500 employees

500 employees

90,000 hours, 140 million dollars

what ONE AI agent saved deel in a single month

(inside a $17B company of 7,000 people!!) 💀

Deel is the legal employer for people in 150 countries, I mean you’ve probably heard of them, right?

100% remote

so…

they built their own agent to run it. It's called Akai. and now they're opening access to everyone else

what you're watching in the video (this is the actual product btw, not editing):

someone walks through a task ONCE. clicking through the systems, talking out loud like they're training a new hire

With no technical skills required Akai records the screen, listens, and maps what's actually happening underneath (the clicks AND the system calls behind them)

then it builds the agent. no developers. no integration project. no 'we'll get IT on it in Q4' 🤡

Here’s what I make of the maths: 7,000 people 500 FTE worth of hours saved in one month that's 1 in 14 people's workload! from one agent! 90,000 hours of back-office work saved in the first few months

Now, you guys know I’m not for all the AI slop on LinkedIn - but this isn’t that. Akai works IN the business.

And for most businesses reading this, odds are the thing that’s gonna kill your ‘automation’ isn't the tool you’re using. It's the old system with no API

(every brand has one. the retailer portal, the 3PL dashboard, the spreadsheet someone built in 2019 that nobody's allowed to touch)

akai connects to those too! And when it hits an edge case it works it out and gets better at the whole task end to end

Every. Single. Week. I see brands doing £1m-10m ARR: → wholesale orders copied from email into shopify by hand! By hand! In 2026! → stock checked across multiple dashboards every morning → influencer gifting tracked in a spreadsheet → invoices reconciled line by line → the ops hire who spends half her week being a human API

and the current ‘fix’? another hire. another £35k + NI + pension to do the same copy-paste slightly faster 😭

Until Akai entered the chat

but also, the question has changed. it's not 'should we use AI'

it's how much of OUR company is still being done manually by someone who'd rather be doing literally anything else

(write the list. It will be longer than you think, I promise)

I've watched million dollar and billion dollar brands hire their way out of problems a screen recording could fix x

book a demo now for early access + $5k in free akai credits: https://www.akai.run

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