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Gusto recently surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue.
One in five new businesses started in the U.S. today become Gusto customers.
The Gusto Co-Founder product was developed from initial concept to a tier 1 launch in 10 weeks by a team of five people.
The development process for Gusto Co-Founder eliminated traditional practices such as meetings, tech specs, Figma designs, and Jira boards.
Gusto currently serves over 500,000 small businesses in the United States.
Gusto is releasing a new AI-powered product called Gusto Co-Founder, which was built by co-founder Eddie Kim.
Eddie Kim believes that most small businesses and the general public use AI primarily as a 'glorified search engine'.
Eddie Kim asserts that the promised 'agentic world' of AI has not yet materialized for the 99.9% of users outside the cutting-edge tech community.
Eddie Kim found that interacting with AI via a chat interface like Telegram provides a superior user experience to web-based interfaces like those for Claude or ChatGPT.
The initial prototype for Gusto Co-Founder was built by Eddie Kim in five hours during a flight layover using Claude Code.
Gusto Co-Founder's system can automatically determine whether a user's request requires a deterministic cron job or a recurring LLM prompt, optimizing for cost and reliability.
Gusto Co-Founder helped a company called Cabana Pools find and claim $50,000 in R&D tax credits.