Rudy Lai

Enterprise AI founder/CxO. Experienced home cook (Cantonese/Modern European/Italian), NLHE poker player , #menswear retiree , first time skier , and budding Norwegian speaker .

Experience

Snyk ^Present

Tactic.fyi ²⁰²⁰

Bank of America ²⁰¹⁵

Morgan Stanley ²⁰¹²

Rudy's AI research

ALPHA

Our collective bet on generative AI requires real enterprise adoption, use cases, and ROI. I track 100 large companies across 10 industries to analyze trends and insights, trying to answer AI's $600B question.

Latest AI use cases

• Using Artificial Intelligence to Gauge Competency on a ... Using Artificial Intelligence to Gauge Competency on a ...

  Ryder
• Edge Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Wireless ... Edge Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Wireless ...

  CSX
• Valero Energy Corporation's (NYSE:VLO) Stock On An ... Valero Energy Corporation's (NYSE:VLO) Stock On An ...

  Valero Energy

In the press

• London's Tactic raises $4.5M round led by Index Ventures

  Techcrunch
• Tactic secures $4.5M investment from Index Ventures

  UK tech news
• Keynote: Websummit 2022, Opening Night

  Websummit
• Tactic Generate and RAG

  Weaviate Podcast #78
• Podcast: B2B Pricing

  Code to Cash
• Podcast: Understanding customers and their problems

  Inside the ScaleUp
• Podcast: VCs, Early hires & Identifying your ICP

  Jointflows
• Building a Scalable Sales Engine at Early Stage Startups

  Crew.vc

Writing

• Posting from Github mobile

  Jun 2025
• Notes on using examples in prompts (X-shot prompting)

  Sep 2024
• AI use cases in investment banking

  Aug 2024
• AI use cases in Fortune 500

  Jul 2024
• The bootstrapping playbook: now with AI

  Jul 2024
• Detecting an index child route in React Router

  Jun 2024
• Apple Intelligence: new ideas in AI UX

  Jun 2024
• Enterprise Generative AI Use Cases, May 2024

  May 2024
• How to pitch your startup in 3 simple steps

  Dec 2023
• A simple way to do startup customer research, all the time

  Dec 2023
• Hello, world!

  Nov 2023
• Vector databases in plain English

  Nov 2023
• Why do your target accounts suck

  Nov 2023
• Pitching your product's benefits is so 2010

  Oct 2023
• Active listening in B2B sales

  Apr 2023