Stripe built a company brain Kai in 2 weeks with 1.5 engineers, serving 10k employees
hwchase17 · x · 2026-09-08
Stripe's internal AI platform team shared on the How I AI podcast how they built Kai, a company-wide "brain": 1.5 engineers in 2 weeks, governance built on projects, skill routing with telemetry, and a skills platform that scales to 10,000 teammates. This follows their minion coding agents and a custom prototyping rig. The guest also debated how to "gently parent" your AI when the company runs evals.
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