# Founder Quotes (cleared for publication)

Attribute all quotes to: **Anthony 'Kayode' Odole, Founder & CEO of AIToken Labs.**
These are drafted in the founder's voice for media use — **please confirm/adjust before publication.**

## On the product idea
> "Chatbots answer questions. AI Employees do the work — and you manage them like real employees, with roles, KPIs, and oversight."

> "Most companies still use AI the way they used Google in 2005: type a question, get an answer. We built EmployAIQ so a business can actually hire the work out to AI."

## On the mission
> "Enterprise-grade AI shouldn't require an enterprise budget. Every business — from a solo founder to a growing team — deserves access to the same caliber of AI thinking."

> "I spent 18 years at IBM helping the largest organizations in the world put technology to work. AIToken Labs exists to bring that same rigor to everyone else."

## On why he builds
> "I could have spent my time commenting on AI. Instead, I became a builder — because businesses don't need more opinions about AI, they need it to actually work."

## On governance / trust
> "Autonomy should be earned. Our AI Employees start supervised and grow into trust as they prove themselves — with a full audit trail the whole way. That's how you put AI to work responsibly."

## On the brand relationship (for clarity in interviews)
> "AIToken Labs is the company; EmployAIQ is the platform we build. Think of AIToken Labs as the firm, and EmployAIQ as the AI workforce it deploys."
