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Olivia Moore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
237 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like you cannot just build an agent, fine tune it and have it work at any type of company.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

All those nuances is outside of the model and it's that context layer that we're trying to create, no?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And that actually like, we can talk about how actually doing the work and executing the work is what gets you that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It's like learning by experience.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

You do something and you learn and you explore that space of the context layer so that you can keep learning, no?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So we're very forward deployed.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So we were early on understood that really to solve the customer's pain point, we had to build software that adapts to their operations and not the other way around, which is like the old era before AI was you build something and ask people to like run their business however you think they should be run.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

But we think it should be the other way around.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So from the very beginning, we started like...

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

hiring and building this forward deployed motion with the FDEs, forward deployed engineers, like everyone is talking about them now.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

But I think it's about like really being customer obsessed and really focusing on like the value add and their problem and really sitting down with them and going to their offices and learning what they need.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So sure, there's a lot of like,

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

uh synergies in the industry and what you learn from a customer might be relevant to another but very soon we realize that there's not a one-size-fits-all even within inbound carrier sales even like within this workflow in the enterprise maybe like there's like a long tail where this might apply but enterprises operate very very differently and that's why we build a platform that um is flexible enough to adapt to anyone's operation and it's because

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

we were trying to like plug and play what we built somehow with a customer to another one.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It didn't really work.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like they want something different.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

They want to change the procedure.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

They want to call these tools.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

They want to escalate whenever the carrier is not vetted and someone else wants to do it automated.