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Des Traynor, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Intercom, explores how AI is transforming not just products and interfaces, but entire companies. He shares his vision for how AI will act as a powerful, convergent force – collapsing boundaries between tools, teams, and functions – and what that means for the future of work and customer experience. Recorded at Pioneer 2025, a summit for AI customer service leaders. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3e5PPtY_CSs?si=kqwQPGpr5twJiZH7 For more keynotes & conversation visit https://pioneer.fin.ai Follow our Fin/ideas Substack - stories from the team at Intercom building Fin: https://ideas.fin.ai/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Catch up on all the big announcements from the Product Keynote at Pioneer, our in-person summit hosted in New York City on October 9. Eoghan McCabe, Founder and CEO, and Paul Adams, Chief Product Officer, share the latest in Intercom’s AI innovation – including the launch of Fin 3 and our vision for the future of Fin as a Customer Agent. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3e5PPtY_CSs?si=kqwQPGpr5twJiZH7 For more keynotes & conversation visit https://pioneer.fin.ai Follow our Fin/ideas Substack - stories from the team at Intercom building Fin: https://ideas.fin.ai/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Intercom's Chief AI Officer Fergal Reid and VP of Design Emmet Connolly sit down to chart the current state of AI – why scaling pre-training hit limits, how reasoning models and reinforcement learning surged, and what the “DeepSeek moment” revealed about costs and competitiveness. They dig into massive CapEx and data centers, the shrinking gap between frontier and open-weight models, and why value is shifting up the stack from models to the AI layer and product UX. The conversation explores world models and representational convergence, where real breakthroughs may show up, evolving regulation and copyright, and practical implications for builders in a post-training-first world. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8ISy0PswHvE?si=TBooKTEXH191DfIg Follow the people https://www.linkedin.com/in/fergalreid/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmetconnolly/ https://fin.ai/ideas/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the first episode of /ideas, Chief Product Officer Paul Adams talks with Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor about how AI is reshaping everything: how we build products, structure teams, and go to market. Follow the people https://www.linkedin.com/in/destraynor/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauladams/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fin/ X: https://x.com/intercom https://fin.ai/ideas/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As Intercom’s product scaled, we struggled to keep the navigation clear and user-friendly. So how do you redesign information architecture without disrupting users? Senior Product Designer Pranava Tandra breaks down the process, from balancing simplicity with depth to making AI features more discoverable. She chats with Senior Director of Product Management Michelle Fitzpatrick about the challenges, trade-offs, and lessons learned in structuring a fast-evolving product for clarity and ease of use. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R59AZsGDffY?si=if7eoqxIRinGiaOW Read Pranava's blog post: https://www.intercom.com/blog/designing-for-clarity-restructuring-intercoms-information-architecture/ 😁 Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavatandra/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellefitzpatrick/ Follow our podcast: 🍏 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intercom-on-product/id1462264923 🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6d9s4PBzvdESARqUadlCpo 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlCIldMZCaFrcO10XuO7JtPpsZ7EyK0fg 💻 RSS Feed https://rss.art19.com/intercom-on-product Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://intercomonproduct.substack.com/ Say hi on 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ X: https://x.com/intercom Get a free trial of Fin, our breakthrough AI chatbot, here: https://www.intercom.com/fin www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI models are getting cheaper, faster, and more accessible – but what does that mean for businesses and product builders? Renowned tech analyst Benedict Evans joins us to unpack the latest AI shifts, from DeepSeek’s rapid rise to the ongoing debate between deterministic and probabilistic AI. He chats with our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor about the implications of falling compute costs, the race to refine AI agents, and how companies should think about building in an unpredictable landscape. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QkpqBCaUvS4 😁 Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/destraynor/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedictevans/ Follow our podcast: 🍏 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intercom-on-product/id1462264923 🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6d9s4PBzvdESARqUadlCpo 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlCIldMZCaFrcO10XuO7JtPpsZ7EyK0fg 💻 RSS Feed https://rss.art19.com/intercom-on-product Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://intercomonproduct.substack.com/ Say hi on 👋 Twitter: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ Get a free trial of Fin, our breakthrough AI chatbot, here: https://www.intercom.com/fin 🏠 www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How is AI changing the way we build product, the rituals we rely on to ship consistently innovative software, and our fundamental strategy as a customer service platform? In the latest episode of Intercom on Product, our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor and our Chief Product Officer Paul Adams discuss all the far-reaching ways we are rethinking the basics and reinventing the company to adapt to the era of AI. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/etre_aw6_0o?si=fkWII4slHlsYnxpN Newsletters: Sign up for The Ticket: A twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://inter.com/productpodcast Say hi on 👋 X: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bobby Pinero, the co-founder and CEO of Equals, sits down with Mark Iafrate, Principal of Integrated Marketing at Intercom, to discuss the challenges of navigating product-market fit, the importance of understanding key metrics in the SaaS industry, common mistakes founders make in evaluating metrics, and the significance of storytelling in presenting data. Watch Start Good trouble on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlCIldMZCaFpAwM39seMpQCUyexY98tUF Newsletters: Sign up for The Ticket: A twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://inter.com/productpodcast Say hi on 👋 X: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Is the AI hype justified, or is there more to the story? Hear renowned industry analyst Benedict Evans as he cuts through the noise and reveals what AI really means for industries like customer service. Watch this episode here: https://events.intercom.com/on-demand/69b135d5-09ad-4023-a52e-b8a4ea0ee939/?referrer_page=de35aee1-a86c-48bb-8967-f5620d766eab To check out all the sessions in full, check out: https://pioneer.intercom.com/ Newsletters: Sign up for The Ticket: A twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://inter.com/productpodcast Say hi on 👋 X: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe breaks down how AI is about to disrupt customer service on a scale we’ve never seen before. From bots talking to bots to AI surpassing human expertise—this is just the beginning. The race to build and ship the future is on. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WIBibfv3SKk Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoghanmccabe/ https://x.com/eoghan Follow Intercom: Twitter: https://x.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. www.inter.com/productpodcast www.intercom.com #customerservice #Customersupport #aiinsights See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The open questions raised by the rise of generative AI are now gradually getting answers. Intercom’s Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor walks us through how AI went from just about possible to seemingly inevitable over the course of two years. People speculate that AI will be as big as the internet or cloud or mobile, but as Des puts it, perhaps we should be thinking of this moment as a modern version of the dawn of electricity. Watch this episode here: https://events.intercom.com/on-demand/509d896b-f6c6-4139-975d-d55c689a2ff8/?referrer_page=de35aee1-a86c-48bb-8967-f5620d766eab To check out all the sessions in full, check out: https://events.intercom.com/pioneer-2024/ Newsletters: Sign up for The Ticket: A twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://inter.com/productpodcast Say hi on 👋 X: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Intercom on Product, we talk with Enzo Avigo, co-founder and CEO of June, a next-generation analytics platform dedicated to B2B SaaS. He shares his key learnings from his entrepreneurial journey so far, including the importance of product-market fit (PMF), the real value of getting into Y Combinator, and the growing significance of founder-led marketing. Leading the conversation is Mark Iafrate, GTM Lead, Webinars & Partner Marketing, Intercom. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qha95Ig4gWw 😁 Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enzoa/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/markiafrate/ Newsletters: Sign up for The Ticket: A twice-monthly newsletter bursting with all the insights, trends, tips, and assets your team needs to embrace the future of customer service. https://www.intercom.com/blog/newsletter Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://inter.com/productpodcast Say hi on 👋 Twitter: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ Learn more about Fin AI Copilot: https://www.intercom.com/support-for-agents/ai-copilot www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Emmet Connolly, our long time VP of Product Design at Intercom, talks about how the recent advent of modern AI has us revisiting everything from how we design and build interfaces to how we think about the roadmaps of our products. This is us very much sharing what we’re learning at scale as we pivot in the hopes it will be valuable to you too as you start to do the same. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8hMPj3AD34 Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoghanmccabe/ https://x.com/eoghan https://x.com/thoughtwax Follow Intercom: Twitter: https://x.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ Get a free trial of Fin, our breakthrough AI Agent and AI Copilot, here: https://www.intercom.com/fin https://www.intercom.com/Copilot Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://intercomonproduct.substack.com/ www.intercom.com #customerservice #Customersupport #aiinsights See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Great brands that endure always leap on new opportunities. To understand the new AI opportunity, you must understand the underlying technology. Our VP of AI, Fergal Reid, is the perfect person to explain that technology, and how it will transform the way you provide customer service. Fergal has been working on applying machine learning to customer service for many years, and has been leading our efforts in building generative AI into the core of the Intercom platform.   You can watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZgHB9KFl1Y Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoghanmccabe/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/fergalreid/ Say hi 👋 Twitter: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://intercomonproduct.substack.com/ www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Intercom Product Manager Bethany Clark sits down to discuss B2B vs B2C product management with Bob Wallis, our Senior Product Marketing Manager. Having recently transitioned into B2B product management after several years in the B2C space, Bethany draws from first-hand experience and offers insightful perspectives on the key differences and commonalities between the two domains. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2145l_7pM 📝 Read Bethany Clark's blog post: https://www.intercom.com/blog/b2b-vs-b2c-product-management/ 😁 Follow the people: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethany-clark-137720bb https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwallis/ Follow our podcast: 🍏 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intercom-on-product/id1462264923 🎧 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6d9s4PBzvdESARqUadlCpo 🎥 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlCIldMZCaFrcO10XuO7JtPpsZ7EyK0fg 💻 RSS Feed https://rss.art19.com/intercom-on-product Sign up for Intercom on Product: a monthly newsletter sharing our latest thinking on building and designing great products, and how that's changing in the age of AI. https://intercomonproduct.substack.com/ Say hi on 👋 Twitter: https://twitter.com/intercom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intercom/ Get a free trial of Fin, our breakthrough AI chatbot, here: https://www.intercom.com/fin 🏠 www.intercom.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.