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Summer 2024B2B

Lilac Labs

We automate the person taking orders at drive-thrus with a voice AI

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About Lilac Labs

At Lilac, we automate the person taking order at the drive thru with a voice AI. We're building this for Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) dealing with an historical labor shortage and rising wages. Previous attempts at drive-thru voice ordering are costly to implement and have failed to deliver the accuracy and latency needed. It's now possible to build a voice interface that passes the threshold for a great customer experience. In the United States, there are 200,000 Drive-Thrus handling 6 Billion visits a year. At 3 minutes per order, that's 34,000 human years spent on taking orders annually. Per location, on average we can deliver around $100,000 of value in terms of labor savings, upsell revenue lift, and training costs.

Quick facts

YC Batch
Summer 2024
Founded
2024
Team size
2
Industry
B2B • B2B
Website
www.drive-thru.ai
Profiles
LinkedIn · Twitter · Crunchbase

Founders

Tony Kam
Co-Founder / CEO
Tony is the co-founder and CEO of Lilac Labs. Tony studied EECS at UC Berkeley where focus on operating systems. Before Lilac, Tony worked at Tesla as an engineer, where he owned the display and touch component of the …
Shelden Shi
Co-Founder / CTO
Shelden is the Co-Founder and CTO of Lilac Labs. Shelden studied CS and CogSci at UC Berkeley, where he conducted research training ML models to predict emotions via audio data. Before Lilac, Shelden was the founding e…

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