Building Overwatch: AI Agents for Threat Intelligence at Attacker Speed

Episode notes

Every founder looks for the moment when the work finally clicks. For Arjun Bisen, that moment came from seeing how risk and intelligence work were handled inside government, Google, and Stripe, and realizing how manual and fragmented those systems still were. Overwatch was built to change that, using AI agents to monitor cyber and fraud threats at the speed attackers operate. In this episode of the Cult Products Podcast from Yaya , host Phill Keaney-Bolland speaks with Arjun Bisen , Co-Founder and CEO of Overwatch Data , about the path from diplomacy and global security into startup life. Arjun shares how Y Combinator helped unlock enterprise trust, what it takes to sell honestly in a market burned by overpromising vendors, and how Overwatch found traction by focusing on repeatable use cases, proof of value, and the customers willing to build alongside them.

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