How Stripe built Kai, its company-wide AI agent, on LangChain Deep Agents with 1.5 engineers
Hacubu · x · 2026-09-09
Stripe built Kai, a company-wide productivity agent on LangChain/LangGraph's Deep Agents harness, in two weeks with 1.5 engineers. Key patterns: projects as governance, skill routing with telemetry, and a skills platform serving 10k teammates — plus minion coding agents and a custom prototyping rig. Harrison Chase calls it the standard for internal AI platforms.
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