Inspiration
Sales tech has a large latency in closing consumers due to a lack of information organization and maintenance. "Always Be Closing" needs you to know what you know, but more importantly, you need all of it in one place before that client drops the call. Over generations, we've adapted to visual intelligence and have built an intuition for maps to show us where we are and where we're going. At Dots, we're going to exploit that. We believe that it is more intuitive for humans to see a visual image of the map and understand trends rather than look at a spreadsheet and mark a lead down, so we've embarked on a journey to save time, energy and make money.
What it does
Utilizes cesium and dot tech to organize information and clients into dots on a map. The dots are then augmented with documents and resources to provide the user a comprehensive view of the landscape that he is pitching his product to. We provide them with a solution to managing a knowledge base that is always available on their system, offline and is reliable.
How we built it
Golang, Cesium, Preact and DuckDB.
Challenges we ran into
DuckDB possessing a singleton connection threw a wrench into our plans of integrating LLM intelligence on to dot visualization. Additionally, the glide-data-grid library possesses an interesting characteristic of opening a new database connection for every cell. So, we had to formulate a method for us to serve the contents for the data grid while not maxing out our database connections.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We circumvented the DuckDB issue by centering around PostgreSQL for the main database and DuckDB for the cache. We've also managed to integrate natural language insights into our application allowing users to scan and work through their documents while they perform deep research.
What we learned
Building projects that aren't in languages that are used widely causes AI and LLM tools to underperform due to the lack of data that is contextually important which be trained on for the application.
What's next for Dots
We're going to build this out into a company called MapApp and target sales, religious establishments, NGOs, charities, companies and non-technical folk across the board.
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