E406: Why AI Won't Transform Most Enterprises for 10 Years

Highlights:

• Why AI should execute workflows instead of simply assisting employees.
• The biggest inefficiencies still holding back the logistics industry.
• How reasoning models differ from traditional AI automation.
• Why enterprise AI adoption depends on integrating with existing software.
• Lessons from building an AI company in a $12 trillion industry.
• How logistics companies can deploy AI without replacing their core systems.
• Why domain expertise matters as much as technical expertise in AI startups.
• The future role of human operators in an AI-native logistics ecosystem.
• What investors often misunderstand about enterprise AI adoption.
• Why logistics could become one of AI's largest commercial opportunities.

Guest Bio:

Sushanth Raman is the CEO of Pallet, an AI company building a reasoning-driven workforce for the logistics industry. He founded Pallet in 2021 after seeing how one of the world's largest industries still relied on manual, error-prone workflows. Since launch, the company has raised $50 million from investors including Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Activant. Today, Sushanth combines deep technical expertise with his family's roots in shipping to help carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and shippers automate mission-critical operations with AI.

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