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Olivia Moore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
237 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like everyone is focusing at that base.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It makes sense.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It's already to a certain point being commoditized.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like those are simpler tasks and people keep talking about like, you know, like AGI and general models being able to like automate that work maybe.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

But the point is, if you get stuck at a corner of that base,

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

you're never going to climb that pyramid of complexity because in order to climb, you need to actually capture context across channels and across functions.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

We've mentioned this a bunch of times now.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

When I was explaining the example of a negotiation, I was talking about phone calls, but what if you get an email from another carrier actually putting an option?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

All of a sudden, what if the voice agents don't know that there's an email coming through for the same load?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It's the same information.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It doesn't matter the channel.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And also what you learn from that

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

carriers, like the same customer you have or the same carrier you have when you're tracking a load or doing all these things.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So if you focus on automating this part of the base, that one corner for everyone, you're probably not going to be able to climb this pyramid of complexity.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So it's about creating a unified understanding of the business in order to start climbing that pyramid of complexity and going to the deeper, complex decisions that actually drive economic value for the enterprises.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Yeah, I would say highly communicational.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And actually, more than communication, interface of work, interface to the external world, meaning also browsing a website to retrieve the ETA of a shipment is some sort of interaction with the outside world.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Voice to a certain point is a soft API, as we were talking about, same as an email is a soft API or a website is a soft API.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like when you're extending information between systems, of course, an API programmatically makes more sense, but sometimes that doesn't really, it's not the case.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So however we can help move the flow of information between systems via voice, email, browsing a website or whatever it takes.