
Kieran Klaassen is GM of Cora, Every's AI email assistant, shipped solo without writing code by hand. He is the grandfather of compound engineering: AI agents plan, write, review, and test every change; each fix becomes a learning the system reuses, so every unit of work makes the next easier.
Kieran Klaassen created "Compound Engineering," a methodology and open-source plugin (21.9k GitHub stars) for running AI agent teams that has become widely adopted, and he is the General Manager of Cora at Every — making him a compelling speaker for anyone looking to understand how small teams can ship at the pace of large ones using agentic AI workflows.
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