MacroVoices · Thursday, September 10, 2026
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, highlights the growing capabilities of agentic AI, enabling automation of complex workflows at potentially greater than human efficiency. He demonstrated this by automating a 24/7 project queue processing task previously handled by 11 employees, reducing the time to complete it to just two half-hour sessions.
“I've been totally redpilled in the last month or so from what you could do now with AI and agents.”
“What I mean by this, I think AI has reached the point where now you can quite reliably get it to do workflows.”
“So what I mean by that is you can have an AI go in there, pick up things that the human would normally process in the queue. The human might take, I don't know, 3 to 5 minutes to process that item. AI can do that a lot quicker, reliably 24/7 and all of a sudden the queue is completely automated.”