Please describe your proposed solution.

This proposal covers the building of the tool to record and validate the coaching hours for each client.

Having seen the benefits of their funded coaching hour , most clients will opt to continue coaching to keep working and achieving their coaching goals

This adds tremendous value to the Cardano Ecosystem since like most other services like this, enables tremendous breakthroughs in the mental , psychological, emotional and behavioural state of the clients. These breakthroughts will boost their productivity hugely.

Helps them to deal with problems which are hindering them, and self limiting beliefs which are holding them back.

These reasons are why coaches charge several thousand dollars per hour . I am allocating 100 USD per hour.

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I will provide 300 hours of coaching for 100 people at the rate of 3 hour each. Since the first three hours is funded, the clients wont have to pay. They can opt to continue coaching at the same rate or an agreed rate.

These people will be part of a coaching log. The content of the coaching hours is confidential but the coaching log will be maintained . This will be validated by the clients to prove this was done.

<u>How this proposal meets Fund 9 Objectives</u>

Prepare a group of people willing and able to make contributions to the ecosystem.

This proposal will enable many people who want Professional coaching to improve their and their teams effectiveness and productivity. To find solutions to the problems facing them through the power of coaching.

Turn Cardano into an open source project & attract more developers..

Making this open source would help new teams to materialize which would lead to more effective and productive developers.

Build real-world solutions based on the Cardano blockchain.

This project will empower the teams and individuals in those teams to be more creative, less conflict, more communication and team synergies and thereby strengthen themselves, their companies or projects and the end products and services, thereby creating real world solutions

Improve tooling to support human processes in Catalyst. Accelerate the growth and evolution of developer & app ecosystem.

There are various tools that would be built under this proposal. The operational aspect of it is detailed here. This would add immense value to the ecosystem.

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

This project will build a tool whereby every hour spent on coaching of a client will be recorded and accounted for on the blockchain. This solves one problem which occurs sometimes where due to forgetfulness or sometimes maliciousness , clients may not recall or accept that they were coached , resulting in a breakage of the coaching relationship, particularly if this happened some time ago. In most cases a coaching contract is in place, so this may not happen. But the recording of exact dates and times is needed for the coach's credentialling requirements as well as the client's auditing particularly if a company has hired the coach.

This tool will solve both the issues of coach and client by recording all details of when where and subject of the coaching session. It will not record the content of the session which is always confidential.

This adds value to the ecosystem by having an open source tool that can be used for tracking purposes.

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

a. The biggest challenge is getting it voted in. Will voters see the value of this service for themselves? Of course I am confident after one hour of coaching they will all opt for extension.

b. Will 150 people undertake to be coached? Are there enough people in the ecosystem who would take the benefit of this funded proposal?

c. Will Covid cause any complications to this process?

These would be mitigated by having ATH rooms to teach people about coaching. Sharing coaching resources with people to enable them to see value in coaching.

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Month 1 to 3

Create a calendar for booking of coaching appointments. Everyone gets one free hour.

Build the booking and recording tool. This can be by use of NFTs allocated to each party for the hour of consultation or the ongoing course of multiple sessions.

Enable people to book.

There will be no limit on the bookings per month. Perhaps all 150 hours will be finished in one month. IN which case the project will continue with whoever comes after, paying for their coaching.

At the end of Month 3, share the Coaching log as proof of accomplishment, validated by the clients.

HOW CAN WE DO MULTIPLE PROJECTS AT THE SAME TIME.

If we are considering translation projects, each language pair (e.g English to Hindi ) has one or two Master Translators and one or two Proofreaders. The Master Translators are native speakers and experienced in the translation field They would do the translation and its given to the proofreader for quality checking. Any modifications are given back to the Master Translator who then amends the text and finalizes the text. If the workload is large we would use two Master Translators and two proofreaders instead of one.

As such , since each language pair has a dedicated team we are able to concurrently do 1, 2 5 10 or 100 language pairs at the same time. NO team is working on multiple projects. Each is dedicated to their project.

Same applies to dev projects. We have teams working on each project or app. No one is overstretched for time or energy. Therefore we can confidently undertake multiple projects at the same time

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Cost per hour of Developer time 80 USD

Number of hours 150

Social media marketing of the tool once completed to increase usage by other professionals 5000

Total cost 17000 USD

Contingency fund 2000 Usd

Total 19000 USD

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

DImitri Fernando <https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrifernando777/>

Active member of Catalyst Community - General ADA Holder in Catalyst Circle V3, Community Advisor in Fund 6 and 7, Veteran Community Advisor in Fund 7, VCA in Flash Assessment in Fund 7, Cardano4Climate, Cardano Creatives, Founder of South Asian Town Hall, Active in Eastern Town Hall, Pacific Town Hall, European Town hall, Catalyst Swarm, Gimbalabs Playground.

Serial Entrepreneur, INFJ, Marketer by profession, Creative by passion, Strategist, Writer, Poet, Storyteller Has background in multiple sectors and has run several companies with groundbreaking technologies in Sri Lanka. Having his first job as a department store Santa at age 12, he learnt how bringing joy to kids and the less fortunate would bring unspeakable joy to life. He worked at Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation on various radio channels under the English Service, and learnt the art of communication, presentation, audio and radio production, and program compilation. Working often in highly tense security situations due to the ever present threat of terror attack on the SLBC by the LTTE he learnt to be cool under immense pressure and not let any crisis affect him. He is a Chartered Management Accountant, and Chartered Marketer. He has also completed MBTI and FIRO-B certifications and is currently becoming an ICF accredited Coach and DISC certified trainer and consultant. He has experience in multiple sectors, including Business Development on a national scale for global brands. He has been involved in social service projects for 35 years. He has been distributing food to the hungry several times a week since July 2018. Even during lockdown he was able to get a special pass as he was engaging in essential food distribution services.

Rishantha Welikadage <https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/daforce>

RIshantha has been involved in multiple business sectors including State Government in Minnesota USA as a Hardware Technician and Entrepreneur. He has also worked in software development in the logistics industry. Being involved from the inception of a freight logistics company he grew it from 2 employees to over 30 and developed a proprietary system which was better than ready built systems available for a UK logistics and courier company.

He has obtained his MBA in Business Management from Australia and has also been involved in many Social Service organizations such as the Lions Club as well as food distribution on his own.

Uditha Bandara : <https://www.linkedin.com/in/udithabandara/>

Uditha Bandara (MVP) is an expert in specializes in Microsoft , AI and Blockchain Technologies . He is an author in AI technologies, an international speaker and the founder/CEO of Blue Chip Asia and South East Asia`s First XNA/DirectX MVP (Most Valuable Professional)

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes. To build further functionality for the app.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Please describe how you will measure the progress and the development of the project?

Number of new clients

Number of clients who go for extensions

Number of extended hours in total

Number of extended hours per client

Number of referrals by existing clients to new prospects

Number of records on the app

What does success for this project look like?

What does success for this project look like?

Creating a coaching culture in Catalyst community

Helping Catalyst members to see value in coaching and experience the powerful breakthroughs and increases in effectiveness and productivity both in business and personal life that come through coaching.

Getting testimonials from clients who benefitted from the free hour, to talk on video regarding the breakthroughs and benefits they received, so that we can submit for an expanded project in F9

Ability to have a world class easy to use tool for use by all service providers and consultants for recording their appointments and consulting sessions.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is a new project