Why Your Company Should Own Its AI Model | E2278

This Week In Startups is made possible by: Quo - https://quo.com/TWiST Vanta - https://vanta.com/twist Pilot - https://pilot.com/twist Plaud - https://Plaud.ai/twist Today’s show: Eragon CEO Josh Sirota believes that you should “own your intelligence.” He demos a live enterprise AI operating system connecting email, Slack, calendar, and financial data into a single agentic layer that’s pre-trained to understand any business inside and out. PLUS we’ve got IONA Drones founder Etienne Louvet, a first look at Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6, and a brand new Off Duty with JCal and Lon. FULL SHOW NOTES ON NOTION: https://thisweekinstartups-docket.notion.site/TWiST-2278-SHOW-NOTES-34872ca918e380bd9c71e684ce2db7c9?source=copy_link Guests : Eragon: https://eragon.ai Josh Sirota on X: https://x.com/joshua_sirota IONA: https://ionadrones.com/ Etienne Louvet on X: https://x.com/etienneldva Relevant Links: Eragon Seed Round coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/this-startup-wants-to-make-enterprise-software-look-more-like-a-prompt/ Neurometric: https://www.neurometric.ai/ Ollama model: https://ollama.com/ Orange Slice: https://www.orangeslice.ai/ Corgi Insurance: https://www.corgi.insure/ Slash Financial: https://www.slash.com/ The Syndicate: https://thesyndicate.com/ FAA Part 108 Explained: https://pilotinstitute.com/part-108-explained/ Zipline: https://www.zipline.com/ Google Wing: https://wing.com/ Joby Aviation: https://www.jobyaviation.com/ Enterprise Ireland: https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/ Éire Composites: https://www.eirecomposites.com/ Kimi K2.6 blog post: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 Kimi K2 series on GitHub: https://github.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 work station: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb300-nvl72/ Breakthrough Prize: https://breakthroughprize.org/ ACME AI & FX: https://www.acmeai.com/ “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” press coverage: https://gizmodo.com/hollywoods-first-big-budget-ai-generated-movie-is-about-bitcoin-of-course-2000747573 Off Duty Recommendations: Kurosawa’s “Ikiru”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VeLN3IDjzQ 2022 “Ikiru” remake “Living”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVo5kLt_-BU FX’s “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw2RakWShdE “Dust Bunny” trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQqmOjPDlWg Wild Planet tinned fish: https://wildplanetfoods.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Josh from Eragon AI joins the show 1:18 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at https://Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off! 4:24 Why founders should own and control their data sets 7:50 What is a "company world model?" 9:05 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at https://quo.com/TWiST 10:49 Eragon demo 15:12 Giving agents their own bank accounts 18:24 Inside Eragon's first partnerships 19:31 Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist 25:07 How does Eragon make money? 28:28 Pilot - Visit https://www.pilot.com/twist and get $1,200 off your first year. 38:50 Etienne Louvet of Iona Drones joins the show 41:54 What is FAA's Part 108? 46:30 How innovation in drones impacts the aviation industry 49:43 Working with Enterprise Ireland 57:45 Jason attended the Breakthrough Awards 1:03:27 Doug Liman's AI-powered "Bitcoin" movie 1:08:26 "Love Story" on FX and "Dust Bunny" on HBO Max 1:12:27 Jason's love of tinned fish Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com Check out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/ Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland Check out Jason’s suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanis Follow TWiST: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartups YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartups TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartups Substack: https://twistartups.substack.com