Project Background:

This project aims to support the client's website, GreenifyAI.com, an online marketplace driven by AI (Artificial Intelligence) consisting of sustainable homes to help advocate for and encourage homeowners to be aware of the environmental issues related to homeownership. GreenifyAI.com intends to use its application to facilitate the buying and selling of homes with an emphasis on sustainability. Buyers will be matched with homes on the market that meet their sustainability criteria. Another application function will suggest converting conventional houses into energy-efficient, eco-friendly homes. Also, those suggestions would be in the interest of the homeowner community. 

Project Overview: 

Student’s will be tasked with the following deliverables to help our organization enhance its service. Final deliverables for this project will include: 

Sustainability Strategy Report:

• A comprehensive sustainability strategy detailing ways for homeowners to make their homes eco-friendly.
• Includes guidelines on energy efficiency, waste reduction, and carbon footprint minimization.
• Compiles data on incentives (e.g., tax credits, grants) and financing options for sustainable home upgrades.
• Features eco-friendly product recommendations, home improvement resources, and cost-benefit analyses.

Advocacy Campaign Strategy:

• Digital campaign plan to raise public awareness about sustainable homeownership and support environmental legislation in communities. 

The first consists of information about the homeowner's sustainable strategy, and the second on how to use it for community involvement. It can include any pertinent sustainability information, including financial incentives such as tax credits and grants available to homeowners looking to add eco-friendly features to their properties. Such information will consolidate with our fulfillment application (GreenifyAi.com) to inform homeowners and their communities of the advantages of home sustainability projects. This project will align with our goals, which consist of educating homeowners and possibly their communities on the benefits of sustainability, providing resources to help homeowners and communities realize those benefits, and advancing green housing development.

Our Business Needs/Purpose and Justification:

We are interested in identifying, advocating, and raising awareness about the importance of sustainable homeownership. We've created an online AI-driven Sustainable Homes Marketplace called GreenifyAI.com to aid in this mission. The website is a venue that facilitates buying and selling homes with an emphasis on sustainability. A central function of this marketplace is AI and other technologies that match buyers and sellers based on their sustainability criteria, suggest available sustainable homes to buy, or how to convert existing conventional homes into sustainable, energy-efficient ones. The company has stated that it requires more data to support its efforts. Our project seeks to aid this need by providing answers based on the two items above that can be integrated with the company's main application.

This intends to deliver value by aiding the company in pursuing its strategic objectives of educating homeowners on the benefits of sustainable homes and providing them with the resources to make their homes more sustainable.

Business Objectives:

• Educate homeowners on the benefits of making their home more sustainable
• Provide resources to homeowners to change their homes or view/purchase sustainable homes on the market.
• Create more sustainable homes for the environment
• Create more resources and space for AI to help push the green housing initiative
• Provide information to local communities on the importance of our effort and how communities can benefit from and engage with us. 

Preliminary Project Scope (high-level):

The milestones begin with the Project Plan, outlining the objectives, timeline, resources, and scope to ensure all the team members and us are on the same page on what will be completed. The complete research milestone involves gathering and analyzing data about sustainability for homeowners and partially for their communities. 

Project Assumptions:

Our assumptions about our relationship with the university team resulted from actions we believed necessary to address the homeowner's needs best. We will be providing relevant information based on university team questions. Assumptions regarding the project resulted from what we believe to be essential factors in any project's success. We assume that the Team will communicate well and complete work in a timely, quality manner. We also assume that the Team has the proper skillsets to complete this project and that deadlines will be consistent. 

Assumptions:

Client (Green Expectations, LLC) related:

1. The client can provide us with relevant information about their company's operations to the greatest extent possible should we request it.
2. Team will be able to contact the client with any questions or concerns.
3. The client can contact the Team with any questions or concerns.

Activity Related:

1. The Team will communicate well and complete work in a timely, quality manner.
2. The Team has the proper skill sets to complete this project.
3. Deadlines will be consistent.

Project Critical Success Factors (CSF):

We wish to create a solution that can support the application's growth, which is currently in development. We refer to these solutions as "AI Sustainability Strategy." We must be able to deliver a solution that can be used to improve the firm's application capabilities. We hope to do this by collecting and organizing information related to home sustainability efforts that can be integrated into the firm's application. Internal factors that will contribute to the success of this project will include the Team's ability to work effectively together, the Team's ability to complete deliverables on time, and the Team possessing the skills necessary to complete the project tasks. External factors would contribute to the project's success, such as the client's support, the client providing direction when required, and support from the faculty advisor when needed.