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The Problems
Problem No.1Computers suck at certain tasks that are easy for humans.
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Hand-Writing Digitization
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Photo Tagging
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Problem No.2Companies need access to an on-demand, highly scalable workforce.
Trancriptions 'R' Us
We need typists to listen to audio or video and type in what is being said to make the words searchable and accessible in a variety of formats.
Some days we need 1 typist, but on others 20! How can we constantly scale up and down? We even tried using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, but found quickly that more time was spent by our managers who needed to reject bad work and get it re-done.
Piles of Paper Forms, Inc.
Our OCR (technical term for computers trying to read text on paper) system requires human verifiers even after massive software costs.
We heard about crowdsourcing, but everyone seemed to be asking for big up-front costs for consulting of "my special case." Isn't there an easier way to combine automated OCR software with crowdsourcing to humans for verification that doesn't require big up-front commitments?
Online Products Galore LLC
We have an online store selling hundreds of thousands of used products. While we have photos for most of the products we need to tag them to help with categorization and indexing them. Most of them are easily identifiable but no computer technology can even tell the most simple of images.
We knew outsourcing this work was gonna be our best bet but we didn't have tools to really access those workers since we're not a huge company.
Problem No.3The largest untapped resource in the world is human potential.
4B people live on < $3/day
Buried human talent (a large percentage at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) have basic English and computer skills) is being unlocked to bring life-changing income through CloudFactory.
Join us in the effort to lift families around the world out of poverty.
Lack of tools & training
CloudFactory will offer qualifying cloud workers a microloan to purchase a toolkit including a netbook, internet access and headphones as well give them on the ground training.
These programs are starting from our office in Kathmandu, Nepal and will expand to rural areas and other developing nations soon.
Nobody is connecting the dots
Kiva connects people for microloans, CloudFactory connects people for microwork.
We're building a scalable way to bridge the gap between the talent in developing nations and the need to add human intelligence to overly computerized processes.
The Solution
CloudFactoryPowerful tools for businesses and developers to integrate Cloud Labor.
Introducing CloudFactory
Create virtual assembly lines staffed 24/7 by cloud workers giving quality results for a low cost. Just add as many task stations as you need and assign human workers or software robots to each station.
Some businesses are using CloudFactory to have Cloud Labor be the driving engine behind their app or service. Others are integrating with the CloudFactory API to add features and automate maintenance tasks in a support role. Either way, the possibilities are endless when you realize your apps can seamlessly connect to a low cost cloud workforce.
Why CloudFactory?
Workflows
Every assembly line is an advanced workflow that chains tasks together to solve real world problems. Your business process isn't only one task, tools shouldn't be either.
Self-Service
Don't get swindled by overpriced consulting that's all up front cost and promises, use our tools based on best practices to do it yourself for a fraction of the price.
Brain + CPU
Computers are great for so many things and yet the human brain is still needed for many tasks to be done well. With CloudFactory you can add both software robots and human workers into your assembly lines to get the best of both worlds.
Better Quality
Tournament-style tasks where the best results win, iterative-style tasks where results keep getting better and factory-wide filtering out of bad workers all drive higher quality results.
Better Tools
Developers love our command-line interface, RESTful API and helper libraries that make using CloudFactory fun (in a geeky way)!