Some companies have their Data Lab to develop innovative ideas, I have my bathtub that serves the same purpose. It is a portable concept, because for me it works not only with bathtubs but with showers, swimming pools and saunas too so I can also have one of those sessions at the pool during holidays, or when freshening up in my hotel room on a business trip. Latest project I’m working on, is two dating apps: one for the nobility called “Noblesse Oblige” and one for pets called “Animal Sana”. Both rely heavily on machine learning for automatic classification and verification of genealogy documents, which are important for both the nobles with their family tree, and pets with their pedigree. Of course, this is not only to ensure that the submitted documents are authentic, but more important as input for the matching algorithms (preventing inbreeding is a big thing).
Target audience for “Animal Sana” is cats and dogs first, later on to extend to rodents and horses. For nobility there is global coverage from the start, based on local (national) entitlements of course. Except US unfortunately, since the Constitution of the United States prohibits both the United States and the separate states from granting titles of nobility. I might setup a similar but separate app for the US at a later time, not sure yet.
The apps use a generic underlying framework that includes artificial intelligence for facial recognition to distinct between nobles and pets. It works now with a 98,5% accuracy so there is hardly any chance left that a noble’s profile gets linked to a pet’s profile or vice versa (had some issues discriminating between horses and knights in early versions). I’m now working on finetuning some components before first public versions will be released. Main challenge is to create a responsive UI that works for both nobles and pets. Previous A/B testing showed that pets were more comfortable with a rather complex UI for both mobile and web, and preferred advanced and detailed selection methods in addition to initial AI based match making, while this was rather hard to grasp for the nobles. So further work needs to be done here too to create a user friendly yet powerful interface.
In order to move to massive scale directly from the start, and to “put the dots on the i” as we say in the Netherlands, I’m looking for investors who bring money, time or whisky (in random order) to the table. If you want to be part of this adventure and help me with the finishing touches let me know at bizdev@basaltaura.nl
