How to Build Your Product for AI Agents: 2026's New Customer

Hosted by Sherveen Mashayekhi

In this video

What you'll learn

AI agents are browsing, clicking, and converting

2026's new customer isn't always a person. What do AI agents in the wild mean for your product or business?

How to make your product agent-friendly (without a rewrite)

Best practices for ensuring that AI agents like your product, recommend it, and use it well.

The technical spectrum: an overview

APIs → structured extraction → browser automation → agentic browsers. What breaks where, and why.

Why this topic matters

Agents don’t “browse” like humans. They optimize for clarity, structure, determinism, and speed – and they abandon fast. Let's talk about how to treat them as a new customer cohort -- one worth attracting, converting, monetizing, and treating as a new persona.

You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi

Founder & CEO @ Free Agency, AI Product Leader & Investor

Sherveen has been an AI product leader and founder in tech for over a decade, but more importantly, is a long-time obsessive about startups.

He's a first adopter of AI tools and sits in exclusive circles of founders + venture capitalists building the cutting edge of applied AI products. As the founder and CEO of Free Agency (backed by investors like Maveron, Bloomberg Beta, Kevin Durant, and Kygo), he now helps tech professionals navigate the modern hiring landscape, with clients landing roles at companies like OpenAI, Amazon, and Stripe.

He's the host of three shows + podcasts about early stage tech: The Feedback Loop, Three Course Founders, and The Sherveen Show, where he talks multiple times a week with the most exciting technologists, CEOs, and investors building the future.

See more: https://youtube.com/@sherveenshow

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