Octane AI

Over 1 billion people use Facebook messenger every month. That's more than Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter combined. At the moment, there's no sign of it slowing down. With publishers and content creators amassing fan bases as large as 34m+ followers like Aerosmith, building chatbots provides an opportunity to engage your audience on a mass scale like never before.

At the beginning of fall 2016, Matt Schilitcht, Ben Parr, and Leif K-Brooks saw this huge market opportunity to design and build a technology to allow anyone, with or without a chatbot. After an exhaustive search, they partnered with West Agile Labs to help build out their vision of a more automated and connected messaging platform.

I oversaw the design efforts for simplifying the complex nature of chatbots. Branding and art direction was driven by Jackie Cruickshank while I lead product and interaction design with help from Danielle Hadley. With a focus on iterative prototyping and testing, we were able to design a fully responsive chatbot management platform in under 2 months. Octane AI had a successful private launch 2 months later with industry leading publishers joining the platform and a series A raise.