Octane AI - Fuel Growth & Personalization with Quizzes, Messenger & SMS

We believe that in the future bots will become more widely used than websites and mobile apps. Because of that, I am excited to announce that we have started Octane AI, where we are doing everything we can to make this future a reality. The first step towards a future where bots replace websites and mobile apps is to help the 100,000,000+ businesses around the world setup their bots. This is the first thing we are focused on. Anyone can use Octane AI to setup a bot in minutes. You don’t have to create your bot from the ground up and you don’t have to learn conversational interfaces; we’ve done all of that for you. All you have to do on Octane AI is choose what you want your bot to do and then customize it to match your brand. Octane AI is incredibly easy to use. “Are the bots on Octane AI ridiculously smart? Can they do anything?” No. Why? Because the future where bots can understand you completely isn’t yet possible. But we’re doing everything we can to get us there. Right now the bots you can build on Octane AI are valuable, useful, and simple. Over time they will get smarter and smarter as the technology behind artificial intelligence improves. I founded Octane AI in May 2016 with @benparr, author of Captivology and marketing guru, and @leifkb, the creator of Omegle, a chat product that has powered over 200 billion conversations. We are backed with $1.5 million led by General Catalyst (Phil Libin, the creator of Evernote), Boost VC, Dimension 6, Brad Hunstable (Founder of Ustream), Larry Braitman, and Allan Grant (Founder of Hired). I continue to be inspired by the tens of thousands of amazing botmakers in the bots community. I encourage everyone working on bots to keep pushing the boundaries and don’t be scared to fail. These are the early days and it’s up to all of us to lead the way. Let’s create a future where bots raise humanity to an entirely new level of productivity, effectiveness, and creativity.

The product looks to be solid, but there seem to be very big questions regarding ethics. One of the founders, has a Facebook Group regarding Bots where the community can engage in meaningful discussions. Here's a timeline of the events: " Here's a summary for the newbies: April 19 2016: Matt creates Bots group May ?? 2016: Matt starts a bot startup with 2 co-founders, Ben Parr and Leif K-Brooks. All 3 are active members of this group but make no mention of their startup until November 2, 2016. May 18 2016: octaneai.com is registered May 19 2016: Matt solicits applications + pitch decks from bot startups that want to be intro'd to investors. No mention that he himself also is running bot startup. June 3 2016: Matt posts "I haven't forgotten about you. It's simply taking a while to go through 100+ applications and pitch decks" Nov 2 2016: Matt posts "My bot startup just raised 1.5M!" Nov 2 2016: People start complaining about the lack of transparency and conflict of interest. Matt got 100+ of his competitors to supply him with their internal gameplans & research. Competitive intelligence at this scale was never so inexpensive. Nov 2 2016 (evening): At least 1 vocal detractor in the FB group is banned. "

Hi hunters! We've been working quietly on Octane AI since May, and it is so AMAZING to finally be able to talk about the work we have been doing to make bots accessible to everyone! Starting today, we'll be letting people into the private beta and gathering all of your feedback on Octane AI and how we can make it better. I'm really excited to be back in the game as a founder and working with Matt, Leif, and our amazing team to create the future of bots. ~ Ben

Congrats on the 🚀! Can you share some of the bots that have been created with Octane AI, @mattprd / @bneparr?

Really neat and simple product - I've seen it in action and in use by brands. If email was the big communication method for businesses to communicate with their customers 20 years ago, bots could be the next big communication method. This product is essentially Mailchimp for Bots and making this communication method accessible to millions of businesses.

Congrats @mattprd on new launch. Would share some thoughts on how this is different than other bot development platforms?

The bots community has been waiting for you to go out on your own @mattprd so that we can return the support! You recently said on the Hack to Start podcast that that's exactly what you were looking for. Congrats on the 🚀 man!

Been following what Matt has been doing for a while now and ive always been super impressed with what he's been able to accomplish. Best of luck Matt and the team, excited to use the platform! I just signed up! 👍

I added it to my Product Hunt List of Chat Bot Creation Software. What I'd love for someone to create is a way to promote these bots. People keep creating bots, but seems no one knows about them or uses them.

Naturally you'll want to integrate @bCRM Well done guys!!