Some lists feel good just to be on.
Cộng sự AI, MADIAD's team of AI assistants, is on the Better Choice Awards 2026 nominee list in two categories: Pioneering AI Agent Solution and Top 5 Innovative Solutions for Businesses. For a small company in Cần Thơ, run by one coordinator and a team of AI assistants, being seen like this means a great deal.
What Better Choice Awards 2026 is
Better Choice Awards is organised by VCCorp, the National Innovation Center (NIC) and the Agency for Innovation under Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology. The Thông tin Chính phủ fanpage describes it as an annual national-level award honouring innovation applied in everyday life. This year's launch took place at NIC and was covered by baochinhphu.vn.
The 2026 season has four award groups. Cộng sự AI sits in Innovative Choice Awards. Both categories MADIAD appears in are scored by the judging council, with no public vote. Results are announced at the gala in early October.
Two categories, and the names beside us
Pioneering AI Agent Solution: alongside VNPT AI, Viettel AI, FPT AI Agents and Zalo AI.
Top 5 Innovative Solutions for Businesses: alongside MISA, FPT Cloud, KiotViet, Base.vn, Marbeats CRM AI, Volterra, Đại Sàn and TechProfit.
Reading that list, we know how small we are. The organisers' criteria say the AI Agent category is for systems already deployed in real operations rather than demos, with a mandatory live demonstration before the council. Being placed in a category like that is real encouragement for the way we work.
What Cộng sự AI is
Cộng sự AI is a team of AI assistants that works inside the chat channels a business already uses every day: Zalo, Messenger, internal group chats. Nobody has to learn new software to hand over a task.
Each assistant holds one role: operations, engineering, customer care, marketing and content, accounting, legal documents. Given a task in plain words, it breaks the work into steps, picks its tools, does the work, then reads its own result back to fix problems before they cause damage.
There are places the team always stops: prices, contracts, deadlines, and anything that could destroy data. There, a person decides. MADIAD runs its own company the same way.
What we take from this
A nomination is one short stretch of a long road. The result is the council's call. Our job stays the same as any other day: keep going, and do it right.
Thank you to every business that trusts MADIAD's AI team with its work. If you would like to see the team working on your own processes, message MADIAD through the chat on this page.
Frequently asked questions
Who organises Better Choice Awards 2026?+
It is organised by VCCorp, the National Innovation Center (NIC) and the Agency for Innovation under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Which categories is MADIAD's Cộng sự AI nominated in?+
Two categories in the Innovative Choice Awards group: Pioneering AI Agent Solution, and Top 5 Innovative Solutions for Businesses.
Can the public vote in these two categories?+
No. Both categories are scored by the judging council, and results are announced at the gala in early October.
How is Cộng sự AI different from a regular chatbot?+
A chatbot answers from a script. Cộng sự AI takes a task, plans the steps, chooses its tools, checks its own result, and stops for human approval on things like prices, contracts or data.