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Twine
Twine is an AI revenue engine for small service businesses. When a business misses a call, Twine instantly texts the caller back, figures out what they need, books the job on the calendar, and follows up - so plumbers, HVAC techs, salons and pest-control operators stop losing work to whoever picked up first. Founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator (S23), Twine unifies calls, texts, web forms and chat into one AI-run inbox.
Skit.ai
Skit.ai is a New York-based conversational AI company that automates debt collection and accounts receivable operations for banks, agencies, fintechs, healthcare systems, and utilities. Founded in 2016 as Vernacular.ai and rebranded to Skit in 2021, it runs a generative-AI-powered platform of voice, SMS, email, and chat assistants plus a Collection Intelligence Platform and an ecosystem of specialized AI agents that negotiate payments, capture dispositions, and enforce federal and state collection compliance at scale.
YepChat
YepChat is a Los Angeles company that builds a phone and communication platform made specifically for restaurants. It routes calls dynamically, captures missed calls, turns inbound phone traffic into digital orders and reservations, filters robocalls, and layers on SMS and analytics. It began around 2015 as an intelligent business-texting product powered by IBM Watson, then pivoted to serving the restaurant industry, where phones ring at the worst possible moments.
Aisle
Aisle is a New York-based retail marketing platform that turns any marketing channel into a trackable in-store purchase. Brands run cashback and incentive campaigns that reach shoppers over text; consumers snap a photo of their receipt and get paid back via Venmo within minutes. Along the way, Aisle captures the first-party customer data and offline attribution that consumer-goods brands have historically been blind to. Over 600 brands and 450,000+ shoppers use it.