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Crivello says Lindy’s internal AI spend will overtake payroll within six months

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published August 10, 2026 · Cognitive Revolution · Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
Crivello says Lindy’s internal AI spend will overtake payroll within six months
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Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses

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""If you look at payroll versus internal inference spend it's in shooting range. So payroll is still greater but the lines are going to cross 3 to six months from now.""

Asked about Lindy’s own internal use of AI, Crivello says inference spending inside the company is nearing payroll, and predicts it will exceed payroll within months. He also describes rapid changes to engineering workflow, including agents reviewing pull requests and staff increasingly “reviewing the machine that reviews the PRs”.

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