Pod team joins Backstory

Backstory announced on September 22, 2026 that the Pod team is joining the company, in a post by CEO Jason Ambrose. Pod built an intelligence layer for revenue teams that reads deal sentiment, recommends which stakeholders to engage and surfaces patterns behind lost deals, along with configurable, human-in-the-loop agents for meeting prep, proof-of-concept readiness, deal review and buying committee assessment. The post names Pod founder and CEO Patrick Monnot, four engineers and one go-to-market lead as joining Backstory's CX team. Backstory says the team will focus on making its platform more accessible to humans and agents.

The details

• Joining: Patrick Monnot (founder and CEO), engineers Maxime Fafard, Farnood Faraji, Anthony Laflamme and Shamil Saeed, and Harrison Saghi in go-to-market.
• The Pod team joins Backstory's CX team.
• Pod's agents work in the background against a goal and return actions for a person to approve, according to the post.
• The post is categorized under Culture on Backstory's site.

Context

This is one of several Backstory team additions in our coverage in 2026, following hires of a CISO (May 27), an SVP of customer value (June 30) and a former Adobe AI partnerships lead (September 1). Backstory later named Shilpa Varma CTO on October 14 and added MCP record search on October 1. The company renamed itself from People.ai in April 2026.

Not disclosed

• Whether the transaction is an acquisition and its terms
• Plans for Pod's existing product
• What happens to Pod's existing customers