Cutting Through Notification Noise With Generative AI - Jack Lancaster (Spoke.ai) | Startup Scout

Jack Lancaster is the co-founder and CPO at Spoke.ai, a generative AI startup that are cutting through workplace noise by summarizing and prioritizing information. Previously, Jack led product teams at N26 and ONE Finance before co-founding Plantclub.io and Spoke.ai Spoke.ai cuts through workplace noise by aggregating, prioritizing, and summarizing information. Their App for Slack allows you summarize threads and channels in Slack to save time. It's free to use and you can set it up in under a minute: https://www.spoke.ai/slack-summarization They're also building a Smart Inbox that aggregates all your notifications across tools (Slack, Jira, Figma, Notion, etc.), prioritizes the most important topics, and summarizes across notifications. ⏱️ Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:38 - Jack’s background 0:24 - Entrepreneurship & first startup 4:36 - Entering into Generative AI 6:36 - Spoke.ai's first iteration 7:42 - The decision to pivot 10:30 - Second iteration 11:48 - Spoke.ai solutions 16:15 - Optimising the model 18:11 - Knowing when to go all in 21:10 - Getting buy-in from investors 23:07 - Early customers 25:34 - Spoke’s value metrics 27:03 - Go-to-market 28:37 - Beating the competition 30:24 - Team 32:02 - Building strong co-founder relationships 34:25 - Choosing co-founder roles 36:37 - Raising capital today 38:13 - Contrasting US / European tech culture ________________________________________________ ℹ️ Guest & Company info 🚀 Startup - Spoke.ai 🌐 Startup's site - https://www.spoke.ai/ 🗂️ Crunchbase - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/spoke-ai 🧑‍💻 Founder - Jack Lancaster 💼 Founder's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacklancaster4/ ________________________________________________ 👍 Liked this episode? 🎬 Like and subscribe on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@StartupScout 🎙️ Follow on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/startup-scout/id1305855201 🎧 Follow on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2LN6Bw37yNfqM9rcb0lVhr ________________________________________________ #StartupScout #NickHynes