Ryan Carson, founder of Untangle, explains why specialized vertical AI agents equipped with domain tooling should also generate customer-facing marketing and communications.
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“You're going to have an agent that has specific skills. That should be the agent that writes your content. That should be the agent that writes your emails. Like this is all the same entity.”
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