Wade Foster

@wadefoster

Co-founder/CEO @Zapier

Missouri, USA

zapier.com

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Wade Foster
@wadefoster
May 4
Today we open early access to @zapier's next product We've been using it internally for months (>1,000,000 actions executed so far) and it's completely changed how we work. We're letting a small group of AI-forward teams try it first and give feedback. Who we’re looking for:
Wade Foster
@wadefoster
Aug 27
WSJ just wrote about our Slack transparency leaderboard. It measures what % of our messages are public vs hidden in DMs. I'm at 79%. Our CMO is at 98% (coming for you, Dan) An agent can only use what it can read. On a customer call last week, I had an agent build a deck from 60
Wade Foster
@wadefoster
Aug 24
Italy's largest car dealership found €150,000 in its voicemail box. Autotorino gets 100k inbound calls a month across 74 locations. Nobody was ever going to answer all of them. Instead of hiring their way out, they built a capture layer for the ones falling through. Here’s
Wade Foster
@wadefoster
Aug 20
Your AI will agree with you on most things. 3 ways to make it less sycophantic: 1. Stop asking just one agent. I hand the question to my /War-Council skill, a swarm of personalized subagents with different incentives 2. Give the AI something to lose. Mine incorporates
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@allgarbled
Aug 3
I have this new LLM sycophancy eval I came up where in the middle of a random conversation I just say “I kinda feel some connection between this and the McDonald's philosophy” and so far it never fails, it turns out that’s always “genuinely an interesting framing”
Wade Foster
@wadefoster
Aug 19
Chatted with @Forbes about tokenmaxxing and what we spend on AI at Zapier. Our top builders hit $30,000 a month. That’s mostly devs looping coding agents on greenfield projects. Bug fixes, new functionality, clean feedback loops. It’s not cheap, and that’s why it's some of the