This client, in particular, was constantly asking us for new queries, new reports. Honestly, it was a bit much. So when we thought about what AI could bring to the table, solving that painful problem seemed like a potential solution. A few weeks later we had an awful prototype. Truly it was bad, but it showed us a glimmer of what was possible so we kept poking it and showing it to other clients. Each time we would show it to another client we would see them light up "if it can answer THAT... then I can finally know the answer to THIS". Seemed like we might be onto something…

With each step we have worked with the following ideals in the forefront of our minds:

The original prototype for Teela was an internal project. Something to cut our teeth on with AI as it were. Being internal, we didn’t have to follow strict rules about the name… so one of our devs (Jeff) made a crack about “having the power…” and the rest just fell into place. Soon, our 80’s childhoods came roaring to life. Our API was called Battlecat and our Web application was named Teela.