Affordable financial risk management platform, Sherloc, acting as an early warning system for SMEs to navigate economic turmoil.
51% of minimum goal raised
Minimum Target £ 700,000 |
Minimum investment amount £ 10,000 |
Maximum Target £ 1,200,000 |
Maximum investment amount £ 1,200,000 |
ELEMENTARYb was founded by a group of British and Canadian techies, bankers and entrepreneurs to drive economic growth in the UK through the use of intelligent, affordable technology such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Our Sherloc platform leverages open banking, open accounting and ESG data standards to help SMEs save time, money and make their lives easier by connecting their financial plans to economic dependencies and alerting them with actionable insights when events impact their plans. Sherloc is an ecosystem and marketplace platform, alerting a company's permissioned advisors and bankers when plans change so they can help support their clients' growth.
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Our financial risk management platform Sherloc has Beta launched in production with forecasting, planning and analysis functionality for SMEs with up to 3 legal entities and currencies. Our key focus to date has been on forecasting and scenario modelling capabilities in an extremely user-friendly interface customised to the users' data structure (e.g. they see the information how they upload it from excel). We have data validation, performance ratios and basic alerts linked to working capital needs. Our future roadmap of features and products will span lending, invoice factoring, credit cards, insurance, ESG solutions and capital markets functionality across a range of industry verticals.
Companies of all sizes need to have plans in place to manage their businesses and the majority of small and medium-sized companies use excel to do this. Yet excel is error-prone, limited and disconnected from non-financial activity and events impacting those plans. It doesn't monitor underlying assumptions - such as the cost of fuel - and its impact to forecast transportation costs or the cost of sales, nor does it notify time-poor decision-makers to help mitigate when that assumption changes in value. Sherloc digitises planning outside of excel, monitors those assumptions and notifies decision-makers with actionable insights to help mitigate risks and improve productivity using ML and AI
Sherloc has multiple revenue streams but only three (SaaS licenses from SMEs, SaaS licenses from Advisors and marketplace commissions) have been included in our financial model. Future streams such as data handling/processing for the large banks to support rapid product fulfilment and partnership fees will develop as we mature. Customer acquisition will be direct to SMEs via trade bodies, sponsors and distributors (one-to-one model) and via Advisors such as Accountants who support various clients (one-to-one-to-many model). Our licensing price point has been tested and we are in discussions to tee-up 4 pilots with Accountancy firms and banks over the next 6 months.
Our financial risk management platform Sherloc has Beta launched in production with forecasting, planning and analysis functionality for SMEs with up to 3 legal entities and currencies. Our key focus to date has been on forecasting and scenario modelling capabilities in an extremely user-friendly interface customised to the users' data structure (e.g. they see the information how they upload it from excel). We have data validation, performance ratios and basic alerts linked to working capital needs. Our future roadmap of features and products will span lending, invoice factoring, credit cards, insurance, ESG solutions and capital markets functionality across a range of industry verticals.
Companies of all sizes need to have plans in place to manage their businesses and the majority of small and medium-sized companies use excel to do this. Yet excel is error-prone, limited and disconnected from non-financial activity and events impacting those plans. It doesn't monitor underlying assumptions - such as the cost of fuel - and its impact to forecast transportation costs or the cost of sales, nor does it notify time-poor decision-makers to help mitigate when that assumption changes in value. Sherloc digitises planning outside of excel, monitors those assumptions and notifies decision-makers with actionable insights to help mitigate risks and improve productivity using ML and AI
Sherloc has multiple revenue streams but only three (SaaS licenses from SMEs, SaaS licenses from Advisors and marketplace commissions) have been included in our financial model. Future streams such as data handling/processing for the large banks to support rapid product fulfilment and partnership fees will develop as we mature. Customer acquisition will be direct to SMEs via trade bodies, sponsors and distributors (one-to-one model) and via Advisors such as Accountants who support various clients (one-to-one-to-many model). Our licensing price point has been tested and we are in discussions to tee-up 4 pilots with Accountancy firms and banks over the next 6 months.