Youzhuzi: Make the connection between engineering projects and document controllers more convenient, seeking seed round financing

I developed Youzhuzi to make it easier for project parties in need of engineering document services and document specialists looking for projects to find each other. This web platform is built around the matching of supply and demand for engineering documents: project parties can publish their demands, while document specialists and relevant service personnel can find suitable cooperation opportunities.

Starting from the matching pain points in engineering document work

Engineering document work runs through different stages of a project, involving multiple aspects such as construction documents and completion archiving. Different projects have different requirements for professional experience, work location, service scope and delivery time. When project parties look for suitable personnel, they need to repeatedly explain the specific situation; when document specialists look for projects, they also need to judge whether the work content, location and cooperation mode are suitable for them.

I have front-line working experience in engineering document work, and have encountered such supply-demand communication problems in practical work, so I tried to independently develop the platform with the help of AI tools. At present, I am solely responsible for the project. I hope to centrally display the scattered demand information, so that both parties can understand the projects and personnel in a more targeted manner.

Connecting both parties through project publishing and quotation

I mainly aim to serve two types of users: project parties with demands for engineering documents, and document specialists, document supervisors and engineering document service personnel. Project parties can publish demands, specifying the project location, professional type, document scope and collaboration requirements; document personnel can first view the public project abstract, and after registration and login, view the full information, participate in quotations and communicate online.

According to the needs of the project, the two parties can negotiate cooperation modes such as part-time, remote or full-time on-site. The specific work scope, price, delivery nodes and payment methods are determined by both parties in light of the actual situation. Youzhuzi provides information display and matching services, does not directly handle administrative examination and approval, and does not promise the results of examination and approval or acceptance.

Exploring platform operation and service guarantee

In terms of business model, I take the matching of engineering document demands as the entry point. At present, the platform commission is completely free for a limited time, and it is planned to charge commission from project publishers in the later stage. Membership provides auxiliary rights, and users who do not activate membership can also publish projects and participate in quotations. The price of document services is negotiated by both cooperating parties, the platform does not participate in pricing, nor does it collect document service fees on behalf of others.

At present, Youzhuzi has been equipped with platform functions such as project publishing, project browsing, quotation and online communication. It has more than 30 existing users, no completed transactions for the time being, and no revenue has been generated yet. I am carrying out operation and content construction around the matching of engineering document supply and demand, planning to continue to improve the product combined with user feedback, and explore service guarantees in the cooperation process. Fund escrow is a direction I will consider researching in the future, which is not provided at present, and will be launched after accumulating enough publishers.

Going forward, I hope to continuously accumulate real demands, learn about the feedback from project parties and document personnel during use, and gradually improve the communication and matching experience of both parties. Whether the platform can form a sustainable operation model still needs to be tested in actual use and long-term operation.