While taking a break at the 51 Mile Marker at the Lake of the Ozarks, Nick Smith was inspired as ever by the coexistence of AI and sales, but was searching for a way to put the controls in the hands of sales executives. “Sales has a lot of ‘enablement’ solutions, but not many tools that sales people actually like using” “Imagine if every sales executive had their own robot that performed virtual prospecting tasks.” Drawing on his sales and management experience at companies like CBS Corporation, iHeart Media and others, he began to imagine sales executives building their own cloud-based robots to reduce repetitive, manual tasks and increase revenue opportunities. Now, he just needed a name that combined sales and AI.

Traba is a marketplace that connects light industrial workers with businesses to fill open shifts. The company focuses on opportunities in warehousing, distribution, and event staffing. Traba is on a mission to helps workers and local businesses to unlock their full productivity and earning potential.

Epitome launched in April 2020 as a company committed to finding solutions to the workforce challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As new economic and technological opportunities arise, so do the risks of social disruption and widening inequality. Epitome leverages research and technology to design solutions that help bring out the best in people – the epitome of who you are.