The hospitality industry was among the most affected sectors by COVID-19. Unprecedented travel restrictions posed serious challenges seen in declines in revenue, insolvencies, and job losses. Many businesses had to rely on capacity reduction to overcome the ruthless march of the pandemic, with particular difficulties in running business operations faced by small and medium enterprises.
However, as history teaches us, periods of chaos present opportunities for growth. One such team emerged with an idea to approach the problem from a novel perspective. Unifai was born with the objective of optimising the organisation of the hospitality workforce and shaping the future of the modern hospitality industry, thereby securing hotel businesses a digital competitive advantage in the long term.
Unifai engaged Tech387 to build the product from scratch, starting from a raw idea and initial wireframes. Following a series of tests conducted with hoteliers, Unifai acknowledged the desired user flows and decided to go into the production phase whilst seeking an ambitious pace of delivery.
Tech387 was challenged to respond with the most optimal approach designed to minimise development time and reduce cost while not compromising the quality of product delivery. The objective was to release the app as early as possible and start gathering feedback from early adoptors.
Market Analysis
Competitor Analysis
Project Planning
User Research
User Personas
UX Design
Product Architecture
UX/UI Design
User Flows
Wireframing
Prototyping
Usability Testing
Backend Infrastructure
Cloud Architecture
Data Science
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
Manual Testing
QA Automation
Translations
Product Ownership
Mobile Apps
Web Apps
Web Platforms
Digital Marketing
SEO & ASO
Copywriting
Analytics
Custom Funnels
Product Scaling
DevOps
MLOps
Data Analysis
The user’s intelligent management dashboard allows staff to view and organize their duties in multiple preview types: list, board, and calendar. Users can create specific tasks, provide task details, and assign co-workers to enhance individual accountability and spark collaboration. Tasks can be accessed from anywhere at any time, being constantly updated in real-time and making the decision-making process as seamless as possible.
The smart analytics system provides insights into employee productivity and enables managers to track the processing of tasks. Users are enriched with valuable information on all types of activities, be it duty tickets, reported lost and found items, or preventive maintenance reports. Coupled with instant push notifications and AI-driven processing improvement suggestions, hoteliers can minimize slack-off behavior and utilize employees’ time more efficiently.
All employee communication flows through the app, effectively separating work and private life. Co-workers can engage and collaborate through the internal chat module, share important images, videos, document files, create polls, or send voice messages. In the newsboard feed, users can post updates, interact with each other through likes and comments, or simply find out what is going on in their hotel or department.
Thanks to the handbook functionality, employees have all the necessary information in one place, making the onboarding of new employees easier than ever. Unifai comes out as an ideal customizable software suitable for any hospitality business regardless of its volume or complexity of operations, as it is designed on a role and permission basis to support all possible bureaucratic structures and languages.