MENLO PARK, Calif.,
July 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Findo
Inc, an AI-productivity applications company, announces Yva.ai
(pronounced /iva/), an AI-driven Task Assistant, at MobileBeat
2017. This new AI assistant prevents knowledge workers from
forgetting about important requests through email. Yva.ai processes
the user's emails using Natural Language Processing and
unsupervised Machine Learning to automatically extract tasks and
assignments. It understands if an important request was overlooked
and reminds the user to follow up.
Radicati Group found that people exchange 269 emails per
day. While 8.4 of those messages contain requests and
assignments, that amounts to 118 tasks per person every
two weeks (Findo internal research). According to Findo's
internal research, 25.3% of managers experience a fear of
missing a critical task from someone. Even though 79.7%
users use various task management techniques, busy schedules allow
some assignments to slip through the cracks.
Findo developed the Yva personal assistant to keep track of
important tasks without any supervision needed. By reading email
threads, Yva understands whether or not the task was completed,
important or not and when the deadline is. First, Yva dynamically
ranks the user's contacts based on correspondence history.
Secondly, Yva conducts sentiment analysis to understand email
contents. Thirdly, Yva analyzes the user's latest activity and
project involvement. Combining those 3 factors, Yva assigns a task
importance score and adds the task to the Daily Task list when the
deadline approaches.
"It is not just another Task Management System," says
Gary Fowler, Co-Founder and CEO at
Findo, "Yva is an invisible Task Management System because
it's entirely automated. It reads your emails and alerts you if you
have forgotten something important."
Yva recognizes tasks assigned to the user and by the user to
others, which is categorized in the Daily Task List Yva generates.
The user can turn on reminders, where Yva will automatically prompt
the user's co-workers if they haven't completed the task assigned
to them and the reminders will automatically switch off once they
have completed the task.
More importantly, Yva interacts with users through email, so
anyone with an email account can use it. "Nothing to install,
nothing to download. You just cc yva@yva.ai in your email when you
assign a task to someone and Yva will help make sure it gets done,"
comments David Yang, co-founder and
Chairman at Findo.
Findo launched Findo.com, an AI search assistant, in
October 2016 and gained over 120,000
users in several months. Since then, Findo has indexed over a
billion emails and files, which has helped Findo's unsupervised ML
engine to understand major search patterns.
"A year ago, we released the Findo Search Assistant - a
Google-like search across corporate and personal email and files.
We help solve the problem: you know that file exists, but you can't
find it," says Gary Fowler. "But
then we realized that tasks were the most requested search objects.
Businesses and individual professionals wanted Findo to remind them
if they had overlooked something important. So we decided to create
Yva."
Similarly to Findo.com, Yva.ai can connect to both personal and
corporate emails. Findo's users include county/municipal workers,
financial analysts, managers, salespeople, small business owners,
teachers, students, designers, and many others across many
industries in tens of countries. All of current Findo users will be
able to take advantage of Yva's technology very soon.
"We want all of the 0.5 Billion knowledge workers and managers
worldwide to enjoy Yva's task management skills and become more
productive. The company's vision is to create the best AI-powered
productivity tools to assist people so they can save time, make
deadlines, and complete more tasks," says co-founder David Yang.
About Findo
Findo Inc., a Silicon Valley
AI-productivity company, headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Findo was co-founded
by award-winning serial entrepreneurs Gary
A. Fowler and David Yang. The
two co-founders lead a team of 20 artificial intelligence
scientists, engineers, and project managers. The company has nine
filed patents. For additional information on Findo, please visit
www.findo.com.
Contact: Gary Fowler
garyf@findo.com
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