Founded, in 2012 as a research project with the fundamental concept that data is too hard for a user or
even system to find and inhibits teams from obtaining effective collaboration tools. Legacy tools are
either just management tools, or are too simplistic for business use. Collaboration tools are not what
you do, they should help you do what you do: and be virtually invisible to the user.
Our founder David Smith is a serial entrepreneur with extensive industry experience in artificial
intelligence, big data products, productivity solutions and corporate consulting. He received an MBA -
Columbia Business School, PE - University of the State of NY, EE - University of Washington.
The value proposition of Qikspace is data contextualization and the structuring of unstructured data.
Once the 80% of previously unorganized data is accessible a whole new world of tools is possible. The
power of LLMS and Transformers is only beginning to show what is possible once Qikspace makes all this
additional data available.
The world we live in gets more and more complicated every day. Companies, individuals & teams deal with
and increased velocity of information, have more diverse sources of data, and at volumes that have
become staggering. Traditional design solutions focus on siloed solutions to siloed singular issues,
neglecting the complexity of the environment. Qikspace focused on the envirnment and solved the
complexity issue, which makes the silos more intuitive, productive, flexible and functional.
It is not that some great technology companies like; Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce and
others don't have great design teams. It is that they have a highly structured environment, predefined
technology stacks and legacy systems that hinder there solution process. Not to mention the pressure not
to undermine the sales of existing product offerings. This being said, the big companies have all the
resources to be innovative but their culture and legacy issues inhibit the process.
Qikspace recognized that the existing product offerings from the large vendors have not been keeping
pace with the expectations of their clients. Clients want reduced IT costs, reduced management costs,
retention of corporate knowledge, integration of social platforms and mobility. Qikspace set out to
rethink the user experience and the sales process. The user experience included more flexibility,
enhanced mobility, systems integration, big data, dynamic teams and reduced training. The sales process
changes need to make this new IT environment work included an inversion of the traditional corporate IT
sales and rollout process. Traditional IT sales include the tailoring of solutions to exact business
problems creating a unique solution that required users to be trained extensively not only in the
technology but also the process. Qikspace found that with the advent of SaaS solutions, users wanted
flexibility to turn services on and off, this meant that the base framework had to be flexible not rigid
and the add-on services had to be intuitive so that a user could spool them up on demand. In other
words, creating identifiable value to the user that keeps the using the product, maintains corporate
knowledge and enables reassignment of work to another.
Qikspace relizes even the simple things aren't so simple, and the complex situations need access to the other 80% of your data.
