Our CEO @KjHardrict thinks there’s one sign that shows us our clients understand AI after working with us:
They start proposing ideas for what AI can do.
Early in an engagement, most people have a rigid view of what AI can handle.
They’re unsure of what it can actually pull off, so they sound hesitant when they propose a workflow to automate:
“I mean, this is the 10-step process, but I’m not sure if that’s too much for the AI to handle…”
Then they watch a three-step process turn into one step. A five-step process goes next, and eventually the 10-step one they were worried about .
And it’s these incremental realizations that shift their mindset from skepticism to total creative confidence.
By the end, we’re the ones hearing their ambitious ideas being proposed.
As KJ puts it: “When we have to stop and think, ‘Huh, I wonder if AI can actually do that,’ is when I know that someone has become fully AI-enabled.”
“Because the answer is always yes, and you almost have to suspend your disbelief in order to remember that in the world we live in now, anything is possible.”
The processes we automate are the visible part of the work.
But the newfound optimism we leave in people who were previously AI skeptics is the part that usually ends up mattering the most for our clients.
great story that captures the trust we have internally.
comes naturally when your whole team is best friends.
our site crashed 3 times the day we launched @TalvyHQ.
I think you find out what your team's culture actually is on days like that, and watching how ours showed up made me really proud.
nobody went looking for someone to blame.
everyone just took to their roles and got it fixed.
that sort of calmness isn't really something you can manufacture, and i think it's something that happens when you're building with your best friends.
Yaateh is our Founding Machine Learning Engineer.
His advice for companies building an AI agent:
Don't give it everything.
Most companies we talk to shove in every document and data point they can find, thinking more context always leads to better results.
But "everything" tends to include the spreadsheet nobody has kept up to date, and the same numbers sitting in a few different reports that don't quite match.
In one 2025 study, an AI model got 84% of questions right when given the document containing the correct answer.
Add one more document that looked relevant but didn't contain the answer, and accuracy dropped to 73%.
"That level of accuracy loss is just not acceptable at scale" , according to Yaateh.
He's actively testing whether newer models are more resilient to this.
Until that's proven, he believes companies need to be deliberate about what they let their agents read, and thinks the people closest to the work should be the ones who check it.
Once the person who owns a process signs off on how it's written down, that's the strongest signal you have of what's correct.
So if you're building an agent, always ask:
How much of what your agent reads has been verified by someone who knows the work best?
Lisa is our Co-Founder and CEO.
Her advice for companies looking to start implementing AI:
Find the person inside your company who's most excited about it.
Because people get more comfortable with AI when someone next to them is already using it.
In Lisa's words, having people like that around "gives other employees the confidence to try it out and fail."
And the funny thing is, you usually don’t have to "appoint" this person.
They tend to reveal themselves.
The people who are most excited about AI usually can’t help but experiment with it, talk about it, and share what they’re learning with everyone around them.
That person will become your AI champion naturally.
Lisa’s simple advice for finding them:
“Ask yourself, who was the first person at your company to ask for a Claude subscription?”
The @TalvyHQ team is made up of best friends from college.
When our CEO, @KjHardrict, was an investor at @Link_Ventures, he had one core belief:
Always bet on founders who build with their best friends.
Now he's on the other side of that bet, and so are the companies we work with.
Most of them are full of people who've worked together for years too, and usually their biggest worry about AI is whether it will be the reason someone they've loved to work with has to be let go.
But our goal isn't to take away anyone's work, other than the parts that they never wanted to do in the first place.
Because the relationships that make companies special are not something you can replace with technology.
The person who has been there for a decade, who understands the company better than anyone, who has helped build everything from the ground up, is usually the person you want to make more capable, not replace.
That's the future we're trying to build toward.
In the same way KJ bet on founders who chose to build with their best friends, we believe the best teams should get to keep building with their favorite people.
Explaining lines from our Times Square Billboard:
“AI keeps getting better. Is your company?”
Every few months, the models get more capable.
But a better model doesn’t automatically make a company better at using it.
We meet companies that want agents capable of answering questions about their business, but the information those agents need is still scattered across different systems, buried in reports someone has to download manually, or isn’t being captured consistently in the first place.
The next model won’t fix that.
There’s foundational work companies can do today to make each new generation of AI more useful to them.
Getting important information into places AI can reliably access. Rethinking workflows that were designed around people doing everything manually. Teaching teams how to work differently as the technology improves.
AI is going to keep getting better either way.
The question is whether your company is getting better with it.
Talvy retweeted
builders don't understand how true this is.
people no longer want new AI tools to help them get work done, they simply.... want the work DONE lol.
companies are tired of buying products, they just want results delivered at AI-speed.
big reason why we built @TalvyHQ 😎
Team Talvy was in Silicon Valley this week for the @imaginationxyz summit.
Our CEO @KjHardrict spoke on a panel called "What Runs Without You," covering the problems our team is seeing inside companies trying to get automated, which usually has to do with a lack of ownership.
Most companies don't have an assigned person whose sole job is to choose what work goes to a model, write down exactly how that process gets done, and answer for it when it breaks.
Until someone owns that, nothing will ever truly run without you.
Our guys got a lot out of these two days.
Special thanks to @johnkwerner and Theo Ehrmann for putting the event together and having us out!
we love seeing our team in rooms where everyone thinks AI can make the world a better place.
thanks @imaginationxyz for hosting our boys!
a few things i'm noticing while at the Silicon Valley event today with the @TalvyHQ team:
- people are opening their imaginations to bigger and bigger problems with AI.
- there really isn't a societal problem in this room that somebody doesn't think AI could tackle.
- there are plenty of people with positive outlooks on AI’s future. the doomers are not everywhere!
Our CEO and COO met because a college housing office put them in the same room.
Perhaps that’s how we learned to treat client engagements like roommates, not houseguests.
A houseguest sees the version of your house you cleaned for them.
A roommate sees the sink full of dishes.
Most AI consultants act like houseguests at other companies, and they build for perfect conditions.
Our engineers build for everyday life.
By moving in alongside your people, we see how things look when they’re going according to plan.
But more importantly, we see what prevents the plan from always working:
The manual workarounds, the buggy old software people feel forced to use, and the little inefficiencies people have dealt with for so long they’ve stopped noticing them.
We see how the sink gets full of dishes.
And instead of helping you wash them faster, we figure out why they keep piling up.
Because you learn a lot more about a company by living with the mess than by being shown around the house.
We hope we can bring this feeling to everyone.
AI should be used to inspire others to reach their creative potential and remove the parts of the job they enjoy the least.
do more of the work you love.
AI is the reason my Co-Founder started coding again.
Lisa has something I call “Ultimate Taste.”
She just has this natural feel for how something should work before she can necessarily explain why.
But even though she has a CS degree from Harvard, spent time as an FDE at Palantir, using that superpower meant spending most of her week on the engineering part she liked least:
Coding.
So when she joined Talvy, she made it VERY clear what she didn’t want to spend time on.
But then one day I showed her Claude Code.
And her reaction was:
“Oh…. I can just ask it to do something?
This is basically what I would tell an engineer.”
Since realizing this, she’s back behind an IDE with a newfound excitement for building.
But instead of writing most of the code herself, she describes what she wants to the AI, looks at what comes back, says what’s off, and prompts again.
Her whole day basically runs on taste.
And I don’t think Lisa’s experience will be unique.
I think this can become a much more common way people work if they embrace AI the right way.
For most of history, having great taste wasn’t enough.
You also needed the technical ability, time, or resources to turn what you could imagine into something real.
AI is starting to remove that prerequisite.
The distance between “I know what this should be” and “I can make this exist” is collapsing.
And I think a lot of people are about to discover they’re much more creative than they thought.
Because now they can build at the speed of their own taste.
our first intern's last day.
the bar for everyone who comes after her just got unfair.
we're gonna miss you!
thank you, @Alizeh_z.
We just said goodbye to our first intern at @TalvyHQ.
A few months ago I hired Alizeh after one lunch with the team, without looking at her resume once because I knew she would match the vibe of our culture.
And it really pays off knowing the human you're hiring gels with the team. The productivity boost you get with everyone getting along and feeling comfortable talking to one another is hard to quantify in the moment. But over time there's a tangible culture that's both infectious for the internal team and inviting for others outside it.
People want to work with us. And people like Alizeh are a big reason why.
When she joined, she was betting on us. Whatever she does next, I'd bet on her.
Lucky to have had you, @Alizeh_z.
the part of building a company that people don't see:
6 hours of back-to-back meetings, customer support, team lunches, late nights, and still making time for family.
that's our CEO and Co-Founder @KjHardrict 🤩
new vlog up: day in the life of a startup founder.
a full day of building @TalvyHQ, start to finish.
9am to 11:17pm. six hours of meetings, features to ship for multiple customers, all while managing the rest of the team.
as a founder, you never really switch off.
even at our Wednesday team lunch, with people i genuinely love, there's a pressure in the back of my head to "get back to it." , and oftentimes those thoughts keep me up until 2 AM.
but regardless of how tired i may be, I still don't miss those laker games with my dad.
people often wonder if the grind's "worth it."
to me, it is.
but only if you remember to make the time for the people you're doing all the work for.
give it a look if you're curious.
our CEO is tougher than yours 😤
Two startups I was apart of killed by the same person. An autoimmune disease that put me in the hospital for 3 months straight. Gained 80 pounds in a month. Couldn't show my face on camera. Migraines went from twice a year to once a month.
There was a real window where I didn't know if I'd ever build again.
Yesterday, Talvy went live.
A platform built by a team I've known for 9 years. No bad actors. No board members seizing control. Just people who were there with me through my toughest phases of life, building something we actually believe in.
We're not optimizing a broken system. We're replacing it.
Make humans hirable again.
❤️🔥 we have the best team in the world ❤️🔥
AI is making resumes useless. we built something better.
Talvy lets people show employers who they actually are, beyond a PDF
Talvy is officially LIVE!
We’re here to replace the resume forever.
Talvy is the platform where you tell your story through short-form video — so employers can see the real you, not just a PDF.
Resumes reduce your life’s work to bullet points.
A Talvy profile reveals how you communicate with people, the way your mind breaks down problems, and the energy you carry into a room.
During the next two weeks, we’re pulling out all the stops to get job seekers hired.
For people who create Talvy profiles, we’re spotlighting individuals on our homepage, personally referring you to founders and recruiters, and maybe even showcasing you on the most iconic, 22-story billboard in Times Square (if you want, of course).
Create your profile for free today at talvy[dot]com.
People over PDFs.
a resume says Harvard. 5x Founder. Forward Deployed Software Engineer.
but it doesn't say the rest.
a resume says MIT. Senior Chemical Engineer. Associate Scientist.
but it doesn't say the rest.
Sebastian is our Chief of Staff, and the most dependable person on our team.
But his resume undersells him:
Name: Sebastian Esquivel.
Education: Chemical Engineering @ MIT.
Skills: Operations. Systems. Coordination.
If this was all you knew about Sebastian, you'd think he's incredibly… organized?
And honestly, you wouldn't be wrong to think that.
But it's an oversimplification.
It takes a rare word to try and describe Seb:
"Assiduous" (adjective) : showing great care, attention, and effort.
Seb approaches LIFE assiduously.
and if you're his friend, you feel that.
Like, he's the one person you know will never forget when it's your birthday.
And if you're struggling with something serious, he's the person you want to talk with first.
Because he has an uncanny ability to create solutions from scratch.
That's why when Seb asks you "what's wrong?", you have full confidence he can help you figure it out.
His emotional intelligence won't show up on a resume, but it's present in every room he's in.
I know this because I lived with him for 4 years in college, and I saw firsthand how much he cares, how closely he pays attention, and how much effort he puts into his relationships.
That's why nine years later, I didn't have to ask for his resume when I started Talvy.
I just asked if he was in, because I knew his character was overqualified for the position already.
@Sebasquivel is more than his resume, and so are you.
And he's assiduously working to make sure the world can see that.
@TalvyHQ is launching soon. 3/10.
People over PDFs.
a resume says CS at MIT. SWE at Palantir. Undergrad Research Assistant.
but it doesn't say the rest.