Evan Smith

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Decoder with Nilay Patel · Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

the platform auto suggests an update to that standard operating procedure.

And, um, and then you can go and kind of key in an SOP from scratch.

And so, uh, it's learning SOPs, it's codifying SOPs and it follows SOPs.

And, you know, is there like a theoretical way that those SOPs could be kind of, um, broken or, you know, where there's a fail case surely, but in general, it's amazing.

And this is why, um,

This is why agentic AI in the logistics space generally is having its moment.

Like there's like every fifth company in Y Combinator is doing something around logistics automation where it's like, oh, I can take all these kind of unstructured and semi-structured data inputs and reason, like extract information from them, reason about them on a, on a customer or trade lane or kind of outcome specific basis.

And then orchestrate a workflow.

And that just wasn't technically possible until like January.

Totally.

I'm probably the wrong person to be highly opinionated about this, but my co-founder who is entitled to this opinion has observed that there's no real ROI on Fable right now.

Well, I'll tell you our product strategy and just our overall thesis on flipping the script.

So right now, every time a shipment arrives at the border, it's as though it's the first time the government has ever seen that shipment of goods.

Every government in the world.

what I'm saying is true.

So the, the customs process has been built up for millennia to scrutinize a shipment and to, you know, levy the goods and then let it through the border.

Right.

And it used to be the case that, uh, when it was kind of, uh, uh, cuneiform tablets and, you know, uh,

sailboats going up the Tigris or Euphrates River and transporting goods, somebody could look at each of the things in there and issue a levy and that was it, right?

And as container shipping came about and the scale of goods being entered at a port just exploded, and then with air cargo and then just the velocity, right?

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