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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

So we really had to build up

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

almost like horizontal technology because of the variety of all the nuances in this industry.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And that's how we create a platform that is not optimized for specific tasks, but more so optimized for doing work.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So our primitives are around workflows and data and integrations and SOPs, prompts,

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

you don't see like particular tasks being modeled because that's almost too opinionated.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And customers don't want like opinion, like their vendors forming opinions on how to run their operations.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like they've been running it for a long time.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

They don't know more about their business than I do.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

I just come with the technology and I just want to come to like solve their problems, you know?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Yeah, I'll add to that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

I mean, if we go like first principles, what are we doing?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

We're deploying agents across different functions and channels in the enterprise.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So our product is built for the deployment of an agent.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like we really understand the deployment lifecycle because we work very closely with our customers.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And we are actually...

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

deploying these agents and something cool that happens is that you have to a certain degree your user in your house because we're building for the FDs for the most part and it's not entirely true of course some enterprises they really appreciate having a platform and we can talk about that later about how

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Interesting the mix of coming with a platform they can also use and an FDE that they can trust.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It's actually something very rare.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And they mentioned that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

But I guess to the point of like the deployment lifecycle, we really understand what it takes to like deploy an agent, no?