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Pablo Palafox

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
220 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So we have browsing agents that go and scrape the website of the airline.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Oh, bummer.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

It's not there.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

There's no update.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Damn, I need to go send an email.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Okay, I'm sending an email to the airline.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Two hours later, no reply.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Okay, I need to reason that if they don't reply now, I'm going to miss my SLA with my customer.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So now I need to call them.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

I'm going to keep calling them until someone picks up at the airline and tell me where the hell is my shipment.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So that is the sort of coordination that we need to make happen for transportation and logistics, really.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And how...

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And that has shaped the type of product that we had to build at NIV.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So one thing that we heard from one of the largest tracking companies recently was typically when we buy technology, we see where we can apply that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

With you guys, we actually have a problem and we come to you guys with that problem because we know that as a platform that you've built, we can pretty much build any type of agent for our operations from sales to customer service.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

back office support and operations and even collections.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So some of the use cases that customers came to us were, hey, we have a huge collections problem.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Can you build an agent to reach out to customers via email or voice and collect money?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

We're like, of course.