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Nathan Baschez

Init.ai - Build powerful and intelligent conversational apps 💁🤖

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Create AI and natural language conversational apps through our developer platform. We offer a comprehensive solution that handles messaging, machine learning, and business logic, including integration with third-party APIs. You can suggest responses and update agent workflows in real time as well as automate many conversations.

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Soufian Malih
Fantastic! Looking forward to play with it.
Jake Cohn
Great work! So happy to see this out there. Curious, could you give us a quick summary about why you started this company in specific?
Keith Brisson
Maker
@leftearpod Hi Jake! Quick answer: we tried building a conversational app on existing tools and none fully suited our needs! Long answer: we see a huge shift taking place right now towards people connecting with each other and with businesses though natural language chat. For consumers, usage of messaging applications has been growing like crazy. For businesses, demand for live chat has been steadily increasing and is dominating other channels for consumer interaction. We're also at this interesting inflection point where computers are starting to be able to join in the conversations. The possibilities there are really amazing -- especially around simplifying information retrieval as the world around us becomes more data-driven and complicated -- and just getting started. We recognized these trends starting a few years ago, when we realized the incredible potential to simplify interacting with complex datasets. And we thought long and hard about what the user experience would need to look like to make that work. Ultimately our goal is to enable simple, powerful, robust interactions that simplify consumers' lives. It's a very UX-driven approach to starting a company that had ended up developer oriented and focused on relatively serious tech.
Harry Raymond
Super cool. Do you see conversational apps as an additional channel for chatbots or the main one?
Keith Brisson
Maker
@harryraymond Hi Harry, thanks for the question! We see chatbots as a subset of conversational interaction -- where the broader term can mean full automation (either natural language or with a more restricted button-based interaction), two or more people talking, or agents helping customers through live chat. We're targeting this broader space in general while enabling companies to build better, higher value bots. These interactions are happening everywhere: messaging platforms like Facebook, Telegram, Kik, etc, embedded with websites and mobile apps, and increasingly through voice on IoT devices. We help companies deploy apps on every channel.
Rotem Yakir
@keithbrisson Init.ai looks awesome! If you want to add some fun to your platform check out Guggy - https://guggy.com
Gregory Koberger
This looks great. It feels like it would make semi-automating support relatively easy. Can't wait to try it out!
Keith Brisson
Maker
@gkoberger thanks! Can't wait to see what you build. BTW -- we love hosting our docs on ReadMe.io. Great product.
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Hey it's my name backwards ;)
Nir Benita
It's exciting, and overwhelming, to see the rate at which these tools are popping out. One thing that really caught my attention about Init.ai was "Assist". I saw you were using Intercom on your site, which seems like a related use case. Do you expect bots to start popping out outside of chat clients? Would you say "Assist" is an example of that?
James William
Love the promise of what Init is bringing to the chat market. I work every day in the chatbot space with my company and can verify first hand that the problem they are solving is real. So many of the bot platforms are dumb down to not be usable for real commercial applications. Can't wait to start playing around with it.
David Gordian
@james_william interesting, what kind of work/bots are you developing? (if you don't mind me asking.)
James William
@david_g Of course. I work for Orderly Health. We are building a conversational agent to help people make healthcare purchases.
Joe Kurian
@keithbrisson Great product!
Keith Brisson
Maker
@joekuriank Thanks Joe! Can't wait to see what everyone builds!
Chris Colleran
Congrats to the Init.ai team. While I have not had time to dig into the product as much as I would like, what I have done has been great.
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