How Kavak Rebuilt Itself Around AI Agents | Alejandro Maza Ayala
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I'm investing more today in tokens than in knowledge workers. We could build superhuman agents. This means that by every dimension that matters, our agents would outperform the best human we had ever hired.
The most ambitious companies listening to this will decide to follow suit, which is you decided to build an agent per customer.
Yes. Every day, between one hundred and two hundred thousand agents get instantiated specifically for this customer with its own virtual machine.
There's a lot of people worried about how the organizations of the future are gonna look like and the role that humans are
gonna play. If you haven't faced fear before, you haven't felt it, then you haven't tried AI. We launched a program inside Quebec that's called the JEDI Academy. From the CEO to, like, AI engineers to mechanics, we train everyone. And after six weeks, they launch state of the art agents to production.
What advice do you have to future founders or first time founders that might be listening?
What works right now is
Most companies are asking how to add AI to the organization. Kavak asked a much more radical question. What would we build if we were starting the company from scratch with AI? Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez sit down with Kavac's chief product and AI officer, Alejandro Ayala, to unpack what happened when the company bet on rebuilding itself around agents. Today, hundreds of thousands of agents can be instantiated each day, handling everything from selling and financing cars to maintaining long term customer relationships. They discuss why Kovac tore down an agent architecture that was alre
Welcome back to the ACC Podcast. Today, we have Ale Masa, the head of AI at Kavak. We're gonna discuss today the transformation that Ale led within Quebec to turn it into an AI native company. Thank you, Ale, for being with us today. Thanks for having me. Before starting at Quebec, you were running a company called Opi Analytics. That's right. And you were very much into AI before ChatGPT. You wanna tell us a little bit about that journey?
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