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If your payroll team still operates manually, you're losing thousands of hours every year. Deel is a $17B company with 7,000 employees. They automated 94% of their payroll ops with AI agents. Here's how: Phil leads the AKAI team at Deel. He built 12 agents to automate their entire...

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Shahid Ansari5 days ago

Akai turning repetitive payroll work into an automated workflow is impressive.

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安叫兽|Bird🕊️ 🔶 BNB5 days ago

94%听着很猛,但剩下那6%往往才最费脑子

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wilfred gonsalves5 days ago

Akai makes payroll workflows smarter.

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Rachel Woods5 days ago

I like the idea of teaching the workflow instead of coding every single step.

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Ted | unfair.so5 days ago

next generation of tools should finish loops, not create more tabs

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Royson Gonsalves5 days ago

Akai makes payroll workflows smarter.

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NOVA5 days ago

15,000+ hours saved is a crazy number. Akai is definitely worth watching.

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Naveen Chauhan5 days ago

what's the rollback story when an agent gets a pay run wrong? payroll is one of the few workflows where "we'll fix it next cycle" doesn't fly. It upsets employees.

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Tushar Pawar5 days ago

This is the real power of Akai.

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Aarohi Bachhav5 days ago

Thats really great, will check out this

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