Airbnb Is Building a ‘Company Brain’ for AI Agents with Ahmad Al-Dahle - #781
Airbnb CTO is building Project Everest, a 'company brain' capturing institutional knowledge for AI agents
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle describes Project Everest, an internal system that extracts and organizes institutional knowledge from employee workflows to ground AI agents in company-specific context. The project surfaces under-discussed agent failure modes—stale information, context poisoning, and performance degradation from excess context—that go beyond typical capability benchmarks. It also challenges teams to rethink AI productivity measurement past surface metrics like token usage and PR counts.