Thanks @benthompson for such a wide-ranging and fun conversation. Read/listen if you want to go deep on business models around content for an agentic web.

We’re bringing the web to your data 🌐 Hex already knows what's happening inside your business, and now the Hex agent can fill in the gaps with what's happening outside. The Hex agent can search the web, powered by @p0 Learn more in the comments below ⬇️

Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99% accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents. We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI that does complex work inside Fortune 500 companies without hallucination. While code is too brittle, agents are too unpredictable. The work that runs the global economy - anti-money laundering, fraud investigations, underwriting - needs extreme accuracy. So we built a new kind of software that pairs the flexibility of AI with the predictability of code. When the world stays the same, Poetic runs fixed code: fast, cheap, identical every time. When the world changes, Poetic uses AI to regenerate its approach and find its way back to the objective. In one year, we went from zero to an eight-figure run rate as a team of four. Since then, we’ve scaled the team and executed the highest-stakes processes at AIG, SoFi, and Chime. At SoFi, a large US bank, Poetic reached 99% quality on fraud investigations in five weeks.

We're thrilled to build on our collaborations with @stripe, joining Stripe Projects to make it easier than ever to provision high-accuracy web search from the terminal. Here's how quickly you can get started:

Default for new, <10 seconds to switch your existing 🦞 - free and keyless

first time on video @travers00 talking about our work at @p0

Yes! For humans, ads was the most efficient business model due to the human cognitive overhead with payments. With agents, direct payments will work much better. This is why I’m so optimistic about high quality content thriving on the web as agents take over.

There are a small number of elite go to market leaders. Graham Moreno is one of them. He recently joined @p0 to help lead GTM. Before that, he was at Cognition, Grafana, and MongoDB. One of his core philosophies is that a great go to market system raises the floor and introduces predictability while still leaving space for exceptional people to use their judgment to delight the customer. “One of my favorite stories is, one of the best reps I’ve ever worked with, during the pandemic found out that the son of a champion at one of his companies had been taking guitar lessons and couldn’t anymore because of COVID. So he ended up teaching this guy’s kid guitar over Zoom during COVID. And he also didn’t tell anyone. No one found out about this for a long time. Then the champion at this account brought it up on a call with me six months later and was like, ‘Oh yeah, Isaac has been teaching my son how to play guitar.’ At no part in our process does it say, ‘teach someone guitar.’” This is one of my favorite deep dives on what it means to be an executional revenue leader in a post AI world. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Timestamps 00:32 Has the sales playbook changed in the AI era? 02:13 Why "showing up" beats letting the marketplace decide 06:50 Why great salespeople sell to engineers and executives in one motion 11:37 Selling to AI-native buyers who grew up on ChatGPT 13:49 Same seller, different tempo: 8 weeks vs. 8 business days 15:57 How AI-native buyers handle build vs. buy decisions 17:48 The rep who taught a champion's son guitar over Zoom 19:03 Raising the floor without capping the ceiling 22:09 Why too much process narrows the kind of seller you attract 25:46 The three pillars of GTM excellence 31:00 Building peers who are 80% aligned, not 100% 38:03 Whether AI is changing what good enablement looks like 41:35 Selling against direct and implied competitors at once 42:45 Instrumenting the funnel from stage zero to close 45:57 Why post-sales should always roll up to the revenue leader 48:19 The case for outsized commissions 52:02 The 96 hours of panic before Cognition acquired Windsurf 53:04 How far out should a GTM leader be planning? 57:53 What a normal week looks like in hypergrowth

Very excited to be part of this launch. Congrats @paraga and team ✨✨✨

We started @p0 based on the belief that AI agents will use the web 1000x more than humans, and we need new tech and business models as a result. We are already seeing agents scale on our infrastructure, and this is the starting point for a new business model for the web.

I joined @p0 because of THIS mission - we power the best web search for AI agents, AND we're now launching the platform for the world's leading publishers and content creators to get paid for their content. Journalism deserves more, and we are hoping to usher in that change ✨

Excited to finally share what I've been working on at @p0 -- it represents the culmination of a thesis I've had for >2 years & many months of hard work from this team. I became obsessed w Shapley values during my time in crypto, & I'm making the bet that they'll reshape the economics of the web as agents come online. Please reach out if you're interested in joining us.

we started @p0 because we believed agents would be the primary users of the web, that they'd use it far more than humans, and that they'd need new infrastructure and new business models to support that the first part is already playing out. today we're announcing the second

I've been really impressed with what Parallel is building, and what my friends Nick and Carra are doing on the publisher side. "Content that's uniquely valuable, hard to replace, or used in high-value agent work earns more." Excited to partner and experiment with them.

excited to be a part of this launch from parallel!

One of my longstanding fears about AI has been that it would further centralize the web– after all, agents are a new kind of app store. But increasingly, I’ve come to believe the agentic web can be less concentrated than the human one. Agents reason massively in parallel. They are not deterred from clicking through the 5th page of Google or the 50th page of an S1. The arrival of agents could be the best thing to happen to long tail content in a generation. But this can only happen if there’s a functional economic model to incentivize it. Index is our attempt at putting that economic model in place. We hope you’ll join us.

I'm excited to be a Parallel launch partner @paraga and team are working on an important problem: rewarding content creators for their agent audience, which I suspect will only grow for publishers of all types

Today @p0 launched Index, a platform for content owners (with a wonderful set of launch partners). If you love the internet like I do, building a sustainable economic model that incentivizes and rewards quality content matters to an enormous degree. Especially in the agent era.

📍Times Square with @p0 & @Nasdaq