Jesse Zhang
@thejessezhang
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Building customer experiences with gen AI agents @DecagonAI
SF Bay Area
Joined October 2021
Today I’m excited to announce the launch of Decagon Voice! Delivering enterprise-grade, hyper-realistic voice agents for customer interactions isn't easy. We're thrilled to partner with @elevenlabsio on this. This is a huge milestone in our agentic journey at @DecagonAI 🥳
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Execute fast, then plan slow. @thejessezhang (CEO of @DecagonAI, a $1.5B AI unicorn) went through a true hero's journey. Painful first startup → intentional customer discovery → innovation in Agent Operating Procedures And, of course, the hill he'll die on: Commercial
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Had a great time chatting with @patrick_oshag about @DecagonAI, startups, math, and more!
My conversation with @thejessezhang Decagon is building a customer service agent with AI, with plans for much more than that. It’s one of the more successful early AI applications, with tons of lessons for the rest of the market. I love how Jesse developed which problem to
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Great chat w @thejessezhang of @DecagonAI on @NoPriorsPod *AI agents & customer support *Hiring hardcore people *Counter-intuitive Advice for Founders *Agents vs agents in the future
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Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an important lesson about how to live my own life. One of the big concepts in RL is that you always want to be “on-policy”: instead of mimicking other people’s
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And the evaluation loop never stops. Insights from every evaluation phase feed back into model selection, prompts, and agent logic, so performance keeps getting better over time.
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Our framework includes: 🧠 LLM-as-judge scoring 📊 Ground truth benchmarking 🚦 Live A/B testing in production Each layer measures impact on accuracy, user empathy, and outcomes like CSAT and resolution rate.
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Sharing a great post on how we approach evals at @DecagonAI! Every AI agent needs a rigorous evaluation engine. You can’t just test responses. We evaluate entire agent workflows to ensure real performance at scale https://t.co/oqOtTSB1ap
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Decagon's evaluation engine enables us to build agents that earn customer trust and drive real results.
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We’re excited to introduce Chai-2, a major breakthrough in molecular design. Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody discovery in a 24-well plate, exceeding previous SOTA by >100x. Thread👇
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When you’re leading, you talk about the work. When you’re trailing, you talk about the leader. And when you're spiraling, you make stuff up. 🙃
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We first built these tools so our team could safely run experiments for enterprise customers. Now, we’re extending that power to every CX team: 🔄 A/B test live conversations 📊 Measure CSAT, deflection, & other metrics 🧠 Analyze results with stat sig tests
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I’m excited to announce a key pillar of @DecagonAI’s product: our experimentation & A/B testing suite. CX teams can iterate on their AI agents faster, delivering fundamentally better customer experiences with every change. Read more:
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We’re excited to announce our experimentation and A/B testing suite
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Thank you @johncoogan @jordihays for having me on @tbpn! Had a lot of fun sharing more about how @DecagonAI is delivering concierge customer experience
IN NEWS: @DecagonAI raises a $131M Series C co-led by @a16z and @Accel. We asked @thejessezhang about the benefits of using LLMs in customer service systems. "The nice thing about LLMs now is this level of nuance. You're able to create much more complex flows tailored to
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I’m joining @tbpn today at 1:45pm PT to talk about @DecagonAI and our series C announcement. Can’t wait to share what we’ve been building – be sure to tune in!
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: – @shervin (Iran Deep Dive) – @yacinemtb (fmr 𝕏) – @DKThomp (Abundance) – @klarnaseb (Klarna) – @heyjchu (Khosla Ventures) – @_Eric_Romo & @lrocket (Impulse Space) – @arobinsontweets (Juniper Square) – @thejessezhang (Decagon) See
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We're growing rapidly in SF and NYC, and hiring across all teams! Reach out if you’re interested or know someone who would be a great fit: https://t.co/lIdV6jVyxp Reminder: we have a $20k referral bonus for major roles.
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Want to build the future of conversational AI agents? Join us!
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And excited to welcome our newest investors: @mickymalka, Miko Ashwill, and @nshalek (@RibbitCap) @anuhariharan (@AvraCap) @kirstenagreen (@ForerunnerVC)
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Grateful for the continued support from: @kimberlywtan and @sarahdingwang (@a16z) @ivzhou and @StevoLoughlin (@Accel) @aaref (@BainCapVC) @jaysimons and @EriksonKuebler (@bondcap) @kevinhartz, @GGuptaSF, and @BennettSiegel (@A_StarVC)
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In a hot space, our product-driven approach has helped us stand out, especially with the introduction of Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs). Huge thanks to our team, customers, and partners for believing in what we’re building. I shared more about how we got here:
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We’re thrilled to share that just one year after emerging from stealth, Decagon has raised a $131M series C at a $1.5B valuation.
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Great article from The Information on our work building AI Agents with ClassPass! https://t.co/Od8R89ADlw
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