Introducing Collaborative Decision Intelligence
Be part of the mission to transform the way technology development is done.
Help government agencies and the most innovative companies in the world make faster, more accurate technology investment decisions.
We bring together leading subject matter experts with artificial intelligence to give organizations the right insights and data to improve the success rate of new technology development.
9-HI is funded through the Defense Production Act and is currently in Beta. Click the links below to learn more.
9-HI will be in Beta starting October 2022.
Sign up to be part of our Beta Team and get early access to the platform and other special benefits only available to our early adopters.
Hurry, spaces on the Beta Team are extremely limited.
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For Subject Matter Experts |
BETA |
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For Subject Matter Experts |
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Use your knowledge to help government and enterprises stay on the forefront of innovation. Beta Team members will be first to have access to the 9-HI marketplace and get paid for your knowledge.
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For Organizations |
PILOT |
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For Organizations |
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We are currently accepting pilot applications. Get access to 9-HI to see how you can improve your technology development success rates by up to 60% through Collaborative Decision Intelligence.
9-HI is backed by key leaders in technology development
“Technology selection can be hard. I’m so impressed with Dave Mroczka and 9-HI™’s vision to optimize investments in the right technology areas that I immediately introduced him to our Microsoft for Startups team. I can’t wait to see what they deploy next.”
Anupam Gupta
CTO, Aerospace and Defense Microsoft Federal
“The development of 9-HI™ as presented to me as an AI-based, Product & Technology Collaboration Platform accessible by all levels of the DoD services and industry/academia represents a very powerful new capability to accellerate new technology development and/or deployment to our warfighters.”
Charlie Zisette
Executive Director
National Armaments Consortium
The technology scrapyard is littered with “coulda- beens”
$1.47T wasted on technology that never sees the light of day.
Despite all the advances in technology, decision-making has not evolved to meet the complex needs of today’s leaders.
Decision making before 9-HI™
Lacking context
Inherently biased
Limited knowledge share
Failure to identify red flags early on
Missing/de-prioritizing key issues
A different process for every investment and development effort
Decision making using 9-HI™
Retain Institutional Intelligence
Grounded in data and peer reviewed facts
A system of record with cross team documentation
SME guidance and AI support to avoid expensive mistakes
Human/AI guidance through the 9-HI scorecard to help make evidence-based decisions
A standard process for Technology Acquisition & Development
9-HI is the first Collaborative Decision Intelligence platform. The future of decision-making is here.
We combine the best traits of human intelligence and AI to help organizations make more informed decisions on which technologies to invest in (or not invest in).
Subject Matter Experts
Team collaboration
Building requirements
Prior knowledge
Evidence-based information
Add context to final decision making
AI Agents
Team selection
Risk identification
Solution options
Success factors
Success evidence
Subject Matter Experts
Team collaboration
Building requirements
Prior knowledge
Evidence-based
information
AI Agents
Team selection
Risk identification
Solution options
Success factors
Success evidence
9-Hi™ AI Agents
Orion
SME AI Agent
Cassiopeia
SF AI Agent
Hercules
Solution AI Agent
Scorpius
Risk AI Agent
Libra
Evidence AI Agent
All of that data and insight gets put into our Success Probability Scoring Engine of the 9 most important factors for technology development success.
9-HI is a two tier powerset that allows you to make data-driven decisions on which products to take to market, and a centralized platform to manage development projects.
Lane 1
Product Technology
Things you want to invest in and develop
Appeal
Appeal focuses on what attracts people, customers, and clients prior to the initial sale.
Value
What users will see as the reason to buy or sign up for your product or technology.
Reliability
A user’s experience after the sale — a measure of how they feel about the product performance.
Lane 1
Product Technology
Things you want to invest in and develop
Appeal
Appeal focuses on what attracts people, customers, and clients prior to the initial sale.
Value
What users will see as the reason to buy or sign up for your product or technology.
Reliability
A user’s experience after the sale — a measure of how they feel about the product performance.
Lane 2
Team & Stakeholders
Strategic alignment and improvement of your organization
Personnel
A measure based on culture that identifies how well people can execute the other eight categories.
Planning/Processes
Drive & monitor information, quality, teaming, and autonomy.
Finances
ROI & measures of cost justification & opportunity creation, connect all activities to sales/profits.
Lane 2
Team & Stakeholders
Strategic alignment and improvement of your organization
Personnel
A measure based on culture that identifies how well people can execute the other eight categories.
Planning/Processes
Drive & monitor information, quality, teaming, and autonomy.
Finances
ROI & measures of cost justification & opportunity creation, connect all activities to sales/profits.
Lane 3
Market Application
Maximize growth of market opportunities
Size/Scope
Measuring the existing market for this technology, and a metric to determine if growth and expansion is viable.
Demand
Demand can be created from Appeal Value and Reliability, but needs cultivation based on customer profiles and education.
Access/Delivery
A combination measurement of sales, marketing, research, competitive landscape, influencers, connectors, and channels.
Lane 3
Market Application
Maximize growth of market opportunities
Size/Scope
Measuring the existing market for this technology, and a metric to determine if growth and expansion is viable.
Demand
Demand can be created from Appeal Value and Reliability, but needs cultivation based on customer profiles and education.
Access/Delivery
A combination measurement of sales, marketing, research, competitive landscape, influencers, connectors, and channels.
20 years in the making
See how 9-HI has gone from spreadsheets to SaaS to make the methodology widely accessible.
Stuck with poor results.
Fed up with years of development projects only yeilding a 20% success rate.
Needed a better way
Began searching for new ways to increase development success rates.
9-Hi method created
Built an analog version of the 9-HI method using spreadsheets.
A 60% jump in success
Saw the success rates or development projects increase from 20% to 80%.
Building 9-Hi platform
Started building a product that others could deploy to see the same improvements.
More than $10M in funding
SBIR Phases I & II:
(AFWERX/JEMTP)
SBIR Phase III: $9.3M
OUSD, Defense Production Act)
Stuck with poor results.
Fed up with years of development projects only yeilding a 20% success rate.
Needed a better way
Began searching for new ways to increase development success rates.
9-Hi method created
Built an analog version of the 9-HI method using spreadsheets.
A 60% jump in success
Saw the success rates or development projects increase from 20% to 80%.
Building 9-Hi platform
Started building a product that others could deploy to see the same improvements.
More than $10M in funding
SBIR Phases I & II:
(AFWERX/JEMTP)
SBIR Phase III: $9.3M
OUSD, Defense Production Act)
Where 9-HI™ is headed
We’re in this mission together. See where we’re headed on our quest to transform
technology development decision-making.
MVP 1
Technology Selection Events
- Perform RFIs, RWPs, RFPs, pitch events
- Recommend best-fit SMEs
- Available for government, industry, and academia
- Created SME AI Agent “Orion” and SF AI Agent “Cassiopeia”
MVP 2
Full Acquisition Cycle Support
Manage whole awarding cycle activity; Supplier/developer solutioning (two-sided market)
- Solution Discovery Projects
- Easily import data for multiple component (RFI, RWP, RFP) acquisition cycles
- Peer Review Projects to advance technologies not yet funded for development
- Data Libraries for Critical 9-HI Measurements
- Robust Knowledge & Help Center to become a 9-HI Expert
- Project & Management Reporting
- Created Risk AI Agent “Scorpius” and Solution AI Agent “Hercules”
MVP 3
Full Development Program Execution
Development-tracking through multiple technology readiness levels with full payment system.
- Hire & pay SMEs for targeted short or long-term efforts
- Tax Monitoring & reporting
- Short Term Success Factors for TRL-to-TRL advancement
- Deployment monitoring
- Flexible reporting
- Created Success Evidence AI Agent “Libra” & AI optimization
Research and Thought Leadership
Check out our videos, podcasts, blogs, whitepapers and more. This section will continuously be updated with more content.
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