Notion.ai
Notion.ai, led by Guy Souter, is building an AI intelligence layer on top of digital communications, starting with iOS and Android email clients and an Alexa skill. The company was pre-revenue at the time of the interview, had raised around $10 million in early-stage capital, and reported tens of thousands of downloads with over 1,000 new downloads per day in the most recent month.
Guy Souter believes digital communication has become unwieldy and that a personal AI layer sitting on top of communications is the only way out. They started with email because it is where people spend the most time and have the most problems.
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