BC Card Expands AI Services Using Consumer Spending Data for Restaurant Discovery

BC Card said on November 9 that it will expand its use of artificial intelligence (AI) in eat.pl, a restaurant discovery service based on consumer spending data, in collaboration with Nomadamas, the developer of the open-source project K-Skill.

The partnership was established to connect consumer spending data with the open-source developer ecosystem in response to the rise of agentic AI, which goes beyond answering questions to search for information and perform tasks on users' behalf.

K-Skill is an open-source project that connects various services in Korea and their application programming interfaces (APIs) to AI agents. It enables developers to integrate external services and data into their own AI services.

eat.pl, operated by BC Card's AI Business Team, is a service that lets users find restaurants and analyze consumer trends based on actual spending data. Users can gauge a restaurant's popularity from spending patterns by gender and age group, and estimate whether it is currently open by checking real-time payment activity.

Previously, the eat.pl API service was managed so that only pre-registered internet addresses could access it. This partnership has created a new way to use the service through K-Skill. Individual developers can now use the eat.pl model available on K-Skill to build their own AI services using eat.pl.

The two companies will hold the "eat.pl AI Service" competition to support developers in building services and exploring monetization opportunities. The competition runs through December 13, and individuals or teams of up to four people may participate. To be included in the performance tally, participants must register their service by December 3. Each participant's eat.pl referral results will be tracked from the date of registration. After the final number of active users is tallied, the top three entries will receive 2 million won for the grand prize, 1 million won for the first prize, and 500,000 won for the second prize. Regardless of whether they win an award, participants will earn a reward of 10 won for each active user they bring to the service. Rewards will be paid once the accumulated amount reaches at least 1,000 won, with total payouts capped at 10 million won.

Oh Seong-su, an executive at BC Card, said, "BC Card will continue to work with a range of partners to increase the value of consumer spending data and contribute to expanding the ecosystem for AI-based services."

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