At Multimodal, agentic AI is reshaping how the team ships product, hires, and thinks about work itself. In this episode of Main Street AI, Ankur Patel sits down with Ishita Jaiswal, Head of Growth at Multimodal, for an internal look at how a 3-year-old agentic AI startup is operating in a market where the last three months brought more change than all of 2025. What makes this conversation different: just a candid conversation between two operators about what's actually changed. Why prompt engineering is dead. Why planning now takes 25 minutes and execution takes 5. Why Multimodal scrapped entire product lines when Claude and ChatGPT caught up. Why the team is doubling down on agentic coding before hiring more engineers. And why "10x workers" are about to become the norm across every function — not just engineering.

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Guest: Ishita Jaiswal, Head of Growth, Multimodal
Host: Ankur Patel, CEO & Founder, Multimodal

0:00 Introduction: The last 3 months changed everything
1:08 How agentic AI reshaped product development at Multimodal
3:18 What taste and judgment look like when execution is free
5:21 The product lines we scrapped in 2026 (and why)
7:30 Why prompt engineering is dead
9:50 Planning 25 minutes, executing 5: the new workflow
12:48 Working more, not less — the magical powers problem
13:57 Inside Multimodal's lean engineering team
16:29 How GTM is changing alongside engineering
17:51 What we hire for now vs. a year ago
20:54 Specialists vs. generalists in an agentic world
22:30 What this means for banks, credit unions, and legacy institutions
23:57 Closing Thoughts