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- HubSpot turned 18
years old this past June
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and since then I've had the
honor of sharing a number
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of memorable moments on the INBOUND stage
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with you over the years.
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13 years ago, I shared a
launch of my son Sohan.
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Back then he was a tiny language model.
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Now he's a middle schooler,
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so he has a teenage language model,
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which I will confess I have
not completely decoded yet.
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Parents in the room know
what I'm talking about.
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Now I can't show a current image of Sohan
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because he's revoked my licensing
rights to use his image.
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No cap. No cap.
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10 years ago we launched the HubSpot CRM.
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Many of you in the audience were here.
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Applaud if you were here for
the launch of inbound CRM. Yep.
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My lovely wife Kirsten, she was here. Yep.
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By the way, she's the one that got me the
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rocking shoes just for you.
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I know you can't see them on
stage. You'll see them later.
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Yeah. Thank you honey. So one
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year ago we launched our first
products with generative ai,
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including ChatSpot. ChatSpot
started as a Labs project
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and now has graduated to
become Breeze Copilot.
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They grow up so quickly. So,
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this is the year of AI agents.
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When we look back at this event
years from now, you're going
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to remember it as the year of AI agents.
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Now agents are all the rage this year,
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but you know what was the rage in the 1980s?
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Corduroy pillows.
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They were making headlines everywhere.
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I'm gonna give that one
a couple of seconds just,
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okay, So here's what I'd like to do.
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First I'll give you a debrief of
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what has happened in the world
of AI since we last spoke.
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Then I'll try and demystify AI agents
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because they can be
unnecessarily mysterious.
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And finally, I'll show you some software
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that's in development
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and as is permitted in
my speaker's contract.
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I'll sneak in some dad jokes.
I apologize for nothing.
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I bring my full dad self to the stage.
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Speaking of dad jokes, so I'm
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building a dad generator agent.
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This is true story and
I collect all of them.
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I've got 2000 in a,
what I call a dad-a-base.
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And so this is basically
feedback for the training agents.
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So thank you for laughing for those
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that laugh as we go along.
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But anyway, so here we go.
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So a lot has happened in the past year,
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all focused on just the
highlights, things that matter
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to you and your company.
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First, AI models are getting bigger.
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Bigger in terms of the number
of parameters which sort
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of defines how big
their neural network is,
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and also their context
windows, which defines
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how much information we can
pass to the model at the time
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we give it a prompt. Bigger models are
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generally more capable.
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They can reason better,
they can write better,
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they can follow instructions better.
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But models aren't just getting better.
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They're getting better, faster.
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So years ago, Gordon
Moore, the CEO of Intel,
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coined what's called Moore's Law.
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It states that computers
double in power every 18 months.
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That's an exponential curve.
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That's why a computer that used
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to fill a room now fits in your pocket.
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So Moore said: computers would
double in capacity every
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18 months.
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And AI came along and said, hold my beer.
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AI models are doubling every six months.
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And this growth is partly
what's causing all this
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excitement around AI.
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And it's not just that the
models are getting bigger
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and better, but we're
seeing innovation along
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multiple dimensions.
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We now have multiple highly
functional frontier models
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that are good at different tasks.
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Open AI's. GPT is really
good at reasoning.
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Claude 3.5 is really great at writing.
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Google Gemini is really great
at supporting huge context
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windows with millions of tokens.
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And Llama is really great
at being open source
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and having a cute name.
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And we have some breaking
news on the AI model front,
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for almost a year now,
the industry has been buzz
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with the anticipation of
a new model from OpenAI.
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Those are the folks that make chat. GPT.
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The model's code named
Strawberry. Word on the street was
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that it was going to be very impressive.
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What's not very impressive is that joke.
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I did not write that joke.
I will not take credit.
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OpenAI launched that new
model this past Thursday
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and I've been up late
nights even later than
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usual every night since.
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The model is called GPT o1.
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Now the reason to be
excited about GPT o1 is
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because of its ability to reason.
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It's shockingly good,
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like graduate student PhD level reasoning.
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And it even shares the kind of chain
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of thought it had in
terms of how it came up
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with the response that it gave you.
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So it sort of lets you
inside its brain. Super cool.
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Now this level of reasoning
means we can have agents now,
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they take on much more sophisticated goals
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that when we could even do a week ago.
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That's how fast this stuff is moving.
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So the lesson here is that when
things are moving this fast,
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we shouldn't go to where the AI is.
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We should go to where AI is
going, hat tip to Wayne Gretzky.
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And we're going to be in a
very different place three
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months, six months, 12 months from now.
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Okay? So we have a
variety of great models.
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They're also becoming
increasingly multimodal.
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So we've moved beyond text to
the models supporting images,
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audio and video too.
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This means the models
can take image as input,
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not just the prompts that we give it.
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This is like we're giving
these AI models the
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sense of sight.
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That's like when you're
teenager can first start seeing
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the clothes on their bedroom floor.
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It's amazing when it
happens. It's amazing.
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So this is what AI models used
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to see when you sent them to a webpage.
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This is the webpage for School of Rock,
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longstanding HubSpot customer.
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And I'm the parent of a recent customer
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of School of Rock.
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So this is what the models used to see
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and this is what the models can see today.
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They see the same webpage as we do.
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So quick recap of the debriefing.
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Models are getting bigger and better.
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We have different models
for a diversity of tasks.
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And AI models now have multimodal support.
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This makes it possible for the first time,
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to create AI agents
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that can take on a wide
variety of assignments.
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But agents can seem a bit
mysterious and complicated.
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So let's try to demystify them.
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Let's raise your A-IQ now,
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agent IQ speaking IQ,
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I read somewhere that
talking to yourself is a sign
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of intelligence.
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I've said that to myself
hundreds of times.
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Now, first of all, you
might be wondering like
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what is an AI agent anyway?
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And there are a lot of
definitions out there.
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The one I prefer is the one Yamini shared.
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An AI agent is software that uses AI
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and tools to accomplish a goal
that requires multiple steps.
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That's it. Yes, some
agents can have be able
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to run autonomously,
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some have executive planning capabilities,
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but those are niceties, not
necessities to be an AI agent.
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And there are a range of agents in terms
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of the complexity of the goals.
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They can take on. Everything
from complex goals like the four
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agents that Andy just
demonstrated, all the way down
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to very simple goals.
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The thing I want you to
remember is that an agent's
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and agent, no matter how small
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now, whether big or small,
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all agents share some things in common.
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An agent uses one or more AI models.
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If it doesn't use AI, you can't
officially call it an agent,
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then it's just sparkling
automation software.
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Thank you. Yeah, bye. Next,
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an AI agent has the ability to use tools
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so it can access things
like the HubSpot Smart CRM
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and take action on your behalf.
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And finally, agents have a memory.
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They can remember things across tasks.
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Otherwise it's like me
walking up to the refrigerator,
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opening it and then forgetting
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why I opened the refrigerator.
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Alright, so let's dig in
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and talk about what's in development.
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I'm gonna share with you
what I've been cooking on
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late at night, two o'clock
in the morning every night.
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My wife can attest to this.
And by cooking I mean coding.
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I can't actually cook,
not in a literal sense.
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And I also don't stand
at my standing desk,
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which doesn't sit well
with my personal trainer.
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I actually don't have a personal trainer.
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I used GPT. By the way,
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it suggested that I maybe do like lunges
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and I think that would
be a big step forward.
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And so having the honor of
being up on stage at INBOUND
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and sharing the stuff I've
been working on is the favorite
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time of my whole year.
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And I've probably spent 1500
hours working on the next 15
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minutes that I'm about to show you.
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And before I do that,
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before we dig in, a quick
disclosure and warning.
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The upcoming segment is rated X,
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X for experimental.
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Everything Andy showed you
are part of real products
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that we sell at HubSpot.
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Products you should buy.
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By the way, if sales team is hiring, I'm,
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that's my sales pitch right there.
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What I'm about to show
you is an experiment.
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Viewer discretion is advised.
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And the product I've been
staying up late every night
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working on for many moons
this year is agent.ai.
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Thank you. Agent.AI
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is the number one professional
network for AI agents.
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It's also the only professional network
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for AI agents.
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Now at this point, some
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of you might be thinking, wait, what?
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Why do agents need their own
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professional network?
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Reasonable question. 'cause I predict
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that in the future our teams
are going to be hybrid.
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They, they'll consist of humans like you
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and AI agents like me.
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Just, just kidding. I'm not
an AI agent yet here on stage,
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that likely won't happen
until far into future.
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Like INBOUND 25. By the way, inspired
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by Andy's references to back the future,
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I was going to tell you
guys a joke about time
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travel, but you didn't like it.
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So here's the homepage for agent.ai.
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We see a listing for some
of the agents on the network
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and every agent has a profile.
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So we can click into the profile,
we can follow that agent,
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we can hire that agent and start using it.
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It's free. And we have,
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and we can add the agent to our team.
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And we have a bunch of agents
around marketing, sales,
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customer service, operations,
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and a new agent's being added every week.
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So I invite you to check it out.
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You can sign up for free, get a
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hundred credits, it's awesome.
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So it's time to meet some of these agents.
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Now we're gonna look at agents
that help us with marketing,
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selling and how to delight customers.
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Now the number one challenge
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for marketers today is generating traffic
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and qualified leads.
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I'm not making that up.
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One of the most clueful people I
know in our industry said this
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circa 43 minutes ago.
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So it's even more important
that we take the website traffic
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that we have coming right
now, those website visitors
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and convert them to leads at
the highest rate possible.
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And the way to do that is with
conversion rate optimization.
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Now, here's the website for School
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of Rock that we saw earlier.
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It's a great website.
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Is there anything that can
be tweaked or improved?
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Yes, always.
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But is it a pain in the butt
to figure out what to change?
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Yes, always.
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'cause you have to review the copy,
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you've gotta check the CTA,
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you've gotta tweak the headlines,
review the testimonials.
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There's just so much to do.
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And conversion rate optimization is a very
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specialized skill.
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Thankfully, we've reduced this
down to a few easy clicks.
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Here's the conversion
rate optimizer agent.
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It's super easy to get started.
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All you do is you type in the web link
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for a webpage, any public webpage.
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It can be your homepage,
it can be a landing page,
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it can be your pricing page.
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And the agent goes through and
looks at that entire webpage
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and it has decades of domain expertise
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and conversion rate optimization
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and will come up with
a list of suggestions.
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It's like you're saying something
this way on the webpage,
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I'll bet you you'll get higher
conversions if you change it
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to this, or you're missing a call to action,
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or maybe you should add imagery.
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It comes up with really,
really good suggestions.
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I encourage you to try it.
So it's, it's a simple agent,
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but it's a profitable one.
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I encourage you to check it
out. Now, Yamini also mentioned
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how the average sales rep
spends only two hours a day
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with customers and a large part
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of their time is spent in prep,
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and a large part of
their prep time is spent
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researching companies.
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Now, the reason this takes so
much time is you have to go
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to Google, you go to the
company's website, you go
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to Crunchbase and look up their funding.
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You go to YouTube, go to the
social media channel, you go
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to Glassdoor, you're jumping
all over the internet on this
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adventure hunt with all
this unstructured data.
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We built a company research
agent that picks up all
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of those pieces all over the internet
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and puts it together for you
with just a few easy clicks.
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Let's look at how easy this is.
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We start by entering the website's domain.
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I'm going to enter openai.com,
my favorite AI company,
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and we get a beautiful multi-page report
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broken out into sections.
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So we can click on any of these sections.
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So let's say we click on founders to see
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who the founders of the company are.
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We can click on the new section
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and see if there's anything new
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that's been published about the company.
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We can click on their
web traffic information
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or their organic keywords.
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A bunch of different sections,
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brings it all together in one place.
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But the coolest part is this
research question section.
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You can type in any question you want.
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It's like, let's say you're
selling payment software
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and you wanna know whether
this company sells a
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subscription product.
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The agent will crawl the
company's entire website,
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crawl the internet, and come
up with an answer for you.
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And it says, yes, OpenAI
sells a subscription product.
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But what's really cool is you can add
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that question to the agent.
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So every future report
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that you run will automatically answer all
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your custom questions.
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So let's say yes, OpenAI is a
good fit with a single click.
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We can add this company
to the HubSpot Smart CRM,
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and we can see that company record
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and can do all the things you can do
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inside HubSpot's smart CRM.
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And finally, let's say we're
interested in this company,
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we can click the track button
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and type in English what we want to track.
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It's like, okay, if they
launch a new product,
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if they raise a new round of funding,
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if there's an exec change,
describe it in English,
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whatever is you're interested in tracking
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and now this agent works on your behalf,
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and will track all of those
things automatically for you
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and notify you if something
interesting to you happens.
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So that's the company
research agent, by far
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the most popular agent
on the network right now.
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Thank you. Yep.
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Now what if I told you agents can
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use other agents?
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I'm telling you, agents
can use other agents.
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We can use existing
agents as building blocks
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for building new, more powerful agents.
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It's like agent composition.
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I haven't had this much fun
since I played with Lego.
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So this weekend, basically. Okay,
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so let's say I'm a
customer success manager
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and Canva is one of my accounts.
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Love Canva, by the way.
Shout out to Canva folks.
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Yeah, I know. Wonderful company.
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So now as a customer success manager,
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before hopping on a call, I'd like
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to kinda update myself
what's been going on
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with this company, both
within the HubSpot Smart CRM,
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but then all over the web, news, funding.
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Now, this sounds familiar,
a lot of that work,
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the company research agent already does.
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So we built a simple agent that takes all
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of this information and
reduces all that work in terms
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of creating an executive
briefing into a few easy clicks.
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Let's see how easy this is.
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So here's the executive briefing agent.
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It knows which company I'm
going, which one's assigned
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to me, and it will come
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and it will say, okay,
I'm gonna look at the CRM,
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I'm gonna look at the last calls.
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Any issues, I'm gonna go look
at the customer research agent
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and I'm gonna pull it all
together into a very brief
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executive briefing
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and I'm gonna convert it to an audio file
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so you can just kinda
listen to it on the commute
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to work if you want to. Right,
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just pulling all that information together
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and giving it in the form that you want.
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Alright, so given the agents
that Andy has demonstrated,
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given the agents I just showed you
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and the two dozen other
agents on the agent.ai network
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already, and more coming every week,
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I could make the prediction that most
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of you will be using agents this year,
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and that's an easy prediction to make.
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So I'm going to make that prediction.
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Most of you will be
using agents this year,
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but I'm not going to stop there.
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I predict that many
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of you will be building agents this year
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and not just the introverted
developers like me.
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Anyone can build an AI agent.
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You can build an agent,
you can build an agent.
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You can build an agent. Yes.
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By the way, if you know,
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I could have my like Steve
Balmer chant right now,
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it's like agent builder,
agent builder, agent builder.
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But I do not have the dancing
skills of my friend Brian.
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So we'll just enjoy him for a few seconds.
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This is him on the inbound
stage years ago. Hi Brian.
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By the way, thankfully Brian
does not drive a hard bargain
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in terms of using his
image in my presentations,
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which is I'm grateful for.
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So announcing Agent Builder,
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which lets you build agents.
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Why should I have all
the fun? So let me show
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you how easy it is.
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So here's the agent builder for
the agent I just showed you,
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the customer briefing agent.
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So it goes through five steps.
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It says, okay, go talk to the HubSpot CRM
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and figure out which account
has been assigned to me.
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Now go to the research agent,
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collect all of that information.
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Now go pass all of that context
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to a large language model,
generate an executive briefing,
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and then generate the
audio file so I can listen
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to it on my iPod or my music player.
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And that's it. It's drag and drop.
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So I'll give you a sense of,
if we click on the plus button,
00:20:45
there are other actions we could add.
00:20:46
Let's say we wanted to
add another step to this,
00:20:48
and we have access to all sorts of data
00:20:50
inside the HubSpot CRM.
00:20:51
We can build UI, we can
do all sorts of things.
00:20:54
It's awesome. So the coolest
part about Agent Builder, it has
00:20:58
access to all the frontier models.
00:21:00
So it has access to GPT
to Claude, it has access
00:21:03
to all the image generation models.
00:21:04
Dall-E 3, Flux.1, Ideogram, Playground, name it.
00:21:08
It has access to all the HubSpots.
00:21:09
CRM has access to people
to create blog posts,
00:21:12
create webpage, has Google, has YouTube,
00:21:14
Twitter, everything.
00:21:15
You can mix it all up and
build an agent with drag
00:21:18
and drop in the same way you
build workflows in a marketing
00:21:20
automation product like HubSpot.
00:21:23
Alright, I'm gonna take a breath.
00:21:25
This is a cue for me to breathe
00:21:26
so I don't pass out on stage.
00:21:27
Thank you. You're welcome
00:21:32
to join in and and, and take a breath.
00:21:34
This is not a moment of Zen.
00:21:35
We have work to do, so we're alright.
00:21:37
So that's agent.ai, the number
one professional network
00:21:40
for AI agents.
00:21:42
Also the only professional
network for AI agents.
00:21:46
Now, normally for Labs projects like this,
00:21:49
if I get a few hundred users
00:21:52
before the launch date, I'm happy.
00:21:55
That gives me feedback, gives me signal.
00:21:57
If I get a few thousand users
00:22:00
before launch date, I'm like,
this kid's got potential,
00:22:05
this one's gonna grow up
and be something special.
00:22:08
And I am thrilled
00:22:09
to announce agent.ai already has
00:22:13
47,000 users.
00:22:16
They grow up so quickly.
00:22:21
This makes it the second most
successful innovation project
00:22:25
we've done at HubSpot.
00:22:27
The first one being HubSpot CRM.
00:22:32
Alright? And what's equally
exciting is we have 1700 people
00:22:35
signed up for the wait
list for the agent builder,
00:22:38
and I'm approving people
literally every night.
00:22:40
So I'll be doing that in the
hotel room later tonight.
00:22:42
So sign up, it's fun.
00:22:45
Alright, and remember, you
don't have to be a coder
00:22:47
to be an agent builder.
00:22:49
You just have to be curious.
00:22:50
All it takes is a few easy clicks.
00:22:57
So we started by building
a UI, a user interface.
00:23:00
This part of it is probably a
little geekier than it needs
00:23:02
to be for a mainstream audience.
00:23:04
I'm a little geekier than I should
00:23:05
be for a mainstream audience.
00:23:06
It'll be okay. This will be quick.
00:23:08
Then we layer it on with an
00:23:09
application programming interface.
00:23:11
This allows applications
to be able to talk
00:23:14
to talk to HubSpot.
00:23:15
The next evolution of this
is what I call the AUI.
00:23:19
That's the agent user interface.
00:23:22
And the reason this is important
is this is what you need
00:23:25
for agents to be able
to talk to each other
00:23:26
and be able to collaborate.
00:23:28
And the cool thing about
Agent Builder is every agent
00:23:31
that's built on Agent Builder
automatically has an A UI.
00:23:35
Now this may not make
sense to some of you.
00:23:38
That's okay, but your
developers are gonna love it.
00:23:40
I promise. A movie reference,
00:23:42
that's a really subtle
one, but we'll let it go.
00:23:45
Okay, so now some of you're wondering
00:23:50
why is a customer platform
company like HubSpot building
00:23:55
an agent network?
00:24:01
It's my belief that the next
generation customer platform
00:24:04
needs to have three things.
00:24:07
It needs a smart CRM
that has unified store
00:24:10
of structured and unstructured data.
00:24:12
Yamini talked about this and that
00:24:13
foundational AI has to be
built into the core CRM.
00:24:17
The batteries have to be included, right?
00:24:19
Otherwise it's not a smart CRM.
00:24:21
It needs smart engagement apps.
00:24:23
You saw Andy talk about this,
00:24:24
where we're infusing AI into all the
00:24:26
engagement apps at HubSpot.
00:24:28
And finally, you need an agent ecosystem,
00:24:32
just like we have an app
ecosystem, now shout out
00:24:35
to all the app partners
that are out there.
00:24:37
Thank you. Alright, so at HubSpot we like
00:24:42
to dream big and iterate small.
00:24:46
And our dream has always
been to help millions
00:24:48
of organizations grow better.
00:24:50
We do this by demystifying, democratizing,
00:24:54
and delivering on the
potential of new technology.
00:24:58
If you're a Fortune 1000
company with a fortune
00:25:02
to spend on AI, there are lots
00:25:05
of good options out there for you.
00:25:07
But for those of you that just
want to get growing with AI,
00:25:10
HubSpot's here for you,
our focus is not just
00:25:14
to make it exceptionally
easy to use agents,
00:25:17
but exceptionally easy to
build agents and share agents
00:25:20
and distribute agents.
00:25:22
That's the idea. Now, since
our founding 18 years ago,
00:25:26
we've been inspired a lot by Apple.
00:25:31
Apple changed the world years
ago with the introduction
00:25:35
of the iPhone,
00:25:37
but what was equally
impactful was the launch
00:25:40
of the app store.
00:25:42
Their vision was embodied in the
00:25:43
phrase, there's an app for that.
00:25:47
Our vision for the future is:
there's an agent for that.
00:25:54
For every marketing, sales,
00:25:55
customer service use case imaginable,
00:25:58
including use cases we can't imagine yet.
00:26:02
There will be an agent for that.
00:26:05
Agents are the new apps,
00:26:08
and we expect someday for there
00:26:10
to be thousands of agents available.
00:26:12
We want a thousand agents to bloom.
00:26:14
Only a small fraction
of them will be written
00:26:17
and built by HubSpot.
00:26:19
Most of them will be built
by our partners, by all
00:26:22
of you, the community.
00:26:25
So we see a world where agents
00:26:27
and humans that hire them
are connected on a network
00:26:30
and can collaborate in
this vibrant marketplace.
00:26:35
Now, if we think of agents as tools,
00:26:38
we will get wonderful tools,
00:26:43
but we should skate to
where the puck is going.
00:26:48
If we think of agents as
future digital teammates,
00:26:53
we will get wondrous
00:26:56
transformation for our businesses.
00:27:00
Now, it's natural for
this to cause some anxiety
00:27:05
because it's not natural
to think of a world
00:27:08
where agents are members of our team.
00:27:11
Deep down inside, we may be worried
00:27:14
that AI will replace us as humans.
00:27:18
As a human myself, I will humbly submit
00:27:21
that AI does not reduce your value.
00:27:26
It raises it. Even
though I use AI every day
00:27:30
to help me code, help me
develop presentations,
00:27:34
help me write dad jokes.
00:27:36
I think I'm no less valuable.
00:27:38
Now I'm more valuable with AI.
00:27:41
And the same is true for all of you
00:27:43
because humans are more than the sum
00:27:46
of the tasks that they do.
00:27:50
There is an inexplicable magic in us
00:27:53
made from the experiences we've had.
00:27:56
AI may be faster than us.
00:27:58
AI may be smarter than us,
00:28:00
but it can't be more human than us.
00:28:05
Can't be because it had. It
has not had human experiences.
00:28:10
Like the thrill of starting
something new with a friend,
00:28:15
with thank you.
00:28:22
Or the profound joy of
sparking someone new
00:28:26
with the love of your life.
00:28:30
Thank you. Or the deep,
00:28:33
deep gratitude one feels
towards a new friend
00:28:37
that is helping continue
the dream and vision.
00:28:40
AI will not have those feelings
00:28:42
because AI cannot have
those human experiences.
00:28:46
It can read books, it
can inhale the entirety
00:28:49
of the internet, but that's not the same
00:28:52
as having those human experiences.
00:28:56
Having said that,
00:28:58
although AI has its limits, it's not going
00:29:01
to replace us as humans.
00:29:03
AI agents can be wonderfully helpful.
00:29:07
So we should let agents
automate the mundane
00:29:12
and amplify the magic.
00:29:14
The magic that makes you, you.
00:29:17
It is always an honor to be here.
00:29:20
Thank you so much for
coming out to INBOUND.
00:29:22
Thank you for all the support.
00:29:23
On behalf of Yemeni, Andy
00:29:25
and the global team of 8,000
plus HubSpoters, I appreciate.