Tesis Time

Better-educated people access better-paying jobs and achieve economic prosperity, allowing them to break the cycle of poverty. Education also plays a vital role in the economic growth and innovation of every nation. However, not everyone has access to quality education and many are barely proficient in reading and writing. 67% of university students fail to complete their studies within the estimated time of their degree or university degree, which limits their professional opportunities and perpetuates the lack of economic progress. Globally, more than 250 million students are challenged to develop academic projects, such as theses, dissertations, research projects, and essays, as a requirement to obtain their degree. There is a problem that delays this processas well as improvements in global social and economic conditions, due to: Learning of research methodology, Misinformation, academic maturity and stress, High cost of private advisors, They fail or taking up to 3 years with the thesis, they buy or plagiarize the thesis or abandon the degree, or their research and projects are really to promote global solutions and they do not take advantage of their ideas and leave the thesis in a library collecting dust.

The majority are from a vulnerable population with little access to education, social inclusion and especially learning processes, in the promotion and maintenance of peace by providing equitable access to education and academic training. In Latin America, there are almost 21 million students who graduate annually, individuals from diverse backgrounds and vulnerable demographic characteristics who need support to improve their academic skills, soft and professional skills, and especially their learning processes. Likewise, the lack of access to quality educational resources impedes improvements in social and financial inclusion, which help them generate new opportunities and economic prosperity by improving students' employability, their skills, and their innovative ideas as future professionals to benefit their families and society in general and economic prosperity. The university from which you graduate does not determine the professional you will be and as Daniela Blanco says: The country where you come from does not determine where you are going to go.

We have developed a Scientific Research Methodology learning method to improve self-management and learning in Scientific Research, especially in Academic Texts, with a focus on special Degree Works with evidence-based educational technologies, to accelerate the degree process quickly. job and professional insertion of university students. Tesis Time is an educational platform, dedicated to democratizing and revolutionizing Scientific Research by providing universal access to a transformative educational methodology, empowering people from any place and condition to innovate to contribute to global solutions.

It provided students, teachers, and researchers with the necessary tools and resources to reach their maximum academic and professional potential. Our platform offers: live, recorded classes and educational content designed to improve the research skills and scientific methodology of students, teachers, and researchers and also soft skills, critical thinking, and development of thinking skills. Our Tesis Time platform identifies areas where academic factors are disproportionately related to educational outcomes. These visualizations are shared on a dashboard for students and tutors to plan specific interventions (tutoring sessions, access to additional educational resources, and career guidance). The models are derived from academic data sets, learning models, patterns, and feedback provided by our users, including over 31K who use our platform MVP.

We also contemplate the development of Scientific Research Software for Universities, teachers, students, and Research Centers, to accelerate the research process as well as the costs and times in Thesis tutoring with students and their rapid professional and job insertion. promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, self-management, and the creation of new ideas that improve financial systems and are more inclusive to combat: two billion workers worldwide in informal and precarious jobs and the disruptions caused by artificial intelligence and other technologies and can solve global problems in addition to creating meaningful and sustainable jobs, promoting professional and economic development in an inclusive and accessible way.

We also plan to expand the resources in versions for inclusion for blind and deaf people, in addition to other languages.

Our solution is aimed at university students and academics who face challenges when conducting research and academic projects, such as theses, dissertations, and research projects. These individuals, mostly young, come from diverse socioeconomic and geographic backgrounds and often lack access to quality educational resources and adequate academic support. Currently, many of these people feel neglected due to a lack of guidance, a shortage of appropriate tools, and the high cost of personalized academic advising services.

Our solution addresses these needs by providing a comprehensive platform that offers free educational resources, personalized tutoring, and live classes to guide students through the process of researching and writing their academic papers. By doing so, our solution helps improve the quality of your research, increases your chances of academic and professional success, and helps close the gap in access to education and academic support. The platform seeks to drive educational technology-based commitments, results, and evidence to improve the lives of more than 40 million students around the world, whose access to conditions of inclusion and economic prosperity is vulnerable.

In summary: 

Undergraduate and postgraduate university students in the degree process:

-Shorten the period of time in the preparation of the thesis.
-Mitigate the stress generated by insecurities and lack of knowledge.
-By graduating in less time, you have access to better job opportunities or independent professional practice, increasing your economic income and your quality of life. 

-Continue with your postgraduate training without further delays and with the advantage of starting these studies with what you learned with the app. Apply for postgraduate scholarships.

University professors of research methodology.

-Friendly and entertaining resource to help your students learn to investigate.
-Relieve the workload and assignment of tasks and their subsequent correction process.

Undergraduate and postgraduate thesis advisors/tutors.
-Relieve the workload in consulting and correction work.
-Increase the number of thesis students you can serve and, finally, improve your financial income.

We are a multidisciplinary team dedicated to the design of technological solutions to academic problems in the degree stage, made up of the following professionals and roles:

Our team is well positioned to offer our solution due to our experience and collaboration with educational institutions, researchers, and experts in various disciplines. More than 60 professionals from different areas and disciplines and different parts of the world participated in the development of the learning method. We have an interdisciplinary team made up of professionals with experience in education, research, software development, academic advising, and educational technology.

We work in close collaboration with universities and research centers, the Latin American Network of Artificial Intelligence, and different associations and foundations to understand the specific needs of students and academics in the process of researching and writing academic papers. In addition, we have established strategic alliances with experts in various areas to guarantee the quality and relevance of the educational resources we offer on our platform.

Our experience in the development of educational technology and our ability to adapt to the changing needs of the educational environment allows us to offer a comprehensive and effective solution to address the challenges that students and academics face in their research and thesis projects. 

We selected the Pilot stage because Tesis Time has already developed and launched its mobile application in several countries, and has traction and international recognition for the results and ideas presented, such as the Innovators Under 35 Latam from the MIT Technology Review.

We are constantly improving, evolving, and learning, which has allowed us to be part of the IFE program Launch of the Institute for the Future of Education at Tecnológico de Monterrey and together we are researching a social impact study: How to improve self-management. and learning in Scientific Research, especially in Academic Texts, with a focus on special Degree Works with evidence-based educational technologies.

We have developed a Scientific Research Methodology learning method to improve self-management and learning in Scientific Research, especially in Academic Texts, with a focus on special Degree Works with evidence-based educational technologies, to accelerate the degree process quickly. job and professional insertion of university students.

Currently, the Tesis Time solution is serving more than 31 thousand people distributed in countries such as Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic. These people benefit from the resources and services offered by our mobile application, available for free on the App Store and Play Store.

We believe that Solve can be a crucial catalyst to take Tesis Time to the next level, financial support cannot be compared in its physical and monetary equivalent to the support, momentum, visibility, level of exposure, and guidance we could have to grow our solution and expand its social impact in the global academic and student community aligned with the challenge of economic prosperity.

In specific terms: establish strategic alliances, and obtain advice from research and technology and financial experts necessary for technological development. By participating in Solve, we seek to gain visibility in the global innovation community and establish contacts with researchers and like-minded organizations.

Because we are convinced that through Solve we can reach more universities, who are the most valuable strategic partners for the project. With this we manage to expand our social impact on our target audience: teachers and university students.

With Solve, we hope to advance the following scenarios:

1. Get advice from experts in research, technology and finance.
2. Add academic and scientific researchers.
3.  Develop the potential of the application to develop inclusive versions in different languages.

We promote bold changes in university education in Latin America, transforming educational paradigms to improve and transform education. We use innovative technology, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, to promote education and equal opportunities. Our platform focuses on personalized learning and inclusion, ensuring that everyone has access to quality education.

With a focus on technology, we seek the scalability of our solutions to reach a broader audience. Additionally, we strive to offer opportunities for financial improvement to those who have historically been excluded from the traditional educational system. Our platform is not only revolutionizing learning, but is also creating a significant impact on society by promoting professional and economic inclusion and insertion, learning and education processes, and improving opportunities for all students in Latin America.

Our solution, Tesis Time, stands out for its innovative approach to the democratization and revolution of education and knowledge of scientific and academic research methodology, in addition to unifying criteria. Here are some key reasons why we consider our solution innovative:

1. Universal Access: Tesis Time provides universal access to a transformative educational methodology for scientific research, especially in the writing of academic texts such as theses, dissertations and research projects. This means that anyone, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic status, can benefit from our platform.
2. Evidence-based educational technologies: We rely on innovative educational technologies supported by evidence to improve self-management and learning in scientific research. This includes adaptive learning tools, interactive tutorials, and multimedia resources designed to facilitate the academic research and writing process.
3. Empowering the academic community: Tesis Time not only helps students complete their academic work, but also empowers the academic community by encouraging collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation. By providing a platform where students can share their ideas and research projects, we are catalysing a broader positive impact by fostering a collaborative and creative learning environment.
4. Accelerate and support the process of qualification and job placement of professionals by improving people's living conditions, supporting their professional and personal development and their societies through education and access to employment. Urging innovation and entrepreneurship of your ideas and investments to promote employment, economic prosperity and solutions to global problems.
5. Paradigm Shift in Higher Education: Our solution has the potential to change the landscape of higher education by addressing persistent challenges in the academic research and writing process. By accelerating the degree process and improving students' research skills, we are contributing to greater efficiency and quality in the production of academic knowledge.

Tesis Time is innovative in its approach to making scientific research more accessible, effective and collaborative. We believe our solution has the potential to catalyze broader positive impacts by empowering the academic community and transforming the way research is conducted in higher education.

Our solution, Tesis Time, seeks to address the problem of limited access to resources and guidance for academic research, especially in vulnerable educational settings and marginalized communities. 

Click here to see our theory of change.

Describe in simple

1. Activities: Offers an online platform and mobile application that offers educational resources, interactive tutorials, and personalized advice for university students who are working on their research projects, such as theses, dissertations, and degree projects.
2. Out-of-the-box deliverables: Students have access to a wide range of tools and resources, including research templates, academic paper examples, step-by-step tutorials, and live tutoring sessions. This allows them to better understand the academic research and writing process.

Longer-term results:

1. Improved academic project completion: By providing guidance and resources, we hope to increase academic project completion rates among college students.
2. Increasing the quality of academic work: By accessing quality tools and tutorials, we hope that students will improve the quality of their academic work and produce more robust, well-researched research.
3. Improved employability and career opportunities: By completing their academic projects, students will be better prepared to enter the job market and take advantage of new career opportunities.

Impact tests:

1. User Evaluations: We will conduct surveys and interviews with users to gather feedback on the usefulness and effectiveness of our platform.
2. Project completion rates: We will closely monitor academic project completion rates among Tesis Time users to evaluate the impact of our solution in this regard.
3. Employment Tracking: We will monitor the career progression of Tesis Time users to determine if our solution is contributing to an improvement in employability and job opportunities, innovation, entrepreneurship, new opportunities in emerging economies, technology, and economic prosperity.

How and why do you expect your solution to impact the problem?

Socioeconomic canvas of the social impact study:

Goal 4 that seeks to “Ensure inclusive, equitable and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (UN, 2024). Based on this objective, our solution proposal is connected with other transversal objectives, according to the UN itself (2024), "education is the key that will allow us to achieve many other sustainable development goals (SDGs)."Quality education makes it possible to break the cycle of poverty, reduce inequalities and achieve equality, achieve a healthier and more sustainable life, it also promotes tolerance between people and inclusion and contributes to the development of societies.

• SDG 1: Measurement: Labor and professional integration by accelerating better salary aspirations and formal.
• SDG 4:  Measurement: Seeks to improve access to educational resources and guidance for university students, contributing to quality education by facilitating the completion of projects and improving skills.
• SDG 8: Measurement: By helping students complete their academic projects, contributes to improving employability and professional opportunities, which aligns with the promotion of inclusive economic growth and decent employment.
• SDG 10:Measurement: Aims to democratize access to resources and guidance for academic research, which can help reduce inequalities in access to higher education and career opportunities.
• SDG 16:  Measurement: By promoting the completion of academic projects and improving the quality of research, contributes to strengthening academic institutions and fostering a culture of research and learning, which can help promote peace and justice in society.
• SDG 17: Measurement: Collaborates with various educational institutions, research experts, and social organizations to offer resources and guidance to university students.

 Theory of Change:

Objective:

67% of students in the world fail to graduate in the estimated time due to failure to complete their thesis. Resulting in abandonment of the degree, delays in graduation, or the acquisition of a thesis fraudulently.

Intervention components:
-Technological platform
-Alliances with Universities, NGOs, Schools, Governments. 

Supplies:
-Students
-Teachers
-Team specialized in platform development and maintenance.
-Innovation and continuous improvements in the platform based on feedback and technological advances and trends.

Activities:
-Constant updates to the platform to improve user experience, retention, and acquisition.
-Offering the application free to maximize access and brand positioning.
-Scholarship Programs: Awarding scholarships to 6 million students around the world, providing access to classes, webinars, workshops, and tutoring.
-Holding conferences and recruitment campaigns in universities and social networks.
-Strategic Alliances with Universities: meetings and collaborations with universities to promote the Tesis Time solution and its integration into academic programs.
-Transfer of scientific research programs and Tesis Time methodology to educational institutions.

Products:
-Users Registered in the application and platform.
-Courses, trainings, workshops, etc.
-Educational books, and AI tools for learning processes.
-Team specialized in platform development and maintenance.

Effect:
-Development of soft skills, Critical thinking, Development and thinking skills, Conflict resolution, Development of creative thinking.

-Accelerate the titling process and reduce the delay rate of this process.

Purpose - Expected impact:

Economic Prosperity: Supporting the improvement of educational systems to optimize learning processes. 

Democratize and revolutionize scientific research by providing universal access to a transformative educational methodology, empowering people from all places and conditions to innovate to contribute to global solutions.

Artificial intelligence/machine learning, Big data, GIS and educational technology, Machine Learning, Image and sensor technology Mobile software and applications, NFT (blockchain), predictive analytics.

The core technology of Tesis Time is an educational digital platform that uses mobile applications, online resources and modern educational technologies to provide guidance and support to university students in the process of researching and writing academic papers.

5 People part time.
3 full time people.

3 years

1. Diversity in the Leadership Team: Our leadership team reflects a variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We value diversity in decision-making and encourage the inclusion of diverse voices in all strategic discussions.
2. Diversity and equity goals: We have clear goals to increase diversity in our team in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and experience. These objectives are included in our recruitment and staff development plans.
3. Equitable hiring process: We implement hiring practices that minimize bias and ensure fair opportunities for all candidates. We use diverse interview panels and evaluate candidates based on their skills and experience, without bias related to gender identity, race, or other personal attributes.
4. Inclusive environment: We foster a work environment where all opinions are welcome and respected. We promote open communication and collaboration among team members, regardless of their background or experience.
5. Training and Awareness: You will receive regular diversity, equity and inclusion training for all team members. This includes workshops on unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and managing diversity in the workplace.

We have worked with more than 60 professionals from different parts of the world and nationalities, ethnicities, races, etc. We invest more than work, more than 150,000 man-hours of work, dedication, and passion. The current team is multidisciplinary as well as of different nationalities and origins, ages, genders, without distinction. We value the experience, contributions, and knowledge that can help us, more than anything else.

The two main pillars of Tesis Time's  Social Business Model Canvas : Two main pillars of Tesis Time's business model are business-to-business (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B).

-B2C: The Tesis Time mobile application and web platform offer a variety of educational services and content, such as tutorials, recorded classes, e-books, and scientific research tools, available through subscriptions, advertising, and in-app purchases. The platform is aimed at students, academics, and professionals seeking to improve their research skills and access to academic resources.

-B2B: Tesis Time offers a specialized tool in scientific research designed for universities, research centers, and students (For this reason we are preparing an investment round), to facilitate and standardize the research process, reducing costs and improving quality of research projects. This business model is based on the sale of licenses to use the tool and related services, such as data collection and plagiarism detection.

Our plan to achieve financial sustainability and maximize the impact of Tesis Time is based on a comprehensive approach that focuses on proactively developing strategic partnerships and diversifying revenue streams.

First, we are committed to establishing strong alliances with educational institutions, and government and private organizations. These partnerships will not only give us access to valuable resources, such as academic data and student networks but will also allow us to integrate our platform directly into existing educational programs, thereby expanding our reach and impact.

Additionally, we plan to implement a multi-faceted monetization model that includes premium subscriptions for specialized services, such as exclusive access to advanced content and personalized tutoring, as well as offering consulting and training services to educational and corporate institutions positive in improving their research and academic writing.

Additionally, we are actively exploring funding opportunities through donations and grants from philanthropic foundations, international organizations, and government agencies committed to educational innovation and the empowerment of underserved communities.

Finally, we are committed to ensuring the long-term sustainability of Tesis Time through prudent financial management and continuous evaluation of our business model to adapt to changing market needs and the demands of our users. Our comprehensive partnership development and revenue diversification strategy uniquely positions us to achieve our financial sustainability goals and maximize our impact on higher education in Latin America and beyond.

Our plan to achieve the financial sustainability of Tesis Time was a Master's Thesis in Marketing, Sales and Digital Strategy Management 2024. It is based on a combination of revenue models that include the sale of products and services, obtaining donations and grants, as well as collaboration with academic and government institutions. Here is our detailed approach:

1. Sale of products and services: We offer premium services within our platform, such as access to exclusive educational content, advanced research tools and personalized tutoring. Additionally, we are developing partnerships with educational and corporate institutions to offer training and consulting services in scientific research methodology. These services generate recurring revenue that contributes to our financial sustainability.
2. Donations and Grants: We actively seek donations and grants from philanthropic foundations, international organizations, and government entities that support our mission to democratize scientific research and improve access to education. We have been successful in securing funding from donors committed to educational innovation and the empowerment of marginalized communities. Currently, our outreach and our studies show that with $100.000 USD we can change people's lives at a unit cost of $3.22 USD each. We are still collecting information in our study
3. Institutional Collaborations: We are exploring strategic partnerships with academic, government, and private sector institutions to develop joint research programs, pilot projects, and training programs. These collaborations may include shared funding, access to resources, and expansion opportunities.

Additional:

1. Tesis Time became a Master's Thesis in Marketing, Sales, and Digital Strategy Management at the IEBS School University, with the highest grade and letter of recommendation. (One of the best Innovation and Business universities in Spain) for a 100% scholarship by winning first place in the Edtech category in the #ConcursoEmprendedores 2022: Click here.
2. We won the IFE Launch 2023 from the Institute for the Future of Education of the Tecnologíco de Monterrey (The best University in Latam), for entrepreneurs around the world who are developing impact companies for higher education or lifelong education, for Edtech focused on Higher Education and Lifelong Learning: Click here.
3. In addition to the fact that with the IFE #LivingLab, has invested in us and we are researching: How to improve self-management and learning in Scientific Research, especially in Academic Texts, with a focus on Special Degree Works with educational technologies based on evidence in a social impact study.
4. We won the Innovators Under 35 Latam in 2023 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, the number 1 Tech University in the world) as a Humanitarian Project for Improving people's living conditions and supporting their professional and personal development. Focused on improving their societies through education and access to employment: https://bit.ly/3FeCLfO