Building AI Agents for Enterprise Operations

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and evolution of deploying AI agents in complex enterprise operations.

Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore speak with Pablo Palafox and Luis Paarup about the challenges of deploying AI agents in operationally complex industries. The conversation covers the evolution of voice AI, enterprise workflows, and why logistics became an early proving ground for agent-based systems. They discuss context, coordination, and execution inside large organizations, as well as the role of forward-deployed engineering, enterprise deployment, and what it takes to move AI from experimentation into production.

People in this episode

Hosts: Anish Acharya, Olivia Moore

Guests: Pablo Palafox, Luis Paarup

Topics covered

• AI agents
• enterprise operations
• voice AI
• logistics
• workflow
• engineering

Keywords

• AI
• enterprise
• logistics
• voice technology
• workflow
• engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Andreessen Horowitz

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