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Apten

Omnichannel AI agents that engage leads across SMS, voice, and email

Apten is an omni-channel AI agent that engages and nurtures leads across text, call, email, and webchat. We help enterprises in consumer services convert more leads.
Active Founders
Daniel Ho
Daniel Ho
Founder
Daniel is the Co-founder & CEO @ Apten. Previously a PM at Tesla building systems to automate the detection and chargeback of supplier issues ($XXM in cost recovery / year). Built supply chain analytics at Amazon, Lucid Motors, and Walmart. Studied Economics + Data Science at UC Berkeley.
Roshan Kumaraswamy
Roshan Kumaraswamy
Founder
Roshan is the Co-founder & CTO at Apten. Before Apten, Roshan spent three years at AWS building sales planning applications & data platforms to empower the AWS Sales org. Before that, he ideated & built multi-data source capabilities for Flux (language) at InfluxData (YC W13) as one of their first interns, and studied EECS at UC Berkeley for 3 years.
Company Launches
Apten: omni-channel AI agents for B2C sales/marketing
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TLDR: Apten is an omni-channel AI agent that engages and nurtures leads across text, call, and email, and webchat.

Webchat specifically has been around for ages - but when a lead starts a conversation on the website and leaves halfway through, they’re gone.

Apten is not only able to start a conversation through webchat, but proactively reach out via SMS/voice/email once the lead goes inactive.

Today, Apten automates sales/marketing for hundreds of thousands of leads each month - we work with some of the largest enterprises in consumer services (industries including home services, healthcare, education, financial services, and insurance).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63At2HXNX4k

The Problem

B2C services companies today (insurance, home services, financial services, education, etc) rely on a combination of call centers, dialers, email/sms marketing automation systems to convert new leads.

These systems fall short because:

  • Human teams are required to scale up dialing/call efforts (leads slip through the cracks)
  • SMS/email automations are typically one-way, static sequences without personalization

Our Solution

Apten automates sales and marketing for B2C enterprises with:

  • Omni-channel capabilities: set up a single conversational flow that works across SMS, voice, email, and webchat.
    • Apten maintains unified memory across SMS, voice, emai, and webchat (just like a human does) to personalize conversations at scale
    • Apten can also switch between channels at anytime to meet a lead where they want to be met
    • Move leads through different conversational flows depending on where they are in the customer/lead journey
  • Intelligent follow-up: Apten will not only personalize follow-ups based on what it knows about a lead or a past conversation, but it will also dynamically adjust when to follow-up based on a lead’s repsonse
    • Personalized AI voicemails can be left on dial attempts that go to an answering machine
    • Apten is able to use local presence dialing to auto-match the number it dials from to one that best matches the lead’s area code
  • AI tools: Apten can take actions with your systems (scheduling, dialers, quote APIs, etc)
  • Human in the loop: Handles transfers to your human team at any time (cold or warm). Apten can also dynamically transfer to specific numbers depending on
  • Reliability: setup custom guardrails that automatically detect non-compliant messages and proactively fix them before they’re sent to the lead

Our Ask

If you’re an enterprise that:

  • Falls in a consumer services industry (home services, financial services, insurance, education, healthcare, auto, law, etc)
  • Generates a high volume of leads (5k+ leads / mo)
  • Uses marketing automation (drip texts/emails, dialer sequences) + a sales team/call center to engage leads over the phone

We’d love to chat - you can find us at http://apten.ai.

Previous Launches
Engage and nurture leads across text, call, and email
An AI agent that texts & calls in the same way as a human
Apten helps businesses automate communication with customers and leads over SMS text
Jobs at Apten
San Francisco, CA, US
$120K - $160K
0.20% - 1.00%
Any (new grads ok)
New York, NY, US
$75K - $145K
Any (new grads ok)
Apten
Founded:2023
Batch:Summer 2024
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Tom Blomfield