Data destruction is about offering peace of mind to customers that their confidential and most private information has been duly destructed beyond reconstruction. Mobile shredding trucks are usually 5-10T trucks and offer shedding on site, but leave a high negative environmental footprint. At Pulp Shred, we service our customers in smaller fuel efficient vehicles, we transport the materials back to our site, remove contaminants, shred, commingle and bale the shredded paper. These bales are then shipped to paper mills for processing into new/recycled paper products. Additionally, we also capture the very fine shred paper dust and are now collaborating with a local design studio to convert the dust into new products, thereby saving the dust from the environment and landfill. Further, to counter the on site appeal of shred trucks, Pulp Shred has developed a proprietary video verification system - ‘PULP SHRED Video Verification (PSVV)’ system.

The PSVV is a unique custom-built IOT software technology that provides customers the ability to view their entire shredding process. Customers are notified when their shredding is complete and can log in to view their shredding jobs at their convenience 24/7. Apart from the industry standard certificate of destruction, PULP SHRED provides verifiable video proof for an auditable tight chain-of-custody, including barcode scanning at each touchpoint, date and time stamps, asset identification, tracking and reporting system, container information (type, location, weights), service technician information.

Additionally, we have developed an integrated enterprise system capable of handling everything from customer creation, calendaring, scheduling, work orders, invoicing, payment management, customer communications, vendors, asset tracking and barcoding, field app (web based), along with our PSVV system.

We would like to productize our system and develop a general SaaS based system that could be licensed or subscribed by small-medium sized companies. For this, certain tweaks and additions would need to be made to the system and also software licensing considerations need to be thought through. We target both residential and commercial customers. Commercial reoccurring customers have been difficult to get and scale. One of the reasons is many of the customers are already locked into contracts and at low price point there isn't much incentive for them to switch. Our goal is the establish a franchise network offering our compact, greener and residential shredding.

Scope of Works:

Project A) Gather requirements for the application and create a Scope of Statement document describing the main functionalities. Deliverable: Scope of Statement document

Project B) Conduct a competitive analysis research about the application and how it compares with similar applications in the market Deliverable: Competitive Analysis document. The team needs to explore/research other applications/uses/industries for our Video Verification software system.