Spell’s Co-Founder and CEO, Serkan Piantino, was the Director of Engineering of Facebook AI Research. Trey Lawrence, Co-Founder and CTO, was the Lead Engineer of a computer vision company. Their experience in the field led them to discover a gap in the industry. Serkan and Trey recognized a need to make AI easily accessible to data scientists and developers, and developed a platform with simple CLI commands, an intuitive web console, and easy API tools.