AI Does Your Laundry

It can be threatening if not downright scary sometimes to
consider the extent to which apps and Artificial Intelligence now
run our lives.


But it’s also exciting to think about all the ways that this
technology can be used to cure diseases or build sophisticated
satellite systems or even do simple things - like helping us do
the laundry! Or training a new employee on how to do their job.


AI Laundry


Chris Hilliard is co-founder of Suds Laundry Service, a
traditional laundry service with a distinctly 21st century twist:
Suds has created a custom app that customers can use to schedule
laundry pickup and delivery from their home, dorm or office along
with any special instructions. Suds will launder or dry clean the
clothes and return them within 24 hours.


Chris and his partners created the company in 2019, while they
were still college students at Southern University in Baton
Rouge,  looking for a solution to the piles of laundry
building up in their dorm rooms. In the years since, they have
graduated and grown their startup with help from the Southern
University Law Centers’ Technology and Entrepreneur Clinic.


Chris grew up in Lafayette and now calls Baton Rouge home.


AI Hires & Trains


David DeCuir is a partner in iCan Technologies, which provides
software tools to help companies effectively train and track the
competency of their employees and contractors, which is no small
thing for the industrial and energy companies that David’s
company works with.


iCan also recently developed an AI technology that helps
companies create scripts for job interviews, offering an
interviewer specific real-time questions and prompts based on how
an applicant is responding. Think about that for a moment! 


David co-founded the company in early 2020 – literally weeks
before COVID changed everything, in his case for the better. He
didn’t start out looking to create a tech startup but had spent
years working in the oil and gas industry and realized there was
an opportunity to do things better.


David also is a native of Lafayette. 


Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the
Boulevard. You can find photos from this show by Brian
Pavlich at itsbatonrouge.la.


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