The Gate 15 Interview – Adam Vincent on Bricklayer AI, Artificial Intelligence, Star Trek, and a heart for service

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In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour talks with Adam VincentAdam Vincent is the Founder & CEO at Bricklayer AI. Bricklayer AI is the first generative AI solution that brings autonomous AI agents and human experts into a single collaborative and effective security team. Bricklayer AI’s security-trained, generative AI agents execute critical security roles, operations, and procedures, empowering organizations to enhance the scale, speed, and sophistication of their security operations, investigate incidents faster and more thoroughly, enrich and analyze threat intelligence more completely, and enforce compliance standards continuously. Additionally, Adam has a long history of delivering leadership to early-stage companies to drive the development and launch of innovative products, create strategic GTM plans to capture explosive growth, enable sales and marketing, accelerate revenues, and increase profitability. Among his notable achievements, Adam:

  • Founded and built a cybersecurity SaaS firm from $0 to $30M ARR
  • Achieved 30% revenue CAGR over 5 years from 2016 to 2021 
  • Sold high margin $5M+ revenue government business unit
  • Achieved an 86% CEO approval score on Glassdoor 
  • Learn more about Adam: LinkedIn

Bricklayer AI is the first AI cybersecurity solution that enables autonomous AI specialists to work alongside human experts, to run a smarter, faster, and more effective security operations team. With Bricklayer AI, multiple independent AIs collaborate and use AI tools to accomplish complex cybersecurity procedures, all controlled using natural language. AI Security Analysts, AI Threat Intelligence Analysts, and AI Incident Responders add speed, augment and accelerate security teams’ capabilities in order to stay ahead of today’s most sophisticated AI-enabled threats. Learn more at bricklayer.ai.

In the discussion Adam and Andy discuss:

  • Adam’s Background. 
  • Bricklayer Basics: What is Bricklayer AI? 
  • AI 101.
  • Bricklayer vs. Common LLMs. 
  • BlackHat 2024.
  • What’s next for future of Bricklayer AI and artificial intelligence.
  • Three Questions!
  • Star Trek, a heart for service, boating, and more.

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