The AI pilot nobody was using
XM Cyber · 2025—2026
Problem
The company had brought in Dust, a no-code agent platform. Agents for CSM meeting prep already existed and worked, built by a colleague on the technical side. Nobody used them.
The pilot was drifting, and the SVP was not going to approve continued access for CS without evidence the thing earned its keep. No evidence meant CS loses the platform.
What I built
The agents were someone else's work. Mine was everything that turned them into something a team actually uses, and getting people to use them turned out to be the whole job.
I sat with the CSMs and explained what the agents were for and what was riding on it: no proof of value, no platform. I opened a Slack channel so the pilot lived in one place, answered questions as they came up, and when somebody went quiet I asked them why they had stopped rather than chasing them.
6 CSMs on live accounts, no barriers in their way. Then I collected a time-saved estimate from each of them and turned it into a number the SVP could act on.
Result
Time given back to the team, self-reported by the 6 CSMs who used it:
5.5 hours a weekThat number won the approval. All 6 are still using the agents, and the rollout to the rest of the team goes out as they are, with nothing further to fix.