Who are we?

We’re a New York City-based firm specializing with decades of combined experience developing and creating novel AI-powered communications and messaging technology for businesses and consumers.

Messages Improved helps businesses automate communications with the latest AI technology that’s customized and tailored to their needs. We provide both products (do-it-yourself) and services (done-with-you and done-for-you options) that make it as easy as possible, i.e. lowest cost, shortest time, and least amount of work, to deploy AI tools comparable to those being developed by large corporations and technology companies.  

Our core product is a web-based AI builder app where business owners can build, train and launch their AI themselves without any AI or technical expertise. 

 

Our services cater to businesses that want AI deployment done for them as a white-glove service or done with them, in a way that works with their existing technology stack. These services are paid for as a one-time setup or development contract and maintained at the cost of our DIY product. We offer a range of services from expert prompt creation, to consulting, to outsourced development, to joint ventures where we co-develop & commercialize new AI products as equity partners.

We developed a full range of products that include custom MaaP deployments, CPaaS systems, mobile apps, web-based software.  Basically if it has anything to do with AI and messaging, we have the technology.

Team

Founder/CEO

Es Lee

Tech product inventor with 20+ years in AI, data analysis and quantitative modeling.  Developed 1st AI models to predict personal insights based on how they text.  B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Head of Business Development

Lise Hanssen

Lise received her Master’s in Communication. She leads  business development initiatives and generated over 200+ media coverage across the world.

Front End Developer

Javier Gonzalez

Full stack developer with more than 10 years of experience. Specialty: Java and Android Studio. 

Back End Developer

Alexandra Patz

Software developer for 15+ years across messaging, AI, finance and astrophysics. Specialty: Java, Python, SQL, Django and AWS.

Back End Developer

Mücahit Senol

Developer web and desktop applications for over a decade, with BS in computer science.  Specialty: Java, Python, PHP and Django. 

Marketing

Chi Iregbulem-McGrath

10+ years of experience in the Marketing/Public Relations field. She has managed relationships with media, creative, and PR agencies on both client and agency side.

Background

In 2017, we started development on Mei, a default SMS messaging app for Androids, with SMS and data messaging and an optional real-time relationship AI assistant built-in.  Mei’s neural networks are the only known models capable of predicting demographics (age, gender, etc.), personality and relationship intentions based on a conversation.   Mei’s audience was primarily consumer while our Messages Improved brand has an enterprise focus.

In early 2019,  we adapted our data messaging to the universal profile RCS standard. This app available as a white-label messaging app to telecom providers.

In 2024, we expanded our AI offering to provide generative AI-powered solutions.  Our custom AI agent builder is the latest of these products.