Few corporations left Covid-19 blockade unharmed. Some didn’t. However, an unexpected number used the demanding situations and demanding situations they faced to help other corporations, not only the pandemic, but also better positioned to thrive once the closing restrictions were eased.
Automate operations
AI Nightingale HQ works with organizations to help them integrate artificial intelligence and automation into their operations to save time, cash and efficiency.
The company secured a 50,000 euro investment from the Innovate UK grant fund, which it used to launch GoSmarter, a set of six artificial intelligence-based teams that automate manual responsibilities and procedures, social listening, automation of robotic procedures (RPA) and invoice processing. Etc.
Nightingale HQ founders Steph Locke and Ruth Kearny sought to help other small businesses that would not otherwise be able to receive this kind of support, and be more prepared to deal with COVID19-like outages.
“If anything the pandemic has taught us, it’s that companies want to be able to adapt as temporally and successfully as possible,” Locke says. “Whether it’s prudent for chatbots to handle visitor requests or for RPA to take care of repetitive responsibilities and lose staff for more artistic work, automation will be the way organizations will do more with less.”
Forging alliances
As months of blockade emerge in a seriously contracted economy, companies will have to grow. The AI Findr platform functions as a trade partnership matchmaker to help them.
The concept was conceived in March of this year through CEO Greg Watts, of his preference for automating manual steps related to the creation of effective trade partnerships, a procedure with which he was familiar, having been guilty of partnerships in Visa Europe and later his own. the recommendation is growing.
He addressed the fact that about 90% of new companies that fail in the first year cannot shape the associations they want and thrive before their investment runs out.
“They have trouble navigating the spouse’s ecosystem,” he says. “And when they identify a possible coincidence, they want to identify who to target and launch a bloodless awareness action, a procedure that can take months or even years.”
Findr applies synthetic intelligence and device learning to automate the creation of partnerships based on non-unusual criteria, generating leads very quickly, eliminating the need for face-to-face interactions and cutting the time and effort required to shape those associations from months to minutes.
The company has partnered with CrunchBase and several major stores and banks and will enter the UK fintech market in the autumn, with beta lists that will add a representative pattern of fintechs and global companies.
Enhancing online visibility
Travel generation start-up HotelRunner has helped hotels and independent chains recover by providing a central connection between independent hotels and chains and online agencies (OAOs), such as Booking.com, to identify a more powerful online presence.
The company was founded through former IBM executives Arden Agopyan and Ali Beklen. “Or we travel a lot for paintings and look to stay in places that reflected dominance that in a corporate hotel,” Beklen says. “The challenge was that tour operators couldn’t locate those hotels because they weren’t online.”
The platform works with more than 40,000 hotels, helping them take advantage of the accumulation of bookings of more than 90 days and the growing interest in national holidays, and navigate the changing climate of air bridges. The company is also helping hotels and OTA participate in new, direct and more profitable contracts to prepare them for the post-COVID era.
Absence management
As the government encourages British staff to return to the office, employers’ duty to maintain the fitness and well-being of workers becomes more onerous. In a world where corporations face Covid-19’s presence among their workforce, e-days has put in place a specialized formula to help human resources managers ensure staff protection.
Founded through CEO Steve Arnold and CTO Chris Moseley in 2015, e-days is a cloud-based intelligence platform that makes it easy to track worker absences, adding vacations and health-trouble casualties, for organizations of all sizes.
“You can’t just text your manager if you feel unwell,” Arnold says. “For example, what if you have Covid-19 symptoms and were on it with your team the day before?”
And when it comes to vacation, companies face a new wave of empty offices, as they all try to restrict their vacation in August and September. “Paper reserve systems are up to the task,” Arnold adds.
Sick can record this data on the e-days platform and specify your symptoms. If they are compatible with Covid-19, an alert is sent to team members who have been in contact with the worker recently, recommending that they isolate themselves. The formula can also trip over workers who are at risk of exhaustion and automatically schedule appointments with the family doctor for people in poor health.
Reducing costs
When Covid-19 arrived and companies were forced to close, Paul Jeffries learned that thousands of people would still have a list of monthly prices they would still have to pay for, with a limited or no source of income for the foreseeable future. One of them advertises insurance premiums.
“Even though many insurers were under pressure to defer bills or grant a paid license, no one submitted it. It was like you had to call your insurer and present your case,” Jeffries says.
rerusni, a game about the spelling of the insurer, created through Jeffries and an organization of experienced business leaders from the insurance, IT and marketing sectors to create a 15-month business insurance policy for all companies, but basically to make SMEs the hardest hit. Policies come with premises, content, liability policy and employees, as well as directors, officers, and liability insurance.
“They don’t pay anything until the fourth month and then they have the option to pay interest-free dues,” Jeffries says. “Some insurers charge up to 24.8% interest on monthly payments.”
Initially, the policy was aimed at the hotel industry, as it was the first to close, but many other sectors also called for the rerusni policy, with the not unusual purpose of reducing pressure on money until corporations begin to see an increase. income.
I’m a freelance journalist, founder of Coleman Media. For more than 20 years, I have covered their business stories for domestic and foreign and print publications,
I’m a freelance journalist, founder of Coleman Media. For more than 20 years, I have covered their business stories for domestic and foreign print and online publications, with a specific interest in marketing specialists and their new companies. Away from business, I’m a complete ghostwriter: “Pure Dynamite – The Autobiography of the Dynamite Kid,” a satisfying journalistic fun. Follow me on Twitter @alisonbcoleman or look at my most recent paintings on www.alisoncoleman.co.uk