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Reinventing Zapier for the LLM era With Mike Knoop, Co-Founder & Head of AI at Zapier

Sep 8, 2023
Mike Knoop, Co-Founder & Head of AI at Zapier, discusses how LLMs are transforming Zapier's business, driving 100x productivity improvements and deflecting customer support requests. They explore the role of LLMs in tool discovery, optimizing apps, and handling customer interactions. They discuss the vision for Zapier in this new world, challenges in building LLM-powered features, and evaluating model outputs. The episode also explores using language models for debugging, generating data, and improving error messages.
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Quick takeaways

  • LLMs are already transforming Zapier's business by improving internal processes and reducing customer support requests.
  • Zapier views LLMs as the "escape hatch" UX paradigm that will enable it to grow from 10M to 100M users.

Deep dives

The Journey of Zapier's Head of AI: LLMs, Use Cases, and Growth

Mike Neup, co-founder and head of AI at Zapier, discusses the journey of Zapier's adoption of LLMs and their potential impact on the company's growth. He emphasizes the importance of experimenting with use cases and form factors in all aspects of the business. Neup highlights the progress made by his team in finding material ROI in customer support, go-to-market motion, product building, and implementation challenges. He also explores how LLMs can contribute to an evolution in Zapier's UI/UX paradigm, aiming to reach 100 million users in the next decade.

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