Inventions and Product Development
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How We Began
Our journey began on product invention and production by designing a sensory accommodation needed for a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, but it was not available on any market. During the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Flood of 2016, materials we designed and had donated into the shelters run by the American Red Cross showed efficacy. Within two years our products had become standard accommodations within disaster shelters. As our journey continued to develop, we continue to design products for everyday use to medical devices. You can learn about our journey in detail on www.quietcalmllc.com or here.
Product Development: WHY?
Every product or think tank work that we have been involved in has been born from five basic reasons:
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Nothing on the current market fit what we needed as an individual or company.
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Options that were available lacked the efficiency, elegance of use, or were too cumbersome.
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A more efficient, logic based, system, application, protocol, or procedure was needed.
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The price point for items were not proportionate to the quality sold.
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Materials or systems were unsafe or took unnecessary risk when considered from a larger scope.
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Types of Products
For every single physical example of a manufactured product, between science and technology, COVID think tank work, policy, law, app development, or process improvement, we are legally bound to maintain the confidentiality of our clients. Even within our own protypes, we are limited by the patent process to protect intellectual property.
We are happy to consult with designers, venture capitalists, or manufacturers to discuss ways in which design or design optimization can be mutually beneficial.
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Sensory Kits and Sensory Rooms
Our original invention that is used as a medical device began with understanding sensory needs within the Autism community, then working to establish a product that met our very grueling Quality Control specifications.
QC is meant to be defined as Quiet Calm, our origins, but also Quality Control.
An example of one part we had to design then develop our own manufacturing process is knowing and understanding that 30% of anyone diagnosed with Autism will also have epilepsy. Despite heavy metal contents, specifically lead, being a highly documented prohibition for child exposure, the way color is chemically bound to non-natural fiber material meant that we could not find a weighted blanket on the market that did not use lead as a colorant or withstood the challenges of strength needed for durability.
Sensory rooms needed to be scaled for population, mobile, designed within a specific budget, and keeping in mind how sanitation had to be maintained on and off site. Between disaster shelters and mobile rooms to custom designed state of the art rooms for executives.
Automations, Process Optimizations, App Development, and Think Tank Work
COVID Think Tank Work
During the pandemic, as scientists and policymakers began to assess the growing outbreak of COVID, think tank work began. From its first known cases in Iran, our team was part of the community trying to understand the outbreak, prevent spread, and help meet overwhelming needs. As the cases mounted reaching "global pandemic" level, multiple groups continued to analyze data and form a response.
One of the tools that came out of this work became an automated triage model turned into a computer application to advise people on what to do as a triage model. Hospitals, call lines, and websites were overrun. The app was eventually used in the US to advise people on when to seek emergency care.
Automating Legal Processes
During the pandemic a growing need for efficient, risk averse, ways and means for estate planning emerged, especially in Louisiana. Being the only state to follow Napoleonic civil code, notaries have the authority and means to create estate planning documents.
Because of the intricacies involved in the civil code for one state, no process had been automated. Our team was able to review the process, then develop a flowchart for app development with a simple question and answer interface that would guide the user to input necessary information. Once the information was compiled, an estate plan could be drawn up, and a notary dispatched to obtain a signature.
Instead of an estate plan costing several thousand dollars with hours of an attorney's time, the process could be completed in under an hour.
The invention was sold, but the company who invested in it did not pursue full development due to complications related to the pandemic.
Automation Engineering
Experience working with a Software as a Service platform being developed through venture capital, led to learning and understanding how to harness available automation platforms and their limitations. Whereas automating a standard business with integrated texts, emails, appointments, and calls is now very simple, the more complex needs that are required through HIPPA and other laws remain more challenging.
Generally workflows, optimization, or flow charts can be made for the most complex problems quickly. Of anything that drains financial resources and increases overhead of any business, intelligent design optimization may be the single best cost saving measure in which a business can invest.