Clay Bavor

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Open Models vs Frontier Models: Who Actually Wins? | The $100,000 Token Budget Every Engineer Will Need | Why Forward-Deployed Engineers Are the Future of Enterprise AI with Clay Bavor, Co-Founder of Sierra · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

And we began by building what we call our MCP gateway.

This is a single MCP server that aggregates all of the main systems and services that we use to run the company.

And so you can add this single gateway to your Cloud instance, to your Codex instance, and indeed to Pinecone, and basically via any one of those agents have full access with the permissions, of course, that you as an individual at the company, you can't read someone else's documents, but you can read your own, you can read your own Slack messages.

And it's kind of like having superpowers.

You can interrogate, in essence, the entirety of the company, all information that is published, whether it's Slack messages or presentations or operating reviews and so on, and use access to all of that information to better reason, make decisions, get things done.

Pinecone, of course, incorporates that MCP gateway, but then is a purpose-built harness for all of Sierra.

Pinecone knows how to build Pinecone.

There's a whole harness around the engineering of Pinecone and our engineers there are phenomenally productive.

We have a whole harness around the core of our platform, our agent architecture, agent studio, where you build and deploy agents, speeding up software development there.

And then we have a shared library of skills that anyone at the company can build.

You can build one that's private to you.

I have a whole bunch of skills, including one that is basically the clay scanner of interview packets.

So I, to date, review and approve every single hire we make.

And I get some help from Pinecone.

And I've basically taught it, what are the things that I look for?

What do I scan for?

Flag these if there are any instances of them.

And it's kind of a shortcut to a faster, deeper read of every packet.

So Pinecone has just become this approaching indispensable.

I think we're not quite there yet, but approaching indispensable tool for running the company.

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