Each week in the New Tech Newsletter we feature a Spotlight Q&A with founders, angels, New Tech alumni presenters, and other people or companies in our community we believe you’d like to learn about. Reach out if you’d like to recommend a startup, founder, angel, accelerator, or New Tech alumni presenter for us to spotlight for the PNW tech community!
In this week’s spotlight we caught up with Michael Alcock, CMO of Quoala.
What problem is your technology helping to solve?
Improved employee retention in organizations of 100 or more people.
How does your technology solve that problem better than other options?
This solution is called Say-More-Analysis, and no one has ever done this before. We use AI to let everyone in the organization anonymously speak their mind and then use the algorithm to synthesize what gets said into a sort of culture/keyword index for management to understand what people are talking about. Management/leaders look at the Ai dashboard and are encouraged to ask their people to “Say More” about specific topics. That process of capturing feedback and then asking employees to “Say More” creates an excellent employee feedback loop, which science has shown time and again can significantly impact retention.
What’s the most innovative or interesting thing about your technology?
There is no friction for indentation with your organization’s existing HR and communications tools. Just grab the QR code and publish it to your people.
What do you love the most about being a part of the Northwest tech community?
The Pacific Northwest tech community is very practical about what makes new tech work and very insistent that new tech serves the greater good.
Is there any funny story or specific moment that made you start this company?
They all laughed at me back at the academy. Moo hoo ha ha!
Reach out if you’d like to recommend a startup, founder, angel, accelerator, or New Tech alumni presenter for us to spotlight for the PNW tech community!
