Ivan and Olha Pylypchuk: Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI

On this episode of the Scouting For Growth podcast, Sabine VdL talks to Ivan Pylypchuk, the CEO of Softblues, and Olha Pylypchuk, the company’s COO. In today’s discussion, we’ll explore: What Agentic AI is and why it’s poised to disrupt traditional business processes, how Ivan and Olha are leveraging multi-agent systems to solve domain-specific challenges and deliver business transformation, and the future of AI agents and their role in shaping the workplace of tomorrow. KEY TAKEAWAYS If you talk about traditional AI systems, they can handle one simple, specific task, such as image recognition, data classification, or content generation. Agentic AI is more autonomous and capable of complex decision-making across multiple steps. Our approach is focused on controlled, multi-agent systems.  The biggest challenge companies face is collecting and integrating data. Often, companies have their valuable data spread across different systems and departments, like customer databases, email records, and business software. These don’t always talk to each other. To ensure an effective AI implementation, you must ensure that all this data is collected neatly and accurately. Surprisingly, some companies don’t know how their people work. When you observe their processes, you sometimes see that they miss important details about their daily operations, which can lead to significant wasted investment when we rectify these mistakes afterwards. That’s why we invest a lot of time working with and talking to the businesses about how their workflows move from point A to B. Then, we can enhance them with AI. How team members embrace this technology is very important. Even a perfect solution will fail if teams don’t use it. We create simple interfaces and make sure our systems explain their recommendations in plain language. This approach dramatically improves understanding of how AI works and builds trust. BEST MOMENTS ‘Agentic AI gives us scalability in different domains, explainability to understand what it’s doing, so we can provide the exact information that is needed across an organisation.’ ‘It’s important to start very small, on a piece of a project, so the AI can show clearly its quick results. After the goal has been demonstrated, then we scale the solution.’ ‘Our recruitment solution helps reduce time to hire by 60% and provides an increase in the quality of hires by 40%.’ ‘It gives you more time to do strategic work that brings more value to the business than managing this data.’ ABOUT THE GUEST Ivan Pylypchuk is the CEO and AI Solution Architect at Softblues, a company specializing in building multi-agent AI systems to tackle real-world business challenges. LinkedIn Olha Pylypchuk is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Softblues, where she drives operational excellence and spearheads AI-driven business automation initiatives. LinkedIn ABOUT THE HOST Sabine VanderLinden is a corporate strategist turned entrepreneur and the CEO of Alchemy Crew Ventures. She leads venture-client labs that help Fortune 500 companies adopt and scale cutting-edge technologies from global tech ventures. A builder of accelerators, investor, and co-editor of the bestseller The INSURTECH Book, Sabine is known for asking the uncomfortable questions—about AI governance, risk, and trust. On Scouting for Growth, she decodes how real growth happens—where capital, collaboration, and courage meet. If this episode sparked your thinking, follow Sabine VanderLinden on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram for more insights. And if you’re interested in sponsoring the podcast, reach out to the team at [email protected]