Merlin
product on 7 shows · 6 statements across 2 episodes · said 19 times in 11 episodes since 2019
Founders 7 
Sourcery 6 
TBPN 3 
the Neon Show 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
20VC 1 
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2026 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
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- Senra Systems' $65M Series B: Fixing Aerospace & Defense's Biggest Bottleneck · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
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Kumari: Merlin AI bypassed market education because OpenAI established AI's value
“We did not have to do a lot of convincing when it came to AI, because I would say OpenAI did a great job there. People understand the value.”
Kumari: Merlin AI uses voice agents for construction site status reporting
“So how about deploying voice agents, which is what we are doing, right? So people on site just pick up their phone, talk about their status and leave, right?”
Kumari: Merlin AI operates as an end-to-end construction operating system
“Ultimately what we want to call ourselves is we are an end-to-end enterprise operating system for you know, for any, you know, company that exists today. But because ERP is a more known term than calling an enterprise software, it just made sense that we put i…”
Kumari: Construction projects allocate only 1% to 5% of budgets to technology
“Clearly you can see two to three percent of the overall project is going to technology and doesn't have to be just Merlin. There's a lot of other stuff, but then people who are recurring building this Technology sits at the core of what they are building, righ…”
Kumari: Merlin owns transaction flow but leaves marketplace monetization untapped
“We are talking, we own the whole transaction piece, right? And we are not even doing anything about it. That's right there for us money on the table. And we will get there. So there's a whole marketplace right there where people are coming to us, where we coul…”
Staniszewski: ElevenLabs partnered with Merlin and Kobalt to license music
“The, so we worked with labels that the Merlin and Cobalt, so fourth majors to bring their music into the music model so we can do it in a licensed way so you can generate that and give commercial rights so you are fully protected.”