{"podcast":{"title":"How I AI","slug":"how-i-ai-7304222","podcast_index_feed_id":7304222,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1035b1568/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pen-name","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43412682/43412682-1743896356244-0f4bd1d0374d2.jpg","author":"Claire Vo","episode_count":107,"summary":"How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, is for anyone wondering how to actually use these magical new tools to improve the quality and efficiency of their work. In each episode, guests will share a specific, practical, and impactful way they’ve learned to use AI in their work or life. Expect 30-minute episodes, live screen sharing, and tips/tricks/workflows you can copy immediately. If you want to demystify AI and learn the skills you need to thrive in this new world, this podcast is for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-08T00:17:19.140904+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222"},"episode":{"title":"Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy","slug":"build-your-own-company-brain-the-enterprise-ai-playbook-from-stripe-s-engineering-team-sharadh-krishnamurthy","published_at":"2026-09-07T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222/build-your-own-company-brain-the-enterprise-ai-playbook-from-stripe-s-engineering-team-sharadh-krishnamurthy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pen-name/episodes/Build-your-own-company-brain-the-enterprise-AI-playbook-from-Stripes-engineering-team--Sharadh-Krishnamurthy-e3obios","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1035b1568/podcast/play/125208796/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-4%2F431210154-44100-2-428600edf148.mp3","summary":"Sharadh Krishnamurthy is an engineering manager at Stripe, where he helped build Kai, the company’s internal AI agent used by more than 10,000 employees every week. He’s worked across several of Stripe’s core infrastructure teams, including data and developer experience, which gives him a grounded, systems-level perspective on what it actually takes to make AI work at enterprise scale. He’s currently focused on the governance, skills, and infrastructure layers that let every Stripe employee use AI safely and effectively, regardless of their technical background. What you’ll learn: Why Stripe built Kai from scratch instead of buying, and what tipped the decision What Kai knows about you by default and what you actually control Why “projects” at Stripe are a governance mechanism, not just a folder How Stripe structured its data layer so agents can query safely at scale Why the infrastructure Stripe built for human developers turned out to be exactly what agents needed How Kai’s skills platform lets any employee package a workflow, and what happens when you have 2,000 of them What Sharadh learned the hard way when agents nearly took down production systems — Brought to you by: DX —Engineering intelligence for the AI era Hyperagent —Deploy fleets of agents that handle real work — In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introducing Sharadh (02:46) Why Stripe built an AI agent (Kai) instead of buying tools (05:18) What Kai knows about you (and what you can turn off) (06:51) Projects as a governance layer (10:04) Live demo: Kai builds a dashboard (12:18) Tools, skills, and the secure sandbox (17:22) Why Stripe has benefited so much from AI (19:20) Agentic identity, load shedding, and rogue agents (20:41) Iterating on the dashboard (25:01) How they rolled out Kai across the team (2…","meta_description":"Sharadh Krishnamurthy is an engineering manager at Stripe, where he helped build Kai, the company’s internal AI agent used by more than 10,000 employees e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3024,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-i-ai-7304222/episodes/build-your-own-company-brain-the-enterprise-ai-playbook-from-stripe-s-engineering-team-sharadh-krishnamurthy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-i-ai-7304222/build-your-own-company-brain-the-enterprise-ai-playbook-from-stripe-s-engineering-team-sharadh-krishnamurthy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}