Natalie Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, argues that forward deployed engineering is defined more by customer accountability than by a specific skill set, and that product and customer-fac…
Vertical AI startups like Harvey ($11B) and Abridge have proven that wrapping a foundation model with proprietary data and domain workflow logic creates billion-dollar companies. Agriculture is the ne…
The best AI agents, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, complete only about 30% of realistic multi-step office tasks autonomously, according to Carnegie Mellon's TheAgentCompany benchmark. Salesforce's own CRMA…
Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor predicted consumers will prefer businesses using AI phone agents over traditional call centers within three to four years, setting a 2029-2030 deadline for a major labor …
AI companies selling inference must choose between cost-plus and value-based pricing to maintain margins. Cost-plus caps margins as inference commoditizes, while value-based pricing decouples revenue …
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognition, Sierra, LangChain, and leading practitioners have published an open standard for building production-grade agentic products, codified as a canonical specification with ru…
Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognition, Sierra, LangChain and leading practitioners have jointly developed a canonical standard for building production-grade agentic products, codified in a new open-source repo…
AI startup Sierra raised approximately $1 billion at a $15 billion valuation, crossing $150 million in annual recurring revenue in February and likely reaching $200 million. The news comes amid a broa…