Grant Proposal : Autify Network

Grants Approved
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@Kinomora, Thank you for providing this information.

Starting with the next update, we will use the progress report template.

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August Progress Report

What progress was made on your grant this month?
Please summarize your progress in 3-5 sentences or bullet points:

Frontend Progress:

  • Product SKU implementation with the backend.
  • Added Features, Knowledge base, and User KYC.
  • Implemented auth system and user profile/settings.
  • Improvement on Vendor roles and notifications.
  • Improvement on Order Management module.
  • Improved QR code functionality, connected with order management flow.

Backend Progress:

  • Vendor management module APIs were developed.
  • Improvement in product APIs.
  • Development of order management APIs.
  • Auth System and user profile endpoints.
  • Production deployment using Kubernetes.
  • Implementation of granular vendor permissions module.

Business, Marketing, and other progress:


Engagement with Potential Clients:

Over the past month, our team has actively engaged with potential clients within the apparel and textile ecosystem. We have taken significant strides in building relationships and conveying the value of our upcoming product launch.

Stakeholder Validation and Pilot Programs:

We are running pilots with stakeholders from the apparel and textile ecosystem departments. These stakeholders represent a diverse range of roles and responsibilities within the industry, from manufacturers to suppliers and retailers. Our objective is to work closely with these stakeholders to validate our product.

Letter of Intent Agreements:

We are signing several Letters of Intent (LoI) every day from interested parties who are eager to formalize their commitment to our product. These LoIs signify a strong intent to collaborate with us and validate the value we bring to the industry.

Links to repos worked on this month:

What will you be working on this month?
Please summarize your development goals into a few sentences or bullet points:

Our team members are completely focused on integrating the traceability platform with the main Supply chain management platform, testing and bug fixing, marketing and PR campaign planning, customer onboarding, and product launch.

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Hello @Nabarun,

Thanks for your progress report Autify team. In the past, we’ve notified projects when too many months have passed without our team seeing Sia-specific integration work being done. The point of these grants, of course, is to expand the Sia ecosystem.

Please showcase your Sia-related work for your September progress report (due at the beginning of October) or point us to previous Sia-related code that we might have missed or was omitted from previous progress reports.

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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Hi @Kinomora,

Thanks for the response.

We started Sia integration and testing in July 2023 and added the same in the progress reports.

As we mentioned before, Sia will be the default storage layer on all our platforms. We will not have many updates related to Sia. Mainly we will be able to share the amount of data we are storing on Sia every month.

We aim to complete the production integration in the coming month.

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In this case, can you point us to the piece of code where you implement the Sia integration?

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Sure, will share the codes with the September Progress Report.

I will submit our Progress Report by 5th Oct, Thursday.

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September Progress Report

Frontend Progress:

  • Improvement on Auth system and user profile/settings.
  • Integration with Sia UI for the dashboard.
  • Improvement of Vendor and Order Management modules.
  • QR code connected with order management flow.
  • Testing and bug fixing.

Backend Progress:

  • Sia wrapper for storage integration.
  • Improvement to Vendor management APIs.
  • Vercel and Kubernetes setup.
  • Implementation of granular vendor permissions module.
  • Expansion of the tech team.
  • Testing USDC integration for the payment between Brands and vendors.
  • Testing and bug fixing.

Business, Marketing, and other progress:

Links to repos worked on this month:

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@Kinomora,

Because of a week-long holiday, our team was unavailable. I’ll submit the October progress report by tomorrow.

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Hello @Nabarun,

Thank you for your notice, however, please be aware that Progress Reports are due by the end of the 2nd day of the month, in this instance your October progress report was due on November 2nd. Please be sure to plan accordingly and submit your progress report on-time so we may continue funding your grant.

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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@Kinomora, I apologize for the delayed October report submission. The team was on extended holidays for Durga Puja and Diwali. Also, our team was occupied attending events and conferences for the past two weeks.

Going forward, we’ll ensure better preparation to meet progress report deadlines.

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October & November Progress Report:

  • Added Image upload endpoint to Sia and integrated Sia storage with the Supply chain management module.
  • Worked on Category and sub-category name input fields on the createProduct endpoint
  • Worked on the permission model structure for the vendor roles. Change the the permission to granular permissions Read/Write/Status from boolean, it’d be apt to make these fields Strings.
  • Upgrade the Autify Network main website infra.
  • Added more fields under order management.
  • Worked on the create order form endpoint.
  • Troubleshooting the populate Brand endpoint.
  • Worked on the user KYC and business KYB endpoints.
  • Worked on the send notifications API endpoints.
  • Worked on the APIs for Feature Request and Raise Ticket.
  • Upgrade the user magic auth login connection with user schema. Store JWT that magic auth provides associated with the user email.
  • We are hiring a few more full-stack developers and AI engineers to automate the data collection process.

Business, Marketing, and other progress:

  • Partnered with Zexprwire. The first PR will be published about our integration of Sia decentralized storage and receive a grant from the Sia foundation. The article will be live on AP News, Digital Journal, and 350+ media websites on 8th December.
  • Continue signing more Letters of Intent agreements (LOI) and partnering with brands, and vendors.
  • Our team attended Web3, Blockchain, and Supply-chain conferences and events across the globe in the last two months.
  • Graduated from NEAR Horizon Founder fellowship and presented our product on the demo day.
  • We are in the process of organizing multi-city events on How Blockchain and decentralization can solve the Supply chain challenges.
  • Working on a Meta search engine and Job board for the Supply-chain industry. This will help us get more organic visibility.
  • We are expanding our content team and aim to publish 8 blogs per month.
  • Actively engaging in ongoing supply chain research with a focus on aligning our product with market trends and demands.
  • Explored approximately 70-75 research papers on supply chain traceability, blockchain, sustainability, and transparency.

Links to repos worked on this month:

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December Progress Report

  • Worked on the storage optimization for images and product metadata in the Supply chain management module.
  • Started working on the RFID & NFC chip integration process.
  • Upgrade the production Infrastructure for the Supply chain management dashboard.
  • Worked on the Mobile optimization for the B2C end and next month we will launch more features like rewards, warranty registration, customer support, etc.
  • Partnering with a 3rd party company to automate the customer KYC verification process.
  • Worked on the APIs for the Raise support ticket Ticket.
  • Working on integration of the USDC payment module with the Supply chain management module.
  • Started working on the billing management module.
  • Worked on the raised ticket, billing management, and operation management UI/UX.

Business, Marketing, and Hiring progress:

  • Hire two full-stack developers, a technical writer, and an SEO person. This will help us write more blogs per month and get traffic from search engines.
  • Participated in a global online webinar hosted by GO TRACE, attracting a diverse group of fashion industry experts from around the world. Focused on sustainability and traceability.
  • Sustainability in the fashion industry research paper collaborating University of Leeds was published.
  • We working on optimizing our marketing and branding approach and achieving 100 B2B customers by Q2 2024. Building an ecosystem for the supply chain and the fashion industry is our priority.
  • We have been working on a meta-search engine, a job board, and a partnership platform for the last few weeks and aim to launch these by March 2024.

Links to repos worked on this month:

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Hey Nabarun, thanks for the update! The repos linked under “repos worked on this month” have not had updates in at best three months. Where would the progress of the mentioned bullet points be able to be verified?

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Hi @steve,

  • Some of the progress can be verified from this URL Autify Network | Your Solution to Everything Supply Chain. We already completed 90% of the dashboard and are only left with a few APIs, content, graphics changes, and testing.

  • If you see some of the above updates we mentioned are server-side updates. For the last few weeks, we have been working on optimizing and upgrading our infrastructure. We moved some of our infra to Microsoft Azure as part of our partnership with Microsoft Startup in July 2023.

  • As you already know we completed the development of the traceability and integrated Sia storage in September 2023. We have merged these repos with our main Supply-chain management repo (which is private and not part of this grant) for testing/pilot purposes.

    We wanted to test things in real-world scenarios before migrating everything to the new dashboard.

    As mentioned in the update, we hired two developers recently to dedicatedly work on the migration and upgrade works. All codes will be pushed to the above-mentioned public repos going forward.

    Everything is going as per the plan and will go live with the new dashboard and all the features by Feb 2024 end.

    As you might know, it’s not easy to open up everything when you have customers. We are fully committed to being 100% open source in the next few months and already working on this.

  • As mentioned above, we did a PR partnership and already submitted two articles two weeks ago and waiting for them to get published. We will share the URLs as soon as it’s live.

    We changed our marketing approach recently and started targeting more niches to increase our customer base without spending huge money. Our teams are now exploring events, webinars, and offline activities in the supply chain, fashion, and luxury industries.

Hope I was able to clarify your query. If you have any other queries please let me know.

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Our initial PR article is now live, featured in notable publications like Benzinga, ZEX PR, Google News Syndication, and over 350 other media platforms.

https://pr.zexprwire.com/newsroom/Autify-Network-Integrates-Sia-Storage-Receives-105000-Grant-to-Revolutionize-Supply-Chain-Management

Will share the complete report once it is ready.

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Thanks Nabarun. We’ll send over your final payment. I saw that you had begun pushing again to the linked public repos, is the work of the private repos now reflected there? Otherwise, the committee has requested access to the private repos you are pushing to currently, just for verification purposes.

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Hello @Nabarun

This is a reminder that your Autify Grant Final Report is late.

Final Reports are expected to be posted in the month following the completion of the grant.

Please be sure to follow the Progress Report Template and submit your Final Report.

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee

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Hi @Nabarun, please post your final progress report.

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Hello @Nabarun,

Your final progress report is expected by the end of this month.
If you expect to be able to apply for additional grants from the Sia Foundation in the future, we recommend submitting this ASAP.

Regards,
Kino on behalf of the Sia Foundation and Grants Committee