Tim Bourcier

RevOps | @merge_api | Connective infrastructure for production AI

[Tim Bourcier @tim_merge]

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of talking about how Merge for Workforce is boosting our productivity and helping us build self-driving products faster, without giving up control.

Shoutout to @matt_feroz for organizing, and @posthog + @Redisinc for co-hosting!

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

My team went to the zoo today

[Tim Bourcier @tim_merge]

@shensi @merge_api @jameewaang @MergieGriffin we sure did

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

We just cut AI spend by 75% across an entire workforce in one click.

Introducing: Merge for Workforce.

Without Merge, your employees are left choosing one of two options:

1. Spend 100x the cost they should be from using frontier models for everything

2. Deliver subpar work from overly restrictive model access

Instead with Merge, IT can connect any identity provider and set model routing policies by team in one click.

Merge pushes them to every machine through a desktop client, overriding the model configs across your team’s AI assistants and coding tools.

Now every task gets the right model for the job.

The result? 75x fewer tokens with faster and better output.

[dennis @lifegetsdicey]

Bumped into @merge_api CTO @GilFeig on the street and asked him to show me his office… here’s how it went

[Merge @merge_api]

More than two thirds of employees enter sensitive data into AI tools and log in with a personal or shared credential.

That's what 1,500+ employees told us. And those aren't even the scariest findings.

Check it out: https://t.co/qZl0xYKNT7

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

I've now added Wispr, Notion, Granola, Fireflies, Zoom, Gemini, Cluely, Otter, Fathom, Read AI, and Wingrep to every meeting.

Each produces slightly different meeting notes.

I send all of them to Claude and ChatGPT, which push the summaries into Slackbot and Salesforce AI. Linear agents automatically create tickets while Notion agents create follow-ups in Notion. A Zapier workflow then uses 500k tokens to draft a follow up email in Superhuman.

None of it works and all of it is wrong but man, is it beautiful.

AGI is here.

[Tenobrus @tenobrus]

gigafucked:
- grammarly
- calendly
- miro
- retool
- webflow
- langchain
- writer
- harvey
- glean
- expedia
- monday

fucked:
- accenture
- intuit
- notion
- jasper
- canva
- alphasense
- postman
- airtable
- talkdesk
- sierra
- zapier
- replit
- solace

probably fucked:
- cursor
- pilot
- clay
- mercor

naively seems fucked but so competent / plugged in they seem to be figuring it out on the fly anyway:
- linear

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

Merge proudly signed the Open Weights letter today.

Merge exists because open access to infrastructure lets builders move faster than closed systems. Open weights extend that same idea to the models themselves - open foundations, more to build on.

https://t.co/eOS2mAhRqK

[Kyle @spacegluder]

@merge_api

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

Merge Gateway:
- +1,146% month-over-month growth from May to June
- +3,000% weekly growth from the first full week to the last full week
- 66% of our user base was generated in the last 4 weeks
- Signups over the last 4 full weeks were 8x higher than the average during the first 4 weeks

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

seeing some really interesting stats about kimi usage on @merge_api:

- 4th most-requested model ahead of every GPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek model

- #1 non-Anthropic model by spend

- Beat the top OpenAI model in usage: ~1.8x the requests of the busiest GPT and ~2x the spend of the top-earning GPT

- Matched Google's entire Gemini lineup on its own

- #1 among independent labs

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

ok guys the doordash cli works

[Ali Tekin @alitekintr]

Yapay zeka API'leriyle çalışan herkesin bilmesi gereken bir araç: Merge.

OpenAI, Google, Atlas… tüm modelleri tek panelden bağlıyorsunuz.

Kendi anahtarlarınızı getiriyorsunuz, kullanım doğrudan size faturalandırılıyor.

Rota bazında kural koyuyorsunuz: maliyete, performansa veya kapasiteye göre optimize edin, dakikada istek limiti belirleyin.

Kaydedin, lazım olur.

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

Launching today: the world’s first fully optimized LLM routing stack that can be embedded directly into your product, Merge Embedded Routing Stack.

Model sovereignty is now table stakes for any AI product.

Users and companies are demanding full control over the AI models running in your product.

Right now, no company is able to do this without massive overhead.

Until today.

Merge makes it easy for your customers to use your product exactly the way they want to.

With a single API, you can:

1. Allow customers to bring their own keys, manage their own budgets, and set policies like fallback rules, model allowlists, and more

2. Let each customer connect and switch their own models, right inside your product

3. Optimize each customer for cost, performance, or capability

Without Merge, you’d be:

- Building routing policies, provider integrations, and LLM key management

- Giving your users zero model independence

- Receiving endless customer support tickets asking “can I use 5.6 Sol?”

Products that fight their customers' model strategy will lose to products that fit it.

Merge is the only place that allows your users to produce the exact results they want, with the models they have access to.

Give your customers the advantage, without the massive overhead costs.

[Merge @merge_api]

Fugu Ultra from Sakana AI is now available on Merge Gateway.

It's 25% off all week.

https://t.co/fPZx6LyiAS

[Yash Gogri @yashgogri1]

No matter what happens with Fable, there's a clear need for a management layer here

Proud that we're building at the forefront to continue unlocking AI usage safely for companies at all sizes!

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

The US government just ordered Anthropic to cut off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national.

Model governance is coming.

Until now, there has been no reliable way to enforce AI model access at the employee level:

[Tim Bourcier @tim_merge]

@shensi best tweet I’ve read today - bookmarking

[Shensi Ding @shensi]

Happy birthday, @merge_api