WARP SPEED: EPISODE 7 - starring Ken Acquah & Michael, Co-founders of Kaizen @michael_silver @aquariusacquah 0.5% of the world population knows how to program. The vast majority can't build automations. Kaizen changes that. Ken and Michael are building @joinkaizen into an AI-powered browser automation platform. YC-backed. $4M raised from @8vc, Jeff Dean, and @ycombinator The problem: 99% of applications on the web aren't accessible via API. No easy integration path. If you're in healthcare and want to automate work across your EMR, or in logistics with your TMS - it used to take weeks or months. With Kaizen, it takes minutes. "It's like training an employee to complete a task. We're democratizing that capability to people who previously couldn't build automations." The industry is called RPA. It's existed for years - but only for large enterprises paying millions to consultants for six-month projects. The big competitors? 70% of their revenue comes from consultants deploying the software because it's too hard to use. Kaizen customers build automations themselves. One automation becomes five in an afternoon. Then ten. On choosing vendors: "We're an AI native company. There's so much pressure to move fast - revenue, product roadmap, customer growth. The vendors we use need to be at that speed. Warp speed." @joinwarp In this conversation: (0:00) - What Kaizen does: browser automations in minutes, not weeks. 99% of apps aren't accessible via API. (0:58) - Ken wanted to be an econ professor, then realized startups are the innovation engine (2:24) - Michael's background: 2x founding engineer, first engineer at Gather through Series B (3:26) - "It's like training an employee. 0.5% of the world knows how to program." (4:18) - Who uses Kaizen: ops people in healthcare, telehealth clinics outside Silicon Valley and more (4:44) - Raised $4M from 8VC, Jeff Dean, and Y Combinator (5:04) - The Kaizen promise and vision (6:15) - The RPA industry: competitors make 70% of revenue from consultants (7:30) - "We're AI native. We want to use the best tools." (8:04) - "Your support, Ayush, is a model we try to have for our own users" (8:24) - Setting up payroll: "It went by so quickly I barely remember it" (9:28) - AI native vendors vs legacy: "From the moment you sign on, you're in a Slack channel with the founder" (10:15) - "We're moving so fast. Vendors need to move that fast too." (10:35) - "I've used Gusto, Rippling, Justworks, Remote, Deel. Never used Warp - but heard great things."

Warp customers can’t stop winning. Mem0 - $24M Series A. Building the universal memory layer for AI. 14M downloads, 41K GitHub stars. Day 0 Warp customer. Kaizen - $4M from 8VC. Automating billions of hours wasted clicking across websites. Software's original promise delivered. Julius - Big Product Hunt launch. AI Data Scientist in Slack. Connects to your databases, runs SQL, creates visualizations. Congrats to all three teams. Back to building.