Sean Williams is the CEO and founder of AutogenAI, the world’s leading AI proposal-writing engine, launched in May 2022. Under his leadership, the company recently closed a nearly $40 million Series B round led by Salesforce Ventures. Prior to AutogenAI, Sean founded Corndel Ltd, where he served as Chief Executive and scaled the business to 350 employees before its $60 million acquisition by THI Holdings in 2020.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Why Sean believes AI will revolutionize how organizations write, win, and deliver proposals
- How AutogenAI is reducing proposal writing time from days to hours for companies bidding on complex contracts
- The ethical considerations of AI-written proposals and why transparency is critical in high-stakes industries
- What Sean learned from scaling Corndel to 350 employees and how that experience shaped AutogenAI's go-to-market strategy
- Why the biggest risk for organizations isn’t adopting AI too quickly, but failing to experiment early
- How AutogenAI is building trust with enterprise clients through customization, compliance, and human-in-the-loop design
Resources:
- Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter
- Connect with Sean on LinkedIn
- AI fun fact article
- On How To Prevent Bias and Be Responsible for Ethical Decision Making
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