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Talent
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General
By helping global clients engage on-demand with extended teams of students and experts to speed business execution while embedded AI-assistance.
Students, experts, and teams join and bid on projects for free, while clients bear the full cost of accepted bids and the applicable Trumio fee.
Yes. Trumio’s premise is to facilitate team formation with the full repertoire of skills drawn from university and expert talent from anywhere in the world.
A virtual workbench and embedded AI smarts across each step of the project lifecycle to aid team formation, tools access, project planning, ongoing management, and delivery.
Trumio is available for one-off projects and also for annual subscriptions, which provide access to designated levels of talent, skill and capacity.
Dispute mechanisms are built into the Trumio workflows and can be raised by both clients and teams. This allows stakeholders to discuss a resolution or seek arbitration from Trumio or any mutually agreed third party.
Trumio uses matching algorithms supported by AI inference to match talent, team expertise, and history with project requirements.
Each project operates within a secure workspace with access limited to only contracted team members and client staff. All project data and content is encrypted, during rest and in motion, and Trumio has no access to it.
At the end of each project, clients and talent rate each other on Trumio creating a rich history of feedback. Trumio also draws AI-based inferences based on project interactions and alerts teams, clients, and talent at each stage.
Talent
Any student enrolled at university is eligible to join Trumio, create their profile, join teams and bid for projects.
There are no membership fees. Talent and teams join and bid on projects for free, while clients pay the full cost of accepted bids and the applicable Trumio fee.
Any talent or team is eligible to bid on a client project. Clients can filter received bids based on criteria like bid amount, matched skills, and past ratings and are free to decide on which team or talent to select.
Trumio can recommend team members based on matched interest areas and past project execution. However, team members are free to invite any talent or expert to join their projects.
A virtual workbench with embedded AI smarts across each step of the project lifecycle to aid team formation, tools access, project planning, ongoing management, and delivery.
Trumio provides certified proof of project completion that can be included or showcased on your resume or portfolio.
Trumio empowers students to form sustained, independent teams that come together based on shared expertise and interest and execute on client projects. Once you graduate, Trumio can continue to support you on your entrepreneurial journey.
- Trumio provides a virtual workbench with embedded AI smarts across each step of the project lifecycle to aid team formation, tools access, project planning, ongoing management, and quality of delivery. Experts and faculty can also join project teams to provide leadership.
For sure. Trumio’s intent is to foster global, cross-university collaboration so that talent across the world has democratized access to opportunities.
Experts have access to the same tools, best practices and management guidelines as other participants. In addition, future functionality will enable experts to be team leaders by recruiting, compensating, and managing their own team.
- Intellectual property rights are covered under the contract that every talent, expert, or team member signs as part of project acceptance. In general all IP and work artifacts in a project are owned by the client. On rare occasions, in instances of University-Client collaboration such rights may be shared and captured in the custom contract language that they both digitally sign.
Yes. Trumio expects experts to be judicious about allocating their time so that they are able to deliver consistently and with quality on client projects.
Trumio is an ecosystem where experts build relationships with global talent, clients, university collaborations and with other experts. This can happen while working together on projects, or just being part of the same broader team and engaging on the platform and community.
Students, experts and teams join and bid on projects for free, while clients bear the full cost of accepted bids and the applicable Trumio fee.
Trumio’s profile does allow prior work to be showcased via PDF documents and images to support their credentials and past experience. Further, as experts deliver on project work on Trumio, they start to gain live ratings and recommendations from clients.
100%. Clubs can be selective on what projects they bid on, while providing flexibility for members to engage on other projects as part of independent teams.
Trumio engages with Alumni more broadly than the Club and in different project areas. When prior alums are not on Trumio yet, Clubs can provide a referral and earn rewards when they join and engage on successful projects.
There is no cost to Clubs, students, or teams joining Trumio. All project costs and Trumio fees are borne by clients.
All talent and team members are vetted and visible as part of a project workgroup and have equal access to clients. If individual members do not deliver or meet standards, they can be dropped from the project team.
You got it! That is the core idea behind Trumio – to enable multi-member teams of talent with complementary skills to deliver on client projects. Clubs generally restrict access to only approved members, and a project team can be easily drawn from its membership.
- Payment milestones are included in bids and contractually agreed with the client on the platform. Trumio ensures that clients have funded milestones prior to execution, payments are released only on milestone completion and acceptance.
Dispute mechanisms are built into the Trumio workflows and can be raised by both clients and teams. This allows stakeholders to discuss a resolution or seek arbitration from Trumio or any mutually agreed third party.
University
Trumio provides a virtual workbench with embedded AI smarts across each step of the project lifecycle to aid team formation, tools access, project planning, ongoing management, and quality of delivery. Experts and faculty can also join project teams to provide leadership.
They certainly can as part of their project listing. However, as projects are generally executed by teams, clients find it advantageous to first accept bids and then apply filtering criteria.
- Yes. Feedback is provided by clients during the project execution and when reviewing submissions. A formal rating is a must at the end of every project.
All client projects on Trumio represent real-world problems that need to be addressed in the course of business. With active participation from clients and experts – students pick up both domain centric expertise and soft skills, first hand.
Just like any internship, every project requires the signing of a contract between each team member and the client, with an NDA being optional. The contract covers IP ownership and confidentiality terms and can be customized to each client project.
Each client listing and a resultant bid from a student team specify targeted timelines for a project to ease planning and manageability. However, there are no penalties for delays though clients have the right to terminate future milestones if they do not see sufficient progress.
Alumni
Not necessarily. You can easily search for talent and teams from your university and invite them to bid on your project. That said, we welcome your recommendations to us or to the university for a formal tie-up.
There are no membership fees. Clients can join and list projects for free. Clients agree to pay the full cost of accepted bids and the applicable Trumio fee, only after they have selected a team and signed a contract.
Trumio is a one of a kind platform that brings together all stakeholders at a University to collaborate and exchange benefits. Alumni clients get a talented workforce and students and professors gain from experiential learning and industry engagement.
Trumio is available for one-off projects and also for annual subscriptions, which provide access to designated levels of talent, skill and capacity. Additionally, alumni can also provide mentorship and guidance through the Trumio platform.
A virtual workbench with embedded AI smarts across each step of the project lifecycle to aid team formation, tools access, project planning, ongoing management, and delivery.
Clients
Trumio facilitates multiple levels of vetting starting with resume uploads, online proctored testing on specific skill areas, pre-set video questions, and ratings from clients on past projects. Of course, clients have the option to interview and assess teams and talent before they award them a project.
- Dispute mechanisms are built into the Trumio workflows and can be raised by both clients and teams. This allows stakeholders to discuss a resolution or seek arbitration from Trumio or any mutually agreed third party.
Clients have several options on Trumio to meet desired quality goals. They can provide feedback to teams to redo and resubmit submissions. If this does not suffice, they can cancel future milestones and terminate the project. Lastly, if they are dissatisfied with the quality or speed of progress on current milestones, they can raise a dispute and invite arbitration. Overall, clients only pay talent on milestone acceptance so they are always protected.
Intellectual property rights are covered under the contract that every talent, expert, or team member signs as part of project acceptance. In general all IP and work artifacts in a project are owned by the client. On rare occasions, in instances of University-Client collaboration such rights may be shared and captured in the custom contract language that they both digitally sign.
Minimum project sizes allowed are for the duration of one week. No maximum project length has been set on Trumio.
Trumio has implemented industry standard data security and privacy safeguards including encryption and compliance during rest and motion. More details are available in Trumio’s Privacy Policy.
