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In aggregate, Kai has helped shift 25,000 hours per year from administrative work, to revenue generating work.

Sharadh KrishnamurthyEngineering manager, Agent Foundation team · Leader, Stripe

Post: Stripe developer blog, Stripe developer blog, July 30, 2026.

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How is AI used in sales and marketing?

Who is speaking

Sharadh Krishnamurthy, Engineering manager, Agent Foundation team. Manages the team that builds the agent platform the post reports on; an employee describing the employer's own tool.

How this was checked

Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).

The text matches exactly, including the comma in 'administrative work, to revenue generating work.' The post has three listed authors, one of them Sharadh Krishnamurthy.

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Sharadh Krishnamurthy (Stripe), “Stripe developer blog”, Stripe developer blog, 2026-07-30. https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/stripe-aggregate-kai-helped-shift-25-000-hours-2026

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And across Stripe, more than 5,000 sessions everyday center on data analysis.

Sharadh KrishnamurthyEngineering manager, Agent Foundation team · Leader, Stripe

Post: Stripe developer blog, Stripe developer blog, July 30, 2026.

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Post: Stripe developer blog, Stripe developer blog, July 30, 2026.

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In finance and operations, Kai is helping Stripes analyze messy data, generate recurring digests, and turn fragmented context into usable artifacts.

Sharadh KrishnamurthyEngineering manager, Agent Foundation team · Leader, Stripe

Post: Stripe developer blog, Stripe developer blog, July 30, 2026.

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Today, 83% are weekly active users, including nearly all of GTM (marketing, sales, customer success managers, and technical account managers).

Sharadh KrishnamurthyEngineering manager, Agent Foundation team · Leader, Stripe

Post: Stripe developer blog, Stripe developer blog, July 30, 2026.

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When Account Executives use Kai, they produce 2x the sales activity, create 17% more opportunities, generate 26% more revenue opportunities, and close 39% more deals when compared to the same sellers in weeks they don't use it.

Sharadh KrishnamurthyEngineering manager, Agent Foundation team · Leader, Stripe

Post: Stripe developer blog, Stripe developer blog, July 30, 2026.

2x output change, account executives' weeks using Kai vs the same sellers' weeks without it, as of 2026-07
17% output change, account executives' weeks using Kai vs the same sellers' weeks without it, as of 2026-07
26% output change, account executives' weeks using Kai vs the same sellers' weeks without it, as of 2026-07
39% output change, account executives' weeks using Kai vs the same sellers' weeks without it, as of 2026-07

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