Fambot 推出面向家庭的 AI chief of staff

这家初创公司正在为家长推出所谓的“人工智能幕僚长”，创始人为前Instagram工程师、现任Fambot首席技术官Greg Karlin：https：//www.LinkedIn.com/in/greg-karlin-38857278/，首席执行官David Reich：https：//www.LinkedIn.com/in/davidreich1/，他是父亲，曾任联合大师总裁，也是前Uber产品负责人，最后领导了250人的Uber Transit团队。

像许多企业家一样，赖希打造了自己想用的产品。

“我有三个孩子，一直在这些高管工作之间挣扎——我妻子也是，”他解释道。“然后，每天回家后，我只想断开连接，陪陪孩子们，专注在场，一起做作业......踢球踢来踢去，但我却发现自己花了一个小时，字面意义上，赶上40封邮件，”赖希说。

任何有活跃孩子的父母都会告诉你，信息过载不仅限于电子邮件。还有WhatsApp群组需要关注，学校或儿童体育俱乐部专用应用，学校寄回传单，还有更多。他说，为了不断掌握这些待办事项，让赖希感觉自己被剥夺了与孩子相处的时间。

大约一年半前，Reich和Karlin开始着手开发解决方案，随后他们的第三位联合创始人Jason Morrow加入了他们：https：//www.LinkedIn.com/in/jmmorrow/，他曾在谷歌和LinkedIn工作。团队希望设计一种利用人工智能的方式，让家庭感觉像有一位全职私人助理，主动帮助他们掌握事务，而不仅仅是对输入做出反应。

使用Fambot时，家庭连接他们的电子邮件、日历和需要关注的WhatsApp群组。之后，机器人会提供每日待办事项清单，并提前查看你未来日历上的计划。

公司内部使用多种AI模型，但前提是这些模型无法基于用户数据进行训练。

与Poke或Instinct等其他热门AI代理相比，Fambot的不同之处在于它不仅仅通过短信工作。

这是该初创公司的一个重要差异化因素，因为它赌注是，像这样的人工智能的真实用户，也希望通过网页或传统移动应用界面与人工智能机器人互动。

通过提供软件解决方案而不仅仅是文本，Fambot 可以开发出更高级的功能。

当然，如果你愿意，你仍然可以通过短信向 Fambot 提问或获取更新。此外，团队计划随着时间的推移，将 Fambot 集成到更多家庭和孩子交流的应用中，例如学校、体育、团体和俱乐部使用的应用。最终，这将使 Fambot 成为跟进所有与孩子和家庭相关的沟通的核心中心——这是一个比仅仅是你可以发短信的另一个人工智能代理更大的承诺。

“美国有 4300 万有 16 岁以下孩子的家庭，他们还没有得到所需的支持，”Reich 说。 “有时候，我们知道你将面临的情况，比你自己还早，这样你就可以做好准备。”

在发布之前，Fambot 已经经过 1,000 多个家庭的测试，公司了解到其目标人群不仅仅是双亲都工作的大家庭，还包括独生子女家庭、单亲家庭、父母不工作的家庭以及其他家庭形式。这证明了该概念不仅对最繁忙的家庭有意义，而且 Fambot 对任何有孩子的人都有潜在用处。

该初创公司获得了 350 万美元的种子前融资，由 NextView Ventures 和 Baukunst 联合领投，并有 Correlation Ventures、Karman Ventures 和 Founders Network 参与。

Fambot 目前在 iOS、Android 和网页的测试版中免费。未来，它预计服务价格大约相当于 Netflix 订阅的费用，但也可能会有所变动。

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The startup, which is introducing what it calls an “AI chief of staff” for parents, was founded by former Instagram engineer, now Fambot CTO Greg Karlin：https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-karlin-38857278/, and CEO David Reich：https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidreich1/, a father, former President at UnitedMasters, and an ex-Uber product head who last led the 250-person Uber Transit team.

Like many entrepreneurs, Reich built the product that he himself wanted to use.

“I have three kids and am constantly struggling between doing all these executive jobs — as my wife is doing as well,” he explained. “And then, getting home at the end of the day, I just want to unplug, spend some time with my kids, be present, do some homework together… kick the ball around, and instead I find myself just spending an hour, literally, catching up on 40 emails,” Reich said.

As any parent with active kids could tell you, the information overload isn’t limited to email alone. There are WhatsApp groups to keep up with, dedicated apps for school or kids’ sports and clubs, flyers sent home from school, and more. The quest to constantly stay on top of all these to-dos kept Reich feeling like he was being robbed of time with his kids, he said.

Reich and Karlin began working on a solution around a year-and-a-half ago, when they were then joined by their third co-founder, Jason Morrow：https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmmorrow/, previously of Google and LinkedIn. The team wanted to devise a way to use AI to make it feel like families had a full-time personal assistant that was proactively helping them stay on top of things, not just reacting to input.

To use Fambot, families connect their email, calendar, and the WhatsApp groups they need to pay attention to. Afterwards, the bot will offer a daily checklist with to-dos and a look ahead at what’s coming up on your calendar in the future.

Under the hood, the company uses a combination of different AI models, with the caveat that none of the models can train on its users’ data.

What’s different about Fambot, compared with other trending AI agents like Poke or Instinct, is that it doesn’t only work over text messages.

This is a significant differentiator for the startup, as it’s betting that real-world users of AI like this will also want to engage with the AI bot over the web or in a traditional mobile app interface.

By offering software solutions instead of just text, Fambot can build out more advanced features.

Of course, you can still text Fambot to ask questions or get updates, if you prefer. Plus, the team is planning to integrate Fambot over time with more of the apps where family and kids’ communications take place, like those used by schools, sports, groups, and clubs. Eventually, that would make Fambot a central hub for keeping up with all the kid-related and family-related communications — a promise that’s bigger than just another AI agent you can text.

“There’s 43 million families in the U.S. with kids under 16, and they just haven’t gotten the support that they need,” says Reich. “We know what you’re going to face before you do sometimes, so that you can be prepared for it.”

Ahead of launch, Fambot was tested by over 1,000 families, where the company learned that its target demographic wasn’t just larger, two-parent households where both parents work, but also only-child families, single-parent families, families where the parents don’t work, and other variations. That proved the concept made sense not only for those with the busiest households, but that Fambot could be potentially useful to anyone with kids.

The startup is backed by $3.5 million in pre-seed funding, co-led by NextView Ventures and Baukunst, with participation from Correlation Ventures, Karman Ventures, and Founders Network

Fambot is currently free while in beta testing on iOS, Android, and the web. Later, it expects to price the service somewhere around the cost of a Netflix subscription, though that could change.

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