App service helps time-poor clients to get to-do lists done
Requests range from travel arrangements, accommodation and flowers to household emergencies
When Marcus Smith came to SA to work with PLP Group, a leading provider of bespoke business solutions, his children broke a drum in the house they were renting. It lay around for months until he asked the lifestyle team at PLP to find a supplier to repair it. This got him thinking about an all-in-one service that could facilitate this for clients. The result was Hey Jude, an app developed in Cape Town, funded by PLP Group and launched in February 2017. “We offer the distribution of on-demand digital services to global audiences where service is redeemed via a user’s handset,” Smith says. “The audience is time-poor consumers who struggle to get their to-do lists done and need all the assistance they can get. “In the industrial era, only top management had the privilege of a personal assistant. We disrupted this industry and want to become everyone’s assistant, to help consumers live their lives more conveniently and with better efficiencies.” Hey Jude is available in SA, Nigeria, Cam...
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