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Guys, smith.a.I is doing, I did 1.5 million revenue last month, over 20 million run rate.

That's more than doubled from a year ago.

They've got 600 folks on the team.

And what they're doing is they're helping folks do, you know, work with customers much better in a more efficient way.

Whether it's voice, inbound chat, inbound messages, they're using AI to power this.

But unlike most AI companies, they have

real rev. And again, voice, web chat, outbound SDR as a service, launched back and caught

2015, 2016, after Aaron sold his first company, Red Beacon to Home Depot, then stayed at Home Depot

then stayed at Home Depot through 2015. Hey, folks, my guest today is Aaron Lee. He's the co-founder

and CEO of Smith.A.I and former CTO of Depot. His former company, Red Beacon, won the TechCrunch 50 startup

competition in 2009. He's one of the founding engineers, sorry, at Google Video and holds a PhD

and computer science from Princeton University, now building Smith.A.I, which is human-centered

AI customer engagement.

Aaron, you ready to take us to the top?

Yep, absolutely.

Excited to be here.

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