Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio

Have, like, three pillars to our AI strategy. We have our corporate AI strategy, which is how are we going to adopt, and, like, buy AI tooling, across the business and basically every single function to be able to 10 x, our workflows. Then we have our operational AI strategy, which is how are we going to buy and build, solutions that enable us to lower our cost of operations as a financial institution. And then the final pillar is the product AI pillar, which is like are we going to introduce new features, that, enable Brex to be a part of the corporate AI pillar of our customers. It's like we want to build features and be a solution that somebody else is saying to their board, hey. We we adopted Brex, and this is part of our corporate AI strategy. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the Leiden Space Podcast. This is Alessio under Colonel Labs, and I'm joined by Swyx, editor of Leiden Space. Hey. Hey. Hey. And we're here with you, Sergio, to you at Brex. Welcome. Hey. Thank you for having me. Thanks for visiting, from up in Seattle where, I I've been a little bit. It's cold up there, Yeah. And we have an atmospheric river hitting the the the city right now, so a lot of it blowing. Yeah. Well, yeah. It's, we're getting we're getting the full on winter effect right now. Well, you're you're here to we talk about the sort of, yeah, transformation within Brexit. There's a lot of, interesting tidbits that we're gonna draw from your article, but also your background. You have got a wide array of experience from Stripe to, Banter to Convoy. Mhmm. And, I think also mostly, I'm interested in your journey as as one of the rare people that have transitioned from, like, a mobile engineering leader to a CTO, which I think is also a bit more rare. I used to have this comment in the past where there's a career ceiling for people who work on client only things, where usually they don't hit CTO, whereas they typically promote the the back end people or the back end clouding for people to CTO. Yeah. You know, it's it's something that I I hear fairly fairly frequently because, there aren't that many folks with a front end background to reach this level of leadership, and it's exciting for me to be able to represent that group. But I I'll say that even though my resume kinda reflects that I've been more on the the front end of things, it's probably more my experience as a founder, a couple times over that actually helped me get to this this level of my career working for somebody else. Becoming the CTO is very much like a leadership and and, like, general business role as much as it is a technical role. And so I think it was more the skills that I built from starting companies and …