ReplyBuy brings an AI concierge to the sports and entertainment market

ReplyBuy, a finalist in the 1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporting events. The current version of ReplyBuy works like this -- the company sends a text message to all San Francisco 49ers fans; whoever replies "Buy Now" the fastest gets the tickets. Today, the company is making the platform immensely more useful with the launch of ReplyBuy.ai. Indeed, ReplyBuy is introducing artificial intelligence to the sports and entertainment vertical. Instead of just receiving text messages when tickets are available, users will now be able to send a text message with a request to buy tickets for whichever event they want; the chatbot will ask a few follow-up questions, like "how many tickets do you want?" and "what's your price range."