Two Seattle-area startups are making the same quiet bet: the most valuable job for AI right now isn't creating something new, it's the follow-through humans hate doing. This episode covers Devplan, whose AI agents chase down project status before anyone has to ask, and KredosAI, whose AI chases overdue payments without ever sounding like a collections call. Real founders, real funding, real numbers — plus what to watch as both companies scale.

In this episode:

• Why relentless follow-up might be the highest-leverage job for AI agents right now

• Devplan's $2.5M seed round, the origin story, and how Weaver turns Slack/Jira/GitHub into one knowledge graph

• The $161M-a-year coordination problem hiding inside product and engineering teams

• KredosAI's $7M Series A led by BMW i Ventures, and the behavioral-science bet behind how it collects on overdue bills

• Why roughly one in three customers pay their bills late — and why that's usually not about the customer being difficult

• What to watch next for both companies

Companies featured: Devplan (devplan.com) · KredosAI (kredosai.com)

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