{"podcast":{"title":"In the Pit with Cody Schneider | Marketing | Growth | Startups","slug":"in-the-pit-with-cody-schneider-marketing-growth-startups-6006110","podcast_index_feed_id":6006110,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/in-the-pit-podcast","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rYqWHBY73Ly65raa-x6IZ3N0AlzlnuW8OkqGGJELY0k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM4Mzk2LzE2OTQ0/NDk3ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.jpg","author":"Cody Schneider","episode_count":68,"summary":"In the Pit shares what founders and marketers are seeing from the front lines. Join host Cody Schneider for personal brain dumps and conversations with business leaders to learn the strategies and tactics being used to acquire first customers, scale growth, and build thoroughbred marketing organizations. Listen down. Level up.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-23T20:18:04.566975+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-the-pit-with-cody-schneider-marketing-growth-startups-6006110"},"episode":{"title":"50 ai agents are running this guy's business. no employees?","slug":"50-ai-agents-are-running-this-guy-s-business-no-employees","published_at":"2025-07-10T18:17:54+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-the-pit-with-cody-schneider-marketing-growth-startups-6006110/50-ai-agents-are-running-this-guy-s-business-no-employees","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-the-pit-with-cody-schneider-marketing-growth-startups-6006110","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/279fea18","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/279fea18/6ff4375f.mp3","summary":"https://www.graphed.com/ - AI data analyst to build dashboard and get insights In this episode, Adam Silverman — co-founder & CEO of Agent Ops — dives deep into what “AI agents” actually are, why observability matters, and the very real marketing & growth automations companies are shipping today. From social-listening bots that draft Reddit replies to multi-agent pipelines that rebalance seven-figure ad budgets in real time, Adam lays out a practical playbook for founders, heads of growth, and non-technical operators who want to move from hype to hands-on results. Guest socials • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsil • 𝕏 / Twitter: https://x.com/AtomSilverman • Company: https://agentops.ai Timestamps 00:00 — Defining “agents”: reasoning-powered automations, not AGI 00:54 — Introducing Adam & the 50+ internal agents his team uses daily 03:32 — “Vibe marketing” and why every employee will soon have an AI assistant 05:18 — Live example: an inbound-lead-scoring agent that books calls automatically 08:11 — Metric shift: revenue / agent & revenue / token 10:45 — Three-point filter for agent ROI: expensive, repeatable, low-risk tasks 12:56 — Social-listening agents for Reddit, X & forums (human-in-the-loop posting) 16:14 — OrcaBase + TripleWhale: agentic ad-spend rebalancing for e-com 21:29 — WhisperFlow → Claude to generate entire email sequences in minutes 25:04 — Multi-agent systems & OpenAI Agents SDK (Crew AI, Llama-Index, etc.) 40:12 — Tech stack cheat-sheet: AgentQL, BrowserBase, Composio, Anthropic Claude 3, Gemini 1.5 Pro 48:07 — Internal hackathons & “minimum viable post” culture for continuous learning Key Points • Observability is table-stakes. Enterprises won’t deploy agents without 99.99 % reliability, so logging, evals &…","meta_description":"https://www.graphed.com/ - AI data analyst to build dashboard and get insights In this episode, Adam Silverman — co-founder & CEO of Agent Ops — dives…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3150,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/in-the-pit-with-cody-schneider-marketing-growth-startups-6006110/episodes/50-ai-agents-are-running-this-guy-s-business-no-employees/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/in-the-pit-with-cody-schneider-marketing-growth-startups-6006110/50-ai-agents-are-running-this-guy-s-business-no-employees.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}