In this episode, I’m joined by Liam Collins — founder of Proxis (YC S24), your enterprise AI sales email autopilot. Liam’s built AI agents that behave like 24/7 interns, scaling cold email personalization and follow-ups without burning out your sales team.

But Proxis wasn’t born overnight. From prior auth in healthcare to devtools for model distillation, Liam's founder journey is packed with pivots, painful feedback loops, and deep technical execution.

We talk about:
🤖 The architecture behind Proxis’ AI email agents
📬 The reality of inbox challenges in true enterprise sales for reps — and how Proxis handles it
📉 Lessons from Proxis’ pivots — from healthcare to fine-tuning to sales automation
🚨 Edge cases they didn't think about
🧪 Why dogfooding your GTM is the fastest way to ship better
🌍 What slowmadding across 20+ countries taught Liam about discipline and play
💬 How to balance founder-led engineering with founder-led sales
📈 What most sales outreach gets wrong — and how Proxis keeps it human

This episode is for any founder who’s grappling with sales at scale — especially if you're early-stage, running lean, and tired of the copy-paste chaos of cold outreach.

Important Links:

Turn your enterprise's inbox on autopilot with Proxis: https://proxis.ai

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