The ERP problem that AI was built to solve

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For decades, modernizing enterprise systems has been one of the most expensive and thankless jobs in technology. That calculus is starting to shift.

Kabir Nagrecha grew up in the room where enterprise transformation happened. By the time he was eight, he was watching hundred-person teams navigate the grinding complexity of migrations that ran for years, cost hundreds of millions of dollars, and still went sideways more often than not. He watched consultants come and go, even as project scopes and timelines constantly changed. He heard the frustration of executives who knew their systems were aging and felt powerless to do much about it.

Two decades later, Nagrecha has a PhD in AI systems, experience at Meta, Netflix, and Apple, and a company built around the conviction that the technology to do this differently has finally arrived. He may be right.

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