Swapnil Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Observe AI. He describes the commercial growth rate of the rebuilt Observe 2.0 product line.
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Jain: High probability customer service AI startup Sierra gets killed
“There's a very high chance Sierra will get killed.”
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Jain: Sierra and Decagon's reported ARR is contracted, not deployed at scale
“And the reality of a lot of, in full reality, a lot of the so-called ARR that you see with some of these companies that you mentioned is actually contracted ARR. So none of this is ever actually deployed in production at scale. Find me one real customer from a…”
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Jain: Indian SaaS startups cannot enter the US by just hiring reps
“And a lot of times what founders end up doing is they say, okay, it's so easy. I just hired two sales rep in the US. And I'm like, never, it's never, ever going to work because it's not just about your sales. Your entire company is meant and built For Indian n…”
Disclosure
Jain: Observe AI's only Indian customer ghosted a $500K contract
“We've ever, we only ever, ever sold to one Indian customer, and that's because it came from an investor, a mutual investor, a great brand in India public, they recently went public, so all, all amazing things. They were a customer very large customer, got it l…”
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Jain: Observe AI stopped selling its legacy product to force a pivot
“We almost like, yeah, we stopped selling. We incentivize all of our sellers and marketing team to just focus on newer products. We still get demand for our older product, but we've also transformed that to agents. So now we are selling agents.”
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Jain: AI will handle over 50% of customer service within 3-5 years
“So on one side, I believe that if you draw it out three to five years, more than 50% of the customer service interactions will be fully handled by AI very comfortably.”