Grounded AI this week in Office Hours; forming a relationship with that first customer.

[Ward Hills]

This week in Office Hours Nick Morley is presenting a challenge facing his company, Grounded AI.

Fundamental progress in AI is unlocking new potential for boosting human productivity. However, tuning and integrating the technology into your workflow still requires a specialist team to implement and maintain it. Grounded AI is building an AI assistant platform to help solve common problems around productising and embedding AI assistants into human workflows. Solving these problems is a major part of the journey to making human work ever faster, easier, more error resistant and ultimately more satisfying.

The challenge we're facing now is how to navigate and formulate the relationship with our first customer. We want to provide services now while building our IP for later re-use. How do we balance revenue now and IP later (have our cake and eat it too)? How do we strike an agreement that maximises our long-term potential and also seems amply fair and valuable to the customer? These are some of the questions we're asking ourselves.

Customer relationship, especially the early ones, are always a learning curve. It will be a very good discussion I am sure. 

Please RSVP for this Friday here:   https://www.meetup.com/makespace/events/286506564/

-Ward