Ashu Dubey is the Co-founder and CEO of Alhena where he is building transformative customer experiences using Agentic AI. Before Alhena, he drove product growth at LinkedIn.
The full engineering walkthrough of Alhena's AI training pipeline. From a single URL to a searchable, answerable knowledge base: auto-discovery, semantic chunking, hybrid embeddings, five parallel vector databases, and atomic version swaps.
After every AI response, 3-5 tappable chips appear, each LLM-generated from conversation context and retrieved knowledge. Five design decisions make them convert: async generation, knowledge grounding, intelligent silence, diversity constraints, and a self-reinforcing discovery loop.
A technical deep dive into Alhena Voice's real-time architecture: dual WebSocket streaming, native audio understanding without STT in the critical path, triple barge-in cancellation, and the seven engineering decisions that compound to deliver sub-second conversational AI over the phone.
90% of executives believe loyalty has grown. Only 40% of consumers agree. Eight AI strategies to improve ecommerce customer experience across every touchpoint, backed by data from PwC, Forrester, and brands seeing 3x conversion lifts.
Most AI chatbot vendors can't clearly define what counts as a billable conversation. This post provides a conversation taxonomy, three criteria for meaningful interactions, quantifies the noise tax, and gives you five audit questions for your next vendor call.
Most ecommerce brands run three separate AI tools for shopping, support, and visibility. The integration tax alone adds 25-40% to total tech spend. Here is why the AI ecommerce stack is about to consolidate the same way martech did a decade ago.