Cohuman is the simplest most powerful way to keep your team in sync. Easily delegate, prioritize and track tasks with all your teams.
It is an intelligent workspace for coordinating people and managing projects. It promotes transparency and accountability in communications allowing teams to get things done more efficiently.
PERFECT INFORMATION
Cohuman delivers immediate insight into the status of projects, coworkers and the tasks you need to focus on.
1. We provide unprecedented visibility into a team's collective and individual responsibilities.
2. Projects and people are presented with lists of tasks that are ranked in order of priority. We utilize metadata to dynamically rank a task's importance relative to the needs of the team.
BENEFITS
- Focus: Tasks are organized so people can focus on doing the most important things first.
- Transparency: Team members have visibility into the shared actions and needs of the group.
- Accountability: By compelling individual ownership, we reduce business ambiguity.
- Accessibility: Files, conversations and deadlines are centralized, secure and always accessible.
- Email Integration: We work seamlessly with email, so those who don't want to login to Cohuman don't need to.
GOOGLE INTEGRATION
- Attach Google Docs to Cohuman tasks, and we'll handle the permissions
- Sync your tasks to your Google Calendar
- Invite your Google Contacts
- Login and Signup with your Google Account
- Find us in the Google Marketplace and Chrome Store
The long version of our Story:
The challenge we all face in today’s multitasking world is that we are inundated with emails, tweets, social media statuses, collaboration tool notifications, IM’s, buzzes, waves and more. Submerged somewhere in this digital torrent are the tasks we need to act upon as well as the true status of the things we have shared with, or assigned to, others.
The truth is, we feel productive when we merely click on what’s unread in our inbox (a textbook Pavlovian response). We feel a sense of accomplishment when we stay abreast of the chatter. All the energy and time we invest in doing these things is creating a false sense of “doing” and eating into the time we have to get stuff done. We’re on a diet of electronic junk food. The day goes by and despite having been connected and collaborative, we’ve accomplished less than we thought. What’s worse, we experience that nagging feeling that we’ve forgotten to do something.
Cohuman is an online application that cuts through this digital clutter and gives you the power to make, share and track tasks with anyone.
We fundamentally believe that the only way to simplify our lives is to know what our priorities are and to be able to focus on what matters. Cohuman is a social network for all your work and personal tasks. When you share tasks with other people, Cohuman is aware of how all your tasks are related. That’s what Cohuman is – a Task Network. In the same way you keep track of your colleagues and friends via Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter, we empower you to get status updates on all the tasks you’re connected to.
Based on an algorithm that takes into account the network value of a task, Cohuman is able to optimize your priorities and those of everyone in your network by assigning each task a score.
Cohuman lets you:
1. See everything you need to do in one place
2. Prioritize your day, your week, your life
3. Share tasks with others and follow their status
4. Trust you are not forgetting to do anything
The market for Cohuman encompasses everyone who is tired of depending on email to coordinate their life or is simply struggling to manage their priorities.
Matthew K. Work, Cofounder and CEO
Matthew is a serial inventor and passionate entrepreneur. Not a day goes by without Matthew solving yet another business problem with some really neat idea. The best ones turn into cool software, the kind of software that has everyone asking themselves – why didn’t I think of that?
After honing his skills at a string of high-tech companies, including EarthWeb, Inc., whose IPO resulted in the NASDAQ’s largest single-day percentage point gain, and Alexa Internet, subsequently acquired by Amazon.com, Matthew at last realized the dream of running his
own gig.
In 2002, he cofounded Discovery Mining, Inc., the first eDiscovery software company that allowed attorneys to review electronic documents in their native format.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Discovery Mining had offices in Manhattan, London and Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
With just $4.4M raised from founders, angel investors and strategic partners, he and the management team grew the company to $7.4M of sales in 2007. During the same period, headcount grew to 43.
In 2007, the company ranked # 188 in Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country, posting a three-year revenue growth of 1,104.6%, to make it the fastest-growing electronic discovery company on the list.
In August 2008, Interwoven, Inc., a San Jose company, acquired Discovery Mining for $36M in an all-cash transaction.
Drawing on his experience as CEO of a fast growing company, Matthew then turned his full-time attention to solving one of the most common challenges of any manager - coordinating people and managing projects, aka Cohuman, Inc.
Personal Background
An experienced motorcyclist, he has a stable of 7 bikes. He tries to devote not quite as much time taking them apart and trying to remember how to put them back together as he does with his lovely wife and two children, who share their home in San Francisco.
Columbia Business School MBA Finance 1995
University of Wisonsin – Madison BA Art History
Recent Awards:
2007 #188 Inc. 500 fastest-growing private companies
2008 #16 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Silicon Valley
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Leslie Brennan, Cofounder, President and CFO
Leslie is an entrepreneur, world traveler, and master negotiator. He is also the soul of the company responsible for its moral and ethical compass. Originally from Belfast, Ireland, Leslie became a Chartered Accountant in London while working for Touche Ross & Co. After a spell with large international corporations in Paris, the entrepreneurial bug took him to the south of France, Montreal, Boston, and Cork, Ireland. He worked with Matthew Work at Amazon.com in 2001 and they have been fast friends and business partners ever since.
From 2002 until 2008, Leslie was Cofounder, President and CFO of Discovery Mining Inc., a leading provider of eDiscovery software that stored, categorized, searched and presented documents to organizations involved in litigation, investigation, regulatory response or mergers and acquisitions. Prior to cofounding Discovery Mining, Leslie was:
- Chief Executive Officer of an early stage mucosal healthcare company in Ireland, which secured seed funding from Irish government funding agencies, and negotiated a strategic collaboration partnership in the US.
- Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of a Canadian biotechnology company supplying biological reagents to the life sciences research market.
- Managing Partner of BioBusiness Partners, a management consulting company, located in France, specializing in biotechnology and the life sciences.
- Managing Partner of Business Finance Consultants, specializing in general financial management for small company start-ups.
- A founder of Medical Arts and Ventures, Inc. a company working with life science and technology clients to optimize the value of ideas and innovations.
Personal Background
Leslie holds a B.Sc. in Philosophy and Sociology from Bristol University, England. and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Leslie is married and has three children and two grandchildren. He is an avid yogi and member of an Insight Meditation sangha. He is also the proud owner of a 1959 Lambretta scooter as well as a large, modern BMW motorcycle, which he rides all over California and neighboring states. He is a board member of the Renegade Theatre Experiment in San Jose.
Recent Awards:
2007 #188 Inc. 500 fastest-growing private companies
2008 #16 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Silicon Valley
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The Full team can be viewed at http://www.cohuman.com/team
Our ability to prioritize tasks.
No one leverages the power of the network and the specific needs of the community to determine the importance of doing one task over an other.
There is no intelligence built into products like basecamp or Google Wave that helps inform the individual user what to focus on.
Ronan Dunlop
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