
Liam van der Viven
Co-Founder & CTO
Our Mission
botBrains launched in 2023 and now operates from Berlin, partnering with SMB support teams that run at least two agents. We focus on measurable ROI, delivering automation that resolves the repetitive conversations holding teams back so humans can concentrate on the moments that matter.
We are proud to build in Germany and host in Europe.

We believe the most valuable asset given to each and every person is their time. Yet many large and small companies struggle to build efficient support workflows. Remember the last time you were on the phone for 30 minutes only to be redirected and then hung up on. It's equally frustrating to follow up three times on an email just because there was no proof that any progress had been made.
With the development of the new technology called large language models, we felt we finally had the glue to automate and delegate tasks so customers could resolve their issues immediately through self-service, while support staff could be relieved from repetitive questions that lead to burnout and needlessly consume time.
To this day, there is a gap between what customer success teams work on and where self-service platforms have been adopted by businesses. We believe that with the commoditization of AI agent-building software more and more processes will be digitized, but the remaining fraction of unstructured workflows and requests will still need to be processed by AI or routed into the right channels for customers accustomed to writing emails or calling.
We also believe that botBrains, or AI in customer service more broadly, is one of those rare win-win-win situations: a win for customers who enjoy faster resolution times, a win for businesses that spend less while keeping employees happier and customer loyalty higher, and a win for botBrains which can bring undifferentiated heavy lifting to the table, spread development costs across customers, and offer a solution that would otherwise have been unaffordable yet matches the tool teams have always hoped for.

Co-Founder & CTO

Co-Founder
Ben Meyer-Meisel and Liam van der Viven met in high school, completed an early university program together in Düsseldorf, and then moved to Potsdam for their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the Hasso Plattner Institute.
At HPI they pushed the limits of applied AI, building prototypes that bridged academic depth with real-world impact. Liam shipped an internal service at AWS into production, while Ben at Kodex AI advanced automation solutions for fast-growing companies.
Their GorillaTracker project delivered the best gorilla face identification AI to date and was presented to SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner and then-chancellor Olaf Scholz. It ran at Berlin Zoo as a test environment for later use in Congo and gained major media attention across the DACH region.
With complementary expertise in cloud platforms and AI automation, Liam left AWS to found botBrains. Later, Ben left Kodex AI to help build botBrains.
Liam van der Viven and Björn Rosenthal founded botBrains in Königswinter to empower support teams with measurable AI automation.
Later that same year, they launched the first public web chatbot and proved automation value for SMB support teams.
botBrains developed core technologies including automatic topic analysis, reporting, user login, and test frameworks.
Ben Meyer-Meisel became Co-Founder, while Björn Rosenthal stepped away from the operational role to focus on other endeavors.
Native ticketing platform workflows went live with deep integrations into Zendesk and Salesforce to automate end-to-end customer processes.