Complex AI Workflows Are Mostly Useless ft. Tanay Mishra

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Tanay Mishra about personalized coaching in GTM engineering and the impact of AI workflows.

In today's episode, I chat with Tanay Mishra, Clay Coach at Clay Bootcamp, about accelerating people into GTM engineering through one-to-one personalized coaching—two weeks of structured self-learning followed by six weeks of twice-weekly sessions where coach and student build a real project together, creating demonstrable ROI and a portfolio piece by the time the program ends. We explore the student demographics: not just RevOps professionals upskilling, but dentists, veterinarians, and an ex-yacht captain who decided sailing was done and GTM engineering was next. Tanay shares his most impactful Clay build: a company research workflow that takes just a domain, runs deep analysis through Perplexity for signals (hiring, fundraising, PR, media), cross-references the vendor's own services and offerings, identifies the perceived pain intersection, and delivers SDRs a rich briefing document with email hooks, subject lines, and conversation starters—all for about $1 per run, saving hundreds of hours on high-value accounts. He also shares a mid-funnel use case: when a prospect fills their email into a live chat on a pricing page, Clay enriches their company in real time and pings the…

People in this episode

Host: Saurav Gupta

Guest: Tanay Mishra

Topics covered

• GTM engineering
• personalized coaching
• AI workflows
• student demographics
• company research
• real-time enrichment

Keywords

• GTM engineering
• personalized coaching
• AI workflows
• company research
• real-time enrichment
• SDR
• portfolio piece

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Clay Bootcamp, Clay, Perplexity

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