, the main users so far are AI advisers to hokims. Delta Y is working with the regional hokimiyat, the hokim's adviser Ziyodulla Samatov and the head of IT Park Andijan to build a unified view of the region and of what it could become in the years ahead.
Data for business and investors
The platform also has a business section. It shows how many companies were registered over the past year and how they are distributed across sectors. Users can ask the AI which sectors have grown fastest and how new jobs relate to employment, unemployment and the region's demographic structure.
The company also built the platform with investors in mind. "An investor choosing a country or region to invest in wants, above all, transparency and visibility," Oliveira said. "We think the economies we're working with can gain an edge there."
Tiago Neto said Delta Y has done similar work before. For a city outside Uzbekistan, the company helped build an investment case that attracted about $200 million. "In Uzbekistan's case, the trajectory is already there. The numbers themselves brought us here: economic growth, population growth, extraordinary talent," he said.
Where the data is stored
Delta Y separates public data, shown in the public version of the platform, from private data, which is available only to the regional administration after authorisation.
"We deploy on-premises, on the client's own infrastructure, and make sure the data never leaves the place that matters to the client," Neto said. "If we work with a country, the data stays there: storage, computing, even the AI models can be hosted locally, according to the client's preferences."
Asked about Uzbekistan's data localisation requirements, Neto said the company complies with them. Oliveira added that Delta Y has consulted a local law firm on the regulatory landscape.
How the AI's answers are checked
Martim Oliveira said accuracy is one of the company's main concerns. "Language models are stochastic, not deterministic, so our task is to maximise their objectivity and minimise subjectivity," he said. Every answer cites its source, such as a specific dataset from the National Statistics Committee, so users can check it directly against the original data.
Tiago Neto said the company spends a lot of time on testing and data quality checks. Delta Y often invites users to ask the same question on its platform and in general-purpose chatbots such as ChatGPT or Claude. According to him, people are often surprised by the difference, and the chatbots sometimes decline to answer because they lack the information.
Starting with a pilot
Oliveira said the company has been in contact with partners in Uzbekistan since earlier this year. "We are a young company. We are confident in our technical capabilities, but we are also humble enough to recognise that working at government level requires a lot of trust," he said. For this reason, its first engagement in a new country usually targets a specific challenge within a de-risked time frame, allowing Delta Y to prove itself as a trusted partner.
Delta Y is also discussing cooperation with other regions, ministries and private companies. Oliveira said deputy hokims and AI advisers from several hokimiyats visited the company's stand at ICT Week.
"We are a solutions company, not a product company," Neto said. "Delta Y is the mathematical term for change along a graph's vertical axis. That is what we want to deliver to clients: measurable change."
Why Uzbekistan
Martim Oliveira said the company's interest in Uzbekistan began after a video conference in which the chairman of the National Statistics Committee and World Bank representatives discussed the national census. The company was impressed by the use of GIS tools in the census and for mapping land plots and agricultural fields, as well as by the depth of the macro- and microeconomic data collected.
"The economy has been growing by 6–8% a year in recent years," Oliveira said. "Around 60% of the population is under 30, and the average age is 29. We think Uzbekistan can be the next big story in Central Asia."
Talent and infrastructure
According to Martim Oliveira, the government is focusing on two pillars of the sector: physical infrastructure and talent. He noted that data centres are being built in several regions, including Karakalpakstan, and mentioned the Five Million AI Leaders programme.
Neto said the company was impressed by the engineers and analysts who visited its stand. "We are sure we will hire many of them," he said. "They know the local context, speak the language and are strong engineers."
An AI that briefs the hokim
Asked what a hokim should look at first thing each morning, Oliveira said it should be a summary of the previous day and the next priorities.
Tiago Neto said he believes the future will reverse the usual relationship between people and AI. "Until now, the AI paradigm has been that people interact with AI: they write prompts and ask questions," he said. "We are trying to flip that, so that the AI prompts people. A decision-maker wakes up, and the AI has already prepared the reports and highlighted the important details."
