Only 8 companies have shipped AI Agents from production. In this episode of Agentic, I brought together 3 of them, to reveal how they crossed this chasm:

1. Aria Attar (TensorStax) shows how they're tackling the 1:250 data scientist shortage with agents that drop into existing cloud environments.

2. Joe Stolte (Daily.ai), fresh off multiple exits including a $62.5 M acquisition, reveals how they turned 1B newsletter interactions into $1.2M in ARR in just 14 months.

3. Jacky Wong (Nullify) explains how they're helping enterprises where security teams are outnumbered 4:1 by developers.

Key insight? While the AI market races toward $733.7B by 2027—

Solving for deployment and LLM reliability > focussing on model capabilities.

Let’s dive right in.

Connect with us at:

1. Jacky Wong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wongja/?originalSubdomain=au

2. Aria Attar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ariaattar/

3. Joe Stolte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephstolte

5. George Bandarian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgebandarian/

6. Untapped Ventures: https://www.linkedin.com/company/untappedventures/

00:00 Trailer + Introduction

02:26 Agentic AI Overview

06:49 Meet the Founders

10:42 Deep Dive into AI Security

20:01 Building Agentic Models

25:59 Deep Reasoning and Inference in AI Models

26:19 Building and Training Baby Agents

27:37 Trust and Acceptance in AI Solutions

28:49 Lessons Learned and Advice to Founders

29:40 Common Mistakes in LLM Development

33:32 Customer Acquisition Strategies

36:57 Fundraising Insights and Challenges

42:38 Driving Acceptance and Trust in AI

44:37 Reconciling AI as a Deflationary Technology

46:56 Removing Human Evaluators in Development