How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
ReliablyME uses SMS text messaging to help large numbers of people be accountable to each other for maintaining good social-distancing and hand-hygiene practices in order to stop the spread of infection and keep family, friends, and others safe.Regulations that enforce good infection-safe practices are proving effective for slowing the growth in the number of new infections. However, for this trend to continue, the population at large must maintain their hygiene discipline and not become complacent, as the consequences can cause many more premature deaths and be very costly to the economy. Every unemployed day is extremely costly to the economy. The processes and standards for restarting the economy are currently being drafted by our governments and are likely to set conditions that try to strike a fine balance between activity and confinement. When restaffing, priority will need to be given to inviting employees based, in part, on their risk profile in order to ensure workplace safety.This is where ReliablyME can lend a hand. Their technology allows relying companies and employers to have a higher degree of confidence that the candidate being given access to the workplace or classroom has taken appropriate risk-mitigation steps. The platform gives people an opportunity to send Promise Cards to each other as text messages in order to demonstrate their genuine commitment to staying infection-free.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Recovery - we're positioned to support in the recovery of those directly affected.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market-ready product/service. I could sell it to customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Alex Todd, Founder and CEO, is a seasoned emerging technology strategist, having held a global role with IBM as an information security consultant and PKI evangelist.Angela Simo Brown, Chief Commercial Officer, heads up our business development efforts, having held executive roles in Social Impact Strategy & Innovation, Partnerships, Business Development and Loyalty Rewards.
What countries do you operate in?
Currently, we operate in Canada and the United States. However, our technology platform reaches across borders. Nevertheless, the current implementation is in English only.
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No
