Acquired by @Salesforce, home of @Agentforce 🤖 AI agents for business analytics & scenario intelligence 🚀 Backed by @Accel & F500 leaders

Joined October 2021
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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
Announcing the next chapter: @SpindleAI has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by @Salesforce, accelerating the @Agentforce roadmap and strengthening the future of enterprise AI for millions of global users. 🤖 This is a great outcome for our team & investors. 🙏 When my cofounder Ryan and I launched Spindle in late 2021 to deliver #AI-native business analytics and scenario intelligence for the Fortune 500, no one (not even us!) fully anticipated how transformational #agents & AI-native data models like ours would be. But with the support of… 🛠️ The smartest, most creative, and most devoted team I’ve ever had the privilege of working with 🏦 Backing from top-percentile investors like @Accel and others across Sand Hill 🧙World-class advisors like ex-@GoldmanSachs CTO Dr. Paul Walker, ex-@DeutscheBank CTO Kim Hammonds (who I miss dearly), ex-Adaptive Insights founder Rob Hull, and ex-@Sequoia partner Bob Cohn 🤖 Visionary customers, from @IBM @Apptio to @1Password and beyond …sci-fi has become sci-fact! 🚀 Joining #Agentforce will kick Spindle AI’s journey to the next level. I’m deeply grateful for my co-founder @RyanAtallah. Ever since we bonded in high school, he has always been not just the hardest-working leader I know, and not just the most thoughtful, but also the most loyal & trustworthy. Find a cofounder like that: their traits are echoed in the organizations they build, and the teams they invest in. Uncountable thanks to the many dear friends, teammates, and colleagues, who have worked so hard to make this journey the privilege of a lifetime. 🙏 Most of all: a lifetime’s thanks to my wife Seda and Ryan’s wife Ashly. Without their incredible support, sacrifices, and contributions, none of this would have been possible. 🤍 My life’s mission has been machine learning that augments human cognition. With the acquisition of Spindle AI, that mission continues at Agentforce: salesforce.com/news/stories/…
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Thrilled to announce we have entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by @Salesforce. 🚀 Spindle AI will accelerate @Agentforce, Salesforce’s platform for enterprise #AI. 🤖 Our mission to empower more effective, data-driven decisions with agentic business analytics continues. 🦾 Full announcement: salesforce.com/news/stories/…
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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
7 Nov 2025
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire @SpindleAI, a leading agentic analytics platform. The acquisition brings aboard deep expertise in multi-agent systems and high-performance data applications to accelerate Agentforce: sforce.co/4hLOpRA
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RT @CarsonKahn: One of the most thoughtful yet simple examples I’ve seen of LLM-driven analytics – intelligent heatmaps of GitHub code revi…
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Happy to announce that spindle.ai has accepted an invitation to become a @Microsoft AI Cloud Partner! As former @GoldmanSachs CTO and enterprise #AI leader Dr. Paul Walker notes, “Spindle has uniquely delivered agentic AI for our hardest planning and business analytics problems, and I’m thrilled to see this technology become more accessible to Microsoft’s ecosystem of customers.” With contributors from both @MicrosoftAI and @SpindleAI having been at the forefront of #agents since their respective early work on the #GPT family of LLMs, we’re now opening the door to bring rigorous, agentic business analytics into the platforms enterprises already rely on — @Microsoft365 & @Azure. “We’re proud that the trust of enterprises embodied in our stage-leading SOC 2 Type II attestation can now extend globally through Microsoft’s class-leading AI Cloud Partner program,” adds Spindle co-founder & AI leader @CarsonKahn, “giving customers confidence that agentic business analytics is secure, transformative, and enterprise-ready.” 👉 More big things ahead — find our teammates throughout @Workday’s #WDAYRising conference this week (lnkd.in/ghHUfDBD) for a preview of what’s to come. If you’re attending, reply here so we can connect!

ALT Animated GIF: Spindle AI is now a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner! (with animated logos) — Meet us in-person at Workday Rising #WDAYRising

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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
Replying to @CarsonKahn
Customers like @1Password are already seeing the benefit: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…

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📣 Our biggest launch of the year! 🤖 Automate forecasting, key driver analysis, outlier detection, and more with automated, agent-guided machine learning, or agentic AutoML, easy enough for ANYONE to use ✨ spindle.ai/Agentic-AutoML
12 Aug 2025
🚀 Introducing AI agents that make “self-driving” machine learning usable by anyone — no PhD required. A lifelong dream for me, launched in months… Demo below! Forecasting, key driver analysis, predictions, tipping-point analysis, and anomaly detection now take minutes instead of weeks. 🤖 ✨ To my knowledge, we’re the first team in the world to ship autonomous machine learning (AutoML) guided by an agent — or “agentic AutoML” — usable by anyone. Genuinely in awe of the creativity, ingenuity, and grit every @SpindleAI teammate poured into making that possible. 🙏 With transparent, personalized explanations for “how”, “why,” and “what next,” the new agent also delivers actionable recommendations for setting & hitting business targets 🎯 based on patterns in your data. From churn prediction & customer behavior forecasting, to pricing simulations & cross-sell targeting, beta customers are already sharing compelling use cases with us… But most of all, I’m excited to see all the creative use cases YOU come up with: spindle.ai/agents/autonomous…
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Congrats to our colleagues & community on this incredible development:
Thrilled to have played a very small role in this very big accomplishment. 🚀 Congrats Sam, the Open AI team, and so many in the open-weight LLMs community for making this watershed release a reality. The new OSS models are extremely competitive w/ closed frontier models on multiple benchmarks. AI engineering changes forever today:
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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
26 Apr 2025
HUGE part of what it means to build a truly “AI-native” product: “When building AI Agents, you need to work backwards from [the LLM’s] ideal [context window] context, and figure out what kind of product it would take to deliver that. This is a core part of the moat you’re building in AI.” Very few pre-LLM finance/analytics platforms will ever be able to do this. Others, like @SpindleAI and @_Hex_tech, are already off to the races
20 Apr 2025
Context is king for AI Agents. It’s clear that the more relevant context the agent has to complete the task at hand, the more differentiated and successful the agent will be. Thus, when building AI Agents, you need to work backwards from that ideal context, and figure out what kind of product it would take to deliver it. This is a core part of the moat you’re building in AI. Here are a few of the major categories starting to emerge: * Corporate knowledge: Agents are going to require access to a wide degree of corporate data to make decisions properly, in which case the AI systems with the best access to this data will often win. This can either be because they’re directly have the data in their system already, have a “right” to index or get embeddings from another system (especially for code bases and other knowledge), or have nailed integrations across platforms via MCP, A2A, or otherwise. * User memory: As we’re seeing in the earliest stages of memory inside of products like ChatGPT, having a complete history of what that user has done with the AI can be incredibly powerful. The more the AI Agent can build on from past interactions, and understand all of the nuances about a user, the better results it can deliver. We can also imagine new sources of context beyond chat history, like what is that user’s role in the company, who do they tend to work with, what type of data do they tend to work on, and more. * Domain expertise: Ultimately, AI Agents are going to have the most impact when they’re not just generalists, but when they augment work in particular lines of business or verticals (like financial advisors in banking or researchers in life sciences). This means that the more the agent understands all of the specifics about that industry’s workflows or proprietary data at a granular level will be critical. One can imagine a future where 10,000s or 100,000s of tokens are used up in the context window just explaining the job function and specific instructions for that agent. * Tool use: The best AI agents are going to know their way around a variety of external systems to be able to get work done successfully. Knowing when to search the web vs. answer questions from internal knowledge vs. talking to a specific software platform will make all the difference in successful AI Agents. This problem is *not* easy as we can already see in consumer AI apps. * User experience: While this is hard to sustain as a differentiator, nailing the right Agentic UX is critical for adoption, and successfully completing workflows. Knowing if the agent should be interacting with a user via chat, or in-line with an existing UX, or needs a new interface altogether can make major differences in the customer success and adoption. There are going to be multiple ways to build moats when building AI Agents, but context is going to be king. Some of mix of the above -and probably plenty more- will be necessary to win.
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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
11 Dec 2024
Hiring! Come join us.
10 Dec 2024
#HIRING another AI Engineer (Principal/Lead IC) for Agents, Agentic Systems, and Applied LLMs! 🤖 Shape the future of Strategic Finance by accelerating multi-agent analytical reasoning, tooling, & fault recovery alongside some of the best builders around: spindle.notion.site/AI-Engin…
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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
Businesses are shaped by the questions they ask (and the ones they don't). With our next-generation AI platform, we're accelerating the work to answer many types of strategic finance questions from days to minutes. A big part of that is our AI Agent — a system that automates multi-step modeling and analytical work so that teams spend less time fighting Excel formulas and more time doing the important, strategic work. We're hiring the top talent in the industry to create the best strategic financial analysis solution in the world. Come join us!
10 Dec 2024
#HIRING another AI Engineer (Principal/Lead IC) for Agents, Agentic Systems, and Applied LLMs! 🤖 Shape the future of Strategic Finance by accelerating multi-agent analytical reasoning, tooling, & fault recovery alongside some of the best builders around: spindle.notion.site/AI-Engin…
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Join our co-founders @ryanatallah, @CarsonKahn, and a world-class team from @Google, @Tableau, @Stanford, @NewRelic, @Anaplan, and beyond in scaling #AI-native analytics to help the world’s leading companies see & seize opportunities in their financial plans! careers@spindle.ai
10 Dec 2024
#HIRING another AI Engineer (Principal/Lead IC) for Agents, Agentic Systems, and Applied LLMs! 🤖 Shape the future of Strategic Finance by accelerating multi-agent analytical reasoning, tooling, & fault recovery alongside some of the best builders around: spindle.notion.site/AI-Engin…
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Our team would really value your input on this!
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Exciting roles open across engineering, #AI, GTM, and solutions architecture (FP&A)! đź“§ join-us@spindle.ai or learn more:
28 Feb 2024
📣 Hiring a Lead/Principal #FrontEnd Engineer (Interactive Data Applications) @SpindleAI! 🚀 @ryanatallah & I invite you to join our world-class team and market-leading FP&A customers in shipping software that augments human cognition: spindleai.com/lead-frontend-…
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Spindle AI, acquired by Salesforce retweeted
9 Feb 2024
one of the great pleasures in life is finding undiscovered talent, enabling them with high conviction, and watching them bend the trajectory of things
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You should be in this photo! đź“§ hiring@spindle.app
19 May 2023
Delightful contest of #Catan at the @Spindle_app quarterly offsite in summery Gainesville, FL… A game where constrained optimization bleeds over from work into play! ♟️
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We’re working on something like this for scenario-based/data apps at Spindle — reach out if you want to learn more! team@spindle.app
29 Mar 2023
i call this the Dynamic Interface raw notes:
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This photo will feature DOUBLE the engineers & designers in it soon enough — you should be one of them! 📧 join-our-team@spindle.app
13 Jan 2023
SO fortunate to work with this amazing product team 🤩 Almost as excited for 2023 as for the many new faces that will join this photo in the next few months
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Spindle is one of the “5 best #DataTools you haven’t heard of yet” and is the “best marketing mix analysis and #optimization tool I’ve ever seen”, according to former Amazon Web Services (AWS) Senior Program Mgr & #MarTech thought-leader Nick Warner. More: spindleapp.co/linkedin-post-…
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