Background and Mei

Mei was created to help improve relationships using data and AI, starting with messaging, where more and more of our conversations are happening. However, many of our interactions still take place in the analog world, where the tools and resources available to help us navigate our relationships have remained unchanged for decades. If we’re struggling with a relationship, our options are usually limited to talking to friends and family, who come with their own biases and agenda. 

Over years, Mei’s AI has provided personalized advice to hundreds of thousands of our app users based on their messages. One of the top user requests has been to be able to directly chat with the AI, but doing this well required a lot of resources. Our AI’s interactions with users were limited to tidbits of insight and advice, each requiring our developers to research, test, and build.  This capped the growth potential of Mei’s abilities, until now.

Language AI development is advancing quickly and being made more easily accessible.  Technologies like GPT4, chatGPT, and other language generation AI models can create coherent dialogue with very little context.  Combining Mei’s existing capabilities and insights will create endless possibilities for new AI applications.   

For example, after Mei tells a user of our apps ‘your contact is more guarded than you, try a little harder to get through to them’, this advice can instruct the language generation side to draft a message that does exactly that, and in a way that’s that’s consistent with the chat history and the user’s tone, personality, and writing style.  Mei can build more personalized “reflections” of users and contacts that factor in all the information we can provide it so you can practice simulating a chat with someone and how they may respond.

Eventually, if you have a relationship goal in mind, like getting someone to go out with you, get hired for a job, or just getting a “yes” from someone, our AI could optimize what you need to say based on conversations that started like yours.  That’s what we’re working towards.  In the meantime, enjoy our new relationship coach!