About us

We've run the conversations. Now we're running the work behind them.

adaptive was founded by operators who spent careers building revenue software and running contact centers that sell — cellular, telco, insurance, financial products. We operate at the standard we always expected from our own vendors but rarely received.

The backstory

Our team has shipped revenue and customer software at scale — over $500M in operations managed, decades inside the enterprise software companies that built this category.

We've been woken up by overnight escalations. Defended numbers we didn't believe in. Watched good people burn out on conversations AI should have been handling. Sat in QBRs explaining why renewals slipped that nobody saw coming. We know what slow innovation costs. We know what bad tooling does to teams.

We've also spent years on the vendor side, where deployments stretched longer than anyone planned, contracts grew more complex than they needed to be, and post-sale support rarely matched the promise of the pitch. We know what opacity does to trust.

We built adaptive to fix the problems we lived with for years. From the floor, not the lab.

Our team comes from
Airbnb
Revenue Operations
Amazon Connect
Engineering
Multiple BPOs
Contact Center Operations
Capital One
UX and Product Design
eBay
Financial Planning & Analytics
Intuit
Product Management
Thoma Bravo Portfolio Company
Revenue

Our mission

Our mission is to do for AI-powered revenue what the cloud did for enterprise software. Take something that once required six-figure implementations, months of consulting, and an IT department to greenlight, and make it accessible to any team with a real revenue problem to solve. No implementation project. No professional services engagement. No IT department required. Your first AI agent goes live in an hour.

How we work

Lean, AI-first, and built that way from day one.

We're not a traditional software company that adopted AI. We're an AI-native company that happens to build software. Every team member across engineering, product, and go-to-market works with agentic tools as their primary workflow.

We ship faster than teams 10x our size because we use the same technology we sell. If our AI agents can handle revenue conversations, our AI tools can handle code reviews, deployment pipelines, and market research.

This isn't a philosophy. It's how we actually operate, every day.

Our agentic stack
Claude Code
Primary development environment
Cursor
AI-native code editor
Replit
Rapid prototyping & deployment
Kiro
Agentic development workflows
Every team member, not just engineers, ships with these tools daily.