The 4 businesses to replicate this week #046

The all-in-one platform for firefighters 🇺🇸

Here's a sector you might not usually think about: firefighters and other emergency services. But for them, a good management software can mean hundreds of lives saved.

First Due offers a solution that replaces the fragmented software used by rescue departments, to ensure efficient operations and better emergency management.

The tool's features include pre-incident planning, resource management, fire prevention, fire reporting protocol (NFIRS), electronic Patient Care Reports (ePCR), and more.

$7 million in annual revenue, and…

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SMS is an interesting marketing channel at the moment: less used than email, customers still read them, and their attention is captured more effectively.

Here's a relatively simple idea to implement. And with LLM/GPT, this business should grow even more! Ranked as the 36th fastest-growing company in the USA, and…

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Big companies are now required to collect data on their energy consumption. But what a hassle! For the moment, most of the data arrives in separate Excel files, and through manual imports.

The platform allows integration with existing carbon accounting and ESG platforms, thus making the preparation of environmental reports easier.

After going through the famous Y Combinator, and…

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AI in Medical Training 🇺🇸

The half-life of medical knowledge is less than 5 years. That means after 5 years, doctors need to update half of their knowledge. As you can imagine, (good) doctors are always looking for the latest information in their specialty. But it's not easy: there are specialized journals, and otherwise one must buy the huge books and then leaf through them. Difficult when one already has a busy week.

So, this company had the idea to create a very simple platform where one can train and update themselves in just a few minutes per day: between consultations, or even while commuting for example.

A practical application: they transform 1000+ pages books into hundreds/thousands of short questions, which one can therefore study day after day. Already used by students and doctors from the biggest American universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, etc.), and…

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