Digital labor is no longer emerging — it is becoming the defining operating model of modern service businesses. According to the Digital Labor Transformation Index, over 61% of enterprises believe the rise of digital labor is now inevitable, and the organizations seeing the highest ROI are those that shift from basic automation to knowledge-centered, agentic work. Few companies embody how to rewire a SaaS business with agentic AI as clearly as Vantaca, the newly minted $1.25B unicorn redefining community management through an AI-first architecture.
In this episode of The Next Frontiers of AI, Scott Hebner is joined by CEO Ben Currin to unpack how Vantaca rewired itself around a “UI, API, and AI-first” model, and how its platform now operationalizes millions of agentic workflows that free humans from low-value tasks and elevate their capacity for real community-building work.
Ben reveals the tactical playbook behind Vantaca’s valuation surge, including how digital coworkers, decision intelligence, and proactive AI orchestration deliver measurable financial and customer impact. For SaaS leaders, investors, and AI strategists, this conversation offers a grounded look at how to build an agentic business—and why the future belongs to companies that treat AI not just as automation, but as scalable digital knowledge work.
⏱ Chapters
03:07 – Vantaca overview
05:04 – Agentic AI drives Unicorn valuation
09:35 – 1 million executed agentic workflows
14:55 – The market wants AI Agents that can perform knowledge work
20:35 – UI First, API First, AI First agentic AI design
24:35 – Quantified agentic AI business outcomes
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🌐 Vantaca: https://www.vantaca.com
📊 More Research: https://thecuberesearch.com/analysts/scott-hebner/
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