AI in Action E563: Building Enterprise AI Agents at Scale with Crafting's Sumeet Vaidya

Today’s guest is Sumeet Vaidya, Co-Founder and CEO at Crafting. Founded in 2021, Crafting is an AI infrastructure platform that enables engineering teams to deploy autonomous coding agents in secure, production-like environments. Designed for enterprise organizations, the platform allows AI agents to write, test, validate and ship software using real infrastructure, data and dependencies. Crafting helps businesses accelerate software delivery while maintaining enterprise-grade security, reliability and operational control. Sumeet is an experienced engineering leader and entrepreneur focused on solving complex challenges that improve productivity. He has built and scaled high-performing teams across developer tools, consumer products, marketplaces and enterprise integrations. As an angel investor and advisor, he helps founders achieve product-market fit, strengthen their technology and business strategies, and build scalable companies. Sumeet is passionate about enabling teams to solve meaningful problems and create lasting impact. In the episode, Sumeet discusses: 0:00 His journey from big tech roles to startup founder 2:27 Crafting’s shift from improving developer tooling to now enabling AI agents 4:44 Betting on AI agents despite industry skepticism 7:53 Building an enterprise-first AI agent infrastructure for scaling globally 12:02 Why Agents need real testing capabilities to succeed 15:52 Why engineering leaders are caught between AI hype and practical execution pressure 20:05 The need for engineers to focus on outcomes and founders to understand motivation To find out more about all the great work happening at Crafting, check out the website www.crafting.dev #artificialintelligence #aiagents #leadership __________________________________________ Subscribe to the Alldus podcast: Spotify https://spoti.fi/3V8gMwV Apple Podcasts https://apple.co/2QIr3hL Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3EnhyPK www.alldus.com/podcasts