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June, founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport with three co-founders from Bonobo AI (acquired by Salesforce in 2019), took money from Michael Dell, Aaron Levie and George Kurtz alongside Time Ventures. The product scans existing Salesforce, ServiceNow, Databricks and Workday deployments to identify processes and bottlenecks, then generates integration tasks and a step-by-step implementation plan, with mortgage lender CMG cited as a customer that got agents live after prior roadblocks. This is a direct product attack on the forward-deployed-engineer line item that went from 5-10% to 70% of companies hiring for it in two quarters. Same day, AnyMind launched AnyAI Agent bundling design-and-deployment services with the agent. Two companies, same day, opposite bets on the same gap: one sells software to eliminate implementation labor, the other sells the labor.
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