Stop Building AI Agents. Build AI Employees Instead (Live Demo) | Pedro Franceschi

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About this video

Pedro is widely respected as one of the most AI-pilled CEOs.

In our interview, he explained why most people are building agents wrong and how to build them as AI employees instead each with a specific job, skills, manager, and budget.

He also gave a live demo of how he still uses OpenClaw to stay on top of his $5B business and life.

Note: All data shared by Pedro is Brex demo data.

Pedro and I talked about:

(00:00) Build AI employees, not AI agents (05:23) Why Pedro spends half his time reviewing work (12:32) Live demo: Jim, Brex’s AI recruiting employee (21:24) Why Brex makes engineers build with AI in interviews (22:33) CrabTrap: How to stop AI employees from leaking data (27:30) The tokenmaxxing bill is coming.

Here’s how to control it (40:45) Live demo: Pedro’s OpenClaw system runs his life

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