00:00korea's startup funding landscape just shifted and the signals for founders are clear here are three things to know before
00:06you plan your next move one ai is no longer a feature it is becoming a revenue model two enterprise
00:13ai tools are moving into real operations three
00:16safety and compliance are becoming a market in their own right let's get into it it's friday november 6th let's
00:22look at what this means for startups and entrepreneurs in korea korea's banks are racing to adopt ai agents for
00:28internal work and the scale is significant nh nongyup bank working with its ai subsidiary agile soda unveiled 10 ai
00:37agents for corporate lending card recommendations and back office processing a project financing review that once took at least five
00:44business days now takes about four
00:46hours according to the bank's project finance team this is the kind of enterprise demand that rewards tools built around
00:52real workflows meanwhile cacao is targeting 10 million monthly active ai users by year end and it plans to launch
00:59a personalized advertising model that analyzes user intent to recommend products its ai agent for ad strategy enters closed beta
01:06in december the company expects its ai business to reach break even around 2028 and in manufacturing
01:12lg has rolled out ai systems that analyze cctv footage and automatically shut down equipment when danger is detected its
01:20chemical unit cut safety document review time by 98 percent using an ai agent for startups that is a signal
01:27that industrial safety software is becoming a serious buyer category here's the number that matters most 10 million that is
01:34the active user target cacao has set for the end of this year and for founders the lesson is simple
01:39the market is no longer rewarding ai demos
01:42it is rewarding ai that fits into existing workflows and produces measurable results so what does this mean for founders
01:48weighing where to build next earlier we said the real opportunity lies in workflow embedded ai here's what that actually
01:55means for you enterprise buyers like nh nongyup bank are actively testing agents on document heavy tasks and their internal
02:02adoption cycles are now measured in months not years founders targeting finance insurance
02:08or industrial operations or industrial operations should look closely at where manual review still dominates that is where the entry
02:14point is widest and where a well-built product can prove its value fastest that's today's ai prism founders this
02:21episode was produced with ai assistants based on sole economic daily reporting ai prism is a wan ifra award-winning
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