Alessandra Lozama

And so our first market was San Diego.

And we've just recently turned up anything north of San Diego.

So what you see there, the database to your point, this is this is all publicly available information, all the licensed programs available.

that we have in California and with the exception of some because we also do filters for sanctions on the records of these providers.

So we will place that filter first and then set aside that group of providers because those do need to be handled in a

know kind of different workflow to ensure that we're only incorporating quality uh providers and we're taking it to the next step we're also looking at uh you know higher level credentials because our viewpoint is that child care should be an early childhood education process with uh play as as you learn type curriculums and so we are uh partnering with many different organizations like nayc

and others to ensure that our providers are living up to the higher level of education standard.

That's a tricky question.

I'll say that we've helped 600 children since COVID started, not all which have paid to be connected with a provider.

And the reason for that is we're a free platform.

So in the end, our revenue model is to incorporate employers so that they, in turn, can bring in child care as a service under their benefits platform.

And for us, adoption is the name of the game.

This is a gig economy, as you and I both understand it.

And for us, the...

you know, the problem that we're trying to solve is to increase the inventory of childcare slots or quality childcare, because we have a severe deficit.

Prior to COVID, we were at about 44% deficit in San Diego alone, very close, you know, statewide.

And so for us, adoption is key.

And through the initial stages of COVID, we weren't out there selling to employers.

We were actually making the platform available to parents and

so that they could connect.