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Solution Overview & Team Lead Details

Our Organization

Partiu Tech

What is the name of your solution?

Partiu AI Chatbot

Provide a one-line summary of your solution.

Partiu AI Chatbot is a platform that provides young and vulnerable mothers a free and remote way to study and to work

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

São Paulo, SP, Brasil

In what country is your solution team headquartered?

Brazil

What type of organization is your solution team?

For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models

Film your elevator pitch.

What specific problem are you solving?

Young, single and vulnerable mothers are living a inhuman, violent, lonely and overwhelming life. There are 11 millions single mothers in Brazil (IBJGE 2022) facing over 45% of unemployment rate and 64% of black mothers are below the poverty line. In the US, their situation is not very different: 11 millions single mothers, 28.8% unemployment rate and 40% are below poverty line (Gitnux, 2023). Globally, 101.3 million are single mothers.

The poverty cycle is always the same: girls face a unplanned teenage pregnancy, droppout school, are unable to enter the job market for lack of education, experience and due to expensive childcare costs. The same sad story happened with their mother, happened with her and will happen with their children.

What is your solution?

Our solution provides a free remote educational AI chatbot so single mothers can learn new digital skills such as social media management that can be accessed through a message app. Soon after completing the courses, she is invited to generate social media content for small and medium business, earning montly fixed payments for each contract. All the courses and jobs are done at home and using only their cellphone.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Our solution serve young, single and vulnerable mothers struggling to provide a better life for her family and herself. Unable to study and work for the lack of options that allow her to reconcile the professional, home and children duties, using Partiu Chatbot she can not only learn and develop new digital and soft skiils but also generate income by working as social media manager.

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

As a black single mother, I see this pattern happening with so many young girls around me and within every community I visit. School dropped outs, unemployed, completely alone and struggling to provide shelter, food and medicine to her family and herself. My family path differs from theirs in only one aspect: access to EDUCATION. That made all the difference in the world, allowing my parents and I to avoid this poverty cycle by studying, getting a college degree, having a sucessful carer in IT and working in the biggest companies in Brazil. My personal purpose is to provide they the access to quality education and income generation to end the poverty cycle once and for all.

My other cofounders share the same purpose and are helping me to build this company: Cristiane Silva is our CMO, also a mother and has more than 5 years of experience working with digital marketing and Danilo Moniwa is our CFO, a father and entrepreneur for the past 10 years.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Generate new economic opportunities and buffer against economic shocks for workers, including good job creation, workforce development, and inclusive and attainable asset ownership.

Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals does your solution address?

1. No Poverty
4. Quality Education
5. Gender Equality
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Pilot

Please share details about why you selected the stage above.

We built a MVP of our Chatbot using WhatsApp to teach mothers about Social Media Management and tested sucessfully with 20 girls. 3 of them are working with us and receiving at least a minimum wage for the content they are creating.

On the customer side, we created a social media management plan for small and medium business and have 7 paying customers in 3 different countries such as Brazil, Portugal and Australia.

The income from these sales allow the young mothers to receive a minimum wage, paid our company's bills and make some profit.

Why are you applying to Solve?

We have three main challenges/goals and need Solve's help:

1) Finding the Product Market Fit;

2) Building a scalable product and

3) Measuring our social impact

We are also looking to expand our network and be able to help others startups in matters such as business models, IT and finance.

In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?

Business Model (e.g. product-market fit, strategy & development)
Monitoring & Evaluation (e.g. collecting/using data, measuring impact)
Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design)

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Agatha Serafim