We’re announcing a $38M Series A led by @a16z. 1 million hours of automated work behind us. Millions more ahead. The future belongs to the 100x operator.

On the heels of @conveyAI's $38M Series A, I got to sit down with @julesrosenberg at MTS to talk about what it means for operators to move from AI assistants to full-blown teammates that actually own the work. Thanks for having me on the show!

Why do AI teammates need a fundamentally different architecture than AI assistants? @rohanbchopra, co-founder and CEO of @conveyAI: "It's a fundamentally different problem to solve when you want AI teammates that are acting as infrastructure to power someone's business versus an assistant." "An assistant, that's great if it's improvising and figuring things out on the fly. But if you're gonna delegate something fully and be able to trust it, you need actually more of an ecosystem around that AI that you can trust." "That also helps to clarify when we are on a path that someone has actively planned for and has taught this teammate how to handle things." "It also is very clear when we have strayed off of that path, and we're in a new scenario because you actually want, in these types of scenarios, for your teammate to reach out and ask for help." @julesrosenberg

Coding tools showed what happens when AI moves from assistant to autopilot. The rest of the business is next. At @ConveyAI, we’re building AI teammates for operators–teammates that own outcomes, execute processes, and free teams to focus on customers. More on our $38M Series A and what we're building toward in the comments.

When optimizing accounting at @Samsara , @scottlhume made a bold choice: hire AI. They've delegated 13 recurring tasks (and counting) to @conveyAI digital teammates, saving dozens of hours every month-end close. Scott on why AI belongs at the center of modern accounting, and how he's investing in his team accordingly ↓

Most AI makes you faster. Convey takes the work off your plate. At @ConveyAI: → Train once by doing the task sharing screen → Handle edge cases improve over time → 900,000 hours of work already completed → Runs workflows thousands of times without supervision Less busywork. More output. The future belongs to the 100x operator. Feel free to DM if you’re interested to learn more.

One of the most underrated parts of enterprise AI is getting your team bought in. Dominic Miraglia is taking a unique tack: evangelizing, incentivizing, and even compensating his team based on hours saved with @conveyAI. This win-win strategy is yielding huge dividends for @savoyaground: - 1,000 hours automated in 4mo; planning for 10,000 by end of year - 40% EBITDA growth YoY driven by efficiency gains - Solving problems like order processing that they struggled with for years by establishing operators as builders. Hear more about Dom’s approach below.

We’re coming out of stealth today, to help people create the 100x operator. Backed by @khoslaventures, @PearVC, @SVAngel and other amazing investors and operators. We’re just getting started. Read the full story here: convey.dev/blog

The results from the last year in stealth: → Savoya: 1,000 hours saved in just 4 months. → Tier 1 Streaming platform — 450 hours/week automated. → Samsara: month-end close workflows that ran for hours now happen in minutes.

That’s why we built @conveyAI . Operators can share their screen and show their AI teammate how they want the work done. Convey watches, learns, and codifies that expertise so it can reliably execute it from that point forward. That’s it.

The industry's answer is "AI Assistants." But a faster assistant only gets you so far. True leverage isn't a tool that makes you a little bit faster – it's a teammate that takes the work off your plate entirely. Moving from "help" to "ownership" is the step-function shift.

Great companies have the same problem: brilliant operators doing critical, repetitive work manually every day. The logic is trapped in their heads. Without a path to scale that expertise, the business hits a ceiling.

Back in 2014, when DoorDash was just getting started, we had a guy named Steve. Steve manually assigned every single delivery. Checking drivers on Find My Friends, matching orders, all by hand. He was exceptional at his job. The system worked... until it couldn't. 🧵 Here's how that led to Convey: 🧵

In 2014, DoorDash ran on a guy named Steve. Every dasher shared their location with him on Find My Friends. Order comes in, Steve finds the closest one, texts them. It worked until it didn't. We sat next to him and turned that manual process into software. Steve went on to build and lead our support org. I've spent the last year watching the same pattern play out across every industry. Smart people manually holding critical workflows together because their systems haven't kept up. AI helps, but mostly as an assistant - it makes you faster, it doesn't take work off your plate. That's what we’re building at @conveyAI. Digital teammates that operators train themselves, that run autonomously, and that fully own a process end to end. Today we're out of stealth. Grateful to NBC Universal, Samsara, Faire, TelevisaUnivision, Unity and our other customers who bet on us early. The era of asking your best people to manually run critical business processes is over. The future belongs to the 100x operator.

1/ The way you’re doing a startup job search is wrong. You join Ramp instead of taking guaranteed cash from FAANG because you believe the equity will be worth more in the future. This is a VC decision and you need VC tools to make it.

“We will not let any child in New York City go hungry,” said @NYCMayor. “This partnership with @DoorDash will ensure medically fragile students can get the food they need delivered to their home.” amny.com/coronavirus/doordas…

We are excited to share that we closed $250 million co-led by Coatue Management & DST Global. It’s been an incredible year of growth for DoorDash. Thank you Merchants, Dashers & Consumers for getting us to this milestone! We are just getting started. drd.sh/GXo5nM/

Excited to have our team at this event! We'll be presenting and will have a table, where you can meet us and learn more about what challenges we're tackling here at @DoorDash !