Richard Abi Chahla

The Lebanese water telemetry reporting system used to be based on exporting to Microsoft Excel to analyze their data.

I designed, integrated, and implemented a SaaS product reporting system and trained the establishment team on the reports configuration and generation.

Managed the implementation of the pharma CRM from scratch.

I started the analysis phase, designed the needed requirements, and prepared the technical proposal for the CRM. I also chose the proper system structure and technology, recruited a remote developer team, and led them during the implementation phase.

We launched phase one of the system after a period of six months, implemented it for validation, and moved forward with phase two that took us three months. Along with managing the training and handling the full deployment of this system, I prepared the system’s full documentation and assigned a maintenance team to keep the system going.

Started my own company called Purple Brains, and the first product was an electronic medical record and clinic management solution.

I began by performing a full project analysis with three specialties of doctors—ENT, plastic surgery, and orthopedic surgery. I then designed the user journey based on their demands and hired a UX/UI developer to finalize the design. I also recruited a team of developers in Romania and managed them to release the product.

Then I built the business model, market entry plan, and sales plan and launched the product in the Lebanese market on my own with minimal resources.

After one year, the system was used for more than 100 doctors with more than 20,000 records.

In 2016, I started working on a better idea to network inside large conferences and networking events.

The idea started as an event app with an enhanced AI that will arrange your agenda and match you with the right talks to attend and people to meet. Then I recruited a full-stack developer, and I was accepted into multiple acceleration programs and startup competitions.

After the initial MVP release in October 2016, we noticed that the solution was not in an event application. We pinpointed that this problem was not only happening at networking events but also in day-to-day networking (where people lost track of the people they’ve met and who they should follow up with). That initiated our pivot, and we began doing iterations to our MVP and trying new models.

Currently, Monica is a chatbot assistant that lives inside its own app and on Facebook Messenger with the primary purpose of collecting the details of the people you network with, mark your follow-ups, and remind you when they are due.

It was expected to launch in the fall of 2020, but the launch was delayed indefinitely due to coronavirus pandemics.

Fetch my ride is a valet parking platform, serving both the valet parking companies as well as the car owners.

In 2017, I generated the idea and started working on the market validation and competitive landscape as a personal project. Later, when the concept was validated as a proper need, I formed a team and started executing the idea. The go-live version was deployed in June 2018.

The user growth was so fast the multinational valet parking company acquired it only 11 months after its launch.

Kanoony is a legal platform based in the UAE. It allows users to browse through a library of legal documents, specify which language they want those documents in, purchase the ones they want, edit them online, submit them to your signees to get their comments and sign them electronically using DocuSign.