orbit
Empowering the new collaborative intelligence economy
What is Orbit?
Orbit is part of an emerging category—a hybrid between a traditional social media platform and a new type of collaboration platform. We envision Orbit, first and foremost, as a civil collaboration market network focused on unleashing genius and empowering people— and their missions— to solve real-world, socially responsible problems in new ways. Our goal for the platform is to enable anyone to participate in this shared economy in a manner that is healthy and productive, using built-in measurements of civility, relevancy and expertise for trusted engagement and participation.
How?
Orbit builds technology that unleashes creativity and empowers people to work together collaboratively and consciously to solve the most pressing global challenges.
Why Orbit?
Orbit fills a need for the majority who have the capacity to create, collaborate and deliver ideas and tangible solutions to current issues, local and global. We aim to be the go-to place to learn and gather from others’ experience on a diverse range of topics while fostering new contacts, professional relationships and friendships across the globe.
Orbit strives to harness social AI effectively, by returning control back to the rightful owner...you. Orbit’s user-directed AI will work to connect people based on their actual interests, not algorithms that only serve advertisers. Orbit offers a better way to connect, collaborate and flourish.
We exist to unleash genius in service of helping to solve real-world problems through the interaction of technology, human ingenuity, and social good.
Solve problems
Connect
Discover
Discover topics
User-centric AI
As users participate, share and seek information, bring ideas and solutions within the platform, the ‘collaborative intelligence economy’ expands exponentially by leveraging information from the “wisdom of the collective.”
ORBIT is designed with user-centric AI that:
● Makes connections between people, ideas, and expertise easy-to-see.
● Gets smarter for the individual the more it’s used.
Business model
We plan to monetize the platform in the following ways:
● A freemium model initially among users
● Once we have a critical mass of users, we will add marketplace transaction fees
Also, with a critical mass of users, we will offer companies brand engagement that empowers brands to:
● Compete on social purpose
● Drive collaborations related to their mission
● Sponsor initiatives with prize money related to real projects that accomplish goals (i.e. XPRIZE)
● Orbit will charge transaction fees related to these brand engagement initiatives
Shannon McGuire
A seasoned servant leader Executive with over 30 years of experience with multiple startups and in large enterprise software sales roles. Ranked as a top 5% sales producer for over 30 years selling to Fortune 1,000 companies, McGuire is driven by collaboration. McGuire has facilitated a successful exit from Flake-Wilkerson Market Insights and was a major contributor in increasing their value by $11 million prior to acquisition. With a knack for attracting top talent throughout his career, the Orbit concepts were born from McGuire’s observations from 2,000+ executive client meetings where he noticed predictable patterns within the culture of the organization and saw how some organizations collaborated much more readily compared to others.
Andy Brandt
A results-focused Technology Leader with a proven history of facilitating successful product development efforts and getting products to market. Over 20 years of software development experience, with a particular expertise in developing enterprise systems and real-time transactional platforms. As a technology executive, Brandt has been involved in IPOs for three separate software companies. Brandt seamlessly bridges the gap between software developers and corporate executives and stakeholders, understands all phases of technology and can communicate business requirements to developers and challenges to executives. A “startup junkie” who loves the creative phase of building things that get used, Brandt consistently delivers top-rated products on-spec, on-time and on-budget.