Optimal Access

Managing access to information efficiently is a daily struggle for information workers.

Using spreadsheets and bookmarks is not the most efficient way to curate, organize and access research online.

At Optimal Access, we have developed a bookmarking app that makes it easy for anyone to curate, comment, organize, and easily access and share information in context!

What makes our bookmarking apps different is the ability to author the access and easily organize and reorganize what you have saved for optimal access to your information!

Here are some great applications for our tools.

Swipe Files: Capture your teams best ideas and save time creating new content by saving the best to inspire you

Content Hubs: You need to organize your assets intelligently so your sales and marketing can find and re-use the information. You can use these hubs for "Account-Based Marketing" improving both the sharing and engagement of content.

Curated Newsletters: As a thought leader you want an efficient solution to curate, comment, and share industry news! We integrate with many leading Email automation platforms.

Chatbot CMS: For natural language chatbots to work well they need structured content. We have developed webhooks for managing Dialogflow chatbot responses.

Research Tool: Any type of online research, whether it is news curation, or researching your competitors can be made more efficient with our tools.

A Better Way to Curate, Organize, Access, and Share your Research with our Bookmarking apps

Botcopy

Conversational Chatbots are the ideal interface for many business applications.

With the help of conversational chatbots, you can understand how users are actively looking for information and match user requests with the appropriate response.

Today, it is easily possible to build your own Alexa or Siri type interface to answer users' questions!

There are two important principles for building good chatbots.

-You need machine-readable knowledge

- You need to limit the conversation to specific topics or projects.

I have been working with Botcopy in a business development capacity and integrated our curation solution as a CMS for building chatbots!

In partnership with Botcopy and Google's Dialogflow, we provide tools and consulting for building conversational chatbots for your business!

**Our Target Market**

Project Management: To work efficiently companies generally use multiple systems and knowledge management portals. Our curated CMS will prepare content for use in chatbots.

Political Campaigns: Political Campaigns generate tens of documents to support volunteers. Conversational chatbots offer a better system for managing and distributing content!

FAQ systems: Conversational Chatbots are ideal for answering frequently asked questions. We help you train your chatbots to learn from your users and manage your responses using our CMS solution.

Dialogflow Chatbots | Chatbot CMS | Chatbot Response Management | Chatbot Design Services

WebSpectator Corp.

Webspectator offered a real-time messaging network capable of building bi-directional connections between the server and the client.

This technology was used to build the first ad viewability solution, approved by MRC to measure and deliver ads based on time spent.

I was responsible for setting up our DSP relationships, as well as working with ad agencies and publishers.

As Chief Revenue Officer I helped the company reach 6 million dollars in revenue in two years.

I helped set up our relationship with Google's Doubleclick division that helped us build our RTB platform.

Managed relationships with major ad agencies like GumGum, Deutsch, Chiat\Day, engage:BDR and publishers like TMZ, NYTimes Tennis Channel, and Mountain Bike review.

Ad Viewability | Ad Network | Realtime Messaging

iVisit LLC

iVisit was a subsidiary of IPPlex and the developer of the first pee-peer unified communication solution.

I joined the company to help the founder successfully raise financing from my network.

In my short time there as business development manager, I helped introduce iVisit to the management at Verizon.

iVisit was developing the first mobile multi-user video communication solution on 2G networks and working on computer vision-type applications.

IPPLEX was sold to Nantworks in 2010 and continued as part of the Nantworks ecosystem.

Unified Communication | Peer-Peer Communication | Multi-user Web Conferencing | Mobile Services

Optimal Access Inc.

The vision behind Optimal Access was simple!

Empower every user to curate and access information their way.

The idea for Optimal Access came out of a need for managing IT resources.

Optimal Desktop had over 500K users, was featured in Laptop magazine, bundled with Toshiba laptops, and was used by IT professionals and major corporations.

Our current tools and vision for our company are built on the successes we had with our initial launch.

To appreciate the featured and functionalities of our products, let me just share a few reviews:

"This is outstanding software - I think you have out Enfished Enfish!  I have been using their software for many years but yours is solid as a rock, simple to use, and totally functional. Well done. I run a medical unit for a company and one of the services we are developing involves rapid access to our intranet content and this would be an excellent way of doing this."
- Geoff T, UK 

"This is the most outstanding and well thought through application I have come across in my 22 years in IT. I cannot think of anything to add to this application. Congratulations and keep it up!"
- Mias, N  South Africa 

"Just a quick note to inform you of impressions of your Optimal desktop. This is probably the most impressive piece of software that I have seen in years. Just what I have been looking for to navigate my machine. Very intuitive in its operation. E-mail integration would be even more impressive if that is one of your future upgrades.
- Mike S, USA 

"Optimal Desktop is as much of a browser as Broadpage or Netcaptor or Research Desk or Opera or whatever, I've used them all. It's my Browser of choice right now, and my other browsers are lying fallow."
- Gene V, USA

Multi-Tab Browser Interface | Curated Information Access 

Mastering Stress

As an independent consultant I worked closely with the founder to raise capital and generate revenue for the company. Mastering Stress was a pioneer in online self help software.

Selected Accomplishments:
	• Prepared Business plan
	• Business Development - Signed a 250K content deal with Healthgate an online health portal company

Independent Consultant - Business Development

mention software

As an independent Consultant I provided Market Research and Consulting services for a German based Software Company - with an Enterprise Resource Planning software (ERP).

Selected Accomplishments
	• ERP Market, product and feature analysis
	• Identified potential acquisition partners

KeyLabs

As a founding officer of this independent testing company I was instrumental in helping the company grow from start up to multi million dollars in sales in a short time.

Selected Accomplishments:
	• Created pricing and sales process
	• Hired and managed the sales team
	• Grew Sales to 5 million dollars in 2 years
	• Created and executed the beginning phases of KeyLabs product strategy

KeyLabs split its testing and product devisions. KeyLabs was sold to Exodus Communications and the product company Altiris had a successful IPO in 2001

Computer Software testing Services | Disk Imaging Software | Largest Independent Network Lab 

Diagsoft

As a sales and Business development executive I helped manage Diagsoft’s west coast operations. Diagsoft offered retail and OEM software diagnostic solutions.

Selected Accomplishments:
	• Managed OEM accounts
	• Closed a multi-year OEM deal with Toshiba

Software Diagnostic Testing Tools

XXCAL

As the leading sales person and later head of sales I was instrumental in growing XXCAL’s testing business and creating a very successful marketing program that helped Advanced Micro Devices introduce its CPU’s to the market and successfully compete with Intel in the OEM market.

Selected Accomplishments
	• Number one sales person in testing division
	• As National Sales Manager grew company sales by 350% in 18 months (to 7 million dollars
	• Created first independent Software Certification program in the industry

Leading Independent Software Testing Services

I believe in continuous growth and discovery!

If I have seen further than others, it is upon standing on the shoulder of giants!

In my Toastmasters group, I am known as the resident philosopher.

Likely because I studied philosophy and humanities with a master educator and philosopher, Roger Weir for 15 years in Los Angeles.

Much of what I do today, is inspired by my philosophical education and a passion for empowering people to share what they know with others!

Roger based his education on the knowledge acquired from the greatest minds in the history of mankind and presented every Saturday at 10 am in the tradition of ancient Greek philosophers.

He used his personal library, which at that time we met was around 40 thousand books as reference for his lectures.

Once I asked him if he had read all the books in his library and he said he can index them all!

My solutions are designed to let people curate, index, and share their research in context!

I chose the name Optimal Access for my company because optimal access to information is a moving target. Our vision is to make it easy for anyone to build optimal access to curated research.

**What I do, Who do I help**

I am an avid user of my own tools because I believe we must build things we want to use ourselves.

Over the years I have worked and marketed our products to a diverse group of information workers.

Our Optimal Desktop solution built on the same philosophy in our first incarnation had hundreds of thousands of users, an active community of over 12K people, and major corporate clients.

Today, with an explosion of content and fragmented tools, our vision of curation is needed more than ever!

Here are some applications of our tools:

*Content Marketers: Use curation to research and support their articles

*Copy Writers: Use curation to swipe the best ideas as inspiration for their next post

*Journalist: Use curation to save and access articles for their next piece

*Project Managers: Use curation to organize content from different sources and improve productivity

*Business Owners: Can use curation to create assets out of the best ideas generated by their teams

*Email Marketers: Can use curated newsletters to establish thought leadership and save time generating content

*Venture Capital Investors: Can use curation to keep track of their portfolio companies, manage their research, and stay up to date with the latest technologies

🛑 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷 𝑳𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝑰 𝑰𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔. (𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒕𝑮𝑷𝑻 𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝑵𝑶𝑻 𝒂 𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅𝒈𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒆.)

If you’re using ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity daily, you know the pain: your most valuable insights vanish into an endless scroll, locked away from your projects and notes.

You need a system, not a scrollbar.

Kurator is the only tool built to transform your chaotic AI chat history into an instantly accessible, searchable, and organized "Second Brain."

🔑 The Killer Feature: Deep Context Capture
Kurator is a Chromium Browser Extension that goes far beyond saving a simple link. 

It captures the entire conversation and allows you to enrich it with critical metadata:

- Headline: Enter the specific reason for this conversation (i.e., "Q4 Marketing Strategy Draft")
- Image: Automatically captures the logo or image of the LLM you used (OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.)
- Organization: Store the chat link directly alongside other relevant project files in designated collections.
-Content Tags: For fast categorization and retrieval across your entire  knowledge base.
- The Real Game Changer (Custom AI Prompts): Create powerful, reusable AI prompts that run on your saved chat. Instantly generate a Summary of the conversation plus a List of all the key questions asked, and save it all in the Description.

Hundreds of AI conversations. Organized, annotated, and instantly accessible with one click.
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Karan Bavandi

Founder of Optimal Access | AI Driven Content Solutions for Creators and Marketers

Would love the groups thoughts, how do you currently organize your chat history? Does this problem and solution resonate with you?

𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝑨𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏?

If you use ChatGPT, Gemini, or other AI tools daily, you know the pain: your most valuable chats get lost in an endless scroll. 

You remember a brilliant insight or a perfect piece of code, but finding it again feels impossible.

What if you could instantly save, tag, and summarize any AI conversation, and actually find it later?

That’s exactly why I built Kurator.

It’s a browser extension that acts as your second brain for AI chats. With one click, you can:

✅ Save any AI conversation (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.)
✅ Auto-generate summaries & extract key questions using custom prompts
✅ Tag and organize chats by project, topic, or purpose
✅ Instantly filter and retrieve exactly what you need

No more digging. No more lost context. Just a clean, organized library of your most important AI interactions—ready whenever you need to continue the conversation or reuse that golden insight.

Click to get Kurator and our Holiday deal. With the coupon you can have Kurator for just $2.88/month. Its free to try.

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𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒍, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚.

Information overload isn’t the problem.
Retrieval failure is.

We read articles, save links, and have long AI conversations, then assume we’ll remember them later. We don’t. And that’s not a flaw. Memory doesn’t scale.

High performers don’t rely on memory.

They rely on systems that surface the right information at the right time.
- Bookmarks lose context.
 - Notes disconnect sources.
 - AI chat histories disappear into scroll.

Kurator flips the model.

It lets you save webpages and AI conversations with context, add structure (title, source, tags), add descriptions using custom GPT prompts you design, and retrieve what matters when you need it, without guessing keywords or digging through tabs.

You don’t remember information.
 You retrieve it.
That’s the shift.

You can do all of this for less than $2.88/month. Find the offer in the comments.

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