The NBA Russell superstars Westbrook and Kemba Walkerthe latter already retired but still icon of the Charlotte Hornetsannounced on Wednesday the launch of Eazewella ‘startup’ that uses artificial intelligence technology (AI) to expedite the always hard process of organizing funerals.
“All my career, on and off the court, has focused on taking a step forward in the most important moments (…) Eazewell is precisely that: a decisive solution to a very real problem,” the base of the base of the base of the base of the Denver Nuggets, which has also founded this company with Donnell Beverly Jr., one of his childhood friends and president of his own company Russell Westbrook Enterprises.
Eazewell It is based in Los Angelescurrently has 11 employees and uses AI to select funeral options and proposals that fit the budgets and preferences of each family.
The advantage it presents, according to the founders, is that it systematizes paperwork, planning, invitations and other parallel tasks as well as can be to unsubscribe to the deceased person of supplies of supplies, subscriptions or their profiles in social networks.
This ‘startup’, which also offers a voice assistant that can be programmed to contact funeral home on behalf of the client, is already collaborating with financial entities and life insurance companies, said a spokesman for Eazewell In a statement.
“We try to relieve the burden of people to the fullest and make this process very facilitate,” he said Walker to the aforementioned media on this company that is already experiencing with 100 families in its ‘Beta’ phase.
Eazewell originated at the time of Westbrook y Beverly Jr. at the Institute, when your friend Khelcey Barrs III died unexpectedly.
Westbrook commemorate Barrs to this day wearing a bracelet with the initials “KB3” in each NBA match he plays and in his Jordan Why not zer0.6 “Khelcey Barrs” shoes.
This episode and death in 2016 and 2023 of their parents also marked Beverly Jr., who reveals now that he was surpassed by the situation of having to manage the entire bureaucracy after the death and that the idea of creating Eazewell.
“It seems the perfect time to turn our shared pain into a purpose,” he said Beverly.
Los Nuggets of Westbrook They are immersed in the semifinals of the West Conference of the NBA, the tie that are winning 1-0 to Oklahoma City Thunder with which they are measured on Wednesday.
