ChatGPT can plan a trip in a group chat and forget it a month later. Jarvie raised $8.3 million to build the group chat AI that remembers. The opening for a small company is one kind of group that plans the same thing each week, like the parents on a youth sports team.

Featuring: Jarvie, Shapes, Series, Continua, Instinct, Lightspeed

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(00:00) ChatGPT forgets the trip it planned
(00:09) Jarvie raises $8.3M
(00:43) What Jarvie is
(01:31) Who else is betting on group chat AI
(02:46) Build for one kind of group
(03:47) Instinct is already in these chats
(04:01) Pick your group

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Testers cut the AI assistant Instinct off from their email and it kept summarizing their inbox anyway. The fastest-moving agents ask for less of you, and freelancers chasing late invoices are the buyer Paraglide skips.

Featuring: Instinct, TechCrunch, Accenture, Wajo, Google, Meta, Stripe, Shop Pay, Ollie, Vellum, Paraglide, Invoice Ninja, FreshBooks, InvoiceWatchr, Upwork

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(00:00) Testers switched off Instinct's email access
(00:17) The biggest lie about AI agents, and the 9% who'd trust one
(01:06) Why agents ask for your inbox, card and login
(01:31) Your email and your card: Fo, Gemini Spark and Meta's Muse
(02:50) Your passwords: Ollie and Vellum
(03:37) Freelancers chasing late invoices
(04:33) The one-line pitch

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Viktor, an AI coworker a team shares in its chat app, went from launch to a $15 million run rate in three months, and Slack has announced an agent of its own. Agencies that keep a separate chat with each client are the opening for a small company.

Featuring: Viktor, AlphaSignal, Accel, Slack, Pylon, ClearFeed

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(00:00) $15M a year in three months
(00:13) What Viktor is
(00:37) How one quiet install spread across a team
(02:01) Accel's $75M round and the run rate
(02:23) Slack tried bots once, then built its own agent
(03:05) The agency opportunity
(05:00) How to start

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