Our Work
Our Work — IoT & Smart Product Case Studies
30 years of turning physical products into connected businesses. Here's what that looks like.
EyeClick
EyeWiz
When Hardware Becomes a Learning Platform
Challenge
Evolving EyeClick's hardware-centric product into a platform smart product with console, web, and mobile user interfaces. Defining user flows, UX conventions, user stories, and analytics.
Solution & Outcome
TheRoad's team built product roadmaps across three platforms (web app, Android game console, mobile app). EyeWiz turned EyeClick's projector into a smart product. Assembled and managed a content development team producing hundreds of educational content games.
Task Force
Product manager, UX designer, mobile developer + educational content and game development team.
AudioDOTS
tvDots / News To TV
Automated News-to-TV Broadcast
Challenge
Automatically and continuously convert any news site into a TV broadcast stream with engaging, human-like narration.
Solution & Outcome
Human-like voice narrated over a context-driven video layer enables any news site to be broadcast as an automated, live TV channel. tvDots combines text-to-speech and video generation technologies.
Task Force
AI product manager, computational linguist, video automation specialist.
Homefree Systems
SeniorCare Locator
System Architecture Drives Total Cost of Ownership
Challenge
High Total Cost of Ownership due to battery and strap replacement needs on a senior care wearable location tracker.
Solution & Outcome
Product underwent a major architectural change that separated the watch body from the interchangeable strap and battery assembly — reducing TCO by half.
"We were impressed with their dedication and willingness to adapt and find solutions to issues and challenges."
Ariel Almos
CEO, EyeClick
Cyclebe
Cyclebe
Is Hardware the Answer?
Challenge
A social cycling platform competing against established sports apps needed an edge. The strategic question: should they build dedicated hardware to differentiate?
Solution & Outcome
Defined physical product architecture, cost structure, and assessed viability.
CashBAG
CashBAG
Closing the Recycling Incentive Loop
Challenge
In markets where legislation taxed bag consumption, there was no mechanism to reward collection — only to punish purchase.
Solution & Outcome
Defined the product concept, value chain, and go-to-market strategy. CashBAG added a deposit-refund mechanism that rewards plastic bag collection, closing the incentive loop.
K-dictionaries
Lexicala (K-dictionaries)
From Print to SaaS API
Challenge
Lexicala provides authoritative dictionary data as accessible, self-serve infrastructure for any application that needs to understand language.
Solution & Outcome
Defined a new SaaS modality accessible through a web API. Rebranded to Lexicala — increasing both demand and profit margins with a totally self-served process.
"TheRoad brought structure to what was previously chaos. The task force model gave us exactly the team we needed, when we needed it."
Itay
CEO, AudioDots
Construction AI Startup
scanProof
Enforcing OCR Integrity at the Edge
Challenge
Construction documentation required reliable OCR processing in field conditions — mobile-first, with limited connectivity.
Solution & Outcome
Built a mobile-first OCR validation system deployed for field use. Edge processing ensured reliability regardless of connectivity.
Task Force
AI product manager, mobile dev team, backend dev team, data science team, UX designer.
Sabanto
Sabanto
One App to Rule Them All
Challenge
Sabanto monetizes the gap between what appliance owners need to know and what manufacturers, service providers, and insurers want to access about those owners.
Solution & Outcome
Defined the product concept and value chain — a mobile application giving consumers a centralized repository of their appliances while connecting service providers and insurers to actionable ownership data.
AudioDOTS
LiveLingo
Real-Time Translation Broadcasting
Challenge
Enabling real-time language translation for live broadcast and streaming content.
Solution & Outcome
Built the product infrastructure for live translation overlay on broadcast streams.
"Yoel's holistic view of both the technical and business side of our product was exactly what we needed. He didn't just advise — he rolled up his sleeves."
Eyal
CEO, Commugen
ZooZ Medical
ZooZ Medical
Gamifying Rehabilitation Compliance
Challenge
ZooZ Medical transforms boring rehabilitation compliance into engaging gameplay — giving therapists objective movement data and patients immediate feedback to optimize recovery outcomes.
Solution & Outcome
Clinically validated rehabilitation platform enabling therapists to prescribe, monitor, and adjust exercise protocols in real-time while patients maintain engagement through gamified exercise sequences.
shoppingDay
shoppingDay
Turning Commute Time Into Commerce
Challenge
shoppingDay turns the wasted time of a commute into actionable commerce — connecting people to nearby deals at the exact moment they're already traveling through those locations.
Solution & Outcome
Merchants fill storefronts during off-peak hours; commuters discover deals they actually want; shoppingDay takes a cut of incremental foot traffic.
"Yoel brought both the strategic vision and the tactical knowledge to move our product forward. He understood our constraints and worked within them."
Gadi
CEO, eLinkAir
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