Most AI demos impress. Few AI tools survive. What does it really take to move from showcase to workflow?
Last Friday, EntreConnect brought this question into the room—alongside founders, builders, and operators thinking deeply about where AI-powered workflows go from here.
🎤 Huge thanks to our speakers, who lit up the room with insight and clarity:
🔹Jaclyn Zhuang: VP of Product at Eightfold | Former Head of Product at Atlassian
🔹Sinduja Ramanujam: Senior Staff Product Manager at ServiceNow
🔹Sarthak Srinivas: Co-founder of Quantstruct (YC W25) | Former PM at Moveworks
🔹Deepti Srivastava: Founder & CEO at Snow Leopard
💡Building AI workflow and productivity tools? These 4 takeaways are worth a pause:
▶️ “The real value of GenAI isn’t in replacing workers—it’s in helping them pivot internally and avoid layoffs. That’s not just retention. That’s survival.” —Jaclyn Zhuang
▶️ “The key to AI agent adoption is ROI—how much time do you save, how much effort do you reduce, and how much does CSAT improve.”—Sinduja Ramanujam
▶️ “Shipping production-grade AI isn’t a model problem—it’s an engineering one. I spend hours a day labeling agent paths just to make the system reliable.” —Sarthak Srinivas
▶️ “You won’t unlock real business value with GenAI until it connects to structured data. SQL and APIs—not PDFs—are the crown jewels.” —Deepti Srivastava
📨 More detailed takeaways and Substack pieces are on the way—stay tuned for more insights and event information.
