Problem
Quantifying an individual's knowledge and skills is hard.
Curating and presenting your professional value throughout your career is an ongoing, manual process that...
- Takes a lot of time and energy
- Is never complete or comprehensive
- Relies on subjective language, trust and assumptions
For organizations:
Cataloging, translating and understanding an individual’s knowledge and skills is an imperfect process that…
- Buries or exaggerates talent due to human or data bias or error
- Can result costly hiring and assignment mismatches
- Makes investment in hiring and upskilling an expensive gamble
Solution
Empower individuals to quantify themselves.
Map work completed:
We map knowledge and skills from online courses
Stack completed work maps with individuals:
We plan to stack these maps to understand individuals’ combined learning
The Product Strategy
The Market Opportunity & Point of Entry
Employers are shifting to a more skill focused way of looking at talent.
But despite best efforts, education providers are not delivering transparent and translatable talent data about the education they sell.
Digital Course Mapping Service
We plan to deliver a licenseable tool that allows schools and learning management systems to map the knowledge and skills of their coursework.
We plan to work with our clients to configure the automatic translation of system and page structure into metadata that will provide key context for each map.
Our method of recording linked and grouped concepts not only provides translatable meaning, but also happens to make our maps stackable, filterable, and shareable.
Note: We believe that this same methodology, when applied at scale, may provide a framework to solve the global talent interoperability problem. We have developed models to explore this.
Dynamic Talent Visualization AI Tools for Schools & Training Platforms
We intend to drive value to education platforms first, by providing tools for their users to visualize and display their stacked learning, as well as offering smart recommendation tools.
We then plan to stack the maps with individual users, which we believe will become the key to creating a web3.0 ecosystem of talent data.
We are designing these files to be formatted to populate graph databases for business services, and attachable to verified credentials and decentralized.
Human Centering Talent Data
We can empower a ground-up flow of 10x better talent by giving everyone a private and secure graph interface of their own experience, knowledge skills, and the evidence to back it all up.
We believe, however, that ownership of that data fundamentally belongs to the individual.
Therefore, it would be unethical, unmarketable and unsustainable to build if it didn’t rely on technology that ensures an individual’s self-sovereign ownership of their data.
We have invested the last year of research and development into the following key technologies.
Web3: The Technological Engine
Self Sovereign, Human Distributed Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, chairman of w3.org, etc., has launched and is leading the development of a new protocol and system called Solid to re-distribute ownership and control of data back to individuals, as the source.
We have invested the past year working in the development community around Solid to gain feedback and technical validation for our use case. Through that research and development, Kayode Ezike, who worked under Tim Berners-Lee to develop a Verifiable Credentials framework for Solid (https://github.com/kezike/solid-vc), has joined our team as our Decentralization Architect.
Verified Credential Standards & Networks
Note: While Gobekli has spoken with all of the above organizations to gain preliminary validation on our designs, membership in their networks comes with a fee. A portion of our Netcapital investment would be used to pay these fees and formalize these relationships.
Velocity Network, Open Badges, and Credential Engine all are designed to enable the transmission and verification of credentials. However, as this October podcast from Velocity CEO, Dror Gurevich explains, there has yet to be wide adoption of any user-facing stackable credential wallet. We are building our app to fit that niche.
We intend to work with the above organizations to format or “print” our files so they are compatible with their schemas, as well provide feedback on the creation of new standards that we could both leverage.
Because of the practical need to manage hybrid career evidence, our design creates a practical reason to tie a Solid Pod and blockchain wallet with the same webID.
The Gobekli App
A Universal Talent Passport & Self-Sovereign Professional Identity.
Gobekli has designed and is committed to building a user-friendly app that combines blockchain and human distributed data into a simple interface to manage all of your career data in one place.
We plan to include simple “family tree” style skill charts to help users visualize, cite and filter their knowledge, skills and experience — with citations that reference stackable career evidence.
The individual's career evidence will be housed in a master index of stackable credential wallets and self generated evidence stored in their Solid Pod.
As an easy guide to new objectives and functionality, we are also designing a conversational assistant that can help guide you to your own in-app objectives.
Extensions & Pro Membership
The above design allows for a human-centered ecosystem and "bottom-up" flow of data, with far reaching possibilities.
Users would be able to download the Gobekli app and make in-app purchases for services and extensions to further map, cite and distribute information about their knowledge and skills.
Extensions on the user’s end would allow for a school, company or app to request a certain set of your talent data — which you can lend out and then later revoke if you choose.
We envision and have cultivated pipelines of potential partner applications into the following categories:
- Data Exchanges
- Upskilling and Education applications
- HR/Management applications
- Team applications
- Personal applications
In addition, self sovereign data storage will theoretically allow for fully self-sovereign AI applications and extensions that can help users extend their data.
- Generate live and secure behavioral data from yourself and intelligence data from your team apps to strategically improve your own performance or management decisions.
- Combine and translate data to gain insights into yourself from your own digital footprint.
Deployment Strategy
Our goal is to work with schools and learning platforms to map every digital course, providing the learning platform with dynamic visualization and recommendations, and producing a stackable attachment for each earned certificate.
Our goal is to monetize early through the course mapping licensed dashboards and use them as a ramp to create demand for our universal talent passports, which are planned for later this year.
Once we release the talent passports, we intend to launch team and enterprise applications for businesses, teams and individuals so they can begin using their data in different ways.
We believe that pro-membership will be the final stage of release some time next year.
Brand & Mission
Our name comes from Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000 year old world heritage site in Turkey, which has been dubbed "the first temple.”
Team
Use of Proceeds
If the offering's maximum amount of $250,000 is raised:
| Use | Value | % of Proceeds |
|---|---|---|
| Technology partners | $30,000 | 12.0% |
| Technology infrastructure | $20,000 | 8.0% |
| Engineering | $125,000 | 50.0% |
| Sales & marketing | $28,000 | 11.2% |
| General & admin. | $34,750 | 13.9% |
| Intermediary fees | $12,250 | 4.9% |
Terms
This is an offering of Class B Common Stock, under registration exemption 4(a)(6), in Gobekli Inc.. This offering must raise at least $10,000 by June 30, 2022 at 9:59pm ET. If this offering doesn’t reach its target, then your money will be refunded. Gobekli Inc. may issue additional securities to raise up to $250,000, 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:
Financials
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
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- May 4, 2022Product update: The Learning Quantification...
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