Yash Bagal

Yash Bagal

 
AI Speedrun

How Twilio Builds AI at Internet Scale (w/ Head of AI)

We spoke to Zachary Hanif, who leads AI, ML, and Data at Twilio, about what it takes to deploy AI at scale.
2 min read
 
Articles

Beyond Resolution Time: What Forward-Thinking Support Leaders Actually Track

Support leaders spend years optimizing for resolution time, only to watch the same bugs resurface across hundreds of tickets while engineering drowns in incomplete reports. The metric that was supposed to indicate customer satisfaction actually incentivizes superficial fixes, masks systemic product issues, and creates an adversarial relationship between support and
6 min read
 
Articles

The Most Common AI Adoption Mistakes Support Leaders Make (And How to Avoid Them)

Support leaders are rushing to adopt AI tools, driven by executive pressure and competitor moves, only to watch their initiatives stall or fail within months, with 70-85% of AI initiatives failing to meet expected outcomes. The pattern repeats across orgs: promising pilots that never scale, teams that resist using new
8 min read
 
AI Speedrun

Pipedrive's Internal AI Tools Powering 100,000+ Customers

We spoke with Agur Jõgi, Pipedrive’s CTO, about how his team is building AI into their engineering workflow.
2 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Plain is reshaping customer support (w/ head of community Susana de Sousa)

Why 2026 is the year of the support engineer according to Plain's head of community, Susana de Sousa.
5 min read
 
Articles

How Modern Teams Use AI To Eliminate Support-Engineering Silos

A customer reports a checkout bug at 2pm. By 2:15pm, support has logged a ticket with a vague description. By 3pm, engineering sends it back asking for browser details, console logs, and reproduction steps that were never captured. By EOD, the bug still isn't fixed and three
12 min read
 
Articles

7 AI Tools Every Customer Success Team Needs in 2025

A customer success manager at a B2B SaaS company once told me she spent 15 hours each week manually updating health scores, pulling usage data from three different dashboards, and trying to predict which accounts might churn. By the time she identified at-risk customers, they were already halfway through their
12 min read
 
Articles

Screen Recording Tools For Modern Customer Support Teams

A customer writes "the checkout button isn't working" and your support team sends back five clarifying questions. Three days and a dozen emails later, you're still not sure which button they meant or what browser they were using. Screen recording tools let customers show
8 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Givebutter Uses AI to Handle 60% of Support Tickets

Givebutter's support team now uses AI to deflect 60% of inbound requests, here's how they pulled it off!
2 min read
 
AI Speedrun

Taskrabbit CTO Scott Porad on Building with AI

"The next decade of software development won’t be defined by how much code AI can write, but by how confidently humans can ship it."
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

Inside Gong's AI Stack w/ Chief R&D Officer Ohad Parush

Ohad shares how AI has become a peer programmer & how engineers are learning faster than ever before.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How HeyGen uses AI w/ Head of Product Engineering Nikunj Yadav

HeyGen is a rocket ship in the AI video space with now over 85,000 customers using their platform to create hyper-realistic video avatars. We spoke to their Head of Product Engineering Nikunj Yadav to unpack how his team uses AI across the dev cycle. We get into how AI
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How AI is changing Customer Success w/ Alex Turkovic

Sr. Director of Customer Experience at Belfry, on how AI is changing the way CX teams operate.
2 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Merge uses AI (w/ Co-founder & CTO Gil Feig)

Highlights from our conversation w/ Gil Feig on the AI Speedrun podcast.
3 min read
 
CX Guides

How is AI Changing Customer Support in 2025?

How AI is changing the customer support function, how leading platforms compare, and how to implement them in a real support operation.
9 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Wix Builds with AI, with Chief Architect Yoav Abrahami

How Wix engineering uses AI to build software faster.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

Making Support More Technical: Appcues’ Ricky Perez on the Future of AI in Customer Support

Highlights from our conversation with Ricky Perez, Director of Support at Appcues, on how AI is changing CX.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Faro Uses AI w/ CTO Patrick Leung

Patrick shares where AI is most useful in the dev cycle, why code review is becoming the new bottleneck, and how Faro saves pharma companies over $100M per trial.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Vanta Builds with AI, with VP of Engineering Iccha Sethi

Highlights from the AI Speedrun podcast, Iccha Sethi (VP Eng at Vanta) shares how her team builds with AI.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Vercel Uses AI w/ VP of Eng Lindsey Simon

How AI is accelerating engineering velocity at Vercel, shaping hiring, and the shift to personal software.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Monday.com Builds AI Products That Teams Actually Use

We spoke to Or Fridman, AI Group PM at Monday.com, to learn how his team builds with AI.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How AI Impacts Customer Support, with Productboard’s Head of Global Support

Highlights from the AI Speedrun podcast, Pavel Malyshev (Head of Support at Productboard) shares how his team uses AI.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

Beyond the Hype: Honeycomb's CTO on How AI Really Impacts Engineering Teams

How Honeycomb uses AI to accelerate engineering velocity.
2 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Incident.io Builds with AI (w/ CEO Stephen Whitworth)

Deep dive into the current state of AI at incident.io & what it was like building their first AI features.
3 min read
 
AI Speedrun

How Intercom Builds with AI, with CTO Darragh Curran

We spoke to Intercom’s CTO Darragh Curran to find out how his team actually uses AI.
3 min read