Pulse

“So we have this amazing voice model that converts voice to text called pulse. It's a speech to text model runs in real time 64 milliseconds latency lot of other features like emotion detection, gender detection, bunch of other things, right?”

“I think it's one or 200 dollars a month, but yeah basically like I tell it what I'm into or it gets to know me. And every day when I wake up now, I mean, I'm on chat all day. Anyway, now in the morning I pull up pulse and it's sort of like my newsfeed, except …”

“And I remember the first load of software that I bought was 5000 dollars. I had to get a student loan to buy it, and so it was really expensive, and it came in a stack of DVDs, so I think there was 200 DVDs.”

“We tried using the open source platform, but it was a nightmare because what we found was as we tried to take that apart and make it work for our solution, every time we'd go one step back, we'd have to go two steps forward, and we'd Add one feature and would …”

“That was how it was built basically all through Upwork through contractors. And then as all the features were built out, we scaled the size of the team down and just focus more on the marketing and sales side of things.”

“I never actually had to market the B to B side of it. The B to C side we did, but the actual B to B side where we were offering the platform for companies to use. I never actually did any marketing for that. It was always just through word of mouth or through …”

“So on the B to B side, I think there was over a hundred anything. And then on the B to C side the actual platform had grown to around about 360,000 users in like the database with around a thousand to 2000 daily active users within the desktop app.”

“So when I sold the company, I was able to take advantage of a far lower tax tax break compared to just paying myself through the company.”

“And then I think it went out in a newsletter one of the days and I woke up the next morning and it was something like 50 or a hundred different requests to view the listing.”

“I was also clear that I wanted cash up front because specifically for the tax break, it needed to be cash up front.”

“Where I had, like we had valued the business right in the middle of the valuation range. And I think that's fair. And I think they were getting a fair deal and they offered a fair price. So I wasn't really like with the size of the money we were talking about …”

“That lasted for maybe, I'd say, two to three weeks, which I think was quite a short period, because I know it can go on quite longer”

“On predicting the outcome of emotional responses to creative content. So when someone is publishing a piece of content, are they going to feel angry about it? Are they going to feel sad about it? Confused? Unhappy? How many people are going to engage with it? …”

“It varies from 500 pounds a month in, in British pounds all the way up to however much they want to be paying. But the range for staff subscriptions is 500 to five and a half thousand a month.”

“At the moment, we're pre-rev but as soon as we hit revenue generation, we know that we have a hundred and so agencies that are going to be taking the platform on from day one.”

“We've done 1.48 million pounds so far.”

“The tech stack that we have behind this has meant that we've had to deploy some quantum computation elements as well and a variety of other facets to the product in the backend to handle these vast quantities of data that we have.”

“So a 150,000 has come from private investors. The rest has come from me and the money that I've accrued over the past, however long by running my marketing agency.”