{"signature": "0xec2109d3ab2161ef63318a77fe6b8c536f3bcb45ca1217da00011eaa362bac77163a45244e539373f619011f595b57368f65ddd4fe16c2bbefd055f02f97d52a1c", "application": {"round": "0x347ff9951d24e29b559e3323b5370aa29993e613", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "QtNsY/GjFIb0Zts2kQcfvFWpju0yafzl7XzsyLm6ED+jbEJMVVV0/aFUgPX5wyC9", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "81740e5ae4adce3410c8a0d090587ecaed65bb54b9ff4bcd8dd486550943f6b84478a78d2a438a3ac550cbea6a2a4401bb8ee96322f4cd1a0ceacf39779f58413f91c766866c17ad1b9c3e7ca926c92d070282609890aa1924a7581eb30036864f42037b282402d1cdec0737c2a7ade65334207475d5eb389a70203c566df3b20000000000000020a51da22e4d43aaa833b6d3630d9052400816cb7afbc3a9b99846964e9677255e779de151eb47f5cd720432b24cacabb4"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "CoLab fellowship + Giveth", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources (how is the project financed outside of this round)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "4", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size (including full and part time)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Harmonica has been supported by RnDAO for the past year as one of its CollabTech ventures. The SaaS platform is designed as a collaboration tool for any group or community, DAO or workplace to facilitate async meetings between contributors, improving the engagement, efficiency and effectiveness of group collaboration. As remote teams become the norm in working life, removing meeting friction and improving the user experience of collaboration is central to the evolution to a successful future of work.\n\nThe specific project for which we are seeking RnDAO CollabTech funding lies at the heart of the Harmonica mission. This funding will not only enable any group to create a template for their own style of meeting facilitation by using a template editor but also allow them to add their template to Harmonica's library to let other users benefit from it.\n\nIn essence, we are seeking funding to build a core piece of the Harmonica infrastructure that will generate an infinite variety of solutions tailored to meet specific collaboration contexts.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is the project CollabTech?", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "All groups need to generate, align and execute on strategic decisions as group decision-making is at the heart of collaborative projects. Ensuring that all decision makers are equipped to participate effectively is a major collaboration challenge and good sense-making is a critical pre-requisite to making good decisions that are perceived by participants to be fair.\n\n[**Our research for the RnDAO CoLab Fellowship funded by Arbitrum**](https://blog.harmonica.chat/before-the-proposal) (written between Jan-Mar 2024) showed that DAO members desperately seek alignment but often struggle to generate essential strategic artefacts that articulate their intent such as OKRs, purpose statements, RFPs, etc. These collective intelligence artifacts are essential because they serve as a scaffolding for decision-making. However, they are often co-created by small groups of people needing high context (i.e. initial sense-making). This relies heavily on the facilitation skills of governance leads or someone responsible for strategy. This facilitation of sense-making takes too much time and effort both before and after the proposal – normally 1-2 months of hard work - to engage people and process their inputs.", "hidden": false, "question": "Who's the targeted user group and what's the need/problem being addressed?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project will be **both** a perennial good **and** is the key to Harmonica becoming commercially sustainable.\n\nIt is our intent that the core functionality of Harmonica (providing AI-facilitated, asynchronous sense-making sessions without defaulting to using meetings) should be openly available for any team to use and that they can make it as relevant as possible by designing their own facilitation template.\n\nIn addition, we aim to allow users to publish their facilitation templates in a web-based library to enable others to benefit from their design as a paid template. Individuals and teams will be able to subscribe to use paid templates. The revenue from usage of these templates will be shared between the creator and the Harmonica platform treasury. The best meeting templates will be revealed by usage, be given greater prominence in the library and generate the most income.", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you ensure value keeps being delivered after the round is over? (How will the project become commercially sustainable or a perennial good? )", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We expect the Facilitation Template Generator project to deploy within 10 weeks and start being of service and generating valuable user data from that point onwards.\n\nWe will aim to monetize the template library within a few weeks of successfully deploying the Facilitation Template Generator.", "hidden": true, "question": "How long will it take after funding is received to deliver value? 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DAOs by facilitating async communication on platforms like Telegram and Discord as well as on web3. Using Generative AI and a conversational UX, the tool allows for 1:1 interactions with participants to gather and synthesize responses, thereby speeding up the co-creation of artifacts like proposals, OKRs, RFPs, roadmaps and strategy documents without the need for direct group discussions. This reduces conflict and improves engagement by allowing participants to express candid opinions and achieve alignment more efficiently.\n\n**Problem:** Harmonica targets the critical and underserved challenge of sense-making within decentralized organisations. Traditional methods, which rely heavily on the facilitation skills of a few, are time-consuming and often leave many participants feeling overlooked, thus limiting organizational agility and effective decision-making.\n\n**Solution:** By integrating AI with a conversational UX, Harmonica automates the initial stages of sense-making. This allows for a more inclusive and efficient process, where more individuals can participate without the time constraints and interpersonal conflicts typical of standard meetings.\n\n### **Specific Project to be Funded: Developing a Template Generator**\n\n**Project Description:** The specific project that seeks funding is focused on the development of an AI-powered facilitation template generator. This tool will enable teams to create customized facilitation templates that reflect their unique meeting and collaboration styles. Once generated, these templates can be deployed on the Harmonica platform to facilitate async meetings across various teams and groups.\n\n**Target User Group and Need:** The project primarily targets online communities and DAOs, addressing the core need for effective group decision-making. It aims to equip all participants with the tools to contribute meaningfully to strategic deliberations, thereby making the process fairer and more productive.\n\n**Sustainability and Value Delivery:** Post-funding, the project aims to become a perennial good and achieve commercial sustainability. Harmonica plans to make the core functionality available for free, allowing teams to design their own templates. Template library will be created where users can publish and monetize their templates, with revenue shared between the creators and the Harmonica platform. This model not only promotes continuous improvement and use of the best templates but also supports the platform’s long-term viability.\n\n## **Project Team**\n\n- Artem Zhiganov (Product Lead): Artem is a governance expert with a background in product marketing. He previously led governance at Protein, a tokenized community, studied governance for his MSc thesis, consulted tech companies, worked as PM in a music streaming service and teached Jobs-to-be-Done research. Artem is currently organizing the DeGov track at Zuvillage Georgia. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhgnv)\n- Anton Mikhailov (Chatbot + LLM Ops): With 15 years of experience, Anton has a strong background in full-stack development and team leadership. He is the founder and CTO at Codee Studio and holds an MSc in Computer Science. Recently developed a passion for enhancing LLM performance using RAG pipelines and vector DBs. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-mikhailov-2279baa7/)\n- Jonas (Backend + Prompt Engineering)\n- Andrea Gallagher (Advisor): Andrea brings 25 years of expertise in information architecture, interaction design, and UX strategy, making her a vital resource for guiding Harmonica's design and user experience strategies. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreagallagher/)\n\n### Milestones for the Template Generator Project\n\n1. **Weeks 1-3: Rapid Design and Prototyping**\n    - **Objective:** Quickly design a user-friendly AI-powered template generator.\n    - **Actions:**\n        - Conduct a fast-tracked requirement gathering session with key stakeholders.\n        - Develop a basic functional prototype of the template generator interface.\n    - **Expected Completion:** End of Week 3.\n2. **Weeks 4-6: Development Sprint**\n    - **Objective:** Develop essential functionalities and integrate with the Harmonica platform.\n    - **Actions:**\n        - Code the core back-end functionalities necessary for template generation and storage.\n        - Implement the initial user interface based on the prototype.\n    - **Expected Completion:** End of Week 6.\n3. **Weeks 7-8: Internal Testing and Refinements**\n    - **Objective:** Conduct internal testing to ensure stability and usability.\n    - **Actions:**\n        - Perform rigorous internal testing to identify bugs and user experience issues.\n        - Refine functionalities and interface adjustments based on internal feedback.\n    - **Expected Completion:** End of Week 8.\n4. **Weeks 9-10: Beta Release and User Feedback**\n    - **Objective:** Release a beta version to selected users and gather feedback.\n    - **Actions:**\n        - Deploy the beta version to a select group of DAO representatives and early adopters.\n        - Collect and analyze feedback to make final adjustments.\n    - **Expected Completion:** End of Week 10.\n5. **Weeks 11-12: Final Adjustments and Launch**\n    - **Objective:** Finalize the product for official launch and begin initial marketing efforts.\n    - **Actions:**\n        - Implement final adjustments and enhancements based on beta feedback.\n        - Prepare and execute a launch plan, including communications and user support.\n    - **Expected Completion:** End of Week 12.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "harmonicabot", "projectTwitter": "harmonica_chat"}, "recipient": "0xd56d4bbE6712e6640834228E14C43e3Bc2121Ac4"}}