Ask Me Anything with Andrei Pop
"Serve more clients, hire more people. That model has a ceiling." Marty Bicknell built Mariner into one of the largest wealth firms in the country, and that is his description of the model he built it on.
Andrei Pop, founder and CEO of Humanity Labs, thinks the ceiling is the most important business problem of the decade, and he takes questions about it live for an hour. No slides, no script, no filter.
The short version of his answer: Your firm earns trust two ways, through relationships and through delivery. Clients trust the people who know them, and they trust work that is always correct and always on time. Under the headcount model those two compete for the same hours, so both get shortchanged. An AI Workforce ends the competition. It is one pool of capacity, running on one firm memory, working inside the systems your team already uses, pointed wherever the firm needs it most. Nothing gets retaught, and nothing leaves on a Friday.
On the agenda:
What is real about AI right now, and what is marketing
Why relationships and delivery fight for the same hours, and what ends the fight
Where firms point an AI Workforce first: front, middle, and back office
The work no staffing plan ever covered: every contract reviewed instead of a sample, every account checked instead of the flagged ones
Revenue per employee: why it is the scoreboard, and what moves it in the first 90 days
Your questions, answered live
Who should join: Anyone at a firm where growing has always meant hiring. No background assumed. Come with the question you have been sitting on.
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About Humanity Labs
Humanity Labs gives firms an AI Workforce: one pool of AI capacity, on one firm memory, working across the front, middle, and back office, all under the firm's control. The result is growth decoupled from headcount, and the destination is the Firm of the Future, a firm that grows as fast as its ambition. The deepest proof to date is in wealth management, where Humanity Labs works with some of the world's leading firms, together overseeing more than $750 billion in client assets. Humanity Labs is backed by leading venture firms including Google Ventures and Vestigo Ventures.