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Huw Siddle

Valet - A Personal Assistant in the pocket of every smartphone user

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Valet brings the utility and efficiency of a personal assistant for a fraction of the cost. For just £24.99 a month, you can download the app and make unlimited requests 24/7, track their progress and even pay for and approve any services from within the app.

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Huw Siddle
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Welcome to the new way of managing your life, taking back your time with the help of your new PA. Thank you for checking out Valet! The idea behind Valet is simple - bring you the utility and efficiency of having your own personal assistant, for a price that's affordable to everyone. It was born out of a busy professional realising that between high-pressure jobs, personal commitments and general life-admin, we had less and less time that we actually considered "ours" the more and more successful we were. The traditional route to getting that time back is hiring a personal assistant - outsourcing all that admin to a third party - but most people don't have tens of thousands of dollars sitting around to hire one. That got us thinking - what if you could get a PA, without the massive investment? Someone that would be your PA, but also could be someone else's when you didn't need them? That could use that flexibility to make the service affordable to a wider range than normal? That could give you one place to manage everything you needed in life? What if you could create something that could be *everyone's* Personal Assistant? That idea became Valet - an app-based personal assistant, built for professionals and entrepreneurs, that's available whoever you are, wherever you are, whenever you need it. The app is now live on major stores and comes complete with a whole suite of micro-apps including calendar, contacts, document storage, to-do lists and secure password management built-in to help you be as organised and productive as possible. We've got a 1-week free trial running for all new accounts, so please do check out the product and let us know what you think!
Unlimited requests 24/7 is a great offering. Are there any limitations or specific areas where Valet excels, making it particularly useful for users?
Huw Siddle
Maker
@ricardo_luz Good question! In terms of limitations, there's very few, most of them able to be worked around. We're not physically there right next to you, so we can't take your laundry to the cleaners, for example. But we can organise a laundry delivery service to come pick it up and drop it off when it's done, so all you have to do is answer the door! For specific areas where we excel, many of our members, especially entrepreneurs, have found our business services helpful - when you're focusing on building a business, having someone to manage your calendar is incredibly useful, and several clients have found the social media packages we offer especially helpful. On the flip side, many of them have also found value in what we can do organising leisure activities - it's good to have time off, but planning it can take up more time than you've got to spend, so it's great to have someone else looking into it whilst you're spending your time more productively.
Ilya Melnikov
Congratulations on the launch on PH🚀
@thomasjamesio
Interesting concept. Increasing access to PAs. How are you using AI in this and what does it look like behind the scenes? Would be interesting to hear. Also, a page dedicated to security on the site wouldn't go amiss - as this is commonly addressed by PA firms. Looking forward to see how this develops
Huw Siddle
Maker
@thomasjamesio Happy to oblige! So, behind the scenes of Valet is a team of personal assistants, all with varying different specialties, who take on the jobs they're best suited for. We have people specialising in travel solutions, in entertainment bookings, in more business-related services like social media and general admin - we triage requests so that they're always going to the person best-suited for that particular task. We're implementing AI into our system to help with that - making sure the requests go to the right people, and helping them to complete requests more efficiently - but we're taking it slow to make sure that we don't compromise quality of service, which is absolutely key to a business like ours. We'd love to have you check out the app so we can prove that. Security page noted as well - we'll look into it!
Zulfa
Congrats on your launch 🚀
Alex Sutherland
This is an amazing idea and looks like it's executed incredibly well - it's a very smart looking app, which goes well with the brand and idea. Is it manned by a team of PAs or is it done through AI? Particularly wondering how well it will cope with a boom in demand if it's the former, or how well it will cope with specific requests if the latter. Either way I love it, congratulations
Calum Miller
Maker
Hey @alex_sutherland - Thanks for the question, we have a team of personal assistants covering a whole host of different areas including business services, travel arrangements, administration, making bookings etc. so we always have the most qualified people responding to requests. We're slowly implementing AI to speed up request completion times but we're only doing it in areas that don't affect the quality of service we deliver. Valet should always feel personal and never automated.
Adam Fry
Very neat idea and liking what you've built to date. I can see a big unlock between the pooling of actual PAs to improve utilization and empowering certain tasks with tech and AI to improve efficiency. Congratulations on the launch, wishing you continuous success!
Calum Miller
Maker
Thanks @adam_fry , really appreciate the feedback. AI is certainly something we're going to be investing heavily in to ensure request competition times are kept to their minimum while never compromising the quality of the service. We offer a 7 day free trial so if you fancy giving us a try it would be awesome to count you as a member :)
Huw Siddle
Maker
@adam_fry Thank you very much Adam! As Calum said, it's going to be an interesting journey utilising new technologies to their fullest potential, but we're excited to get it started.
Tesseract Creator
This is the future wrapped in a mobile app today. Love the concept, execution and the general UXI flow. The hybrid use of AI and human talent is also a very good business model/product design choice. It will be sometime before ChatGPT or even Auto GPT or GPT 4 with functions is capable of delivering truly human like output when it comes to multi-modal activities like schedule this, do that, etc. Congrats and looking forward to using this.
Aleks Bochkov
Looks great! Congrats 🚀