Ben Brigham

BIO

I m currently accepting limited engagements advising organizations on their AI strategy including selecting the right tools and building an internal team to execute on that strategy. I have two patents on Applied Artificial Intelligence granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING KNOWLEDGE SETS AND AI ALGORITHMS FOR AUTOMATED MESSAGE EXCHANGES U.S. Patent 10026037 and SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF AUTOMATED DYNAMIC MESSAGING U.S. Patent 10803479. I also have three other patents pending and numerous others in various stages of being filed. I have been applying AI commercially since 2007 when I founded AutoFerret.com bringing AVA the first Intelligent Virtual Assistant to the world. By engaging in natural two-way email conversations with prospects AVA connected hot leads with salespeople solving the problem of poor lead follow-up that has plagued sales organizations around the world. With a customer base healthy profits and what I knew would be a billion-dollar opportunity I took AutoFerret through an A series of funding in 2013 bringing in a management team and a board of directors. AutoFerret.com became Conversica in 2014. Conversica is the pioneer and leading provider of Intelligent Virtual Assistants- IVA s helping organizations attract acquire and grow customers at scale. Conversica IVA s are AI-powered SaaS-based software applications that serve as virtual team members and autonomously engage contacts prospects customers or partners in personalized human-like two-way interactions over multiple communication channels. IVA s drive engagements towards the next best action across the customer revenue lifecycle whether that s scheduling a sales meeting gauging interest to buy additional products or services or politely but persistently collecting overdue payments. Reaching out to over 100 million people on behalf of thousands of companies Conversica Intelligent Virtual Assistants are built on a proven and patented intelligent automation platform integrating natural language understanding NLU natural language generation NLG autonomous action chains and deep learning capabilities that engage prospects over multiple communication channels and in multiple languages. I founded my second AI startup Intelligens in Santiago Chile in 2016 to provide conversational AI for marketing sales and finance teams in Latin America. Intelligens was acquired by Conversica in 2017. benjaminpbrighamgmail.com