Company of the Month- WeShield: Embracing AI to Streamline High-Quality PPE and Safety Supplies

WeShield is listed by Analytics Insight as the Company of the Month in the ‘The 10 Most Revolutionary AI Companies in Healthcare 2021.’ WeShield was founded by a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to help those around them during the outbreak of the pandemic by searching for ways to solve problems more efficiently and meeting the safety needs of people and workforces fighting frontline against Covid-19. WeShield is an AI-driven company that sources and distributes high-quality personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety supplies to some of the largest hospitals, healthcare networks, retail, and entertainment brands in the United States. Powered by a proprietary sales and marketing process, driven by AI and coupled with an extensive network of suppliers, WeShield has quickly established itself as a reliable source of products and one of the leading suppliers in the industry. WeShield’s mission is to provide reliability in a world of uncertainty. By sourcing and vetting high-quality protective supplies, the company delivers the assurance that its customers need to run their businesses safely and effectively. WeShield’s financial performance is particularly remarkable, given that it has been bootstrapped since its inception. With limited external capital, the company has triggered exponential growth and generated over $100 million in sales in its first year. WeShield maintains a robust pipeline of sales opportunities and is poised to launch new marketing initiatives to increase its penetration in commercial selling channels and international markets. The Company will continue to build on its success and expand the market opportunity with new initiatives to continue its strong revenue growth and profit performance in the future. WeShield is also planning on expanding its product offerings and penetrating new verticals.  

The Passionate Minds behind WeShield’s Success and their Motto 

WeShield aims to leverage reliability to its customers. By supplying high-quality protective equipment, the company ensures that its consumers are living in a safe circle. WeShield was started by a group of entrepreneurs when the pandemic broke out and reached the stage of severity in April 2020. The company was launched with the purpose of helping source PPE for frontline workers. Since its inception, WeShield has established itself as one of the leading suppliers in the healthcare industry. The Company was Co-Founded by Michael Sinensky, Erika London, and Amy Bove. The co-founders and the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of WeShield, Roman Vinfield, have worked together in the past and hold a demonstrated track record of successfully and profitably growing companies. Particularly, Roman’s previous company, AI Assist, was acquired by its main channel partner, Conversica. Conversica develops and offers cloud-based automated artificial intelligence sales conversion management software solutions for marketing, inside sales, and sales organizations. WeShield’s proprietary, technology-enabled sales and marketing process leverages AI, proprietary algorithms, and public data to uncover qualified sales leads. The company’s system analyzes publicly available information to create profiles of potential clients. An artificial intelligent sales assistant crafts personalized emails to individuals at target companies and registers their responses. The system will then set up appointments for initial vetting calls and will follow up with a predetermined cadence of emails to maintain interest. Once the potential sale has been vetted, it will be passed along to an account executive who will negotiate the final transaction. The technology integrates several well-known software programs including Salesloft, Salesforce, and Hubspot. WeShield’s technology increases the sales conversion rate exponentially by delivering high-quality sales leads to the account executives.  

Leveraging Network and Technology to Address Necessity

WeShield is contributing to the AI Industry by providing test cases of how technology can be used to help reach customers in need during a crisis. At a time where thousands of organizations and hundreds of thousands of people were requiring PPE for their safety but were helpless without access to it, WeShield used it’s network and technology to help those in dire need.    

Disruptive Technologies to be Used More than Ever Before

WeShield believes that AI will be used more now than ever before to identify customers and their needs. Soon, the company will be able to use industry data and AI technology to predict and identify its clients’ needs before they can recognize it themselves.  

Galore of Valuable Clients

WeShield now distributes safety supplies to some of the largest government agencies (DLA, VA, NYCHA), hospitals and healthcare networks (Wellstar, Tanner Health, Planned Parenthood), and retail and hospitality brands (GAP, Gucci, Hard Rock) in the US. The company’s customers are grateful to work with WeShield as it values their safety as much as their business and honors that by providing them with reliability, transparency, and high-quality safety supplies.