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Become a qualified partner
We offer to consulting groups and IT experts an
attractive technology that is easily integrated in their portfolio, allowing them to increase differentiation, revenues and client satisfaction.
We are interested in talking to you. Contact us at
contact@lokad.com.
Benefits for your clients
Half of of the surveyed online shoppers find products to be out-of-stock 25% of the time. 57% of these customers typically go to a competitors’ websites or retail locations to find the products they seek. The Online Inventory Impact Survey, May 2007, BetweenMarkets
Less cost. Imagine the money your clients can save if they know more accurately how much and when they will sell. Less inventory, less stock obsolescence, or less staff.
More revenue. Imagine how much more revenue your clients can generate if they know better how much they could sell. No shortages, no loss of loyalty, or no idle employees.
Less time invested but increased forecast accuracy. Imagine how much of your clients’ time is saved when the forecasting is done in fully automated way, as frequently as forecasts are needed.
Our forecasting technology is typically deployed while maintaining a
positive cash flow: by the time your client receives their first Lokad's invoice, the benefits brought by our forecasts have already paid for the setup costs.
Yet, in order to get the most of our forecasts, we need experts, such as consultants and data integrators, who can assists our prospects to tune their business operations to closely fit the expected demand. If you are able to do that, then you're most likely eligible to become a qualified partner.
Your benefits
Tap into our lead flow. Depending on your core skills, we may not only provide the forecasting technology, but we may provide leads as well, that is to say, we provide contact information of companies that have expressed their interest in using Lokad and getting some extra help from partners. Our qualified partners help us to take over those leads.
Differentiate as forecasting is one of the very few business optimization that can increase the profitability of a company without any significant upfront investment. Instead of going straight for a tough sell that involve a business re-organization, prove your value first with a low hanging fruit such as Lokad.
Increase revenue through consulting and integration missions as qualified partners typically charge our clients to help them getting started with our forecasting technology. Then, we also offer
revenue sharing as well, which will provide additional recurrent revenues.
Non Disclosure Agreement
In order to become a
qualified Lokad, the
Partnership Agreement must be signed by the applicant and returned to Lokad (a scan send by email to
contact@lokad.com is perfect, don't forget to sign each page of the document).
The agreement is first and foremost a
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) between your company and Lokad. Indeed, as our prospects have entrusted Lokad with their contact information, we are strongly committed in enforcing their rights to
privacy and the confidentiality of their data. Hence, we don't hand over any nominative information without both the consent of the prospect and a NDA signed by the partner. Then, the agreement states that the prospect information and data must be treated as
strictly confidential by default, that is to say that unless explicitly stated otherwise, all prospect information and data should be treated as confidential.
Code of Conduct
Beyond confidentiality, we expect our partners to follow a
code of conduct while contacting prospects: prospects have expressed a consent to get assistance to get started with Lokad,
and with Lokad only.
Contacts established with the prospects must be solely focused on providing relevant and complementary services to Lokad. The partnership comes with an
obligation of focus. In particular, if the prospect is not more interested in the Lokad services, then, the lead itself should be reported as
lost by the partner (using Lokad.Leads), and
no more commercial solicitations should be take toward the prospect (unless the prospect takes the initiative to re-express an interest for either Lokad or the partner services).
If the prospect engages a contractual relationship with the qualified partner, then the partner is
relieved from the obligation of focus. The prospect has become a client of the partner, and Lokad somehow steps back from the relationship (although, we hopefully delivers forecasts to the client).
In other words, the establishment of the relationship must be grounded on the initial prospect will, which is to get extra support to get started with Lokad, not on unrelated product or services. Then, once the contractual relationship is established between the partner and the prospect turned client, we see no ground to enforce any more such obligation (but the partner must still enforce the Non Disclosure Agreement nonetheless).
How to apply
In order to apply to Lokad, just drop an email to
contact@lokad.com with
- relevant business information (company name, address, ...),
- your website URL,
- a email address to be used for lead notification (*).
- a few words about your specific interest for Lokad.
We don't accept applications from companies that do not have a public website. The website must exposes your
business coordinates, and carry relevant information concerning your business expertise.
We do not accept shared domain name for the email address such hotmail.com, gmail.com or yahoo.com. The domain name of the email address must be owned by the applicant.
(*) A word of caution: this email address may later be used by Lokad to send to confidential information to the partner. Once the NDA is signed, it is the duty of the partner to ensure that the email box is secured, and that employees, who have an access, have signed a NDA as well.
Later on, the email address used for notification can be changed at any time upon written request send to Lokad by the partner. Please grant us one business week to confirm the validity of the proposed change and update the email in the Lokad.Leads database.
Program fees
There is no fee associated with the Lokad partnership.