Jaspar Carmichael-Jack and Rupert, a CEO and PhD astrophysicist, built Artisan, an AI that automates sales workflows. Their first digital worker, Ava, sets up in five minutes and handles outbound sales end-to-end. They plan to train new agents using each workflow as free training data.
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Hi YC, I'm Jaspar and I'm the co-founder and CEO at Artisan. I've always loved building businesses. My first was a candy shop in my bedroom at age 8, and then for the past few years I've been working with my agency of 15 people to bring new brands to market with startups and huge companies.
Hi YC, my name is Rupert. I'm the co-founder and CTO at Artisan. I have quite a heavy ML history with a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Oxford and research at University of California as well as NASA Space Telescope Science Institute. That has given me about 8 years of AI/ML experience at this point. And fun fact, I have a Guinness World Record in skateboarding.
Yeah. And we're creating the first generation of true digital workers that automate job functions from end to end and calling them artisans.
So all of the settings and requests can be handled by chatting directly to the agent. And so the LLM is really at the core of the product, and then it queries the tools in order to automate much of the repetitive tasks on behalf of the users. So we like to say that Well, other people, other companies are putting AI into their SaaS, we put SaaS into our AI.
Exactly, and our first artisan is called Ava. She automates the entire outbound sales process. You set Ava up with a 5-minute back-and-forth conversation. We like to say it's so easy that a 70-year-old who's never heard of Salesforce could set Ava up. And people just love the idea. Whenever we mention it to someone in sales, they start chasing us to get beta access to the product.
And the beautiful thing about a sales rep is that we can use the sales rep on our behalf as a free employee. So we're essentially eating our own dog food. And then we can take the workflow from the sales rep and apply that to the next generation of agents and then just rapidly scale.
Exactly. So we are definitely out of time, but we're going to build a $100 billion company and would love YC's support on that journey.
