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# How building with AI can double the throughput of your engineering team


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 11:00–11:30 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 11
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100238-how-building-with-ai-can-double-the-throughput-of-your-engineering-team)

## Description

In 2025, Intercom took on an ambitious goal to double the throughput of their engineering team by going beyond building fancy demos, and instead taking advantage of AI tooling to get real features and large existing SaaS codebase into the hands of paying customers. While this transformation is still a work in progress, Intercom's pace of innovation has always been a competitive strength. In this talk Brian will share his lessons and learnings when building with AI agents – what has and hasn't worked when faced with scaling towards 2x productivity.

## Speaker

### [Brian Scanlan](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@brian-scanlan)

Senior Principal Engineer at Intercom/Fin


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