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title: "About | Built by operators from the industries we serve"
lastUpdated: "2026-04-23"
route: "/about"
description: "ept AI is the Agentic Sales Platform for companies that sell complex products — built for OEM suppliers in semiconductor, industrial, and adjacent B2B tech. Meet the founders, see the story, read what customers say in production."
products: ["Core Platform", "Deal Room", "AI Product Channel", "AI Applications Engineer", "Application Room"]
owner: "rob@ept.ai"
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h1: "Complex technical sales was waiting for its operating system. We built it."
subhead: "ept AI was founded by B2B technology operators who spent careers selling semiconductors, industrial products, and enterprise platforms. We built the platform we wished existed — now in production at TDK Lambda, Novanta, and Synaptics."
imageBrief: "Abstract visualization of the ept AI platform connecting knowledge sources to sales and engineering teams, with enterprise-grade trust signals."
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altText: "ept AI mission card showing people and AI working together on complex technical sales"
ctaPrimary: "See it in action"
ctaPrimaryUrl: "https://go.ept.ai/meetings/eptai-demo/ept-ai-demo"
ctaSecondary: "See open roles"
ctaSecondaryUrl: "#open-positions"
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sectionId: "why-ept-ai-exists"
eyebrow: "Why ept AI exists"
title: "We built for the sales motion OEMs actually run."
subtitle: "Drag the divider. The same four questions, answered the old way on the left and the ept AI way on the right."
hintLeft: "← drag left to see more of what we built"
hintRight: "drag right to see more of what we inherited →"
before: {
  eyebrow: "Before · what we inherited",
  headline: "The old stack couldn't answer the question.",
  items: [
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      title: "Knowledge lived in people",
      description: "One FAE. One senior rep. One vacation away from a lost design-win."
    },
    {
      title: "Catalogs were databases",
      description: "Thousands of parts. Searchable only if you already knew the suffix."
    },
    {
      title: "CRMs captured history",
      description: "Pipeline hygiene and forecasting. Not answers to the question the buyer just asked."
    },
    {
      title: "Pilots took a year to prove",
      description: "Six-figure SOWs and beautiful POCs. The champion left before procurement finished."
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  eyebrow: "After · what we built",
  headline: "The new motion ships the answer.",
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    {
      title: "Living Profiles that survive turnover",
      description: "A continuously updated profile for every customer, part, opportunity, and engineer. Institutional memory becomes a company asset."
    },
    {
      title: "Natural-language catalog search",
      description: "Every part indexed and retrievable in plain English — no suffix decoder ring required."
    },
    {
      title: "Skills that reason over the data",
      description: "AI scans every deal, ticket, and account. Surfaces cross-sells. Flags at-risk accounts before they churn."
    },
    {
      title: "Production in weeks, not years",
      description: "Deal Room and AI Applications Engineer ship inside Salesforce and Zendesk. Named customers in full adoption by week ten."
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title: "Proven in production, not in decks"
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  { metric: "We are our own first customer — every capability runs internally before it ships to pilots", result: "#1", product: "ept AI · Platform", url: "" },
  { metric: "Of our team uses AI as a primary tool for their job. Not a feature. The way we work.", result: "100%", product: "ept AI · Team", url: "" },
  { metric: "Engineering velocity increase over the past 12 months — same team, AI-augmented execution", result: "548%", product: "ept AI · Engineering", url: "" },
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title: "Trusted by leading OEM suppliers"
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  { name: "TDK Lambda", logo: "/images/brand-icons/tdk_lambda.svg" },
  { name: "Synaptics", logo: "/images/brand-icons/synaptics.svg" },
  { name: "Liquid Instruments", logo: "/images/brand-icons/liquid_instruments.png" },
  { name: "Ezlo", logo: "/images/brand-icons/ezlo.png" },
  { name: "EG4", logo: "/images/brand-icons/eg4.png" }
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eyebrow: "The team"
title: "Built by operators from the industries we serve"
subtitle: "A small, senior founding team with direct experience in the sales motions, technical workflows, and customer relationships the platform supports. Every person who joins now shapes what the company becomes."
members: [
  {
    name: "Rob Conant",
    role: "CEO & Co-Founder",
    bio: "B2B technology executive with deep experience in semiconductor sales, enterprise go-to-market, and scaling technical product organizations. Rob built and led commercial operations in the industries ept AI serves — and founded the company to build the platform he wished existed.",
    tags: ["Semiconductor sales", "Enterprise GTM", "OEM markets"],
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    linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robconant/",
    email: "rob@ept.ai",
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  {
    name: "Jeff Abramowitz",
    role: "Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer",
    bio: "Commercial leader with decades of B2B technology experience running sales, partnerships, and customer success for OEM suppliers. Jeff owns how ept AI lands inside enterprise customers and scales from first deployment to full production adoption.",
    tags: ["Commercial strategy", "Enterprise sales", "Customer success"],
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    linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffabramowitz/",
    email: "jeff@ept.ai",
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  },
  {
    name: "Product",
    role: "Product leadership",
    bio: "Shaping how Living Profiles, Skills, and Interfaces translate into workflows that enterprise sales and support teams actually adopt.",
    tags: ["Product strategy", "Enterprise UX", "Domain modeling"]
  },
  {
    name: "Engineering",
    role: "Platform team",
    bio: "Building the infrastructure — ingestion pipelines, profile maintenance, Skills execution, and the interfaces that deliver intelligence to end users.",
    tags: ["AI/ML systems", "Cloud infrastructure", "Data engineering"]
  },
  {
    name: "Customer Success",
    role: "Production delivery",
    bio: "Ensuring every deployment reaches production value — from initial data connection through full rollout and ongoing optimization.",
    tags: ["Enterprise deployment", "OEM workflows", "Adoption strategy"]
  },
  {
    name: "Sales",
    role: "Go-to-market",
    bio: "Partnering with enterprise buyers to land and expand the platform inside the sales and support organizations it was built for.",
    tags: ["Enterprise sales", "Partner channels", "Industry marketing"]
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title: "Why people join ept AI"
subtitle: "A founding-team opportunity with named customers already in production. Early enough to shape everything, late enough to prove it works."
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    title: "Remote-first",
    description: "Work from wherever you do your best thinking. We're distributed by design, not by compromise."
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  {
    icon: "/images/icons/trending-up.svg",
    title: "Early stage, real traction",
    description: "Named customers in production. Category-defining product. You're early enough to shape everything, late enough to prove it works."
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    title: "Deep domain advantage",
    description: "Built by people who've spent careers in semiconductor, industrial, and enterprise tech. Domain expertise is the moat."
  },
  {
    icon: "/images/icons/zap.svg",
    title: "AI-native platform",
    description: "Living Profiles, Skills, and Interfaces built from the ground up as an intelligence platform. AI isn't a feature — it's the foundation."
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title: "Open roles"
subtitle: "We're hiring across the company. See what's open and apply directly."
boardId: "ept-ai-inc"
contactEmail: "careers@ept.ai"
contactCta: "Don't see the right fit? Reach out at"
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