Karim El Sewedy, an Egyptian operator, spearheaded the launch of AI Agents at Silicon Valley-based AI platform Retool. This marks a strategic shift in how enterprises deploy artificial intelligence at scale.
The new offering, which is part of what Retool calls its “enterprise AppGen” category, equips organizations to embed AI directly into real-world workflows with built-in governance, security, and deployment controls. The launch was reviewed positively by AI industry insiders and received with strong adoption, including by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Databricks, and Amazon Web Services.
El Sewedy led a coordinated six-month launch across the company, bringing together teams across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. He developed the operating model for the product and acted as the central point of orchestration, aligning technical delivery with commercial rollout.
“We designed AI Agents around the reality of enterprise operations. Enterprises don’t need more tools. They need fewer, more capable systems that can match their evolving operations,” said El Sewedy, who served as program manager for AI Agents. “This launch defines a repeatable blueprint that helps teams operationalize and ship complex AI products quickly.”
Retool’s product strategy arrives at a moment of flux in enterprise AI. Analysts estimate that while companies have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into AI platforms, tools and talent, there remains as much as a $500 billion gap between AI invested and value created so far. This is largely because many projects never make it into mainstream operations.
El Sewedy describes this launch as being a “major challenge.” Ensuring reliability and security across a wide range of use cases meant testing systems under real-world conditions and accounting for edge cases. “Launching AI products at this scale forces a different standard of rigor,” El Sewedy said. “We had to build new operational muscles as a company.”
According to industry tracker Sacra, Retool posted $120 million in revenue in 2025 with an estimated 39% growth rate. While the company does not disclose usage metrics, reports say that the breadth of use cases and platform’s flexibility drove early adoption of the product.
Founded as a low-code platform building internal software, Retool has expanded rapidly and is now used by 10,000 companies worldwide, including OpenAI, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Boeing. The company counts investors like Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator amongst its backers, having raised $141 million in funding.
This achievement is a milestone for Egyptian talent in global tech leadership. “I’m proud to help build tools that empower innovation worldwide.” El Sewedy, whose tenure at Retool spans more than years, guiding a breadth of strategic initiatives, including their Agency and Templates programs. “What we launched is hopefully going to be a core aspect of how companies embed AI in their organizations.” He says his focus remains on bringing operational rigor and a growth mindset to Retool’s expanding AI efforts.
