# Be My Eyes

> Be My Eyes is an accessibility technology company that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers, trained company representatives and AI for on-demand visual assistance. Its consumer app remains free, while enterprise products help organizations deliver accessible customer service, support blind employees and organize corporate volunteering. The company's advantage is the combination of a large multilingual human community, conversational visual AI and direct integrations with customer-service systems and smart glasses.

- **Founded:** 2012
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Hans Jørgen Wiberg (Founder), Christian Erfurt (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 370 employees according to supplied company data; public headcount was not independently confirmed.
- **Products:** Be My Eyes app, Be My AI, Service Directory, Service Connect, Service AI
- **Notable:** Reached 10 million sighted volunteers and 1 million blind and low-vision users by March 2026, according to the company., Won an Apple Design Award for Social Impact in 2021., Won a People's Voice Webby in 2021.

## Products & services

- **Be My Eyes app** — A free iOS, Android and Windows service connecting blind and low-vision users to sighted volunteers for one-way video and two-way audio assistance.
- **Be My AI** — A conversational visual assistant that describes images and lets users ask follow-up questions, developed with OpenAI technology and community testing.
- **Service Directory** — An accessible in-app directory that routes users to participating companies and organizations; it launched in beta with more than 600 listings.
- **Service Connect** — An enterprise customer-support product combining visual AI, intelligent routing and live calls with trained company agents.
- **Service AI** — Enterprise visual AI trained around a company's products and support content to resolve customer questions or hand them to a human agent.
- **Be My Eyes Workplace** — Subscription tools for blind and low-vision employees, including Workplace AI, Workplace Connect and Workplace Reader.
- **Corporate Volunteering** — Programs that let organizations organize employee participation in the Be My Eyes volunteer network.
- **Smart-glasses integration** — Hands-free access to volunteer assistance on Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses, developed with Meta.

## Achievements

- Reached 10 million sighted volunteers and 1 million blind and low-vision users by March 2026, according to the company.
- Won an Apple Design Award for Social Impact in 2021.
- Won a People's Voice Webby in 2021.
- Google Play named the Android app among its Best Apps of 2017 and gave it the 2018 Best Accessibility Experience award.
- Launched Be My AI in 2023 after testing GPT-4 visual assistance with the blind and low-vision community.
- Became available on Windows and on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in 2024.
- Acquired AppleVis in 2024 to support the long-running Apple accessibility community.
- Launched the Be My Eyes Foundation in 2026 to help preserve free access to core accessibility technology.

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Announced the acquisition of AppleVis, a long-running online community and resource for blind Apple users.
- **2024-09** — Announced a development partnership with Meta for hands-free volunteer calls on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
- **2024-10** — Expanded accessible travel support with Hilton and announced a Microsoft collaboration on inclusive AI training.
- **2024-11** — Released the Be My Eyes app for Windows and began rolling out the Ray-Ban Meta glasses integration.
- **2025-01** — Raised $6.1 million in a Series A+ round and non-dilutive partner working capital.
- **2026-02** — Introduced Be My Eyes Workplace, including visual AI, document reading and trusted human support tools.
- **2026-03** — Reported crossing 1 million blind and low-vision users and 10 million volunteers, and launched the Be My Eyes Foundation.

## Links

- Website: https://www.bemyeyes.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/be-my-eyes
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/bemyeyes
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/bemyeyes
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bemyeyesapp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bemyeyesapp/
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bemyeyesapp

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Last updated: 2026-08-10