Software developers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to build apps that are faster, smarter and more efficient than ever before, but they appear to have forgotten about the user interface (UI), says Rabi Shanker Guha, the co-founder of Thesys. The Californian start-up, which has today announced the completion of a $4 million seed funding round, promises to create “stunning, dynamic and personalised interfaces that respond in real time to user needs”.
Thesys’s value proposition is built on the idea that while software engineers have made huge progress incorporating AI into the back-end of apps – so they can do things that have never been possible before – the front-end has largely been neglected. Users are therefore stuck interacting with apps in the same old ways they always have.
Guha uses the example of social media to explain what he’s getting at. “Every single person who logs into Facebook sees something different because the user experience is tailored to their individual interests, preferences, information and more,” he says. “By contrast, when we open up most business applications, we all see broadly the same thing.”
Even in the generative AI applications now getting such huge attention, the interface between app and user is functional rather than engaging, Thesys complains. Users tell the app what they want through old-fashioned text boxes, it points out, issuing instructions that feel like outdated command lines.
Thesys’s software-as-a-service solution aims to change that. It enables businesses building new products for customers to incorporate a much more adaptive front-end that leverages AI to tailor the user’s experience with far greater levels of personalisation than in the past.
“As software gets feature-heavy and complex, traditional personalisation methods struggle to provide real-time, dynamic customisation,” adds Parikshit Deshmukh, who co-founded the business with Guha. “We’re transforming agents from static, rigid interfaces into interactive, adaptable and engaging experiences, making them truly customer-centric; we help companies accomplish this in weeks, not months, drastically reducing the time to launch.”
Does this matter? Thesys thinks so. It is convinced that app developers are now looking to build this sort of personalisation into their products as they compete for user engagement and business spend. Moreover, it believes, only the largest and most technologically advanced businesses are in a position to develop such solutions for themselves.
“We’re building the front-end infrastructure for the future of AI,” claims Guha. “With our platform, teams can quickly design, prototype and launch dynamic AI-driven interfaces, giving businesses a competitive edge in how they interact with their customers.”
The company, launched earlier this year, is currently still in pre-revenue stage. It’s evolving its product set through work with a dozen customers who have signed up to the development phase, though the founders say they have another 300 businesses on a wait list.
This early traction has been enough to convince investors that the company is an interesting opportunity, particularly in an AI agents market projected to be worth as much as $47 billion a year by 2030. Today’s $4 million round is led by the venture firm Together Fund, with participation from 8vc.
“The future of AI relies as much on intuitive, adaptive interfaces as it does on back-end capabilities,” argues Together Fund co-founder and managing partner Manav Garg. “Thesys’s vision for generative UI aligns perfectly with our commitment to enabling founders who are redefining the user experience: by empowering teams to create real-time, personalised interactions, Thesys is setting a new standard for AI-driven interfaces.”
For its part, Thesys will deploy the funding in further product development, as well as investment in a go-to-market capabilities.
Source: www.forbes.com…
