| Company | Expect Labs |
| Address | 350 Sansome Street, Suite 750 San Francisco, CA 94104 USA |
| Founders | Timothy Tuttle, PhD |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Funding | $ 2.4 million |
| Employees | 12 |
| Website | www.expectlabs.com/ |
| Rating | 7 bits |
Expect Labs is the creator of the MindMeld app, which is intelligent assistant understands conversations and finds information you need before you have to search for it. This is called anticipatory computing and means observing the past few minutes of a though process to be able to predict the next 10 seconds. Such algorithms can be found in Google Now and is also developed by Expect labs. The MindMeld app is positioned as an intelligent assistant and the API that they also developed offers an advanced developer platform and cloud-based service to power a new generation of anticipatory computing applications.
The API allows developers to incorporate contextually driven search results and recommendations into any app or platform. This means that developers can deliver better search results because the API takes into account the context of the user on your platform. This would mean that anything that a visitor did on your platform and taking into account where the user is (in the car or at work for example) influences the search results. It provides answers without having to type a search query.
The MindMeld app, which is available in the iTunes Appstore that can be used to easily search and discover content using just voice and touch. As you talk, MindMeld listens, understands, and automatically finds relevant content from social graph or across the web.
Expect Labs was founded in 2011 by Tim Tuttle, a serial entrepreneur with a PhD from MIT. They have several patents and won quite a few awards. MindMeld was selected as Best in Show at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show and was featured by Popular Science as one of the Hottest Gadgets of 2013. Gartner recognized them as one of their “Cool Vendors of 2013,” and we were selected as a finalist for the 2013 CODiE Award for Best Mobile Device Application.
With more and more devices becoming keyboardless and new smart devices such as smartwatches or intelligent glasses, being able to enter queries in a new and touchless way becomes more important. The MindMeld app and API is doing a great job in making apps, websites and platforms ready for the next decade. We therefore give them a 7 bits rating.
