Every Enterprise Is About to Have a 100,000 Agent Problem | Oren Michaels of Barndoor AI

Why you compare agents to enthusiastic interns? Why do you think 2026 is an inflection point beyond open phone? While there's a lot of enthusiasm and, excitement about agents, very few corporations or enterprises are putting them into production because exactly what you said, the trust issue. These systems are probabilistic. I think that as humans, we're pattern matchers. And so the more we see, the more we wanna do. They will absolutely give you an answer. They will absolutely do something when you tell them to. Hi, Craig. I'm Orin Michaels. I'm the cofounder and CEO of Barn Door AI based in New York City. And I started Barn Door, October 2024. I was seeing that the, world was talking about AI coming into the enterprise, but we weren't seeing much of it actually happen. And I I thought that, I had something to add, and my team had something to add to be a catalyst for AI to actually be successful in the enterprise. Before Barn Door, I cofounded and ran a company called Mashery. We started in 2006. We were the first API as a service company, which we built over the course of seven years and sold to Intel in 2013. Before that, I just had a variety of of positions running companies in technology, wine, theater, and various other areas. Yeah. I I see the, the the posters on your wall there. You're also a Broadway producer. I understand. So I am. And these are all shows that I that I worked on. So yeah. Yeah. That's wonderful. Very, eclectic. And so, yeah, we're gonna talk about Barn Door AI and then also Ven AI. Maybe you can explain the relation between them Sure. And and then talk about the 100,000 agent problem. And I I I read an article you wrote. You explained it very clearly with, you know, I can't remember how many, employees. Each employee has a certain number of agents, and they got a thousand. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. So, we believe that agents are going to become useful in companies. And when I talk about an agent, I believe an agent is something that actually takes action on behalf of an employee or on behalf of of itself. It doesn't necessarily have to be tied to an employee, but most of them usually are at this point. And to take action, an agent doesn't merely do what our chat interface does, which is suggest something that we as the human should go do. But it actually doesn't merely suggest that it actually takes the action and does it. It interacts with the same tools, the same systems that we use in the enterprise, whether it's something like Salesforce or email or Slack or Snowflake or, you know, QuickBooks or whatever it is whatever it is that you use in your in your world. And so in order for that to happen, you need two things. You need the AIs to actually …