Every single customer told Jacqueline Cheong (@JacquelineSYC19) they didn’t want the feature. She built it anyway. Six months later, 40% of them had turned it on. She’s the co-founder and CEO of @artie_labs, which moves data between databases in real time: the unglamorous plumbing that lets AI agents reason over what’s happening now, not what happened yesterday. We got into: •Building the feature customers said they didn’t want •Founding a company with your spouse (and why she’s loud about it) •Why her whole team sees the revenue and burn numbers •Why she stopped watching the metric and started watching the inputs •Why real-time data is the layer AI agents actually need 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Transamerica, and Why This Spot (02:00) What Artie Actually Does (05:00) Why Real-Time Data Is Hard (08:00) The AI Agent Angle (12:00) The History Table Everyone Said No To (18:00) Founding a Company With Your Husband (24:00) Radical Transparency With the Team (30:00) The “Working With Me” Doc (34:00) Focus on Inputs, Not the Score (38:00) The Wedding Cake Metaphor This is a @Composio “Agents at Work” podcast, where I chat with founders building the next leap of AI. Follow for more :)