Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead
THE SO WHAT
An autonomous AI supply-chain spend platform hiring its first US marketing lead right after a raise is a tell—category education and enterprise storytelling are now the bottlenecks, not just model performance. If you’re selling AI agents into back-office workflows, budget real go-to-market muscle, not just sales engineers.
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