Lassie's long-term vision is to build AI agents that can run all types of small businesses by automating their core systems.
“And then, the last, part there is, I think, we then trained AI agents, to, like, run the small business. And all small businesses at an abstract level, like, have a system of record they need to read and write into.”
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