AI and ML support for new Software App

Our app, 2 years in development is now ready to include AI and further ML concepts to amplify it's capability. Not a CRM, Chronos is a pre-CRM application and to the best of our knowledge, a similar system does not exist. Considered a sales planning and to a lesser extent, forecasting app, the system requests that sales professionals enter key customer information based on the customer conversion opportunity, size, relationship status, key contacts, psychographic segmentation and more. We have established values for information inputted which will then produce information on which customers require what sort of effort and which sales professionals are best matched to specific clients. This will also greatly improve return on time invested (ROTI) for sales people. Poor ROTI is the number one energy sucker for sales teams. Using our system will greatly improve sales effectiveness.

AI and Machine Learning

We are looking to partner with a top university to tackle a global problem. A problem that costs billions of dollars worldwide and one that we can all relate to. We need best in class programs looking at cutting edge technology specifically around machine learning and speech recognition. The output of the speech to text converter will need to be fed into an ML library, that will identify the context and group/form meaningful paragraphs for each section of the output document. It will need to understand the context of the meeting, and identify the summary, action items etc (potentially support multiple document types based on the meeting type & industry). The output of this will then be put into a document using Java. We will need to understand if there are any existing libraries that can be used/extended to achieve this functionality, or if an algorithm can be developed for the same. We’re excited about this potential partnership and we know with the right synergy we can tackle something huge. Let us know if you think this is a good fit and we look forward to hearing from you. Our team is located in Dubai, South Africa and Canada.

Marketing Strategy - Global

Chronos Works is an app that operates as a pre-crm planning system for sales teams and sales managers. We know that CRM's are good at tracking progress, but poor at planning and forecasting. Chronos Works uses old school basic planning concepts delivered in a modern application . Using Chronos Works allows sales teams to clearly define the best sales targets. We are a team of 5 people and our program is close to commercialization. Two of our team are development and AI/ML specialists and they are integrating smart science into the program so that our data will be valid and usable. We would now like to understand what might be our best approach to entering and penetrating the global market. The key sponsors of this project are a 40 year veteran of sales and marketing and a 20 year project management specialist. Our locations are Calgary Canada, London UK and Dubai UAE.

Retail franchise project post COVID19 strategy

W are working on a model for a health and wellness franchise… it would be a retail style kiosk (about 400 square feet) that would be placed in serviced (already available restrooms, security, etc) high traffic locations such as malls, downtown towers, large work places, transportation centers, tourist spots and other high traffic areas. Locations would be turn-key and follow the typical franchise strategy of having owner operators, with corporate oversight, branded products and services, corporate distribution of retail products, etc. Having successfully completed a market assessment, we are now looking to develop a business template including a marketing plan, effective franchise model and other key "next step" items. Project leads are Matt Clachar and Chuck Bean.

Retail franchise project post COVID19 strategy

We are working on a model for a health and wellness franchise… it would be a retail style kiosk (about 400 square feet) that would be placed in serviced (already available restrooms, security, etc) high traffic locations such as malls, downtown towers, large work places, transportation centers, tourist spots and other high traffic areas. Locations would be turn-key and follow the typical franchise strategy of having owner operators, with corporate oversight, branded products and services, corporate distribution of retail products, etc. What we are wanting to do is: establish market potential define market acceptance understand the current competitive landscape which is highly fractured and early stage at the moment gauge interest with potential franchisee targets (which are very specific) grasp pricing ranges for services and likely a few other items. This would an absolute start-up… we have a concept that we are wanting to explore.

Chronos Works Inc. pre-CRM sales territory planning and management app.

Presently, CRM’s are primarily used for tracking activities, but lack a comprehensive planning component. Our system has been used for 20 years in a pens and paper/workshop format, which we are converting into a software application. We are a Calgary based Canadian Corporation start-up with founders in Calgary, London UK and Dubia. We have 15,000 lines of code completed on a business application and are looking to gain assistance as we continue to add features. Our statement is as follows: "Chronos Works is a multi-page web app following the MVC pattern, built on a PostgreSQL database, using node as the back end language with the express framework. Interactions with the database are performed by utilising Sequelize, an ORM that allows us to focus on writing pure Javascript leveraging next gen (ES6+) features. We use next gen features heavily, including the use of Promises, object destructuring, spread operators and arrow functions. On the front end we use Bootstrap for styling, generate and serve HTML dynamically from the server using ejs, and invoke back end functions, where necessary, via the Fetch API. Our version control is handled using git and GitHub." We are currently building our list of additional features and students will be working with a world class Dev Opps Director located in the UK, whose qualifications include a doctorate Theoretical Physics and an Astrophysics Degree. Additional mentorship is available from all founders who have extensive backgrounds in strategy, project management and app design. If this resonates with you, please shoot me a note and I can arrange a time for you and our CTO to discuss. Many thanks and cheers, Chuck

Chronos Works Inc. pre-CRM sales territory planning and management tool.

Presently, CRM’s are primarily used for tracking activities, but lack a comprehensive planning component. Our system has been used for 20 years in a pens and paper/workshop format, which we are converting into a software application. Our goals for this project are very specific and focused on understanding sales team and sales managers perspectives on the following: Level of management confidence that their salespeople are calling on qualified and quantified clients. Level of management confidence that their salespeople are spending an appropriate amount of time with clients. Estimates of how much available selling time is spent: - Traveling (driving or taking transit). - Meeting and/or selling to new clients. - Servicing and/or selling to existing clients. - Researching or gathering information on a client. - Territory planning for effective time utilization. - Following-up on new clients or new business opportunities. - Completing paperwork or computer time. Quality of planning current CRM’s provide? What is their current CRM choice? What percentage of their CRM is regularly being utilized? General interest in having a planning tool. What additional features would they like to see? What price would they pay? Does the freemium with pay-for features make sense. We believe that our best potential resource will be to interview a variety of salespersons, sales managers/directors/c-suite to obtain the necessary information.We would like to gain perspective view from a Sales Manager/Director/C-Suite and that of a Salesperson. Finally, we would like to gain an opinion from the project team regarding the validity of our questions, any additional research suggestions and an overall opinion from the student team. Many thanks for your consideration.