Claire Vo · 2 min read · AI & Product
Quests, token leaderboards, and a skills marketplace: The elite AI adoption playbook | John Kim (Sendbird)
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John Kim shares a blueprint for turning a company into an AI-native organization, highlighting rapid internal tool building (like a swag store and internal CRM) and an internal marketplace called Automators. The playbook emphasizes treating AI adoption as a product they measure with dashboards, governance templates, and visible leadership usage to drive safe, scalable adoption.
Key Takeaways
- Build AI-enabled capabilities quickly across teams (e.g., marketing swag store in a day, internal automation) to demonstrate value and momentum.
- Launch an internal marketplace (Automators) for requesting AI tools and empowering engineers/AI agents to deliver them.
- Establish secure, compliant templates so non-technical teams can ship to production safely.
- Track adoption with a token usage dashboard and a multi-tier curve, focusing on the smoothness of adoption rather than total usage.
- Use visible leadership AI usage as a powerful adoption signal and rewrite hiring to prioritize curiosity, agency, and energy.
Excerpt
John Kim is the co-founder and CEO of Delight.ai, a customer experience platform that’s transforming how companies deploy AI. But what makes John’s story fascinating isn’t just his product; it’s how he’s turned his entire company into an AI-native organization. His marketing team built a fully functional e-commerce swag store with Stripe integration in days. His sales team built their own CRM tools. His recruiting team automated their entire workflow. And it’s all tracked, measured, and celebrated through an internal platform called Automators. Listen or watch on YouTube , Spotify , or Apple Podcasts What you’ll learn: How Sendbird’s marketing…