Okay, thanks very much.

Introduction

It's a real pleasure to be here and share Able with you.

We are an AI native ethical gig work multi agent platform launching in London for hospitality and events next month. I'm going to share some details about our product, how it can support both buyers and workers across all frontline services.

Okay.

So hi, I'm Alexandra Wright. Please connect on LinkedIn.

Founder Background

Able weaves together my experience building HR ERP systems for global corporations when I worked for Deloitte. So I used to go and build particularly time and attendance and payroll systems, but big HR systems for companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, Shell and DuPont across the world.

And then I went and managed complex trading technology and operations as a business manager and corporate strategist for BlackRock.

So Able represents my passion and purpose for wanting to improve labour market efficiencies and experiences for people at work.

The Problem with On-Demand Work

The nature of the labour market is changing with significant recent and projected growth in flexible good work and a huge rise in the number of freelancers. The way we organise labour, particularly on demand shift based work, hasn't caught up with the trend and is broken. Ridesharing and food delivery, as I'm sure you know, is efficient, but the gig workers that work in those industries are not well looked after, and all other industries are highly inefficient.

There are hidden costs and unnecessary stress that affect both workers and employers. Whilst you can get an Uber in three minutes, getting an on-demand bartender, for example, that stretches to healthcare workers, retail workers, logistics. That can take hours, if not days.

This cartoon here shows Betty looking for help and relying on tired WhatsApp groups, expensive agencies or time consuming platforms that follow traditional hiring processes. Imagine expecting an application from your Uber driver.

An Ethical, AI-Native Solution

AI means we can deliver intelligent, ethical, fast, fair, and globally scalable solution suitable for an AI augmented future.

Being an ethical business means we're concerned with the treatment of the workers across the growing gig economy. Right now, they can spend 10 hours a week searching for work. They experience delayed pay, few benefits, and no way to market their multiple skills that they can bring to the workforce or get training.

Meet Able’s AI Agents

so let me share how our platform solves some of these pain points um so here's our launch product our 13 ai agents i say a like a beautiful baker's dozen um to start with i'm sure we'll end up with more they're predict they're predominantly low autonomy agents um

I'll walk through some of them.

Buyer-Side Agents

The buyer of Agents in Blue, they do the heavy lifting for the businesses. They help you create the gigs. The gig sculptor edits and improves gig posts. The talent scout recommends top giggies.

So our shift concierge, you can talk to it any time of the day. If an AI algorithm matches we just suggest, based on a 10 point algorithm thing you're using things like location and availability and semantic and vector search. Who would be who are the most ideal choices, and so you get might get three or four candidates that are suitable that you can choose from and compared to what you what the buyer experiences now, which is often multiple. Like brand applications, you know this talent scout means you get a lot more precision and meaningful purposeful personalized response.

So we don't... We don't match and say this is the this is the worker from that's considered in the in the EU code of practice that's considered high risk.

Worker-Side Agents (Giggy Agents)

Our giggy agents, we've got a Gigfolio coach who guides your building a sort of online CV. Profile Polish, they strengthen worker presence. So think Instagram filter, but for your professional life, so helps you improve your Gigfolio over time.

The Career Compass helps create learning materials from feedback.

I'll give you a quick example in a few slides.

Shared Platform Agents

And so some of the shared agents, we've got a chat guardian that moderates the chats. We've got a badge bot that awards badges.

Well, and some of those can be nominated by the buyers and gigies, for example.

Feedback for, oh, the Nudge Ninja is quite nice. So that uses data to like previous data to suggest that, okay, it's back holiday, Monday's coming up. You're probably gonna need extra staff, that kind of thing.

How Able Transforms Matching

So the real transformation that this platform brings is that traditional platforms are like speed dating, generic posts, random applications, everyone's exhausted, nobody's happy, it's really spray and pray.

But with Able, we're doing a semantic analysis, fancy words for actually understand what you mean when you say things like a whiskey tasting expert not just a bartender we use vector search so matching people based on their vibe not just on keywords and location and availability optimization the best part is that all this complexity is sort of behind the scenes so the users just experience a really fast smooth

transaction with what looks like just one chat bot as it were, but obviously it's all these sort of low autonomy agents acting independently.

So we're transforming gig work from a commodity transaction into a personalized service experience where every match actually makes sense.

Ethics and Values

So I want to just talk a little bit about ethics. I do find that it's pretty hard to be an ethical business. People worry about conscious AI whilst I find it quite difficult to find conscious businesses.

There are actions that we're taking and as with any part of the presentation, I really encourage any feedback. I'd love to hear what you think.

So we have values, be good, be fair, be kind, and we're committed to them. And in our user agreement, we ask everyone that uses our platform to follow those.

And those are badges you can be awarded to. And our agents have been prompted, all of our agents are prompted to follow those values.

Mission, Access, and Pricing

we're we're mission-based so you know like i said we're developing we're using feedback to develop training materials we're working with job centers to um to provide social mobility to help people that are unemployed to find work and we're low cost um you know our fees are 6.5 plus 1.5 strike compared to competitors who you know can they can go up as high as 45 percent

Peace Tech Pledge

um we have a peace tech pledge as a promise to stop paying for services from alphabet meta aws microsoft etc by 2026 and not use their tools by 2027 unless they cease their ongoing contracts with the israeli military enacting the genocide and innocent civilians and children of gaza so we're trying to take a stand with participation and feeling that our wallet was the only way that we can potentially enact change

Governance and Compliance

We're aiming to be a trusted provider with our own ethical AI charter aligned with the major doctrines, the OECD, UNESCO, EU and UK.

Trust, Verification, and Career Ledger

We perform right to work checks, we collect references for every skill and we envision a future secure career ledger storing actual hours worked, qualifications, etc.

on a mutable blockchain.

Human-in-the-Loop and Fairness by Design

you know we're trying to provide something that's fully a globally transportable cv as it were that's like immutable on the blockchain specific steps we're taking um with the ai agents we've got human in the loop so that's as i mentioned the final hiring decision is made by the buyer not by the ai we've got dispute resolution sorry there's a spelling mistake there and um recognition mechanisms inside we don't have star ratings on

we feel those lead to the productification of people so instead we gather we gather feedback and use that to provide training and development opportunities so what's felt by the workers they create one gig folio with a video bio and references you know not 50 different profiles and 50 platform the ai removes that soul crushing constant reapplication stress same day payments whereas a lot of our competitors don't pay to the end of the month and some of them even extract 5% of the earnings to, I just don't understand why you could do that.

Worker first feedback. Yeah, so we flipped the power balance by not including those star ratings.

And we have fairness and burnout guardrails. So the system literally prevents you from being overworked. So it's a bit like having a union rep.

A Human-Centered Future of Work

We're envisioning a future where we work with AI to do better work, where we have space to be more feminine, empathetic, and caring because our robot friends are handling the heavy lifting.

So it's not about replacing humans for us. It's about letting humans be more human, less time on admin, more time on actual service.

Okay.

Product Demo

So here, this is the this is the

Gigfolio Overview

The gig folio like you can see you've got you've got a shareable qr code, so this is this is built through conversation with our coach agent and it works for any skill it's a publicly shareable page that allows.

Anyone to be booked for work and those metrics would you work with someone again and the responsiveness metrics appear on everyone's profile i'm going to do a DEMO of searching for a giggy now.

Searching and Booking Flow

okay so this is and we're not live yet so just uh bear with me you can you can see it so it's not um it's still the testing environments to work just to say um So i'm going to need to. will remove these confirmations.

So then the chatbot sort of asks for a bit more detail. Okay, so here is you get this summary and here is where you'd be presented with a whole lot of options, but we don't have the people in the system yet so and so i'll just give you a quick.

Dashboards and Nudges

here's the dashboard here is where okay that's not here right now, but this is where these these nudge ninja prompts will appear there you go. so those will be like automatically generated to depending on you know the the data that's out there you've got payments invoices here got this interactive calendar so you can see the gigs that are open or offered and

We've got a worker dashboard which will contain what type of people are you hiring, what the feedback is from your workers at the moment, from the people that you've hired.

Okay. That is... Let me go back here.

Q&A

Thank you very much, everybody. It's been really nice to talk to you and show you the product. Do you have any questions?

I appreciate that, thank you.

Oh, you're on mute, Joe. Joe, you're on mute.

I was saying, please put your questions in the chat. Sorry about that, we've tried this.

Compliance Roadmap

My question is, what was the process of building the OECD compliance roadmap?

We've got the SOC 2 compliance roadmap.

That's really cool. Yes. Okay.

So, well, I mean, this is something that we're speaking. So it's just a case of, I think, So

So the current senior engineer has done some blockchain payments, blockchain casino based in the US and has quite a lot of experience working with financial products in the US. I think at the moment, But as well, I think primarily having that technical expertise on the team is what's enabling us to do that.

It's not, I mean, if I, one of the questions that I ask myself in like, in the dream scenario is okay, I'm sitting across from Sequoia in however many X months time, that's the dream, right? I know that we have to be SOC 2 compliant in order to have a meeting with the big guys at some point. So we're MVP right now, but it's just something that we take into consideration when we're planning longer term.

We're using Stripe for payments, which they're SOC 2 compliant. So I think it's also a case of making sure that we're working with the right providers as well.

Team and Hiring

Can you tell us a bit more about the team? About what, sorry? The team. Um, yeah, okay.

So, um, so I've got, um, like, my 22 freelancers that I met on Reddit and the agent subreddit. They're the ones that have helped me build it.

Um, so, I mean, I don't have, um, any, um, full time employees because I don't have the budget. Like, I have a, I got, um. um some angel investment and we were in that process it was scis investment so we were valued at 1.1 million which was like great for the business but we only we raised 22 000 which is enough to help us with a launch not enough to pay full-time contractors what i have done is i've opened us up to um interns working with us so i now have three interns though someone messaged me today he's a an ai graduate he's from one of the northern african countries asking for an opportunity i sort of feel like

if people are willing and people are contacting me saying i want to work for your business for free and give my time it's really difficult for me to say no so if i can find a place for them then i will i've got a community manager he's starting next week and he's been working for sort of some of the competitors so he's going to join us as an intern i've got another guy who works for last mile logistics and his business actually is they might want to they can't use one of our competitors temper and temper is just not compliant so they're hoping to to use us so and he's going to cut he's come to run the founders office so at the moment it's me a load of like really kind interns that are joining the joining the project because they believe in it and I guess they believe in me which is really exciting me and my two freelancers who I said this on that others on the other slide like

i i don't know if they like they what the the senior engineer he has a full-time job so this is not something that he's going to be able to do long term so if there is anyone out there that is interested in joining the project i mean we're going to be revenue generating within four to six weeks i think so i do think it's an exciting time to join i can't pay you yet you can earn equity but um i am looking for a full-time senior engineer to join the team