Using agents to build an agent company: Joao Moura

[Music] 10 million 62,000 922 over 10 million and a half that's how many agents got executed with crei in the last 30 days yeah and this is crazy I'm so impressed by this because this is real it's real and it's moving way fast than most of people think and I assume most of you here know what AI agents are but I'm going to catch you up if you don't real quick so llms we all know them chat GPT turns out great to create content and they're so good that they almost look their reasonable they can

choose between left and right and up and down and all the other options and if you get them to chat themselves or to a copy of them guess what you can leave the room you have an agent basically it can take its own decisions it can use the tools it can be autonomous so if you didn't know what agent was there you do now you might be asking great now what what's up to me well we have been building automations as Engineers for decades and usually starts pretty straightforward it's like hey I want to go

from A to B but then what happens when you add C and and then you get D and this things can get complex pretty quick and that's how legacies and headaches are born but uh turns out that with agents you don't necessarily need to do that you don't need to connect the dots you give it the options and the Agents can adapt to the circumstances that they are met and they can do that in real time so that allows them to build automations that were never possible before that you couldn't do it and when you

think about the anatomy of these agents and what they look like they might look pretty simple at first you might say like well you have a na Lim in the center and you have task and you have tools but once they start to building these things in production for real you quickly realize that you got to think about well I need a caching layer I need a memory layer I need to train them I need to find a way to add guard rails and so much more that goes into that and then now you're going

to like them to talk to each other and that adds another complexity layer and then when they're in a crew you want to still think about the caching but now shared and the memory and now it's shared there's so much that goes into this and then you can go one extra level and get multiple Crews to talk to each other how that goes to say that the way that we have been building software is changing a lot if you think about the way that we used to do it's very strong time all the software that

we have view is very strong time you start with knowing exactly the inputs that are coming in it's a form it's an integer it's a string you know what's happening you're summing it up you're multiplying and then you have have a very strong output to the point that you can write basically any tests because the behavior is always the same but with AI agents and any AI apps for what it's worth everything is fuzzy uh you don't know what's coming in yes it's a string but can be a CSV can be a rasp can be

a random joke and then these models are basically black box and you don't necessarily know what's coming out of it and you know what I love it so this is happening now and I'm being serious every single day a 100,000 crews are executed and I'm talking like every day and I mean I have been talking a lot about cre Ai and uh creai is a a production ready library to build and orchestrate multi- AI agents automations and we'll talk more about that in a second and um I don't know exactly what like uh is the

like the book that definition of a production ready framework but I'm pretty sure that involves running more than 10 million agents every month so uh I I like to claim that and the fact that we have been beaing this means that we get a lot of exposure to a lot of use cases what are people building out there how they're using this and it's so good before I move along really show our fans real quick who has tried crei raise your hands I like this but we're gonna have even higher number so I'm joal my

name is kind of hard to pronounce I go by Joe sometimes nice to meet you I'm the CEO and founder of grayi and the way that I build this company has been a very interesting Journey everything start back in Brazil I'm a long way from home and everything started with my wife I'm very blessed to have a very smart wife and I have been working clear bit for many years before starting crei and my wife told me you know what you're buing a lot of interesting stuff with like llms you should be sharing more about

it online but I suck at writing LinkedIn posts so as a good engineer I was like Hey I'm going to write some agents to do that for me it turns out it work I got so many views everyone's going into my LinkedIn and I was soed I was like you know what I want to automate my life away I don't want to do anything anymore I want to just relax well for my surprise it doesn't turn out that way uh and I start to building cre I because I want to use the same thing to

build more and more agents the problem was all that happened in my anniversary so you can see that I was having a lot of fun but at the same point my wife doesn't like me to spend too much time in the computer when we're in the holidays uh but little did she know that I was working super early and I was hacking away and I was buing PRI and things start to cook off and we start to getting bugs like rabbit hole reports hallucinations two erors I'm not going to lie things got a little crazy

for a hot second there for us but turns out with that also cre a gate community over 16,000 stars in GitHub uh a Discord Community with over 8,000 people and then someone created a Reddit I didn't know but we have a Reddit and that's amazing and then not too long after that Engineers start to like reach out and then companies start to reach out and I'm talking about hundreds of thousands of people and I'm like all right we need to scale this up but then how we do it how do we scale a company in

such a competitive market guess what the answer was in front of me all along we need agents and so did I bu some them agents so let me tell you how I start I was like hey let's start simple this is a company what do we need we need marketing so I build a marketing crew I was like I'm going to build first a content creator specialist a social media analyst a senior content writer and a chief content officer bring them out together together this is my marketing crew I'm going to shoveling rough ideas that

kind of suck and I want to get something great so they're going to check acts and check LinkedIn and what other people were talking about this they're going to search internet and learn more about the topic they're going to look at my previous experience and they're going to give me an incredible draft and then I started posting it out and again guess what it worked we got 10x more views in 16 days 60 freaking days and I was loving it but with that came a problem I was like well I need to move on I

I need to like now serve these people how do I qualify them well I need to go the next level I did a simple crew I'm going to step up the ladder I'm going to do the next step the higher impact but L lower risk so this is what I did I did a lead qualification crew so I was right I'm going to bring up a lead analyst expert I'm going to bring an industry researcher specialist in a strategic planner I'm going to wrap them together into a lead qualification crew I'm going to shoveling my

lead responses and I want them to analyze the answers I want them to compare them with my CRM data I want them to research the industry and give me like a score use cases talking points so I can jump in a meeting right away guess what it worked the problem is it worked too out I end up doing 15 plus customer calls in 2 weeks it was crazy you know what I don't regret it I love it so this is what happened I start to expand more let's build more crews we have marketing we have

lead qualification let's do code documentation so if you try crew all those docks we didn't write it agents do it for us and I was like I want to do more and start to do email and do more and more and it works so to the point that these are some of the companies they're now building with crew they're using crew and it's insane to me and hey if you don't like these companies you don't believe that well believe some of our investors darh CTO of hubs spot or Jack outman I mean they can vouch

for us we're doing pretty well and what about the future like where is this thing going well as an llm model I can't I'm kidding so actually Jenn is not getting back in the bottle this is going to be huge bigger than the internet we all knew it like this this is not going back people are not going to stop using Agents from one day to the other well this is my advice for you be adopter don't wait for other use cases start simple expend to low risk and high impact that's what we did but

hey I'm not going to finish here in Cai we are known because we sheep them fast so I'm going to make some announcements of some of the stuff that we are working that I'm super excited about first thing your agents need tools right so why don't you let them build their own tools so we are working with code execution what means that in the new version all you got to do is create an instance of automated coder command line code executor come on you're not buying this I'm not Auto Jam or whatever other framework are

using we're crew AI all you got to do it's one flag allow code execution that works your agents can code now you don't got to worry about this another thing that we are working on you know how you do when you hire a new employee you train them why not do that with her crew so you can get consistent results over time well there's a new feature train your crew it's a new CLI you can run that and you can give instructions to it and that's going to become baked into the memory of your agents

to the point they're going to give you consistent results every time moving forward but we're not stopping that as well there's more you know what I like to think about us as we don't see agent callers we want all the agents so bring them all we're a universal platform bring any third part agent you know your Yama index agent your link sh agent your autogen agent I mean I don't know why you would do anything else because you got a crew but hey come on you can bring them into the party and they're going to

have all the crew AI agents features the shared memory the same tools you're going to be able to use all them if you and then again the best thing about all this you can try it today we just shipped the version before I come in the stage if you want to try it right before this call or later in today you can give it a try it's a new version it's live and if you again that is not exciting enough maybe you want to hear from another of our investors and they so you can and

check it out we put together a 2hour course on how to learn about crew aai and all you got to do is go to learn. crew.com and final thing I promise I'm know that be right at time bear with me this conference has been one the best conference I have been who here agrees with that right there's one thing though I heard a lot of like teing a lot of like coming Sue type of Dees and I don't know about you but I'm a little sick of that so why don't we actually start to bring

some like agents into production so I want to talk about cre plus it's an Enterprise offering what some of those companies that I showed you were are using it and with cre plus now you build your Crews the way that they're running your terminal but you basically can select them push them to GitHub in three minutes they become an API and I'm talking about a real API I'm talking about about autoscaling protected by a barer token with a private VPC everything that you need to run those things in production and then you can also like

one click away export that into a react component and now you basically have a UI that you can demo and you can customize any any way that you want so you can basically connect your agents like in a few minutes to anything and there is more for the first 50 companies that signed up using this link we're going to give you access to crei Plus in less than 24 hours and I also have one extra thing you don't even have to build your first crew turns out I pull an out either I have a crew

that can build your crew you heard me right based on your email and your company name alone this crew is going to run is going to create your crew push into a GitHub repository and that can be the first crew that you Deploy on CI plus so hey why don't we leave at that it's starting to become a little like uh ugly for the other guys so hey thank you so much I catch you in the confence [Music]