Vocadian
No more workforce fatigue? SOUNDS great!
Idea in Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
Workforce fatigue and burnout are highly prevalent but often left unaddressed, causing tremendous life and economic loss, amounting to $400B per year. Existing solutions are all reactive and only act when risk events have already happened.
Vocadian is leading a paradigm shift, building predictive fatigue risk management to empower a safer, healthier, and more productive workforce with voice AI. We target organizations with high-safety risk operations in industries such as transportation & logistics, mining, construction, aviation, and healthcare.
Our voice AI-powered B2B SaaS platform utilizes proprietary voice AI to assess fatigue and sleepiness with 30 seconds of speech, with no extra hardware required. Workers conduct pre-shift voice assessments to get fatigue levels and performance trajectory, which acts as fit-for-duty screening and safety training and allows managers to optimize shift schedule and task dispatch, thereby protecting employees and saving companies millions of dollars.
Problem
Workforce fatigue and burnout are highly prevalent but often left unaddressed, causing tremendous life and economic loss, especially for high-stakes safety-sensitive industries, such as transportation & logistics, mining, construction, aviation, and healthcare. There is a $109B economic loss due to fatigue accidents and a $411B in productivity loss annually. In the Transport and Logistics sector, drowsy driving is the second leading cause of fatal crashes, over 10% of road accidents are attributable to fatigue solely. Studies also indicate that chronic burnout accounts for 20% of healthcare professional turnover and predicted economic losses of 500K to 1M dollars per doctor in the United States.
Existing solutions such as safety cameras, sensor-based telematics, or wearables, are all reactive and only act when risk events have already happened. There is a lack of preventive approaches to address fatigue risk in the workplace.
Opportunity
Vocadian is leading a paradigm shift with our predictive voice technology backed by circadian science. Vocadian is a voice AI-powered B2B SaaS platform delivering a groundbreaking predictive approach to fatigue risk management by utilizing proprietary voice biomarkers and machine learning algorithms to assess fatigue and sleepiness based on human speech. Vocadian's solution is uniquely preventative, instantaneous, hardware-free, and time-saving.
Workers conduct voice assessments before their shift to get fatigue level and performance forecast, which acts as fit-for-duty screening and safety training and allows managers to optimize shift schedule and task dispatch, thereby protecting employees and saving companies millions of dollars.
Our API could also empower impactful peripheral applications such as smart lighting for fatigue management in medical and industry settings. Through pilot studies, Vocadian has achieved a sensitivity level of over 90%, with which it will prevent 50B of economic loss due to productivity decline and life threats in the identified sectors.