The founder of awareness has a new start -up company that helps artificial intelligence agents to pay
With the passage of a year of artificial intelligence agent, a new direction appears: startups that offer choices and shovels that help employers to build a working force of robots.
“Mane Medina, known as the founder and former CEO of the Awareness Company to automate sales of $ 4.4 billion, has just launched one startup called paid.
The paid does not make artificial intelligence agents. It provides a platform that makes sure of its salaries, profitable. It announced on Monday that it raised 10 million euros (about 11 million dollars) in the pre -seed investment of PowerHouse EQT projects, Sequoia, and GTMFUND.
Medina reached an idea of the paid after spending months speaking to dozens of startups for the platform. In these conversations, a joint complaint appeared. “They did not really know what to be imposed,” I told the Techcrunch debt.
The paid hypothesis is that the old methods of charging software will not work with artificial intelligence agents. Agent companies cannot impose fees for each user or for each seat, which means based on the number of people who use the program (such as School School Microsoft Office). The basic point is that one employee can manage a lot of agents. Or the agents will manage themselves with the absence of the human supervisor at all.
Medina says that companies that develop artificial intelligence agents also cannot impose fees such as changing large generations in software, SAAS, imposing fees on use because if agents work properly, they “take a full role.”
He says that the agent’s agent does not want to pay for all the separate tasks performed by an agent – even if he knows them all, he says. They want to pay the price of its results, like the employee. Therefore, if an insurance agent is appointed and the success of the role in complete policy renovations is measured, the company does not want to pay for each email sent.
At the same time, the costs associated with providing agents are variable, depending on the number of LLMs that you need to carry out their training and tasks.
“So how do you help them the price of the job they offer?” Al -Madinah Al -Munawwarah said about startups that provide agents. “They needed the ability to try new things with different customers. They needed the ability to measure their margins.”
The bills meet the human resources management
The agents are new to the extent that startups did not have to deal with operations that provide profitable bills, not to mention the renovations. The paid allows startups to create prices – fixed or variable – with the eye into profitable margins.
In doing this, it also tracks the output of the agents, which also allows startups to verify the validity of the return on investment.
It is the AI Agent era from Zuora (Saas Renewal Billing Software) meets Successfactors (Saas HR Management Software.)
The paid platform is marketed to startups, instead of companies such as Salesforce and Microsoft, which also offers agent platforms. Pay contains three companies such as Beta customers, says: Logic.App, 11x, Vidlab7, Artisan and Happyrobot.
“The agents replace roles and human roles, not the entire job, but the entire roles,” says Medina.
He also exercises what he preaches, using artificial intelligence to build this new young woman. The paid engineers coded the initial product offers with tools such as V0, re -and -loved.
He said: “This is what is very fun about building a company at the present time. We have engineers, and we built the overall building platform in one month. Why? Because we build everything on artificial intelligence.”
Medina has experience in building companies from nothing. The former Microsoftie, which was a known part of the Seattle Tech decades ago, continued from $ 0 when it founded in 2011 to 800 employees and $ 250 million of repeated annual revenues by time he left the role of the CEO in September.
Medina left the role of CEO in March, although he is still in the Board of Directors. He, Plaid, is now located in London.
