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Boehmig: AI Is at Peak Hype and Heading Into a Trough
“I do think we are at the peak of inflated lofty expectations in AI, and there's a, for good reason, there's a lot of excitement, but I think the trough is coming, and what we gotta do to get out of the trough is find the repeatable value in AI, and it, I think…”
Boehmig: Sticking to Main-Branch Foundation Models Beats Custom Model Training
“Staying on the main branch, staying on the core capabilities and supplementing it with fine tuning and additional techniques like RAG seems to be the approach that's winning right now.”
Boehmig: Selling Repeatable $1M ARR Deals Beats Optimizing Enterprise PLG
“I think my big learning from this is not everything needs to be a PLG product. And if I could go give myself advice three years ago, it would be go figure out a way to sell more million ARR repeatable deals. And that's your path to efficiency, as opposed to tr…”
Boehmig: Human-AI Collaboration Will Beat Pure Machine Automation
“This combination of human and machine will beat the machine only.”
Boehmig: Unpredictable 5% Error Rates Make Unconstrained AI Dangerous in Contracts
“Especially for knowledge work, you don't want five percent of your contract work to be wrong, especially if you don't know what five percent might be wrong. Huge cost to that. And having the right human checkpoints there is still the best way to do things, and…”
Boehmig: Ironclad Customers See Tens of Millions in AI Business Value
“We're working with customers who are seeing tens of millions of dollars in attributable business value to speeding up attorney workflow, doing things in house that they used to have to send out out house.”
Boehmig: 60% of Ironclad Enterprise Customers Have Adopted AI
“We have 60% of our customers that have adopted AI.”
Boehmig: Ironclad Uses AI to Ingest Contracts and Automate Implementation
“What we're seeing early progress on is this ability of AI to help actually discover preferences, ingest a bunch of contracts, understand what the legal team we're working with likes to do, and then actually help implement that in the software so that when they…”
Boehmig: Ironclad's 2014 AI Contract Extraction Vision Failed Then, Works Today
“We started Ironclad in 2014 as ironclad.ai. And the basic idea around this was companies have lots of contracts. They don't really know what's in them. What if we used AI to read the contract and build a database? That turns out that didn't actually work in 20…”