Vercel enterprise contracts require clients to build three AI agents
Malte Ubl · ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl · Nov 1, 2025 · at 31:12
Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, describes how Vercel deploys engineers to onboard enterprise customers onto building custom autonomous agents.
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“We basically sign contracts with companies saying, okay, you have to commit to building three agents, and if you do, we're going to help you, like, we're going to build the first one for you. And then the second one, we are going to be there essentially by your side, you know, maybe not literally, but like on, on a phone rotation, right? And for the third one, the assumption is that you actually don't need any help anymore, and you can still reach out, obviously, but if everything went well, now this is a company that's empowered to build its own custom agents.”
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