//Launch wave · Sep 21, 2026

Akai · Deel

Posted by @Bouazizalex on Sep 21, 2026, 20:08 UTC. A launch wave under the published rule.

quoters in the first hour
68
quoters in four hours
95
repeat quoters in four hours (52%)
49
sentinels in four hours
25
rendered early quotes with X’s label
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The Launch

  • CompanyAkai
  • ProductDeel
  • Kindfeature or version
  • Groupagency-claimed
  • Author@Bouazizalex
  • Author’s followers at first read450,240
  • Views at read2,054,580
  • Quoters retrieved176
  • Quoters in 24 hours165
  • Agency roster accounts in four hours5
  • In the Doomers launch directoryyes (Doomers public launch directory, CC BY 4.0)

The Launch Post

The post as it was read, shown as written.

EXCITED TO LAUNCH: Akai (https://t.co/mMBMmX4NCr) Deel added >$140M ARR in 90 days without increasing headcount by automating~600 Full Time Employees' equivalent in work with Akai. Akai was an internal tool to automate our painfully repetitive operations in Finance, HR, Accounts Payable, and Compliance, etc. We never intended to make this a product. But we watched revenue per employee grow from $130K to $215K We built >8k agents that do the work of ~600 employees It had such a dramatic impact on our business that today we are launching it for everyone. How it works: Say you're automating payment reconciliation: 1. Record your screen while manually matching a messy transaction and Akai will capture your screen, voice, server requests 2. Akai will see that you pulled unformatted wire transfer info from an archaic bank portal, put it in some excel sheet, checked NetSuite invoices, payment history, and put a ticket on Zendesk 3. Akai reads between the lines and build a workflow + steps + conditional guardrails. It learns tacit edge cases, like resolving malformed invoice references without you writing a single regex 4. Simply connect NetSuite, your ledger, Zendesk, PSPs, and even legacy bank portals with zero API access 5. Run the workflow and tell it what to adjust in plain English: "strip slashes on wire memos and auto-apply partial payments." It adapts instantly 6. Once it works for you, add 100s of colleagues. Your entire payment ops team forks and extends the workflow for new PSPs, secondary ledgers, or regional settlement rules 7. We automated 85% of our payment reconciliation end to end, eliminating 500+ hours of soul-crushing manual grunt work every single week. Claude Code/Codex can't do this in multiplayer mode. Every person rebuilds the same skill from scratch in their own way. Deel built Akai to: 1. Understand backend operations edge cases (it had to work for our 7000 person team first) 2. Collaborative across 1000s of employees 3. Self-Learning from millions of runs 4. Optimises cost and gets cheaper every run We're so confident that we're announcing an Automation Guarantee: If our engineers can't automate a thousand of hours of work in your first 30 days, you get a full refund. Book a demo: https://t.co/VESnztdck3 if you're an exec at a company with hundreds of employees
@Bouazizalex

Quoters Over the First Four Hours

Cumulative quoters; the dashed line is the comparison launch (matched comparator).

t01 h4 h95

Minute Marks: The minute after the launch post at which each quoter count was reached.

  • 5th quoter5
  • 10th quoter5
  • 20th quoter8
  • 50th quoter22
  • 100th quoter286
  • median minute of quotes in four hours20

Agency Claims

What agencies’ own public pages say about this launch, quoted as read.

  • AISC · the agency’s page says it took part in the launch

    https://aiscwork.com/case-studiesread Oct 30, 2026

    • Companies’ pages
    • the company’s pages were read; the agency is not named · source · Oct 31, 2026
    • the company’s pages were read; the agency is not named · source · Oct 31, 2026
  • AISC · the agency’s page says it took part in the launch

    https://aiscwork.com/case-studiesread Oct 30, 2026

    • Companies’ pages
    • the company’s pages were read; the agency is not named · source · Oct 31, 2026
    • the company’s pages were read; the agency is not named · source · Oct 31, 2026

Who Quoted Early

Role of the accounts that quoted inside four hours, read from their bios.

  • creator44
  • founder18
  • other13
  • engineer or researcher8
  • media7
  • marketing or sales4
  • investor1

Every Quoter in the First Four Hours

In order of the minute they quoted. Bios and names are shown as written.

Filters

Only
95 of 95 quoters
@TiffanyFong · Tiffany Fong2yesyes——creator
@ArkkDaily · Ark Invest Tracker3————media
@HeroDividend · Dividend Hero3———label seencreator
@faststocknewss · FSMN4————media
@shydev69 · shydev5————other
@maxxmalist · MAX5yes———marketing or sales
@ShishirShelke1 · Shishir5————creator
@karlarboledas · karla5yesyes——creator
@WOLF_Terminal · WOLF Terminal5————creator
@heymireia · mireia.5yesyes——engineer or researcher
@liambraus · liam.6yesyes——founder
@HowThingsWork_ · HOW THINGS WORK6yesyes——media
@cesargomz29 · CesarAG6yesyes——marketing or sales
@Mr_Buzzoni · Mr. Buzzoni6yes———founder
@leilamakes · Leila 👩🏻‍💻6yesyes——creator
@isamquintero · sam6yesyes——creator
@robrtcode · robert.6yesyes——other
@ZabihullahAtal · Atal6————creator
@TawohAwa · Awa K. Penn7————creator
@WallStreetMav · Wall Street Mav8————creator
@viditchess · Vidit Gujrathi8————other
@AIwithGhotai · Kalsoom (ghotai )8yes———creator
@wallstengine · Wall St Engine8yesyes——media
@nicos_ai · Nico8yesyesclickstrike.com—creator
@ftcarpe · carpe8yesyes——creator
@0xCodez · Codez9yes———creator
@aryanXmahajan · Aryan Mahajan9yes———founder
@StockMKTNewz · Evan10————media
@0xMovez · Movez10yes———founder
@thisdudelikesAI · Ryan Hart11yes—clickstrike.com—creator
@thisguyknowsai · Brady Long12yes———other
@base10_ · Farlane12yesyes——creator
@zodchiii · darkzodchi12yes———marketing or sales
@irisneural · Iris Hayes12————creator
@NanouuSymeon · • nanou •13————creator
@kaido_xr · kai.13yesyes——creator
@Voxyz_ai · Vox13yes———creator
@cgtwts · CG15yesyes——creator
@WOLF_Financial · WOLF16————media
@bigaiguy · Spencer Baggins16yes———creator
@StockSavvyShay · Shay Boloor17yesyes——other
@systemdesignone · Neo Kim17yes———creator
@vivistac · Vivi18yesyes——other
@silvanrec · silvan20yesyes——other
@alifarhat79 · Not Jerome Powell20yesyes——creator
@alex_prompter · Alex Prompter20yesyes——creator
@soniacuts · SONIA20yesyes——other
@peer_rich · Peer Richelsen20————founder
@GesoraMeshack · Orikan22yes———creator
@Aria_Nawi · Nawi22yes—clickstrike.com—creator
@nijokestu · Ace22yes———creator
@alex_verem · Alex Veremeyenko24yes———creator
@VadimStrizheus · Vadim25yesyesclickstrike.com—founder
@HBCoop_ · Heather Cooper25————creator
@Ajit9797 · Ajit Sahoo25————engineer or researcher
@NidhiGoyal86 · Nidhi Goyal27————engineer or researcher
@neversitdull · Josh30————creator
@billiramirezdev · Billi Ramirez31———not seenengineer or researcher
@CopyRebeldia · CopyRebeldia32————creator
@abhijitMehta · abhijitMehta33————engineer or researcher
@antgrasso · Antonio Grasso33————creator
@Rothmus · Rothmus 🏴34yes———creator
@BullTradeFinder · Gnotz (Bull)34————founder
@ruchirjajoo · Ruchir Jajoo41————founder
@itsolelehmann · Ole Lehmann41yes———creator
@ihteshamali · Ihtesham Ali44————creator
@techcontrarian · Chris Lee46————marketing or sales
@VCBrags · VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏58————creator
@wizaj · Wiza Jalakasi60————other
@rajoshighosh · Rajoshi61————founder
@Av1dlive · Avid61yes———founder
@wallstmemes · Wall Street Memes65————other
@TheRabbitHole · The Rabbit Hole65yes———media
@AdarshChetan · Adarsh Chetan71————creator
@ethancole_ai · Ethan Cole AI76yes———founder
@cyber_razz · Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity81————creator
@alisa_poliakova · Alisa Poliakova86————other
@akafaceUS · aka87————other
@T3chFalcon · IT Guy90————founder
@litcapital · litquidity91yes———founder
@frisohakkers · Friso92————founder
@aakashgupta · Aakash Gupta96yesyes——creator
@xleroiv · Viorel Viziru96————engineer or researcher
@shiri_shh · shirish119yesyes——other
@AceTheKid · Jordan132————creator
@EXM7777 · Machina135yes———founder
@jayanaman · African Talent Plug - ATP 🔌147————founder
@pikacap · pika capital156yes———creator
@coreyhainesco · Corey Haines169————founder
@RickySeeWorld · Ricky 🧑🏾‍🚀🚀172————engineer or researcher
@adamislucky · Adam Hassan189————investor
@LinkedinFlex · Linkedin Flex193————creator
@kimmonismus · Chubby♨️217yesyesclickstrike.com—creator
@Rohit_Jain19060 · Rohit Jain235————engineer or researcher
@averycode · Avery236————founder

What the numbers do not say

These counts show when public quotes of a launch post were posted and by which accounts. They do not show who asked anyone to post, whether money changed hands, or that the quoters acted together.
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