Brief introduction

Q1: What product are you building? A: An AI-powered platform to manage knowledge base for teams, specializing in handling complex topics to empower individuals and organizations Q2: What problems are you solving? A: Tackling the frequent need for researchers to absorb complex matters, constant problems to find things that was done before and great pain for documentation, which is time-consuming and chaotic.

The critical problems (for labs in Academia)

Personal Layers
1. The human brain has reached its cognitive limit, necessitating tools to empower and extend its capabilities
  1. Information overload leads to incomplete absorption of knowledge.
  2. The complexity of knowledge exceeds our capacity to fully understand.
2. Daily tasks involve processing complex and chaotic information:
  1. Personal workflows often encounter fragmented information, knowledge, data, and thoughts that need to be organized.
3. Recalling previously processed information (memory) is challenging:
  1. It’s difficult to retrieve desired information from the tool we recorded
  2. Previously processed information often loses its context, making it hard to understand the original thought process.
4. Thinking and understanding complex concepts
  1. There is tremendous need to read, think and understand complex stuff thoroughly.
  2. There is a high frequency of need for simplifying and articulating complex things for communication purpose, including meetings, discussions, and documentation.
Organizational Layers
1. Organizing the organizational knowledge (e.g., outcomes, important records) is time-consuming:
  1. There is a significant gap between fragmented data and structured knowledge or documents.
  2. Too much time is spent on this trivial "administrative process", but it is a necessary process
2. Managing organizational knowledge is extremely painful
  1. Determining the continuity of research result from incomplete and scattered records often requires recall, making it challenging to maintain context.
  2. Important information is frequently lost before it is properly documented.
3. The knowledge base compiled for the organization is often incomplete
  1. Because everyone hates doing it, so streamline it if you can
  2. It is a waste of resources invested by the organization
4. Difficulties for understanding and utilizing existing knowledge
  1. could not find what they were looking for.
  2. Later users may hesitate to use existing knowledge and experiences created by other members, often due to a lack of recording of the original context & information. Sometimes they would rather reinvent the wheel, which is a huge waste of resources
  3. even though one is able to locate the required research that is done before, they lack the ability fill the gap of prerequisite knowledge to fully understand what it’s about
5. High collaboration and integration need. The process itself requires to understand the context, which costs a lot in communication and understanding
  1. There is a lot of parallel collaboration (simultaneously, but with different people) that requires deep mutual understanding
  2. There are a lot of collaborations on different timelines, which require a deep understanding of what the predecessors have done.
6. Writing is the core of the lab operation (the final result), which requires a deep understanding, absorption, and integration of a large number of things from different timelines and different people.
  1. the need to absorb previous work from other members, all information, and every details.
  2. The ultimate goal is to write, but it has to deal with a lot of people and requires a deep understanding and absorption of what others have done.

Q3: What market are you currently targeting? A: Labs in academia and industries as the initial focus, aiming to reach high penetration rate in this small market in the current phase. Q4: What's the current progress? A: Launched the first version of the product and gave some users a try on my product. Currently, trying to recruit talents as the technical co-founder to build this product together.