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The future of employment is rapidly changing due to disruptive technological advancements and generational shifts. Trumio, an AI-powered marketplace and virtual workbench platform, bridges this transition by speeding up research and proof-of-concept projects for international businesses by utilizing teams of students from universities worldwide. To start, Trumio’s co-founders have drawn from the vast talent pool in India including their alma mater in the IIT’s (Indian Institutes of Technology) and extended into other top tier institutions.

The platform’s interface is designed to harness the power of teams to deliver outcomes and leverage necessary tools to promote effective teamwork. Trumio delivers this through three pillars, the first being a marketplace where students can interact and organically form teams, whether from the same dorm, university or across different institutions globally. This marketplace serves as the primary avenue through which clients can discover and engage with teams and seed in internal or external experts as needed.

The second pillar revolves around the network, with an initial focus on university ecosystems hosting the next-generation workforce. This network connects current students with alumni and industry experts to facilitate interaction, mentorship, collaboration, and community building.

Companies benefit from fresh ideas and skills, while students earn income and gain hands-on project experience. These experiential projects foster skills like innovation, resilience, and problem-solving, enhancing student employability and entrepreneurial readiness after graduation.

The third pillar delivers unique capabilities as GenAI Copilots at each stage of the project lifecycle. These copilots help teams and clients by facilitating interaction, project management, planning, and AI-assistance to ensure project success. Next generation talent learn to use AI, boosting their confidence and efficiency and making them future ready. Together, these pillars create a comprehensive platform that enables outcome-driven innovation and collaboration between university project teams, experts, and businesses. By starting with rapid proof of concepts (PoCs) enables companies to engage with lower risk, cost, and speed compared to busy internal teams or traditional outsourcing.

Trumio is currently working with clients from North America, Europe and Asia with talent pools planned to expand across universities in these geographies later this year. An illustrative example of its networked effectiveness is illustrated by an innovative legal firm in Spain. The firm selected a team of students from across two IIT’s to prototype a custom LLM application that consumes and interprets 100,000 legal documents and make them searchable through natural language queries. This successful collaboration prompted the firm to consider expanding to other countries. They are also exploring avenues to move the project from prototyping to the production phase, again leveraging Trumio to identify skilled expert teams.

“Trumio operates as a SaaS platform unlocking innovation and entrepreneurship with talent-in-the-loop harnessing Gen-AI,” says Ronnie Ray, co-founder and CEO of Trumio.

It offers an end-to-end solution for talent sourcing and remote project execution via extended teams, within a private secure workspace - faster and more cost efficiently than any existing platform. Student and experts teams with a full repertoire of skills now have the ability to engage with businesses worldwide and build their own promising future.

The platform allows vetted teams to bid on projects listed by clients. Once the team is selected, legal agreements such as NDAs and contracts are also managed through the platform. In addition, all payments are milestone-based, ensuring that teams are compensated when they make progress. Furthermore, a comprehensive rating system enables clients and students to provide feedback, ensuring a transparent assessment of performance.

Trumio operates as a SaaS platform unlocking innovation and entrepreneurship with talent-in-the-loop harnessing Gen-AI.

Unlike traditional marketplaces, Trumio provides tools, capabilities, and AI guidance to help users deliver actual work on the platform. It assists teams to collaborate efficiently, as the company firmly believes that impactful outcomes are best achieved through teamwork rather than individual endeavors. By prioritizing collaborative team efforts rather than individual internships and dedicating itself to the entire university ecosystem—including alumni, experts, educators, and students—Trumio is emerging as a critical force in nurturing the future workforce.