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
- 1 / 2
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
Quoters Over the First Four Hours
Cumulative quoters; the dashed line is the comparison launch (matched comparator).
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
AISC · the agency’s page says it took part in the launch
https://aiscwork.com/case-studiesread Oct 30, 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
| @TiffanyFong · Tiffany Fong | 2 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @ArkkDaily · Ark Invest Tracker | 3 | — | — | — | — | media |
| @HeroDividend · Dividend Hero | 3 | — | — | — | label seen | creator |
| @faststocknewss · FSMN | 4 | — | — | — | — | media |
| @shydev69 · shydev | 5 | — | — | — | — | other |
| @maxxmalist · MAX | 5 | yes | — | — | — | marketing or sales |
| @ShishirShelke1 · Shishir | 5 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @karlarboledas · karla | 5 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @WOLF_Terminal · WOLF Terminal | 5 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @heymireia · mireia. | 5 | yes | yes | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @liambraus · liam. | 6 | yes | yes | — | — | founder |
| @HowThingsWork_ · HOW THINGS WORK | 6 | yes | yes | — | — | media |
| @cesargomz29 · CesarAG | 6 | yes | yes | — | — | marketing or sales |
| @Mr_Buzzoni · Mr. Buzzoni | 6 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @leilamakes · Leila 👩🏻💻 | 6 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @isamquintero · sam | 6 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @robrtcode · robert. | 6 | yes | yes | — | — | other |
| @ZabihullahAtal · Atal | 6 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @TawohAwa · Awa K. Penn | 7 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @WallStreetMav · Wall Street Mav | 8 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @viditchess · Vidit Gujrathi | 8 | — | — | — | — | other |
| @AIwithGhotai · Kalsoom (ghotai ) | 8 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @wallstengine · Wall St Engine | 8 | yes | yes | — | — | media |
| @nicos_ai · Nico | 8 | yes | yes | clickstrike.com | — | creator |
| @ftcarpe · carpe | 8 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @0xCodez · Codez | 9 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @aryanXmahajan · Aryan Mahajan | 9 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @StockMKTNewz · Evan | 10 | — | — | — | — | media |
| @0xMovez · Movez | 10 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @thisdudelikesAI · Ryan Hart | 11 | yes | — | clickstrike.com | — | creator |
| @thisguyknowsai · Brady Long | 12 | yes | — | — | — | other |
| @base10_ · Farlane | 12 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @zodchiii · darkzodchi | 12 | yes | — | — | — | marketing or sales |
| @irisneural · Iris Hayes | 12 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @NanouuSymeon · • nanou • | 13 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @kaido_xr · kai. | 13 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @Voxyz_ai · Vox | 13 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @cgtwts · CG | 15 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @WOLF_Financial · WOLF | 16 | — | — | — | — | media |
| @bigaiguy · Spencer Baggins | 16 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @StockSavvyShay · Shay Boloor | 17 | yes | yes | — | — | other |
| @systemdesignone · Neo Kim | 17 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @vivistac · Vivi | 18 | yes | yes | — | — | other |
| @silvanrec · silvan | 20 | yes | yes | — | — | other |
| @alifarhat79 · Not Jerome Powell | 20 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @alex_prompter · Alex Prompter | 20 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @soniacuts · SONIA | 20 | yes | yes | — | — | other |
| @peer_rich · Peer Richelsen | 20 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @GesoraMeshack · Orikan | 22 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @Aria_Nawi · Nawi | 22 | yes | — | clickstrike.com | — | creator |
| @nijokestu · Ace | 22 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @alex_verem · Alex Veremeyenko | 24 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @VadimStrizheus · Vadim | 25 | yes | yes | clickstrike.com | — | founder |
| @HBCoop_ · Heather Cooper | 25 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @Ajit9797 · Ajit Sahoo | 25 | — | — | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @NidhiGoyal86 · Nidhi Goyal | 27 | — | — | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @neversitdull · Josh | 30 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @billiramirezdev · Billi Ramirez | 31 | — | — | — | not seen | engineer or researcher |
| @CopyRebeldia · CopyRebeldia | 32 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @abhijitMehta · abhijitMehta | 33 | — | — | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @antgrasso · Antonio Grasso | 33 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @Rothmus · Rothmus 🏴 | 34 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @BullTradeFinder · Gnotz (Bull) | 34 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @ruchirjajoo · Ruchir Jajoo | 41 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @itsolelehmann · Ole Lehmann | 41 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @ihteshamali · Ihtesham Ali | 44 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @techcontrarian · Chris Lee | 46 | — | — | — | — | marketing or sales |
| @VCBrags · VCs Congratulating Themselves 👏👏👏 | 58 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @wizaj · Wiza Jalakasi | 60 | — | — | — | — | other |
| @rajoshighosh · Rajoshi | 61 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @Av1dlive · Avid | 61 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @wallstmemes · Wall Street Memes | 65 | — | — | — | — | other |
| @TheRabbitHole · The Rabbit Hole | 65 | yes | — | — | — | media |
| @AdarshChetan · Adarsh Chetan | 71 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @ethancole_ai · Ethan Cole AI | 76 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @cyber_razz · Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity | 81 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @alisa_poliakova · Alisa Poliakova | 86 | — | — | — | — | other |
| @akafaceUS · aka | 87 | — | — | — | — | other |
| @T3chFalcon · IT Guy | 90 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @litcapital · litquidity | 91 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @frisohakkers · Friso | 92 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @aakashgupta · Aakash Gupta | 96 | yes | yes | — | — | creator |
| @xleroiv · Viorel Viziru | 96 | — | — | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @shiri_shh · shirish | 119 | yes | yes | — | — | other |
| @AceTheKid · Jordan | 132 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @EXM7777 · Machina | 135 | yes | — | — | — | founder |
| @jayanaman · African Talent Plug - ATP 🔌 | 147 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @pikacap · pika capital | 156 | yes | — | — | — | creator |
| @coreyhainesco · Corey Haines | 169 | — | — | — | — | founder |
| @RickySeeWorld · Ricky 🧑🏾🚀🚀 | 172 | — | — | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @adamislucky · Adam Hassan | 189 | — | — | — | — | investor |
| @LinkedinFlex · Linkedin Flex | 193 | — | — | — | — | creator |
| @kimmonismus · Chubby♨️ | 217 | yes | yes | clickstrike.com | — | creator |
| @Rohit_Jain19060 · Rohit Jain | 235 | — | — | — | — | engineer or researcher |
| @averycode · Avery | 236 | — | — | — | — | founder |
What the numbers do not say
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