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Published on
August 25, 2025

ASAPP’s Perspective on the AI Arms Race

Devidas Desai
SVP of Product
3 minutes

Thriving with purpose, not just speed

The AI arms race is in full swing. Big Tech is spending billions, startups are surfacing weekly, and everyone’s showcasing the latest flashy demo or largest parameter count. But speed alone doesn’t define progress. At ASAPP, we believe the only metric that matters is outcomes.

We’re focused on one of the most complex and consequential problems in enterprise AI: Automating high-stakes conversations between enterprises and their customers. That means solving for reliability, deployment at scale, and real business value - not novelty.

What sets ASAPP apart

1. Prioritizing measurable outcomes over hype

Enterprise buyers don’t care about whose model has more parameters. They care about what moves the needle for their business. 

Did containment improve? Did AHT drop? Did CSAT rise?

That’s what we track. That’s what we deliver.

ASAPP technology is evaluated by customer KPIs, not vanity metrics.

2. Built for enterprise from day one

We aren’t retrofitting consumer-grade tech for the contact center. We’ve spent years engineering the infrastructure that powers mission-critical, real-time, and secure enterprise use cases:

  • Sub-second latency
  • High availability
  • SOC 2 compliance
  • Deep integrations with CCaaS and workflow systems

ASAPP is already deployed at scale across banking/financial services, telecom, insurance, travel & hospitality, and more.

3. Humans in the loop, by design - not as a backup plan

We don’t treat humans as fallbacks. We design systems, such as our Human-in-the-Loop Agent (HILATM) workflow, where AI and agents work in tandem.

Our GenerativeAgent offloads the repetitive, the structured, and the transactional so human agents can focus on interactions that require judgment, empathy, and escalation. 

This isn’t about replacing agents. It’s about increasing their capacity and confidence.

4. Investing in a true agentic ecosystem

We don’t believe in building one giant, do-everything bot. That approach breaks under real-world complexity. The future of automation is agentic—a coordinated network of intelligent agents, each designed for a specific role, working together in real time.

At the center is GenerativeAgent - our core AI agent built to handle the hardest customer conversations with accuracy, fluency, and context retention. But it doesn’t operate alone. 

GenerativeAgent is surrounded by an expanding ecosystem of specialized agents that enhance its performance, resilience, and adaptability.

  • Discovery Agents that handle upfront issue scoping and accelerate resolution paths
  • QA Agents that audit conversations and recommend improvements
  • Simulator Agents that run adversarial tests to surface edge cases and failure modes
  • BI Agents that convert dashboards into conversational analytics for business users and stakeholders

These agents don’t just support GenerativeAgent; they continuously improve it. Every interaction, review, and simulation feeds intelligence back into the system. 

This isn’t automation as usual. It’s a  learning architecture that shifts how enterprises design, deploy, and refine AI systems. 

The result? Higher uptime. Faster iteration. Lower risk. And a foundation that isn’t built for just cost savings, but for intelligence over time.

5. Research that ships

Our research isn’t theoretical; it’s operational.

We turn advances in retrieval, grounding, and evaluation into production improvements - faster deflection, reduced hallucinations, and more natural interactions. 

Breakthroughs are only valuable when they reach customers’ hands.

6. Trust isn’t a layer. It’s our foundation.

The AI race is riddled with risk: hallucinations, bias, security threats, data breaches, and loss of or exposure of PII. We don’t minimize those risks by tacking on safety measures as an afterthought. Instead, we engineer safety into the system as a foundational requirement.

Model grounding, observability, human control, and continuous monitoring are built into our stack. 

Safety isn’t an initiative. It’s a requirement.

Beyond the arms race

In short, ASAPP isn’t chasing headlines. We’re solving the problems that matter the most to our customers. In the AI arms race, our goal isn’t to be the loudest, but to be the most trusted, the most rigorous, and the most effective.

That’s how you thrive. Not by moving fast for the sake of it, but by moving with purpose - all while delivering results.

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About the author

Devidas Desai
SVP of Product

Devidas Desai leads the Product and Design teams at ASAPP. Devidas is a seasoned product leader with over two decades of experience, and has consistently driven innovation at the intersection of enterprise communications and conversational AI. He is known for building products that blend technical depth with user-centric design, resulting in meaningful customer impact and business growth.

Prior to joining ASAPP, he served as SVP of Product Management at PolyAI, where he spearheaded the development of voice-first customer service solutions and launched Agent Studio—the world's first generative AI-powered, voice-first omnichannel CX platform. Earlier in his career, Devidas held product leadership roles at RingCentral, where he led the UCaaS product portfolio, and at Symphony.com, where he oversaw applications used by nearly half a million professionals across the world's largest financial institutions.