Clean Robotics is a clean-tech start-up developing AI-powered trash-bots for automated waste management.

CleanRobotics Market and Customer Analytics 

This project presents the students a unique opportunity to develop real-world data analytics around CleanRobotics flagship product "TrashBot" and its software system. This project also offers the student an opportunity to gain experience in standing up commercial processes with an early-stage company experiencing rapid growth. 

Known as the “Spotify of learning”, EdCast helps organizations to aggregate internal and external content (e.g., from learning and human resource management systems as well as Coursera, Pluralsight, Harvard Business Review, etc.) to optimize the professional experience journey for each employee, a journey that typically spans learning, skilling, and career mobility. EdCast recently identified a significant enhancement to the analytic capabilities of its learning platform.

Veritec is an innovation-led pricing and revenue management solution consulting firm specializing in non-traditional and emerging application domains. One such area has been self-storage. Veritec's solutions optimize both pricing for new customers as well as rent increases for existing customers of self-storage facilities. Veritec offers state-of-the art dynamic pricing methods that allow self-storage operators to offer multiple prices for inventory for which only a single price traditionally applied, often with automated day-to-day adjustments. 

The student team is exploring extensions to Veritec's pricing methodology for new customers that incorporate supply and demand signals, specifically evaluating the impacts of competitor pricing actions relative to a target company.

The Pittsburgh Knights are a pro esports team and gaming lifestyle startup based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that develops innovative products to inspire competition and create community in partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers football team and the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball ownership group, Wiz Khalifa and the Pittsburgh Penguins’ hockey star Evgeni Malkin.

Knights Eye: Understanding the Fan 

Building a Global Accommodations Brand over a 100+ Year Journey to Last Many Generations Beyond Our Very Own 

Students will be working on creating new data pipelines that will be more flexible, more scalable and independent of third-party tools. Students will also create a report after analyzing the data with an ambitious goal of getting a dollar value on how much quality impacts Kasa's Average Daily Rate (ADR).