Today’s show:
In this TWiST founder triple-shot, Alex digs into the real-world rollout of AI agents: Paid.ai’s Manny Medina explains agent economics and value-based pricing, iTruckr’s Camilo Ramirez shows agents booking loads and coordinating drivers, and Tenax’s Elise Myrans demos computer vision + drones that score a single home’s wildfire/flood risk for smarter underwriting—plus live office-hours on winning enterprise pilots without getting stuck in PoC purgatory.
Timestamps:
(00:00) Brainstorming hacks for sales cycles in regulated industries — castles, moats & alligators!
(03:50) Meet Paid.ai: tracking costs & monetization for AI agents
(04:35) Paid.ai’s Manny Medina on the “year of agents” & early enterprise traction
(09:04) Netsuite - Download the ebook CFO’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at https://www.netsuite.com/twist
(11:06) The tough economics of AI agents vs SaaS — margins squeezed by tokens
(18:20) How Paid.ai gets granular: tracking signals & agent activity with OpenTelemetry
(21:20) Coda - Empower your startup with Coda’s Team plan for free—get 6 months at https://www.Coda.io/twist
(29:16) Enter iTruckr: Camilo Ramirez brings AI dispatch to the freight industry
(31:43) .TECH: Say it without saying it. Head to get.tech/twist or your favorite registrar to get a clean, sharp .tech domain today.
(39:02) Scaling from small fleets to mid-sized trucking companies — lessons from AI Trucker
(55:59) Tenax ai helps homeowners & insurers manage wildfire, flood & climate risk
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