#301 Hemant Banavar & Ryan Ennis: The AI Safety System Driving Toward Zero Harm

There's so many situations where you have a need for safety critical environment and knowing precisely what's going on in your environment. In these situations, good enough just doesn't cut it. The difference between good enough and being really precise is the difference between actually reacting to an accident and preventing it. And that's where really we obsess over in terms of what we have built in terms of the solution that we offer. In 2023, we had about 470 vehicles, and now we're over 1,300. In 2023, I think we had, 280,000 safety events across 14 different behaviors, touching your cell phone or following too close. Now with about a 300 plus vehicles, we're in our third year in. We're at about 25,000 events. So about a 98 reduction while increasing our fleet in that short time. Hi, Craig. Really good to meet you and glad to be here today. I'm Hemant, and I'm the chief product officer at Motive. And I've spent about over fifteen years in the tech industry before Motiv, and have done product leadership roles across Microsoft, Yelp, Uber, and most recently before Motiv as it's Stripe. At Motiv, our mission is to help our customers who operate in the physical economy, to make their work safer, more profitable, and more productive. We serve 100,000 customers and about 1,300,000 drivers and, help them run their operations across multiple industries. And, of course, Ryan is one of our, customers and looking forward to, learning from him as well today. Our products typically are, a multitude of products all across one AI first integrated operations platform. We solve problems across fleet management, driver safety, workforce management, spend management, and, AI vision. Well, I'm very thankful to be here, Ryan, c I CIO for FUSU site services. Been in transportation for about twenty years, worked in the state of Tennessee, for the state, worked for the Amazon from a compliance standpoint for for all transportation groups. And now with FusionSite Services, you know, the responsibility, of being and operating in people's communities is very high. You know, I really appreciated, the vision and mission of Motive that was just said. And and it's making sure that the roads are safe. That's that's ultimately my job. It's making sure that we're a good, partner on the road. Hemant, can you can you talk a little bit about, I mean, although it seems obvious enough, why good enough, AI isn't acceptable in this kind of an application? Especially when it comes to safety critical environments like, what Ryan and FusionSite operate in and many other customers of ours operate in. Maybe driving on the road at a construction site, at a, maybe a oil rig. Right? Like, there's so many situations where you have a need for safety critical environment and knowing, precisely what's going on in your environment. In these situations, good enough is just doesn't cut it. The difference between good enough and being really precise is the …