The company has 400 employees countrywide and reported 10% higher turnover in January-September, to RON17 million.

Besides the development of human resources, the company has also implemented the first Bot, called Adam, which took over tasks involving the “back-office” processes.

Optima general manager Daniel Mereuta said Adam was created using the Uipath technology and this is only one of the steps taken by company throughout an ampler process of automating business operations. Mereuta added that Adam gets e-mails, processes data, accesses various systems and will soon take over new tasks.

Optima expects to keep its growth rate in 2019 and a total turnover of nearly RON25 million.

Optima was established in 2010 and its central headquarters is located in Bucharest. It also has offices in Iasi and Brasov, respectively. Optima is part of Next Capital Group, which is engrossed in factoring and debt purchase and recovery, boasting an annual value of financings of over EUR50 million.