Iba Masood

Yes, I am.

Thank you for having me.

So my co-founder, Sayed, and I, we started Tara Intelligence to essentially help founders, product managers improve the product development process.

And so Tara uses artificial intelligence to essentially map out product milestones.

And it also assigns contractors that are freelance developers to actually execute on these milestones.

And one of the reasons why we started the company was because we personally saw a lot of

issues with the product management process as it was.

And we personally felt that you could essentially apply AI to this field, specifically by scraping projects off the open web.

So my co-founder is a roboticist.

I'm a financial analyst.

And we kind of came together because we met freshman year of college.

But yeah.

So it actually took us about two and a half years to just figure out our data structure.

So Sayed, because he's a roboticist, he built a team of mechanical engineers, machine learning engineers.

And as a team, what we did was we figured out that we could actually scrape the open web, essentially open source platforms that already have existing code and existing software projects.

So we used roughly about our early data set included about 5,000 software projects.

And we use that to train our system to understand that, okay, with an iOS app, if the iOS app requires a two-sided marketplace, here are the typical milestones, tasks, and this is the typical timeline.

So it took us a while to actually get data that was clean and then to figure out how to scrub that data and build out the platform.

But what we did during that time was as we were building out the

the overall neural network, we were doing a lot of things manually at the beginning.