Last week, DMN spoke to Ryan Begley, cofounder of EyeLevel.ai, After working at IBM Watson as a product director on digital assistants in vehicles, Begley combined his knowledge with friends of his who were working on chat applications with The Weather Company. They found that people loved interacting with the chat application: they would upload pictures of their families, tell the chat application to have a nice day, and ask questions. This discovery helped Begley and his associates realize that there was a need for consumers to communicate in real time to the companies that were providing services. After some deliberation, the trio decided that they had an incredible business opportunity to help brands reach out to consumers and build relationships with them with no middle man.