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The most underrated dataset in enterprise AI is your org chart | Rippling's Albert Strasheim

July 21, 2026 · 36 min

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AI agents can't transform an org they can't see. Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling, joins Andrew Zigler to explain why agentic transformation starts with the employee graph, the system of record for who does what. He shares how Rippling assembles teams and primitives across silos, why evals are the new unit test, and how compensating controls keep AI output from turning into slop. When agents do the work, you still have to know who, or what, shipped it. LinearB attributes the work, whether it came from humans, AI assistants, or autonomous agents.

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