Deskless Workers's original offering opened on December 2, 2021 and was completed on September 29, 2022. Except for the Updates section which may contain more recent information, the information on this page was accurate as of September 29, 2022.

Deskless Workers

The RemoteForce platform from Deskless Workers provides companies with remote and deskless employees all the tools they need to effectively communicate and stay on top of their workforce.

Introduction

On a mission to empower deskless employees, Deskless Workers built RemoteForce, a content publishing and communications platform designed to help businesses effectively manage their deskless workforce. The RemoteForce employee management system allows leaders to seamlessly communicate with employees, receive valuable feedback, assign tasks in real-time, and even hold them accountable in getting the job done. It helps employees find the perfect balance between valuable content and productivity and provides a toolset that can help companies improve employee engagement.

Deskless Workers won a US Air Force Innovation Grant, allowing us to deploy a software pilot program for the 482nd Fighter Wing in Homestead, Florida. The software was installed on 1402 airmen mobile devices. Here are some of the results from the software pilot.

Software Pilot Results

Deal Highlights

  • $180B total addressable market by 2025
  • Raised $8M previously
  • Won a US Air Force Innovation Grant and successfully completed a 12 month software pilot with the US Air Force
    • Grant helped generate roughly $182,000 in revenue in 2019
  • CEO with multiple previous exits
  • Experienced CTO with extensive experience building Enterprise Software for Fortune 1000 companies
  • Featured in Cover Story in HR Tech Outlook Magazine - Won Top 10 Engagement Solution Provider Award
  • Cited as a best practice in a US Military report designed to tackle sexual assault issues. In the report, entitled "Hard Truths and the Duty to Change", the commission recommended our virtual platform to provide all servicemen (and NGBs) with an application created with the goals of increasing a sense of belonging, connectedness and inclusion.
“Deskless Workers has proven to be a critical solution for my frontline workers. The control and dissemination of information and ease of delivery has resulted in a dramatic increase in employee training and job satisfaction. I would highly recommend the Deskless Workers Platform to organizations wanting to efficiently communicate with their frontline workers.”
- Mark Sims, CEO of Fikes

Problem

Technology has not helped the world’s 2.7 billion deskless workers. Solutions developed for frontline workers remain essentially the same applications designed for use on office PCs – just crammed into a mobile interface. Frontline and mobile workers have little familiarity with Microsoft Office and they rarely use email – most don’t even have a corporate email address.

Industries Affected

The result is that deskless employees have significantly lower job satisfaction than office peers. Fully 61 percent of these workers have considered quitting because of unhappiness with the work environment. These workers don’t feel fully informed and believe they are viewed as less important than in-office workers. According to Gallup, this has caused a great employee engagement crisis among these workers right now. A full 85% of employees surveyed indicated that they are not engaged or actively disengaged at work. The economic consequence is approximately 7 trillion in lost productivity and the pandemic is making the situation even worse.

Other factors contributing to worker dissatisfaction include:

  • HQ metrics that don’t connect with frontline realities
  • Remote workers often feel isolated from peers
  • Professional training is lacking and doesn’t address personal goals
  • Management is not vested in frontline success
  • Corporate-produced communications lack authenticity and don’t resonate with workers
  • Achievement is invisible to management and peers
  • Workers find it difficult to network with co-workers
  • Collaboration is limited by lack of accurate content and difficult-to-use tools
  • Expectations and goals are not clearly communicated
  • OJIT (on the job training) is not scalable and often performed in piecemeal fashion

Solution

RemoteForce is a mobile software platform designed for these forgotten frontline workers. It was developed as a true mobile-first experience and made intuitive by using social media conventions and innovative, easy-to-use visual technologies augmented with patent-pending AI technology. Any company can now effectively communicate and manage frontline employees wherever and whenever they work.

Businesses that cultivate human connections from within are outperforming their competitors. They consistently attract and retain top talent, increase productivity and lead their market with innovations. Our innovations in visual engagement speak across languages and roles. We have designed our RemoteForce platform to be simple and intuitive while generating valuable, real-time insights for management and users.

The Deskless Workers platform:

  • Gets employees the information they need in real-time
  • Improves training content and on-boarding procedures
  • Measures engagement and productivity
  • Assigns employees tasks/checklists to ensure work is completed
  • Creates forms to automate manual processes
  • Allows employees to communicate in real-time with management and peers
  • Gets employee feedback and tests and assesses employee knowledge
Engagement Dashboard
Engagement Dashboard
“We don't have enough time to train reservists. This App gets rid of the busy work so we can maximize training time. The alternative is that I have to shut the office down during drills. This App is a game changer for the Air Force!”
- Sgt. Smith, U.S. Air Force

How it Works

The RemoteForce interface is easy to use, making it simple to post news and announcements, training materials (including video content), tasks and checklists, and even includes an instant messaging client for team collaboration. Remote Force gives customers the confidence to know that their deskless employees are doing the things they need to be doing. Our customers have access to real-time data that shows them whether or not the tasks they have assigned to employees are getting done, and whether or not the content provided is being consumed. Our powerful dashboard allows you to drill-down and get details on task performance, content views, survey and quiz responses and even measure employee engagement.

RemoteForce Product
Screenshot of RemoteForce Product

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many disruptions and changes to the way we work. With more companies moving to a remote workforce, it is now more important than ever to track employee sentiment to ensure employees are feeling valued and getting the support that they need to do their jobs. RemoteForce includes powerful feedback forms and engagement tools including built-in employee engagement surveys that let you take the pulse of your employees and measure how they feel about your company. Using metrics like Employee NPS (Net Promoter Score), a company can easily assess employee engagement and satisfaction, and explore why employees feel the way they do.

Feedback and Engagement Tools
Screenshot of Feedback and Engagement Tools

Competitive Advantages

RemoteForce is easy to deploy, use, and train. Our competitive advantages include:

  • Speed of setup
    • Up and running in a couple days
  • Language agnostic
    • English, Spanish and Portuguese translations available. Easy to add additional languages.
  • Ease of Deployment/No Code Platform
    • True “No Code” Mobile App solution that allows product to be “white-labeled” and branded by our customers. Does not require an engineering team.
  • AI and Machine Learning
    • Intuitive platform discovers and flags patterns that impact employee engagement.
  • Comprehensive Feature Set
    • Truly unique features including Video, Customizable Forms, Content Management, Messaging and Collaboration Tools, File and Knowledge Library, Feedback Tools (Survey/Polls/Quizzes), and Scheduling.
  • Measure Employee Engagement and Productivity
    • One of the only tools that effectively measures engagement and productivity of deskless workers.
  • Flexible Pricing Models
    • Pricing models are flexible for employees and temp workers. Per seat licensing ranges between $3 to $12.99 per user/per month.
  • Future Proof
    • Exciting future features such as AI and Live Video Streaming, Video Conferencing and Video Editing directly from a user's Mobile Device.
RemoteForce Advantage
API Features

Business Model

Software as a Service (SAAS) Model – Per User Pricing

We offer our product as a monthly subscription, which is renewed automatically. Price is dependent on client size and changes as the client grows. Per user licensing fees range between $3 and $12.99 per user/per month. Volume discounts and advance payment discounts can apply.

Revenue comes from:

  • Whitelabeling the solution to specific industry verticals.
  • Enterprise sales and direct self-service sales through our desklessworkers.com website.
  • Licensing our SDK to 3rd parties looking to add specific features to their app platform.
Business Model

Typical Client Profile

We work with companies across a broad range of industries including, but not limited to:

  • Companies with a large number of deskless/remote workers
  • Companies with seasonal spikes in demand that need to hire a large number of temporary workers and get them up to speed quickly
  • Companies with distributed/remote teams
  • Companies in verticals that play into our strengths, such as Retail, Hospitality, Construction, Cleaning, Telecom, and Field Service

Success To Date

  • Our team won a prestigious US Air Force Innovation Grant in 2019 out of a pool of 1400 candidates
    • Grant helped generate roughly $182,000 in revenue in 2019
  • Fully built-out product successfully deployed and tested by US Air Force in a 1 year software pilot program
  • The pilot was the ultimate case study because it made us build the software for the exacting demands of the Air Force when it comes to performance, security, reliability, and being able to deliver mission critical communications.
  • Growing customer base in commercial (non-military) sector

Market Opportunity

We estimate our current total addressable market (TAM) to be at $180B by 2025. Deskless workforce software helps companies better communicate with their workforce, share information more effectively, increase employee engagement and productivity, and ensure employees are held accountable for their work.

A few major factors are fueling an even greater demand for mobile powered software for deskless workers.

  • Accelerated demand for mobile deskless technologies caused by Covid-19
  • Growth in deskless workforce combined with labor shortages
  • New industry verticals creating significant revenue growth opportunities

According to a report by the Forbes Technology Council, the market for mobile enterprise apps that power the deskless workforce is expected to reach $180 billion by 2025, an almost fourfold increase from 2016 investment levels. Citing the report:

"It’s time to start looking at our workforces more holistically -- and building apps and software companies that can serve this vital demographic. Clearly, there’s an urgent need for better software and mobile services for deskless workers. Research shows that just 56% of deskless workers in the United States feel connected and engaged with their employers, and job dissatisfaction could drive many younger deskless workers to seek more fulfilling positions elsewhere. A shocking 84% of deskless workers say they don’t get enough direct communication from top management, and only 10% feel strongly connected to their companies.

Better software isn’t a silver bullet, but it can help boost engagement, especially among younger workers, and make existing workers far more productive. Research shows, for instance, that manufacturing plants with higher levels of engagement have 75% fewer quality defects and 26% fewer safety-related workers’ comp claims.

More broadly, with unemployment at a 50-year low before the pandemic hit -- and further labor shortages likely as workers struggle with sickness, quarantines or childcare issues -- deskless industries such as manufacturing urgently need to learn to do more with fewer people. They also need to increase employee satisfaction, to make it easier both to hire new workers and to retain trained veterans who know how to get the job done. Finally, companies need a 360-degree view of their internal processes in order to optimize operations, help employees work smarter instead of harder, and free up capital to invest in their workforce.

These are all areas where mobile enterprise technology can help, which means there’s a huge potential upside for tech firms that get serious about the future of deskless work. The market for mobile enterprise apps is expected to reach $180 billion by 2025, an almost fourfold increase from 2016 investment levels. Overall, more than four-fifths of businesses say they’re planning to increase their deskless-tech investments, with an average spending increase of 31%. And while some businesses are starting from a low baseline, the sectors that already invest most in mobile tech -- such as construction, manufacturing, and transportation -- are also the ones planning the biggest increases in deskless investments. For tech companies, that all adds up to a vast opportunity."

Market

Press

Team

David Young
CEO and co-Founder

David brings a resourceful history of managing high-tech businesses with extensive experience as an entrepreneurial company builder. David has co-founded numerous businesses, including one of the first peer-to-peer distributed storage companies (Peerify Technologies) that was acquired by Clerversafe Inc. David has held leadership positions in both private and public companies and has built and profitably sold several startup companies. David believes great people make successful companies.

Michael Herr
President and co-Founder

Michael is a technology visionary, life-long photographer, and experienced investment management professional. Michael has deep experience developing markets for new technologies and building winning companies based on value. Michael understands the power of the perfect image to engage, educate, and motivate people to perform at their highest level.

Uri Stern
Chief Technology Officer

Uri Stern is the Chief Technology Officer of Deskless Workers. Uri is responsible for defining the long-term technology strategy and vision of the company and driving innovation and growth. He has been leading technology organizations for over 20 years in various senior leadership roles. He is a published author of software programming books and a recognized thought leader in software development. He has extensive experience building and delivering technology differentiated solutions to private, public and international customers. His deep experience includes designing and developing Enterprise application software for numerous Fortune 1000 companies and top brands including, Chili's, AT&T, IBM, Dean Foods, HP, ING Bank, American Express and the US Air Force. In addition to his technical skills and experience, Uri is also an entrepreneur that has owned two successful software companies.

Steve Mandell
Advisor

Steve Mandell is an Entertainment Attorney that specializes in representation, sponsorship, licensing and brand development. Steve has worked with prominent individuals in the areas of Sports, Television, Radio and Publishing and other high profile personalities in brand development, marketing and business development. Steve has been associated with major high profile brands and product development for retail distribution and develops branded programs with major corporate endorsement and sponsorships.

Use of Proceeds


If the offering's maximum amount of $1,000,000 is raised:

UseValue% of Proceeds
Compensation for managers$100,00010.0%
R&D$150,00015.0%
Sales & Marketing$451,00045.1%
Launch direct channel$100,00010.0%
Partner Sales Support$150,00015.0%
Intermediary fees$49,0004.9%

Terms

This is an offering of Common Stock, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in Deskless Workers Inc.. This offering must raise at least $10,000 by September 29, 2022 at 10:59pm ET. If this offering doesn’t reach its target, then your money will be refunded. Deskless Workers may issue additional securities to raise up to $1,000,000, the offering’s maximum.

If the offering is successful at raising the maximum amount, then the company’s implied valuation after the offering (sometimes called its post-money valuation) will be:

23,342,478 shares
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$2 per share
$46,684,956implied valuation

Pitch Deck

Financials

These financial statements have been reviewed by an independent Certified Public Accountant.

SEC Filings

The Offering Statement is a formal description of the company and this transaction. It’s filed with the SEC to comply with the requirements of exemption 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933.

We’re also required to share links to each of the SEC filings related to this offering with investors.

Understand the Risks

Be sure to understand the risks of this type of investment. No regulatory body (not the SEC, not any state regulator) has passed upon the merits of or given its approval to the securities, the terms of the offering, or the accuracy or completeness of any offering materials or information posted herein. That’s typical for Regulation CF offerings like this one.

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The information contained herein includes forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or to future financial performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, which are, in some cases, beyond the company’s control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. Any forward-looking statement reflects the current views with respect to future events and is subject to these and other risks, uncertainties, and assumptions relating to operations, results of operations, growth strategy, and liquidity. No obligation exists to publicly update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

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Updates

  • Jul 20, 2023
    Last week we attended an event in Minneapolis...

    Last week we attended an event in Minneapolis to highlight successful programs that address mental health and wellness of National Guardsman and their families. We kicked off the meeting with a presentation of our Deskless Workers Platform for servicemembers, veterans, and families call “Remote Force.” We also did a live demonstration of the Remote Force platform and fielded a broad range of questions. Day two was a working session focused on ways to amplify program access in a dispersed work environment and reduce content redundancies across state and national programs. A shared challenge across the military is benchmarking and tracking the efficacy of programs, keeping content fresh, and increasing usage and participation. Our Remote Force platform addresses all of these challenges as we continue our rollout across military customers.

    4 Ways to Maximize Resiliency and Preparedness.pdf
  • Oct 11, 2022
  • Sep 30, 2022
    Primary offering finalized, selling 29,715 shares
    Sold 29,715 shares at $2 for a total of $59,430
  • May 27, 2022
  • Apr 19, 2022
    Deskless Workers (DW)is offering their...

    Deskless Workers (DW)is offering their award-winning Remote Force platform to the United States military. Under the “Kinetic: brand name, DW is building a partner network including World Wide Technology and other federal contractors to accelerate servicemember adoption anywhere in the world. DW expects to build on their successful deployment at Homestead Air Force Base that revealed the following: • 37% increase in content being read • 53% increase in Airmen productivity • 66% increase in task compliance • 40% increase in user engagement.

  • Mar 31, 2022
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • Feb 2, 2022
  • Dec 2, 2021
    Primary offering of 500,000 shares at $2
  • Dec 2, 2021
  • Dec 2, 2021

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