"Making plans with your friends should be easy. However, between the various group chats, stacked schedules, and endless distractions, those plans can often fall to the wayside. Enter Rodeo, a new app from former C-suite executives at dating app Hinge. Cofounders Sam Levy (who was Hinge's COO) and Tim MacGougan (CPO), who are both parents, know firsthand how difficult it can be to make plans."
"Levy likes describing the app as a "second brain" for planning activities with friends and family. Rodeo uses AI under the hood to do some of that "wrangling," MacGougan said, specifically a large language model (LLM) to help with natural language processing and decoding context. Rodeo isn't shouting AI from the rooftops, however, unlike many startups right now. "We never called ourselves an AI company," Levy said. "It wasn't really in our pitch decks, ever."
""Give us your chaos," the app tells its users. If you see an event, a restaurant, or anything you'd want to do with your friends or family, you can send the social media post from Instagram or TikTok - or upload a screenshot - to the Rodeo app, which will then pull out all the details you'd need from it."
Rodeo is a social app founded in 2023 by former Hinge executives Sam Levy and Tim MacGougan. The app aims to simplify making plans with friends and family by aggregating social posts, screenshots, and chat details into actionable events. Rodeo launched a limited beta on the Apple App Store with a straightforward interface that lets users forward content to extract event details. The startup uses a large language model for natural language processing to decode context and assist planning, but it does not market itself primarily as an AI company. The company has raised venture and angel funding and targets a full launch in 2026.
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