New Albany-based CopilotBuilder is ranked among the 18 innovators pushing the region’s economy forward in Columbus Business First’s annual BizTech Awards. CopilotBuilder is a platform for organizations to create generative AI-based agents for proprietary customer service, industry research, and training content creation. Business First has been highlighting local innovation in technology and the people leading the effort for nearly a decade. The company, part of Stratus Innovations Group, an Innovate New Albany tenant, uses AI every day in its product development processes, organizational collaboration leading to “incredible productivity gains in terms of time saved completing administrative and repetitive tasks.”