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A Mark Cuban–backed vegan cheese company tuned AI to scrutinize cardboard boxes
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A Mark Cuban–backed cheese company found an unlikely place to cut costs using AI: the cardboard boxes carrying its vegan wheels.
Key facts
- All in all, the agent has saved Maitland $400,000, a massive amount for a young firm—in which Shark Tank star Mark Cuban invested $750,000—that’s estimated to reach a $20 million valuation by year’s
- Some business leaders, like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, foresee 100 AI agents for every human employee in 10 years
- But even as more executives grow bullish on the technology, a recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that among 6,000 executives from firms across the U.S., U.K., Germany
- And even as AI agents grow more sophisticated—building out entire workflows in some cases—only 6% of companies fully trust AI agents to handle business processes, according to a Harvard Business
Summary
Baffled by the sheer cost of these charges, she took to AI, devising an agent to audit invoices and compare them line by line against the firm’s contract with its shipping partners to flag discrepancies. All in all, the agent has saved Maitland $400,000, a massive amount for a young firm—in which Shark Tank star Mark Cuban invested $750,000—that’s estimated to reach a $20 million valuation by year’s end. “As a small-business owner, I do feel like AI gives us advantages similar to what large companies have,” Maitland told Fortune. Rebel Cheese’s AI agent works like this: Maitland has her executive assistant upload weekly invoices into the AI tool alongside a version of the company’s contract that specifies rates based on shipping specifications, such as zones, weights, and dimensions.