Yoyo Labs Data-for-Good

Call for Informal Applications

We're excited to introduce our new pro bono Data-for-Good initiative ??. If you're a non-profit dedicated to positive impact, we're here to help you tackle your Data & AI challenges!

We are looking to take on 2-3 small pro-bono Data & AI projects every year and help non-profit organizations whose missions are geared towards helping individuals and society. Each engagement will be limited to 2 weeks. We recognize that every penny counts, especially where non-profit work is concerned, so that’s why under this small initiative we will offer our services for free.

Examples of ways in which we might be able to help you:

• Data Audit. We conduct reviews of infrastructure, platform and services, pipelines, algorithms, analytics, machine learning / AI or other relevant parts of your data-related Tech.?
• Specialized Deep Dive. We deep dive into topics you care about: a problem you have in the Data & AI space, an intelligent service or algorithm you’d like to productize, etc.
• Custom Deliverable. We build a first pass small data system, piece of data infrastructure, algorithm, model, etc. for you.
• Architecture Guidance. We provide a 3rd-party view and recommendations on data architecture, technical approach, ML training or inference setup, LLM deployment and finetuning, etc.
• Performance Optimization. We help you analyze and/or optimize an existing data system, data processing pipeline, or algorithm, etc.

Our Motivation. Yoyo Labs’s revenue comes from solving complex problems and from building powerful intelligent systems in the Data and AI space for enterprise clients in Advertising, FinTech, Social, etc. However, our recent experience working with Healthcare and Social Good non-profit organizations have ignited a passion within our team. We've witnessed firsthand the difference we can make in causes we believe in and we decided to keep it up.

Who can apply? To be eligible, your organization must be a registered non-profit with a mission centered around positively impacting individuals and society, not affiliated with any political party. Write to us at [email protected]. When you reach out, please include a brief description of your mission, the specific problem you aim to solve, and thoughts on how we can collaborate to have a meaningful impact. Depending on the depth / level of detail, we may solicit more information - we promise you won’t have to write a Ph.D. thesis for it. From there, depending on our availability, bandwidth, and overall pool of applications, we will select a couple of proposals and proceed.

Where are you in your data journey??

If you’re just getting started and want to set up your data strategy, can we help? Yes, in a way, that’s the best time to think about how data will contribute to your short and long-term vision, figure out what data you need to collect, and think about non-vanity metrics from the start. It’s effort well spent to learn upfront how to be diligent with your data and keep it secure, as well as protect the privacy of the people / entities you interact with.

If you’re a bit further along in your data journey and you’ve been collecting data, but it’s a mess, can we help? Yes. Most organizations out there go through this phase and perhaps now is the time to figure out how to put rigor and structure in our data and data processes, imagine the best ways to leverage data in the future and be deliberate about making it happen.?

If you’re advanced in your data journey, have established instrumentation and data processing, and are perhaps already engaged in data science, can we help? Yes. You may be wondering how to make the next leap and really put the data to good use. Whether you’re looking at massive data infrastructure, data platform and services, and advanced algorithms, machine learning and AI, we have deep expertise in these areas and we’d love to help out.

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Note: this is a "best effort" initiative and subject to evolving Yoyo Labs team’s bandwidth and availability. We reserve the right to adjust the parameters and criteria of this initiative at any time.