AI Agents • Live Demo: The Game-Changer for 2025

2% of PMs use AI agents for productivity. That's too low. You can 10x your productivity with AI agents: So I had on former Director of Product at Gmail, and founder of AI agent startup Relay.app Jacob Bank to break it all down. ---- ⏰ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:54 Meet Jacob: The One-Man Marketing Army 02:14 Live Demo: 12-Agent Executive Assistant 08:27 Meeting Briefing Generator Walkthrough 15:05 Ads 18:52 Building Follow-Up Drafter Agent 25:19 Live Build: Reddit Brand Tracker 30:57 Ads 35:49 Managing AI Agent Notification Overload 37:57 Current AI Agent Limitations Explained 41:00 Relay's $2M ARR with 10-Person Team 49:11 Why PMs Are Losing to Sales/Marketing Teams 54:52 Choosing Between Agent Platforms 1:00:40 55-Agent Marketing Team Breakdown 1:06:40 Building AI Into Your Product Strategy 1:11:41 Why Jacob Left Google Director Role 1:15:36 Brutal Truth About PM-to-Founder Transition 1:19:09 Outro ---- 🏆 Thanks to our sponsors: 1. Miro: The innovation workspace is your team's new canvas: https://miro.com/innovation-workspace/?irclickid=yIg1Kj2P2xycUXeyopwbUQf0UkpwPezrCXtgyg0&irgwc=1 2. Jira Product Discovery: Plan with purpose, ship with confidence: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery 3. Mobbin: Discover real-world design inspiration: http://mobbin.com/aakash 4. Product Faculty: The #1 AI PM certificate (Get $550 off): https://maven.com/product-faculty/ai-product-management-certification?promoCode=AAKASH550C7 ---- Transcript: https://www.news.aakashg.com/p/jacob-bank-podcast ---- 10 steps to 10x your productivity with agents: 1. Catch Up on Adoption Only 2% of PMs have built an AI agent, yet Jacob Bank runs his entire marketing operation with 55 agents. Go-to-market teams are already leveraging AI while PMs lag behind despite considering ourselves the tech innovators. 2. Map Your Repetitive Work Audit your calendar for recurring activities like weekly bug reports, monthly competitor analysis, or quarterly updates. These repetitive tasks with common patterns are perfect for agent automation. 3. Select Your Platform For less technical PMs: Zapier, Relay.app, or Lindy ($20-100/month). Technical teams: N8N or Make. Jacob recommends experimenting with multiple tools since pricing is usage-based, not per-seat. 4. Begin with Templates Don't build from scratch. Most platforms offer proven templates for meeting follow-ups, competitive research, and metrics reporting. Copy and customize these to your specific processes. 5. Create Your Executive Assistant Build 8-12 agents for calendar management, email filtering, meeting prep, task reminders, and newsletter summaries. Jacob built this system to handle all operational overhead automatically. 6. Automate Competitive Intelligence Deploy agents to track competitor pricing, feature launches, social posts, and job postings. Configure scheduled delivery that aligns with your planning cycles, like Friday competitive updates. 7. Systematize Customer Feedback Create agents that synthesize user interviews, support tickets, social mentions, and reviews. Generate weekly digests highlighting themes, pain points, and feature requests across all touchpoints. 8. Streamline Product Operations Build agents for release notes, bug reports, metrics dashboards, and stakeholder updates. Establish automated "rhythm of business" reports that generate and deliver themselves when needed. 9. Test and Refine Start with simple prompts and 1-3 examples rather than complex instructions. Test thoroughly before removing human oversight. Maintain approval loops for high-stakes communications until you build confidence. 10. Scale Through Workflows Combine agents into sophisticated workflows. Jacob's webinar process: one calendar event triggers social posts, email campaigns, reminder sequences, and follow-up reports. Think systems, not individual tasks. ---- 👨‍💻 Where to find Jacob: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobdlevy/ Relay: https://relay.app YouTube: @relayapp ---- 👨‍💻 Where to find Aakash: Twitter: twitter.com/aakashg0 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aagupta/ Newsletter: news.aakashg.com #aiagents #productmanagement 🧠 About Product Growth: The world's largest podcast focused solely on product + growth, with over 187K listeners. Hosted by Aakash Gupta, who spent 16 years in PM, rising to VP of product, this 2x/week show covers product and growth topics in depth. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications to get more vidoes like this.

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Sep 19, 20251h 19mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: September 19, 2025
Duration: 1h 19m
Channel: Aakash Gupta
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

2% of PMs use AI agents for productivity. That's too low. You can 10x your productivity with AI agents: So I had on former Director of Product at Gmail, and founder of AI agent startup Relay.app Jacob Bank to break it all down. ---- ⏰ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:54 Meet Jacob: The One-Man Marketing Army 02:14 Live Demo: 12-Agent Executive Assistant 08:27 Meeting Briefing Generator Walkthrough 15:05 Ads 18:52 Building Follow-Up Drafter Agent 25:19 Live Build: Reddit Brand Tracker 30:57 Ads 35:49 Managing AI Agent Notification Overload 37:57 Current AI Agent Limitations Explained 41:00 Relay's $2M ARR with 10-Person Team 49:11 Why PMs Are Losing to Sales/Marketing Teams 54:52 Choosing Between Agent Platforms 1:00:40 55-Agent Marketing Team Breakdown 1:06:40 Building AI Into Your Product Strategy 1:11:41 Why Jacob Left Google Director Role 1:15:36 Brutal Truth About PM-to-Founder Transition 1:19:09 Outro ---- 🏆 Thanks to our sponsors:
Miro: The innovation workspace is your team's new canvas: https://miro.com/innovation-workspace/?irclickid=yIg1Kj2P2xycUXeyopwbUQf0UkpwPezrCXtgyg0&irgwc=1
Jira Product Discovery: Plan with purpose, ship with confidence: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery
Mobbin: Discover real-world design inspiration: http://mobbin.com/aakash
Product Faculty: The #1 AI PM certificate (Get $550 off): https://maven.com/product-faculty/ai-product-management-certification?promoCode=AAKASH550C7
---- Transcript: https://www.news.aakashg.com/p/jacob-bank-podcast ---- 10 steps to 10x your productivity with agents:
1. Catch Up on Adoption Only 2% of PMs have built an AI agent, yet Jacob Bank runs his entire marketing operation with 55 agents. Go-to-market teams are already leveraging AI while PMs lag behind despite considering ourselves the tech innovators.
1. Map Your Repetitive Work Audit your calendar for recurring activities like weekly bug reports, monthly competitor analysis, or quarterly updates. These repetitive tasks with common patterns are perfect for agent automation.
1. Select Your Platform For less technical PMs: Zapier, Relay.app, or Lindy ($20-100/month). Technical teams: N8N or Make. Jacob recommends experimenting with multiple tools since pricing is usage-based, not per-seat.
1. Begin with Templates Don't build from scratch. Most platforms offer proven templates for meeting follow-ups, competitive research, and metrics reporting. Copy and customize these to your specific processes.
1. Create Your Executive Assistant Build 8-12 agents for calendar management, email filtering, meeting prep, task reminders, and newsletter summaries. Jacob built this system to handle all operational overhead automatically.
1. Automate Competitive Intelligence Deploy agents to track competitor pricing, feature launches, social posts, and job postings. Configure scheduled delivery that aligns with your planning cycles, like Friday competitive updates.
1. Systematize Customer Feedback Create agents that synthesize user interviews, support tickets, social mentions, and reviews. Generate weekly digests highlighting themes, pain points, and feature requests across all touchpoints.
1. Streamline Product Operations Build agents for release notes, bug reports, metrics dashboards, and stakeholder updates. Establish automated "rhythm of business" reports that generate and deliver themselves when needed.
1. Test and Refine Start with simple prompts and 1-3 examples rather than complex instructions. Test thoroughly before removing human oversight. Maintain approval loops for high-stakes communications until you build confidence.
1. Scale Through Workflows Combine agents into sophisticated workflows. Jacob's webinar process: one calendar event triggers social posts, email campaigns, reminder sequences, and follow-up reports. Think systems, not individual tasks. ---- 👨‍💻 Where to find Jacob: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobdlevy/ Relay: https://relay.app YouTube: @relayapp ---- 👨‍💻 Where to find Aakash: Twitter: twitter.com/aakashg0 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aagupta/ Newsletter: news.aakashg.com #aiagents #productmanagement 🧠 About Product Growth: The world's largest podcast focused solely on product + growth, with over 187K listeners. Hosted by Aakash Gupta, who spent 16 years in PM, rising to VP of product, this 2x/week show covers product and growth topics in depth. 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications to get more vidoes like this.

SPEAKERS

Aakash Gupta
host
Host of the Aakash Gupta channel/podcast focused on product management and AI, conducting interviews and reading sponsor segments.
Jacob Bank
guest
Founder of Relay.app and former Google Workspace product leader (Gmail/Calendar), discussing AI agents and workflow automation.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Aakash Gupta, featuring Aakash Gupta and Jacob Bank, AI Agents • Live Demo: The Game-Changer for 2025 explores live-built AI agents replacing assistants, tracking competitors, shaping work Jacob demos a 12-agent “executive assistant” that automates meeting prep, email/calendar/task workflows, and delivers briefings via preferred channels like Slack.

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