Shivani Poddar

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@shivanipod

Founder @wajo_ai, building @hey__fo
Previously: Head of Engineering @julesagent @GoogleDeepmind | @meta | LLM Research @CarnegieMellon

San Francisco, CA wajo.ai Joined August 2025

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Shivani Poddar @shivanipod Sep 28

I led engineering at Google DeepMind.

Today, I'm proud to introduce Fo to give personal AI something no lab ever has... Humans.

Other personal AI's pretend AI can do everything. Fo employs humans to do tasks that AI cannot.

- 2x better at real-world task completion (beats other agents by 69%)
- 94% trust rate (4x less likely to leak private info vs Muse, Instinct)

Sign up for free: wajo.ai/join-wajo

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Shivani Poddar @shivanipod 1d

A lot of traffic from personal agents goes direct. If a platform isn’t capturing this, it may be because it’s getting disintermediated..

Craig Shapiro ⚽️ Verified account @cshapiro 2d

Interesting bits from Brian’s Airbnb earnings call about AI agents and consumer behavior:

— Airbnb gets ~500k bookings a day
— ”very non-material” traffic from Muse/Instinct
— says people *want* to browse: average user looks at dozens of listings and 25+ photos
— 90% of users message the host
— most traffic comes between 9 to 5 when people are at work (using Airbnb as escapism)
— 80% of travels say they like doing their own travel research

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Shivani Poddar @shivanipod 3d

Just sent a couple of these this morning. Hire insanely crack people, give them agency, see product 🧑‍🍳

Shivani Poddar @shivanipod 3d

Ask her Fo and lmk — the future is here.

Shivani Poddar @shivanipod 3d

When we had published our paper on task completion, this was quite evidently the gap that existed.

We fine tuned @hey__fo to be one that can fill this gap with a combination of
1. expert in the loop
2. real-time self learning

as a result, we have seen targeted gains in Fo compared to any other agent in the market. We are at the top right quad.

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