AI to ROI · 2026-05-27 · 33 min
What does it actually look like when a CFO drives the strategic, pricing, and financial decisions behind an AI-first product transformation? Kunal Agarwal, CFO at Gorgias, the leading e-commerce customer experience platform for Shopify merchants, joins our host, Ray Rike to share the unfiltered story of how Gorgias built, priced, and operationalized its AI agent product from the ground up. This episode goes well beyond theory, covering the real decisions, real numbers, and real lessons learned from a company that has roughly half its customer base already using its AI agent product. Episode Highlights: The build decision: re-architect, don't bolt on. In early 2024, Gorgias made the deliberate choice to re-architect its platform around an agentic future rather than layering AI on top of an existing help desk product. The first AI agent focused exclusively on email support, shipped in July/August 2024, and expanded from there into chat and shopping assistance. Kunal explains why starting with a single, high-confidence use case was critical to earning early adoption and trust from merchants. The North Star metric: full resolution rate, not deflection.
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