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EPISODE 037 Founder 25 JUN 2026 52:08

# Interviewing Alexandre Pereira: 2501.ai and autonomous agents for enterprise IT

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ORIGINAL EPISODE COVER · E37

EPISODE **37** DATE **25 JUN 2026** DURATION **52:08**

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EPISODE NOTES

## Show notes

In this episode, Bart and Murilo sit down with **Alexandre Pereira**, co-founder & CEO of **2501.ai** — the Paris- and NY-based startup building autonomous AI agents that don't just spot infrastructure incidents, they fix them. We dig into why the real blue ocean is the on-prem, legacy enterprise world the cloud never absorbed (JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Société Générale are still mostly on-premise), why roughly half of 2501's work is safety and guardrails rather than the AI itself, and why a privacy-first deployment means they almost never reach for Claude. Alexandre breaks down the model landscape — Qwen vs. GPT-OSS for Windows Server, the “skateboard benchmark”, and why a niche French firewall like Stormshield defeats every frontier model — plus €10M raised across a pan-European cap table and what Europe's pre-seed scene gets right and wrong.

🙋 Guest: Alexandre Pereira — Co-founder & CEO, 2501.ai  
🌐 [2501.ai](https://www.2501.ai/)  
📩 [Connect with Alexandre on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereiraalexandre/)

**Chapters**

-   (00:00) Intro: autonomous agents that fix enterprise IT
-   (01:00) Meet Alexandre: from Decathlon at 18 to founding 2501
-   (03:50) Genesis: LLM chaining, AutoGPT, and Devin's $100M moment
-   (10:05) What 2501 does: automating IT maintenance for big corporates
-   (13:34) Autonomy vs. safety: why half the work is guardrails
-   (16:57) Earning trust: proving it alongside the customer
-   (25:00) The on-prem blue ocean nobody is serving
-   (29:30) Model wars: Qwen, GPT-OSS, and the skateboard benchmark
-   (35:15) Privacy-first deployments and the future of open weights
-   (41:03) Roadmap: observability and cybersecurity
-   (45:30) Raising €10M and Europe's pre-seed reality