How does Doss's AI agent answer questions about business operations?

Short answer: Wiley Jones searches a million sales orders in a couple hundred milliseconds, then shows Doss bot pulling sales orders and details, as a person would, to answer questions like the last 10 wholesale orders.

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From Episode 44: This AI Platform Lets Anyone in Your Company Manage Operations Without a Single Engineer, starting at 5:23.

Wiley Jones [5:23]: And the mechanism by which we do that is by taking applications and packaging them for them, but still allowing them the ergonomics and composability that they need if they wanna make it their own. A lot of times people say, you kind of took the best concepts of Airtable, Retool, and Zapier. You cross sectioned them, made it great, halted at ERP. A couple of fun things to add just in terms of like, the demo ability of this. So here's a table of sales orders. Here's a million records. I can actually go in and type my name. And over the course of, I don't know, however long it was, a couple hundred milliseconds, it actually went through and searched and found all of the items that referred to me. And it's direct full search on a million order, system. And it was almost instant. The ability to do that kind of really powerful search and, query capability on top of a composable data model, very difficult to do technically. And so a lot of times you'll see, incident spinners and, half wheel of death while you're running queries. Now, the thing that really emerges as like the magic for the system is that not only do you have the performance and capabilities of this at your fingertips from like a real raw database performance level, but you actually can give that to an agent that can drive these experiences. So a lot of times people will ask simple questions like, tell me about my last 10 wholesale, orders. And you can see what it's doing here, you know.

Wiley Jones [6:47]: It's like it's Doss bot. It's it's going and actually doing what a person would do. I'm gonna go look at all your sales orders. I'm gonna go full pull all the detail information out, figure out how I can go, construct this. And it's going and doing its job. The thing that's much more interesting is that because our data model all lives at the application layer, we can ask it really complicated questions. Tell me how our SKUs work. How do they connect to our product catalog? How do we connect these to different sales channels? And when we process sales orders across those sales channels, what are the ways we do it? How are the integrations functioning? What workflows are actually doing, nondeterministic AI based parsing. And then how does this all get fulfilled and where you get depleted as a result of this? Create me a very clear description diagram. Walk me through the actual business process and give me a concise summary of all this.

Wiley Jones [7:35]: It's a much harder question. Yeah. A little bit.

Jordan Metzner [7:38]: A little bit. Now The thing that's The answer is like Strawberry. Yeah. It's

Wiley Jones [7:46]: Two. Right? Meaning Yeah.

Jordan Metzner [7:47]: Right? I will not.

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