Danny Richman, a 60-year-old search engine optimization consultant, met 31-year-old contractor Ben Whittle in December 2021. Whittle had come to fix a leaking bathroom leak in the living room of his home. , on the outskirts of London. . The pair then struck up a friendship, and Richman began advising Whittle, who trained as a plumber, on expanding his business.
With Richman’s encouragement, Whittle this year founded a pool installation company called Ashridge Pools. However, there was a problem: Whittle has dyslexia and had trouble writing emails to clients. “At first, he was reading and writing my bits, and then Danny was editing for me,” Whittle told BuzzFeed News. “And then he realized, There is probably a much faster way to do this..”
There was. Richman created Whittle, an app that turns what the contractor types into a formal email. Richman said it took him 15 minutes to create the app, which can be used on the phone or desktop and is based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 artificial intelligence tool. (OpenAI recently launched ChatGPT, an AI bot anyone can use. It immediately went viral thanks to its ability to write compelling essays.)
