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"I fundamentally believe that too much Silicon Valley talent for a company like ours is actually a bad thing.”
We sat down with Sushanth Raman, Founder & CEO, and Andrew Geisse, CRO at Pallet - an AI-driven logistics management system built to take the busywork off your plate.
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The details:
“The Future of AI in Logistics Isn’t a ChatGPT Wrapper — It’s Pallet.”
That’s how Brittain Ladd, a leading voice in supply chain and automation, described Pallet.
We sat down with Sushanth Raman (Founder & CEO) and Andrew Geisse (CRO) to understand why.
Why it’s different: Pallet built an Enterprise Memory Layer (EML) that captures the tribal knowledge running your operation - the unwritten rules your best dispatchers and ops teams follow daily.
What it does:
Sushanth’s vision:
“AI will automate repetitive knowledge work — the next frontier is automating the repetitive work in the physical economy.”
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