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Empowering Your Workforce to Thrive with AI

Building Curious, Adaptable Teams During Rapid Change

Alina Jesien

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF HR

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Empowering the world to build.

30,000 +

Customers Served

72

Customer NPS

40%+

US Households

Zip code-level data and verticalized tech stack enables consolidation

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We empower our customers, contractors, and staff to become their own superheroes.

300+

Staff

38+

Countries

100%

Distributed

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Forbes Top 25 Startup Employers

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Are you waiting for staff to "figure out" AI, or are you designing an environment where

AI adoption isn’t optional?

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AI at Ergeon: A Non-Optional Shift

Engineering

Use AI or risk becoming obsolete.

Recruiting

Stop relying on CVs. AI dashboards are the future.

Sales

AI is already outperforming some of you—so master it.

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Engineers initially thought AI-generated code was garbage.

The issue wasn’t AI—it was how they were using it.

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Key Enablers

Mindset shift to make GPT assistance the default.

Investing in infrastructure and process changes that make AI integration natural.

Refactor 5-8 sections of code base for GPT compatibility.

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We built our own GPT compiler for code generation

User

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Requirements Builder

(optional)

File Looker

Main Input: Prompt

Prompt + Files

User iterates on

top of the files

Specific Prompt + File

File 1

File 2

File N

Code

Agent

Code

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Code

Agent

Code Planner

Hidden Agents

Providing Extra

Context

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Use Case Definition

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Prompt Template

I want to create a new table called ____ in the…

Use Case

Context Parameters

Table_name: <answer 1>

Fields: <answer 2>

Rules

For generating the code for a new table you need to perform the following steps…

Input

Pluggable

Reusable

A predefined workflow that can be selected and must be used where possible.

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Upgrade Readiness

Dream version of built GPT compiler.

Immediate adoption and quickly extracted value.

Incredible for prototyping.

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Results

Eng Productivity

Stories per developer

Stories GPT Automated

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For the first time ever we had to hire 50 sales reps in 5 weeks - with two recruiters.

Traditional hiring methods couldn’t scale—AI became the only way forward.

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Key Enablers

Shift to AI-generated dashboards instead of CVs.

Trust, but verify.

AI isn’t here to replace human intuition—it’s here to challenge it with data.

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Results

Applications per Recruiter

Response Time and Time to Interview, days

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Bootcamps required hours of role plays that leadership couldn’t scale.

The best reps got one coaching session per week—if they were lucky.

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Key Enablers

Design moments for staff to experience AI’s superiority firsthand.

Identify the core problem: sales training was limited by human coaching capacity.

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Results

Sales Team Performance

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Next Level Analysis

Salesperson and customer behavior analysis no longer limited by our QA rubric.

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AI adoption must align with company values.

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A Culture-First

Approach

Be Lean: AI allows teams to eliminate low-value work so people can focus on high-impact decisions.

Be Kind: AI helps remove human bias, increase transparency, and ensure inclusivity.

Invest in People: AI mastery should be tied to performance & provide career growth - at our company or beyond.

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Redefine what "high performance" means.

Redefine talent strategy

Build AI-empowered teams.

Measure AI adoption

Track behavioral shifts, not just efficiency.

Incentivize AI learning

AI mastery should be a leadership differentiator.

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The future of work isn’t AI replacing people

- except when it does.

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We worried our distributed team was no longer a moat.

But it gave us the foundations. Our focus on documentation, clean data, and structured workflows make us exceptionally AI-ready.

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Your job isn’t to master AI.

It’s to create an environment where AI adoption thrives.

  • Start Where the Pain Hurts Most

  • Run a No-Option, Low-Stakes Experiment

  • Measure Adoption, Not Just Output

  • Make AI Mastery a Growth Path

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Thank you!