001. Why We Built This
Most AI assistants promise to replace people. We think that is the wrong pitch.
In the first episode of Better Kind of Busy, Paciva co-founders Jeremy Mays and Frederick Townes explain why they built Pax, an AI executive assistant that does the work instead of helping you do it faster.
They cover the $900 couch repair that sums up the problem, why "replacement theater" is backfiring, how memory changes what an assistant can do for you, why human taste still decides what good work looks like, and how Pax shows you the time it gives back.
(00:00) The $900 couch repair
(01:43) Meet Jeremy and…
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