# Quests, token leaderboards, and a skills marketplace: The elite AI adoption playbook | John Kim (Sendbird)

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Published: 2026-05-06T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

John Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Delight.ai, a customer experience platform that’s transforming how companies deploy AI. But what makes John’s story fascinating isn’t just his product; it’s how he’s turned his entire company into an AI-native organization. His marketing team built a fully functional e-commerce swag store with Stripe integration in days. His sales team built their own CRM tools. His recruiting team automated their entire workflow. And it’s all tracked, measured, and celebrated through an internal platform called Automators. What you’ll learn: How Sendbird’s marketing team built a fully functional swag store with Stripe integration in a day (with no engineering support) How the Automators platform works—an internal marketplace where anyone can request AI tools and engineers (or AI agents) can build them How to create secure, compliant templates so non-technical teams can ship to production safely How Sendbird built a token usage dashboard with five tiers (beginner through AI God) and why tracking the smoothness of the curve matters more than the total Why visible leadership usage is the most powerful adoption signal Why Sendbird rewrote job descriptions to prioritize curiosity, agency, and energy over years of experience How John uses AI for his own learning — Brought to you by: WorkOS —Make your app enterprise-ready today ThoughtSpot —Build AI-powered analytics into your product — In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Introduction to John Kim ( 02:45 ) The Delight.ai swag store built by marketing in two days ( 05:51 ) The before times: when fun had to earn its place on the roadmap ( 07:55 ) Demo: The Automators platform and quest system ( 13:47 ) The AI Engineer for Internal Operations role ( 16:06 ) Demo: The company-wide skills marketplace ( 17:19…

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