Startup Idea: Customized Management Tool for Data Handling and Communication

Startup idea to create a highly-customizable tool focused on improving internal communication, task assignment, progress tracking and data management for a data specialist at a medium-scale company. The tool should have the ability to aggregate data from different sources and organize it in a way that is easily accessible to different teams. It’s core goal is to reduce email and Jira dependency, also utilise high-level and low-level progress trackers.

I am a data assessment specialist at a company of less than 50 employees. Our company is divided into 3 central teams: research, data outreach, and management.

In my role, it is necessary to have communication channels from myself to all of these segments and to provide varying depths of information to each segment regarding the status of data cleaning and outreach effort. Additionally, each segment need to be able to communicate with me and we both need to be able to assign tasks and track progress.

Our company uses Slack, Jira, Smartsheets, E-mail, and Salesforce but it would be nice to have a custom tool that would allow me to manage data moving through the company in a central place where all parties can interact with any tasks or projects related to the data and communicate with whatever parties are relevant to just that task. Having this functionality while being able to toggle between high-level and low-level progress trackers would be incredibly helpful. We currently have a custom tool from salesforce, however, this does not serve all of our needs and we are still forced to use e-mail and Jira to communicate tasks as well.