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How Stripe Built Kai on Deep Agents in 1 Week
LangChain · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Stripe built Kai, a company-wide AI agent, in one week using LangChain's Deep Agents framework to boost employee productivity across non-technical roles.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineering teams building internal AI agents who need production-ready infrastructure without months of foundational work on tool calling and state management.
- Watch out
- Kai faces scaling challenges with over 1000 skills; quality degrades with frontier models beyond 150 skills, requiring new skill selection approaches as adoption grows.
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