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We have our next guest here. Hello.

Hi, how are you doing?

Fantastic. How are you?

I'm good. I wish it was in Vegas right now. But-

Me too.

Okay.

It is what it is. We've got to do what we've got to do, right?

Yep, I'm in a nice and toasty. Well, not toasty Cleveland, Ohio right now. It's a little frigid outside. So I'm staying here.

We're on the exact opposite. We are in Tampa, Florida. Were it is somehow warm today. So go ahead and introduce yourself and your company.

Alright. So my name is Matt Crowley, I'm the CEO and Co-Founder of a company called TonDone. We make it incredibly simple for building service companies. think janitorial companies, maintenance companies to do their jobs, and schedule works with customers. So while I am in Cleveland today, my co-founder is in Eureka Park. We at our booth, I got it, write it down, 60867. So we're present. But you know, I got a family, I don't want to get sick with COVID right now. So I'm hanging back here. But we're out demoing some new technologies that we've put out. You know, we have million, about 4 million frontline workers in the United States that, you know, even throughout COVID had to make sure that all the commercial facilities we use are clean. So you know, someone coughs in a Starbucks bathroom. You want to send someone in there to you know, light a fire to it and make sure it's cleaned out. And these folks are on the front line every day. And what we do is we build technologies that make it easier for them to do what they do best. So they can, you know, focus on doing the painting or like maintenance or janitorial work, the things they're good at, and they want to do versus trying to fiddle with a device to explain to their manager, what's going on with each step and each task that they do. So the technology we have is a phone app. We use NFC tags and beacons to allow workers to report where they're at. Report what they're doing. We tie into sensors like phone dispensers, soap dispensers, toilet paper dispensers, even cameras, to allow managers and customers, all the buildings that need to be serviced to know whether or not the job was done right in their facility.

Okay, that is super cool. So the first thing I want to say is, I looked up where your booth is. For those who might be watching from Vegas. Your booth is literally, if from our tower if we look straight down, we'd be looking at you.

Oh, I should have sent Bill up then to do them in person.

Yeah, that's okay, I'm enjoying this. So, um, there's a lot of interesting technology included in this. I love that like NFC tags were real popular a couple of years ago, and the way that, you know, we see a lot of crypto tokens and things today, where they weren't being used, really, for anything of value. But it sounds like you guys really had a plan for this. And it enhances your product.

Yeah. So my background is actually in the airport space. So I was the CIO for Hopkins Airport in Cleveland and Philly airport. And what you ended up with is, I like to joke, every time someone would cut the grass, it was a game of 20 questions, right? So you would send someone out to go mop the floor, cut the grass. And then you'd expect them to be a business analyst and take a tablet with them and type up well, how did you feel while you were cutting the grass? And was it raining outside? And so managers are trying to collect all this data about what's going on and what's the work completed. When in essence, there's all this data around you that's already there. What you really need to know is proof of presence and proof of work. Was the person there and was the job done? So you know, the traditional ways that NFC tags are used, what we use them for is, let's say, for instance, you have a job rotation when you're cleaning the bathroom. And instead of having to go fiddle with the device. We can tie it into the sensors in the bathroom. You tap your phone or device to the tag on the wall. And you suddenly reported all your work. And it's-. A part of the problem with the systems on the market today, like QR codes is if I want to not show up for work. I take a picture of the QR code and I print it off on my printer and suddenly I am magically at work but I'm actually sitting at my desk checking in and out of my job. So it allows for, you know, honesty is the workplace that avoids wage theft. Allows for no tracking of the work being done. We're not we're not trying to track the employees, what we're trying to make sure that we're doing is the customer requests work is done, that it's done. Right. If you have a planeload of passengers, you have 200 people coming out using a restroom. We want to make sure that right after that, that work is completed, that restroom is clean, and we're ready for the next group of people. So now it's all about consistency, showing proof that work is done, and making sure that all the facilities now that we're so concerned about health-wise, we have the technology in place to maintain them properly.

Gotcha. Okay. That's yeah, I don't tend to think in terms of, you know, how to scam somebody out of time and our money. So I never would have thought to take a picture of the QR code and scan it later. I could just scan it in a place like a normal person would have.

Yeah, my joke is I would actually take my phone to a Roomba and make it look like it was moving around a room. So.

Oh, yeah, that's funny.

So yeah, it's an interesting space. I mean, a lot. I think oftentimes, we take it for granted. Like, we go into our office every day, and it's clean, we go into Starbucks, and it's clean, you know, we park in a parking lot, and the, the potholes are patched. And there's a lot of work behind the scenes. And that's what we try to manage and get a hold of this. Make sure that we make that work be seamless and efficient. So that, you know, you're not sitting there questioning, Is the facility I'm into safe to be in? Is the parking lot gonna have my tire be punctured? There's a lot of work done behind the scenes. And I think there's, there's a lot of time wasted. And there's a lot of chaos that we're trying to give some order to.

Gotcha. Obviously, there very clearly must be a need for this, because you've thought through some really detailed aspects of the product that I never would have considered. So you know, what kind of install base is this? Is there for this, currently?

So we launched in like 10 months ago. So right now, we are in about 700 commercial facilities right now. And a lot of times these are were in like raising canes, chicken fingers. We're at some grocery stores, Menards. And these are kind of third-party cleaning companies, maintenance companies that come into those locations, and do work. So another one of our clients. Interestingly enough, they manage the pegboards at Home Depot, Lowe's, and Ace Hardware. So they go in and they place Channellock tools on the pegboards, and they use our system to manage their frontline workers going out to those facilities. So just like our customers, we're also behind the scenes. So you're probably going to a name brand that we are in right now that is being used for some sort of task management. But again, the whole goal with this is and our product is most people will never know about it. It's there. It's running in the background. It's being used to distribute work. But yeah, we're growing. We're growing pretty fast. We are just closing out in our second round of funding and growing our team. So it's been a fun, fun trip. But we're based out of Cleveland, Ohio. And we came out of Tech Stars in Chicago. So, you know, live in the startup life a bit, but expanding pretty fast.

Gotcha. Well, it really does sound like a fascinating product. For people who want more information or might want to engage your services. How can I do that?

Sure. If you visit tondone.com. It's just like two words T-O-N-D-O-N-E. Also apparently it means pancake in Italian. But it's tondone.com. And if you email us, you know my name is Matt Crowley. If you email me at Matt, matt@tondone.com, I will be happy to talk to you and give a demo of the product. Or you can visit us at our booth. And we can give you a live demo of the NFC technology.

Fantastic. Well, that. If you can't tell NFC is something that I personally have an interest in. I built a product concept at one point, based on NFC. It was a gaming product. So I'm very interested in NFC stuff. So that's why I locked up to that aspect of it. And I wish I could see a demo of it. But you know, maybe next year.

Yup.

We get to we'll get to see each other in person.

Definitely. But I appreciate you having me on and you know, maybe next year I'll get to see you. We'll give you a demo.

For sure. Alright, thank you so much and-

Thank you.

Have a good rest of the show however you're participating.

Thank you. Thanks, bye.

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