What if your operations team started each day with every check call completed and only the real exceptions waiting? We sat down with Happy Robot co-founder Pablo Palafox to unpack how an AI workforce is changing the cadence of work in freight—beyond chatbots and into end-to-end execution. Pablo’s path runs from deep learning research and a Meta internship to YC, a hard pivot, and a clear problem: late deliveries, fines, and interns glued to phones. That pain created an opening for agents tha...
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What if your operations team started each day with every check call completed and only the real exceptions waiting? We sat down with Happy Robot co-founder Pablo Palafox to unpack how an AI workforce is changing the cadence of work in freight—beyond chatbots and into end-to-end execution. Pablo’s path runs from deep learning research and a Meta internship to YC, a hard pivot, and a clear problem: late deliveries, fines, and interns glued to phones. That pain created an opening for agents tha...
This week, Andrew sits down with Harish Abbott, CEO and cofounder of Augment, the AI teammate for logistics. Harish says, “Logistics is broken,” and in this episode, he goes deep into just how broken, talking about the inefficient ways information is shared between numerous parties on any given shipment. He talks about how overwhelmed operators are by emails and manual processes, leading to costly inefficiencies, a lack of time for creative work, high turnover, and burnout. The former CEO and...
The Freight Pod
What if your operations team started each day with every check call completed and only the real exceptions waiting? We sat down with Happy Robot co-founder Pablo Palafox to unpack how an AI workforce is changing the cadence of work in freight—beyond chatbots and into end-to-end execution. Pablo’s path runs from deep learning research and a Meta internship to YC, a hard pivot, and a clear problem: late deliveries, fines, and interns glued to phones. That pain created an opening for agents tha...
