AI Agents for Risk & Compliance with Dror Asaf KOVANT | EP 129

Mar 25, 2026

Dror Asaf, Co-founder and CTO of Coval, a veteran in enterprise AI and supply chain automation. He discusses bringing agentic AI into operations, why supply chains remain archaic, trust and security hurdles, on‑prem and Teams integrations, governance for compliance, and how AI will reshape jobs toward decision‑making rather than replacement.

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ANECDOTE

Founders Chose Supply Chain After Seeing Archaic Operations

Coval's founders discovered supply chain ops were 'archaic' after helping enterprises with data problems.
The team saw many suppliers lacked ERP integration, creating manual human bottlenecks they aimed to automate.

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First Production Deployments And Failures Define Progress

Early product milestones are deploying an autonomous agent to production and surviving the first failures.
Dror Asaf highlights team hiring and iterating to 'version five' as crucial for turning vision into reality.

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Automate Repetitive Supply Chain Workflows

Agentic automation should remove repetitive human workload while keeping final decisions with people.
Dror Asaf explains Coval automates spreadsheet chasing and supplier follow-ups but leaves trust decisions to humans.

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In this episode of the AI Agents Podcast, host Demetri Panici sits down with Dror Asaf, co-founder and CTO of Coval, to talk about what it actually takes to bring agentic AI into enterprise operations. They get into why supply chain and operations are still surprisingly archaic, why trust and security are some of the biggest blockers to adoption, and how enterprise teams can use AI to remove bottlenecks without removing human decision-making.

Dror also shares how Coval is approaching enterprise AI differently, from on-prem deployments and Microsoft Teams integrations to strong governance and compliance layers. They also dig into the future of jobs, why AI will likely reshape work more than eliminate it, and why the people who know how to leverage these tools will have a massive advantage going forward.

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 – AI, jobs, and why new skill sets will matter most
01:03 – Dror Asaf’s background and why he started Coval
03:42 – Raising pre-seed funding and finding the right VC partner
08:31 – Key milestones: first deployment, first failures, and building the team
11:05 – How Coval uses agents in enterprise operations and supply chain
14:04 – What Dror learned about agent reliability, governance, and hallucinations
23:58 – Coval’s edge: security, on-prem deployment, and Microsoft Teams
27:56 – The long-term vision for enterprise AI adoption
33:16 – Will AI replace jobs or transform them?
38:33 – Dror’s favorite AI tools: Claude Code, Co-work, and more

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