The Self-Improving Company | Kavak's AI Playbook
The a16z Show
Aug 10
The Self-Improving Company | Kavak's AI Playbook
The Self-Improving Company | Kavak's AI Playbook

The a16z Show
Aug 10
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Angela Strange and Gabriel Vasquez are joined by Alejandro Maza Ayala, Chief
Product & AI Officer at Kavak, to unpack how the Latin American used-car
marketplace rebuilt itself around AI agents, with 96% of customer interactions
and 95% of transactions now handled by agents.
Alejandro explains why Kavak decided that simply giving employees AI tools
wasn't enough, and instead redesigned the company's systems, teams, and customer
experience around agents. They discuss why Kavak spends as much engineering
effort on evals as it does building agents, how its AI sellers outperform its
human teams, and an experiment where an AI "CEO" increased profits in one city
by 50% in its first month.
The conversation also explores what happens to organizational structure when
agents do most of the work, why Kavak trains everyone from executives to
mechanics to build with AI, and Alejandro's argument that companies looking for
incremental AI adoption may be missing the larger opportunity: redesigning the
organization itself.
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