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10 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2025
Evan Ratliff created a real company with two AI agents as co-founders and AI agents as almost all of its staff.
“I created a company, a real company, with 2 AI agents as my co-founders, and then populated by AI agents as the staff, almost entirely.”
2025
Each agent's memory was a Google doc, such as 'Kyle Law Memory', that summarized everything the agent did in emails and Slack.
“Kyle Law has a Google doc called Kyle Law Memory, and everything that Kyle Law does, if Kyle Law sends an email or has a Slack interaction, it then gets summarized in this document.”
2025
Evan Ratliff says the Harumo AI agents all ran on the same underlying model, which he describes as Claude Opus.
“Because they're all the same chatbot underneath, like, like, they're all like Claude Opus underneath, you know, so they really shouldn't be different.”
2025
The AI agents' offsite-planning conversation used up all the credits on a platform plan Evan Ratliff was paying about $30 a month for.
“And they used up all the credits on this platform that I was paying at the time, $30 a month for.”
2025
After the agents all said they had gone hiking, Ratliff remarked that it sounded like an offsite, which led them into an extended planning exchange.
“they all said this. And then I sort of said, Well, that that sounds like an offsite, like everyone loves hiking, that sounds like an offsite.”
2025
Ratliff says the AI head of HR produced a spreadsheet of about 125 summarized resumes in under 90 seconds.
“And then not 90 seconds later, there is a spreadsheet that has, you know, 200. There was probably a h- I think we were down to 125 resumes that are summarized”
2025
Because Kyle Law had not been given HR instructions, he replied to an applicant that she looked qualified and set up an interview.
“Kyle, on the other hand, was not prompted in this way at all. So when someone emailed him, the 1st thing he did was say, Wow, you look really qualified for this job.”
2025
Kyle Law pulled an applicant's phone number from her resume and called her on a Sunday night before their scheduled interview.
“And then on Sunday night, for reasons that I can't discern, pulled this person's phone number off of their resume and called them.”
2025
When the same applicant emailed the CTO and head of marketing, both forwarded the matter to Jennifer, the head of HR.
“Both of them did the appropriate thing, which is to contact Jennifer and say, Hey, I got this, this person, like, someone has applied for this job, that's your domain”
2025
Ratliff's AI employees have video avatars, which he describes as still uncanny.
“Now I have for my employees, they have video, like they have video avatars, and the video avatars are they're still pretty uncanny.”
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