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We ’ve all see them . The inspector with a clipboard , walking around a construction , tick off the last meter the flak extinguisher were checked , or if all the lights are working . They ferment in the TICC ( Testing , Inspection , Certification and Compliance ) blank space , and they literally retick box . And while the job may seem simple enough to do physically , it ’s a whole unlike ball game when it needs to be done remotely .
Founder Ben Lambert realized just that , when after moving to Portugal , his wife ’s holding inspection job needed to be run remotely . “ It was no longer well-situated to gibe inspections on - site and get reliable information . A final report could take weeks to come through , ” he told me . Plus , actually scheduling the inspections turned out to be at least as magnanimous a problem .
date an opportunity , Lambert founded an AI - power workflow tools startup , Checkfirst , that , in addition to allowing for remote inspections , enables businesses to schedule inspectors ground on geographic locating and qualifications . This ensue in less travel , a lower environmental step , and the workers end up happier as well . The company has now raise a pre - seed $ 1.5 million run by Lisbon - based , early - phase venture house , Olisipo Way , and Hiero VC ( a solo general practitioner business firm ) . Notion Capital , and saint investors from party like Source Point , Busuu , Swogo and FaceIT also participated .
“ As [ the mathematical product ] break , we saw that the heavy problem was n’t necessarily the data point catch alone , but where companies earn or lose money was in the programming . It ’s apropos , as AI is sodding for scheduling tasks , ” he said .
“ The biggest problem in the industriousness is programing , and the cool affair is , with AI , you’re able to schedule really well , ” he told me . “ Say an inspector is in London but need to be in Munich to scrutinise a edifice . With AI , you may understand what they ’re doing and put it all together . We ’re creating a scheduling tool for all these big company . It ’s not just about run across compliance ; it ’s also schedule . Then the compliance tool allows them to collect data easily to meet the regulative standards . ”
It turns out that the TICC industry is moving citizenry around the world all the time , explained Lambert .
“ For example , an examiner could be in London today , but the company will send out someone from Munich to London , because they do n’t really interpret they already have a guy rope in London . If an inspector then fly from Munich to London , they lose all of their border now . With our creature , the guy the company was going to institutionalize in from Munich now does n’t need to come to London . That save up the companionship G of euros , if not more . ”
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Lambert said they “ initially used a mixture of open informant and commercial-grade AI good example ” , and are now building their own “ based on proprietary data for image recognition and scheduling ” .
In terms of competitors , Checkfirst is belong up against some large incumbents in the deference space , such as Intact Systems , Lumiform , Safety Culture ( a unicorn ) and Happy Co ( focuses on dimension direction ) .
The difference with Checkfirst , say Lambert , is that it is an API - first result and use AI for range of a function recognition and mechanization , churning out report summaries , and scheduling .
The inauguration is work with several clients on substantiation - of - concepts , one which has 30,000 customers , the company claims .
The co - founding team includes Lambert , CPO Oyvind Henriksen ( who started Poq Studio ) and CTO Rami Elsawy . Lambert was formerly with Nexmo and Agora .