AIDship is a Shoma Inc company that focuses on uberizing and facilitating the last-mile delivery of goods using passenger cars going in the direction of the package destination.
Our Mission: Decrease carbon footprint and traffic, enabling flexible earning among drivers, and incentivizing efficient shipment with a spread of a good feel factor.
PILOT STUDY
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Concept Validation
During this phase, more technical and market research will be carried out to strengthen the AIDship concept. In addition, the business proposition will be further validated while working with supply chain experts, industry advisors, and investors.
Prototype
This step includes design and demonstrating the software capability and generating a customer lead to try a pilot study. Upon completion, proper incentives to independent shippers will be finetuned. This step will also validate our business model.
Commercialize
Commercialization will require scaling up of the software capability and the business model which will be shaped by the market, the need of the independent shippers as well as our customers, who are the distributors, the large retail chains as well the manufacturers.
PROCESS FLOW
TEAM
Founder
Sheel Chakraborty
In his role of being a founder of AIDship at a young age, Sheel believes in applying smart technologies in modernizing social changes in an environmentally favorable manner. Having two research papers published in international conferences, being a part of the National Honor Society, and having received Honor Roll consistently in his high school, Sheel is keenly interested in developing a new way of package delivery management which incentivizes passengers, decreases carbon footprint, as well as coming up with a new feel-good factor that many in society look for. He is currently a rising 11th grader in the Fulton County School system.
Advisor
Rabindra Chakraborty, Ph.D.
Rabi is a founding advisor of AIDship. He has played critical roles in technological research, innovation, and implementation. He also advises in financial and business strategy fields including consulting the federal and state government. Being a Senior Board member of the IEEE, Rabi brings in over 35 years of experience in the STEM industry and startup management. He is the founder president and CTO of an AI startup called Senslytics that forewarns high stake events where data is limited. Rabi has over 10 patents and technical papers in many journals and conferences. Rabi holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.
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