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Deliverables List
Deliverables are prioritized by the to make ICanProveIt a commercially viable product with features for the Education and Enterprise sectors. Continuous Learners will also benefit from these features.
Deployment
Deployed using a multi-tenant SAAS model.
- Roles and permissions for admin, exam creator, ( educator), exam taker( student)
- Backup and Recovery
- Cloud Hosting for Vector Database, LLM and Database.
- Redundancy and failover with five nines uptime.
- Automatically quality uploaded documents using AI.
- Hosted Certificate Verification service with five nines uptime.
Acceptance Criteria
- Load test that simulates a peak time of 300 transactions per minute
- Hosted site that the could server.
- Automated UX tested simulating 100 concurrent users.
Universities
- An interface that allows them to "fine tune" the exams including selecting concepts, difficulty levels, number of questions and test duration.
- The ability to have some discretion on which corpuses are the the sources of questions - "this will usually be selecting the text book"
- Integration with Canvas
- Advanced AI Analytics including text based and graphs.
Acceptance Criteria
- Exam can be fined tuned and the generated Exam will be issue in pdf
formatted and verified to comply with the input configurations.
- Corpus provenance is used to automatically check that select corpus
contains the documents returned. All documents have metadata that
is used to identify the corpus the belong to and their origin.
- Analytic is checked by experienced tester to verify the functionality
and accuracy of the charts and graphs
- Early adopters will provide a trial by fire with students in the field.
- High scores on satisfaction surveys from early adopters
Schools
- The ability to create and grade high quality tests frequently without putting extra demand on teachers and staff is invaluable.
- Alerts based on analytics when a student shows signs of trouble as well as alerts when a student shows improvements are valuable.
- Analytics that shows how a student is progressing over time is invaluable,
- Teachers have limited knowledge of test creation and may not be comfortable reading complex graphs and charts. Text based summaries of analytics is an advantage.
- Administrators would appreciate the ability to provide teacher effectiveness ratings that are not based on the highly custom tests made by each teacher.
- The exams must be able to create tests that use images usefull especially for children with low levels of English proficiency. Support for using DALL to create image based tests is priority.
Acceptance Criteria
- Human testing of image creation.
- High scores on satisfaction surveys from early adopters
Stelllar
- Create a test not only of Soroban but all stelar document
- Include blog content and videos as a source to build our question bank
- Automatically check for updates and refresh the data tests are generated
Acceptance Criteria
- exam question updated within 24 hours of new information appearing on
the Stellar website
- Exam questions can include non-technical information such as partnerships,
grant recipients conferences. etc,
Requested Budget in USD ($)
Total Expected Roadmap
NB. The following breaks down the precedence of the implementation. For detailed cost breakdown please see our spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t4Eo4Qc-qLSl97Qvpbsv5axq87R9MqmixbY3fMMXIaU/edit?usp=sharing
Each task undergoes design, development, and extensive testing. All code is required to have 80% test coverage.
July 15: Production Ready for Universities and Schools (26K)
Exclusive of the cost of hardware for AI training and amazon cloud servers.
- ICanProveIt Hosted on Amazon cloud with redundancy and failover.
- An interface that allows them to "fine tune" the exams including selecting concepts, difficulty levels, number of questions and test duration.
- The ability to have some discretion on which corpuses are the the sources of questions - "this will usually be selecting the text book"
- Advanced AI Analytics including text based and graphs.
- Alerts based on analytics when a student shows signs of trouble as well as alerts when a student shows improvements are valuable.
- Analytics that shows how a student is progressing over time is invaluable,
- Text based summaries of analytics is an advantage.
- Public Certificate Validator
August 10 -Advanced Features Universities and Schools (24K)
Exclusive of the cost of hardware for AI training and amazon cloud servers.
- Support for using DALL to create image based tests with images.
- Integration with Canvas
- Analytics that shows how a student is progressing over time
- Teacher effectiveness metrics on dashboard.
- AI to evaluate new material suggestions
- Advanced roles and permissions for admin, exam creator, ( educator), exam taker( student)
- Roles and permissions for admin, exam creator, ( educator), exam taker( student)
- Backup and Recovery
- Cloud Hosting for Vector Database, LLM and Database.
- Redundancy and failover with five nines uptime.
- Automatically quality uploaded documents using AI.
- Hosted Certificate Verification service with five nines uptime.
- AI Coach V1
September 30 - Feature Complete + Stellar Additions (32K)
Exclusive of the cost of hardware for AI training and amazon cloud servers.
- Create tests with that rely on charts and graphs.
- Advanced workflow including repository document governance.
- Monitoring for new data and updates to to data publicly available.
- Incentivisation or user so find and upload data to be used in the corpus.
- Posting digital certificates
- Certificate management for Learners to allow users to post all certificates to a resume that uses limited real estate.
- Ability for educators, organization to "vouch" for exams
- Agentic AI Models
- AI Coach, V2
Remaining 18K will be applied to offset the cost of AI training hardware. See spreadsheet for full breakdown.
--------------------------ICanProveIt 1.0 is Ready for Market!!! ----------------
< Funds from Grant #27 Exhausted >
November 30 - (32K)
- Deployable on-premises
- Adding Content is reward system driven (Soroban Smart Contract)
- Enterprises pay using token (smart contract)
- Coaching app can for multiple ages can help diagnose weaknesses and performs Career Counseling
- Supports Arabic, Thai, Vietnamese, Spanish
December 30 - (32K)
- Mobile App
- Integrations with multiple Enterprise Document management systems.
- Support for SCORM and multiple
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Team bio
Tim O'BrienCoder, Builder, Executive in that order. After an 18 year career as an Enterprise Architect for Fortune 500 companies until in 2018, I started on my journey as an Entrepreneur by prototyping my idea based on blockchain and AI, raised funds, and commercializing my product idea. Now, after building with blockchain/Web3 and AI for more than six years I still love AI and Blockchain and believe with some safeguards around AI we can build a bright future. I love coding and still code both for recreation and work. I am passionate about Web3 and its power of inclusion and democratization of the financial world. Dr. Zagros Madjd-SadjadiProfessor of Economics at Winston-Salem State University and has more than 30 years of economic consulting and teaching experience. He is the former Chief Economist of the City and County of San Francisco and has provided consulting services for various governments and businesses ranging from small to medium-sized enterprises to Fortune 500 firms. His work has been cited in the Congressional Record, helped secure state approval for the I-74 corridor in Winston-Salem, and led to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Dr. Mihaela UleruPresident, IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy - Technology Alchemist Innovating at the nexus AI/IoT/Blockchain Awarded Research Chair and Professor of Artificial Intelligence. Awarded by the PM the Canada Research Chair in Distributed Intelligent Systems Casey JensonCasey is a sales and technology leader with a passion for digital transformation. I have over 15 years of experience in the tech industry and bring a unique blend of strategic acumen, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep technical expertise. My skills have enabled me to drive revenue growth, forge strong partnerships with industry leaders, and cultivate an elite client list including companies like Hilton, American Airlines, Dell, HP, Neiman Marcus, Michael Kors, Apple, Walmart, CVS, Lowes, Paramount, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Meta and Google. |
Progress on Previous (Awarded) Submissions
ICanProveIt Activation Award - awarded $50,000. https://communityfund.stellar.org/project/icanproveit-proof-of-learning
Prototype Built
CLICK HERE TO TAKE AN EXAM ON SOROBAN AND RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE --> https://app.icanproveit.ai/auth/login
TO LOGIN AS AN EXAM CREATOR AUTHENTICATE AS ADMIN USE
email:admin@gmail.com
password:password
TO LOGIN AS A LEARNER YOU HAVE TO REGISTER FIRST USING THE REGISTER BUTTON ON THE LOGIN SCREEN
We built a prototype with the features and capabilities outlined blow. These features and capabilities were selected so the prototype would have end-to-end utility and form the foundation of a robust product.
Learner Takes Exam
- User registers using google
- User logs in using google or email/ password
- User selects their level based on cognitive domains: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation
- 10 questions generated on Soroban blockchain and put in queue for the exam.
- User face image is captured using advanced facial recognition that can identify a user from an image or video
- AI based exam proctoring.
- AI grades the Learners answers
- If the Learner passed the exam threshold (usually 80%) issue a digital certificate digitally signed
- User is able to download a tamper evident digital certificate
User Suggests Learning Material For the Repository
- User upload material they think is useful for our document corpus
- The upload document entered an approval workflow that has three states Approved, In Review, and Rejected.
- An admin logs in and is taken to the dashboard that presents analytics (charts & graphs) with a list of recently uploaded material.
- The admin can reject the document with reason or approve the material in which case it is added to the ICanProveIt corpus.
DID System integrated with Soroban
Fuixlabs has a complete implementation of DID. This system been in production for two years and is used to track land titles, electronic bill of lading in cross boarder paperless trade, products in a supply chain. This system is now able to use Soroban Blockchain.
New Collateral Created
New Decks, 2-Pagers, and other collateral created.
https://tims-personal-organization.gitbook.io/icanproveit/collateral
User Acceptance and Market Testing
The product was presented to users in 4 different categories, (1) Universities, (2) Schools, (3) Textbook Publishers, (4) Continuous Learners.
Universities
Using contacts co-proposer Dr. Zagros has build over two decades crusading for improvements in higher education we were able to present the product to University professors and administrators and came away with the following requested features:
Professors
- An interface that allows them to "fine tune" the exams including selecting concepts, difficulty levels, number of questions and test duration.
- The ability to have some discretion on which corpuses are the sources of questions - "this will usually be selecting the text book"
- Professors and PhD Students welcome the new markets created by being able to certify a course they teach or tutor themselves.
- Integration with Canvas
Administrators
- See high value to them for using the product if we can provide metrics across classes, learning material and teachers of a course. Metrics across teachers is seen as of “very high” value and might extend not only within a single university system but across state or regional university systems.
- Would like to see thought put into governance, especially support for collective decision making on content.
- The ability to communicate with certificate holders after they leave the university - this could be on a voluntary basis. The interest in both the ability to track the effectiveness of courses in the real world and the ability to fundraise.
- Integration with Canvas
Schools
After reaching out to schools and program managers for special education programs including initiatives in New York to teach children whose parents are undergoing rehab and education initiatives in rural northern Texas where access to education resources is inadequate and is being addressed by state funded initiatives. We also approached the Chicago Public Schools which has 25,000 employees, contains 646 schools and 329,836 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 90%. Also, 56.3% of students are economically disadvantaged.
The following feature requests and feedback was invaluable to us for determining the features that will guarantee strong adaptation in public and private schools.
- The ability to create and grade high quality tests frequently without putting extra demand on teachers and staff is invaluable.
- Alerts based on analytics when a student shows signs of trouble as well as alerts when a student shows improvements are valuable.
- Analytics that shows how a student is progressing over time is invaluable,
- Teachers have limited knowledge of test creation and may not be comfortable reading complex graphs and charts. Text based summaries of analytics is an advantage.
- Administrators would appreciate the ability to provide teacher effectiveness ratings that are not based on the highly custom tests made by each teacher.
- The exams must be able to handle images. Support for using DAL to create image based tests is a priority.
- Product training
Enterprises
The competition for high-quality works is fierce and the #4 top considerations of job applicants is personal growth. The market for satisfying need for personal growth in a job is a multi billion dollar market.
Advantages of using ICanProveIt for an enterprise includes:
- Stand out against your competition and attract high-quality workers - 81% percent of talent acquisition pros say they need to work more closely with learning and development
- Create strong leaders within your organization
- Promote higher job satisfaction and a more positive company culture - 74% of Gen Z and Millennials intend to leave their job do to lack of skills and development opportunities
- Instill a sense of pride in your employees that can help build your company's reputation
- Impress clients with your employees' credentials
- Improve your overall business performance and bottom line
- Increase productivity and promote cross-training allowing both the employee and your organization to do better financially
Enterprises value keeping there data secure and would look to one of the two options:
- ICanProveIt deployed on on-premises
- ICanProveIt deployed in the cloud with private data storage
Continuous Learners
Users who are learning on their own outside of formal systems other than free online university courses valued highly the following:
- A one-click button to share their certificate on LinkedIn
- An easy way to manage their certificates that scales to over 10 certificates. This includes a way to post on a resume in a concise format.
- The ability to understand why they failed a test and what material they should study to have the best chance of passing the test next time.
- The capability to take practice exams. This is uniquely possible using our system since the questions on each exam are unique.
- Focus on analytics for lifelong learning and tracking progress on an annual basis.
- Ability to order a framed certificate.
- Lifelong learners appreciate the capability of employers, organization, supervisors to add cogency to the certificate by vouching for the credential.
Other Markets
To be efficient with our time we left out exploration of other markets that include:
- Online Courses
- HR Departments - used to validate that people really read and understand the content of HR documents.
- Corporate Retraining conferences
- Polling and customer analytics
- Product training
- Partnerships
Summary and Analysis
After assessing the above data points the team believes that there are several strong market segments where ICanProve would be a successful first mover or, with the right marketing, be able to quickly capture market share.
Lessons Learned From Early Adopter
Our early adopters have shaped the current project particularly in how we implemented workflow and the admin and learner dashboards.
The feedback informed out future direction and the features we will implement using the funds from this grant application.
In order to maintain a narrow focus that optimizes marketing budget and time we have selected two markets, viz., Education (Primary) and Enterprise (Secondary).
High level strategy and rationalization;
Education
Education is the best fit for the team with Dr. Zagros background as both a tenured professor and having a background in education reform. Education has the following advantages.
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Large Total Available Market (TAM) that provides us with a significant Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM)
18.6 million college students
13.5 million are in public collage
56.3 million K -12 students
4.2 million K-12 teachers
825 thousand full time college and university faculty
Formal education is approximately 7% of US GDP
- Highly profitable price points
- Multiple points of entry, viz., University, Middle School, Special Ed Schools
- Existing tractions, Early adopters have already indicated strong interest and multiple early adopters are willing to test the product if there is no cost or significantly discounted pricing.
- Sales in the Education sector will build the product brand and eventually lead to sales in the enterprise sector.
But the education sector also have multiple disadvantages:
- Cyclic funding
- Potentially long sales cycles
- Need for a differentiated pricing model
Enterprise
The enterprise sector has advantages as we have received strong interest from companies who might already be considered early adopters. Enterprise is also the primary domain of our director of sales, Casey Jensen, former head of sales for Room.com and Regional Account Executive of Google. We feel that while splitting our resources across two domains is a stretch, leaving existing leads on the table is also unwise. We have therefore factored in the feature requests of Enterprises when prioritizing our next phase of development.
Product & Architecture
ICanProveIt levels the education playing field by issuing a highly respected certificate, vouched for by university educators and conforming to the highest pedagogical standards of testing which are the same standards used by the top universities. Some of the benefits include:
- You get credit for what you know, not for where you went to school
- Content agnostic that can create an exam on any subject so long as sufficient information is obtainable on that subject.
- Teachers at schools and universities can create advanced exams that measure over 200 datapoints on the students performance.
- Learning is comparable providing transparency needed to analyze who is the best teacher, which text books work best, and which classes (online or university) really help you get ahead, even which modality, watching you tube videos, reading blogs, taking free university courses works best for you.
- Prove what you already know. Over 97% of what we know is learned from experience or informal learning. What do you already know can move your career forward and help you get a job in a highly disrupted and increasingly competitive job market.
ICanProveIt is an AI exam creation and digital certification platform that uses advanced technologies to issue verifiable, blockchain-based educational certificates. The platform combines AI, blockchain (Stellar), and decentralized identity (DID) to create proof-of-learning certificates that adhere to high pedagogical standards accepted universally by academic institutions.
For formal Education
- Improve the quality of testing. ICanProveIt embeds the experience and knowledge top educators on how to build tests that measure over 200 points of student understanding.
- Advanced analytics on student performance not just on a single test but across all tests in multiple subjects. Provides a profile of a students ability to use remember understand, apply, evaluate ... the knowledge they learn.
- Teachers get notification early when a student begins to show warning signs. This gives the teacher the opportunity to intervene early while there is still time to set the student back on the right path
While ICanProveIt may challenge traditional educational roles it also promises to liberate teaching professionals from administrative burdens, enabling them to focus more on teaching and research. ICanProveIt was designed by university professors to be teacher/professor friendly.
Ideal for Re-Skilling
With massive disruption in the job market looming that was only accelerated by technologies like ChatGTP, we need to be able to prove what we know and what we learned informally over our lifetime.
'Massive Disruptions in the Job market will overflow the capacity of education institutions and drive learners to jobs for which there is no formal education.
Many of us will likely also need to re-skill but don't have the time or funds to go back to school. ICanProveIt is perfect for re-skilling. User simply identify what they want to learn from a list of free university course from top universities like Stanford, MIT, Oxford... or they learn from reading online books and blogs, watching YouTube videos. ICanProveIt normalizes learning sources and the exam questions are not generated from the leaned material but from a corpus of document curated by professional educators with the help of AI.
According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Future of Jobs Report, 2023, an astonishing 40% of working hours will be impacted by Large Language Models alone in the coming years. https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/
Kids Don't Start Their Lives with Giant Debt from Education Loans
According to Education Data Initiative tuition and fees the average cost of tuition ranges between $11,619 and $47,961 Adding loan interest and lost wages the COA can exceed $500,000. This debt is incurred early in the life of a student when the student’s investment could be left in a bank account and earn over 60 years of compound interest.
https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college
How It Works
1) A corpus of material is collected and can carefully maintained by educators. Anyone can suggest material but the material has to be approved by educators to because it is the source of questions a must be accurate and up to date.
There are many good sources of material like https://openstax.org. This material is carefully tracked by putting a hash of each version of the document on Soroban. Each question on an Exam has a reference to the hash of the document(s) used.
2) AI generates the questions from the exam using the document in the trusted repository.
3) an exam is proxied
4) exam is graded by AI
5) A certificate is issued and a hash of the document is written to Soroban.
6) Employers, Supervisors... can verify the certificate and not counterfeit by uploading the document which we verify with agains the data on Soroban.