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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

We talked about these use cases with one of our largest supply chain companies and customers where we need to call customers to recover duties on parcels.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And today we're running campaigns of 20,000 to 50,000 daily outreach to customers, collecting duties on parcels that otherwise they would not get if they don't pay the duty on the parcel.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So that's sort of...

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

surprises, if you will, we've gotten from customers.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Like, yeah, I also need to recruit drivers.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Can you do that?

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

And we obviously can build an agent that not only just recruits drivers, actually connects to the operation so that now they know they can service a truck with a customer earlier because now they have a driver to move that.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So there's all sorts of interesting connections between the functions.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Maybe I'll give you another example.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

we built an agent to reach out to maintenance shops to see where a truck or when a truck was ready.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

You could just leave that agent in a silo and just have an agent that is practically reaching out to those repair shops to see when the truck is ready.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Well, it turns out that the sooner you know when the truck is ready, the sooner you can put it in the market to sell it as capacity for your customers to actually move things.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So that was a very interesting realization of how

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

sales in this case, and maintenance were tightly connected.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

So that is the context that we talk about.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

There has to be an underlying context sharing across the different functions in a business so that the whole business optimizes for a global maxima, if you will, or a global minima, depending on what optimization problem you're trying to run, versus just minimizing the

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

probably in one function, if that makes sense.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Maybe let's start in the beginning.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

I was the first forward-deployed engineer without knowing it, I guess.

The a16z Show
Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

Which is pretty much what any founder would do.