Home iDesigner
is the online collaborative 3D design and B2C platform marketplace for the shelter industries. A new way for consumers to design their homes that integrates their friends and professionals in real-time collaboration into virtual architecture and interiors. The marketplace for virtual products is also the marketplace for the real products.
Innovations: Separate the design functions from the implementation. Social and real-time design. Online platform with an integrated marketplace.
Shop the Maps
is a real-time geographic B2C platform marketplace on the Web and mobile devices. The platform is partially operational on WineQuesters.com, a major wine travel site developed by Intiri with extensive trip planning tools. It is initially focused on the California wine regions but may expand to other states.
Innovation: Real-time shopping for specials on a map interface.
ShoptheMaps.com undeveloped at this time.
Winery Quest iPhone app
is a mobile real-time marketing platform for wineries with tasting rooms and a navigation and winery information platform for wine travelers. First mobile use of Shop the Maps. It is integrated into WineQuesters.com's database.
Innovation: Mobile real-time broadcast marketing platform.
Intiri Designs
is focused on casual home lifestyle decor and interior products. It is the first Internet retail customer of Home iDesigner and critical for the development of that platform. Partially operational now.
Innovations: Lifestyle theme residential interior kits. A new conceptual framework for interior design.
A brief history of Intiri
Intiri was founded in 1995 to establish a chain of hardware and remodeling stores in Russia. To test the market for this large project Jim and Katya founded a remodeling and interior design company. Due to the Russian business environment they felt that bringing investors into the project was too risky and all Russian business projects were soon abandoned. The prototype store in Vladivostok and the remodeling company currently operate under Russian ownership.
Jim and Katya moved to Seattle in late 1997. After a year of self-study of Internet technologies and business concepts at Microsoft seminars they moved to Silicon Valley, CA in 1999 to start their projects. Jim is a native of San Jose.
Intiri.com is our corporate site.
Co-founder Bio
Jim Preston, CEO,
Jim has some 40 years of business experience in construction, public accounting, retail, and other industries. During college in the 1970's he co-built Preston Pipelines into one of California's largest underground utility companies, in the 1980's and 90's he was a CPA with KPMG, his own CPA firm for 12 years and an office founder / director for Deloitte and Touche in Russia.
Jim applied cross-discipline work process at Preston Pipelines to give the company a sustainable competitive advantage. He successfully introduced desktop computing at Peat Marwick, now KPMG, in 1981. His own CPA firm was a part-time lab during the 1980's to research user needs and assist programmers to develop desktop computer software for over a dozen industries. Currently Jim works only on his own large scale innovation projects.
Jim has produced useful work in over 50 disciplines and uses that unusually broad background along with ongoing studies to develop innovative solutions across industry categories.
Co-founder Bio
Katya Preston, VP, product designer:
Katya is employed full time with a national employee benefits firm as the senior manager for strategic initiatives. In that role she develops a wide variety of projects in business analytics, productivity, reporting, and Web application development.
Katya works part-time on Intiri projects. She designs tabletop settings for Intiri and helps with other design, technical, and administrative issues. For WineQuesters.com she assists with mapping, data collection, photography, and videography.
Business Stage
- Early stage self-funded.
- Revenue from iPhone app sales.
- Developing Home iDesigner into the platform marketplace for the shelter industries.
- Improving WineQuesters.com SEO and content. Preparing for advertising.
- Integrating Intiri Designs into Home iDesigner.
- Conceptual framework development of several related innovative platforms.
Contact Us
biz (at) intiri.com
Intiri, Inc.
2464 El Camino Real #80
Santa Clara, CA 95051-3002