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Flo Crivello
Founder & CEO, Lindy
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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Flo Crivello (Founder & CEO, Lindy) talking, from an interview on The Cognitive Revolution published Aug 10, 2026.
What Flo Crivello said
Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
8 moments · 42 min
- 27:43
Context buckets keep huge histories searchable
“And that leads to some really surprising behaviors because you're literally no more than two LLM calls away from being able to access 10,000 context buckets.”
at 32:43 - 53:11
Lindy uses its AI teammate to optimize its own CI Pro pick
“our number of prs internally has like prs per week has tripled over the last three months”
at 56:04 - 1:41:42
Flo wants restrictions on Chinese frontier models
“I have something against Chinese frontier models, whether they're open or closed source.”
at 1:41:49 - 22:04
Lindy cut its agent error rate eightfold in a week
“It went down by 8x, the error rate.”
at 24:45 - 14:58
Shared memory can be controlled with editable text instructions
“they have edited their own meta memory prompt and the meta memory prompt is just a text file”
at 17:26 - 40:45
Memory retrieval can improve from logged questions
“it will restructure its own memory to reduce the number of hops that is needed to retrieve the most frequently asked questions.”
at 43:16 - 10:59
The memory agent learns which Slack channels to ignore
“I'm not going to keep spending time on those channels. There's nothing for me to learn there.”
at 12:48 - 1:21:00
A date validator can catch scheduling errors before execution
“we've prompted the agent to include a weekday in the date. So it never says July 28th.”
at 1:24:48
- 27:43