About Christian Wickham
The founder of PROWL, Christian Wickham, is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, including 22 years of experience at executive leadership level – running IT departments and on Boards. He was the CIO for the Naval Shipbuilding College in the Defence industry. He holds a BA in IT, an Executive MBA, and Cybersecurity and Risk qualifications from Harvard University.
As a Neurodiverse individual, Christian has exceptional problem solving and innovation skills.
Our journey and roadmap
The plans for the PROWL project are just starting.
A strategic roadmap outline is below
Design, assessment and setup – Pre-seed
Getting started with PROWL by assessing the market, creating budgets, designing the technical solution
Next is to create legal structures and the business, engaging with stakeholders and finding investors and support.
Proof of concept and initial marketing – Seed
Technical development of a POC to take to drone vendors and regulatory authorities.
Probing the market to build interest through marketing and engagement.
Developing legal agreements with third party data providers or consumers.
Engage with customers for feedback
Minimum viable product – Seed
Build a working version to engage with customers and allow evaluation and pilot trials.
Establish relationships with drone manufacturers to use the PROWL system.
Engagement with authorities to ensure compliance and influence regulatory change.
Engage with early adopters with a beta program. Work with consumers, drone manufacturers / planning software, industry, and regulators.
Initial Version 1 – Series A
Monitor and scale the product to ensure customers’ needs are met.
Monitor load on systems, tune AI, review for errors and bad submissions, assess future growth curves.
Obtain growth funding and further investment.
Expand marketing to selected regions for drone usage to hobbyists and selected commercial and industrial markets.
Version update and growth – Series B
Release new features based on feedback.
Engage more external data sources, review legal agreements.
Obtain growth funding and further investment.
Expand marketing to wider area, expand to usage beyond drones into additional markets, regions, and usage.
Market criticality – IPO
Solidify organisation, legal structures, and international footprint.
Identify partnerships and opportunities for growth.
Initial Public Offering or Aquisition/Merger.
Continued growth and market penetration.