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.

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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.

For Subject Matter Experts

BETA

For Subject Matter Experts

BETA

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.

For Organizations

PILOT

For Organizations

PILOT

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”

90% of technology development ends in failure, leading to

$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

Orion

SME AI Agent

Cassiopeia

Cassiopeia

SF AI Agent

Hercules

Hercules

Solution AI Agent

Scorpius

Scorpius

Risk AI Agent

Libra

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.

 

Feb 2022

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”
Sep 2022

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”
Feb 2023

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

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