Clay Bavor
Co-founder of Sierra, which builds customer-facing AI agents; formerly led Google Labs
Clay Bavor is a co-founder of Sierra, a company that builds AI agents businesses use to serve their customers. Before Sierra, Bavor spent 18 years at Google, most recently leading Google Labs, and earlier started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline and Google Lens.1
Career
Bavor spent 18 years at Google. Bavor led product and design for Google Workspace, then started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline and Google Lens, and most recently led Google Labs.1
Bavor and Bret Taylor, who first met while working together at Google, co-founded Sierra to build AI agents for customer conversations.1
Products and projects
Sierra builds AI agents that businesses deploy to talk with their customers. In a November 2025 post co-authored by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, Sierra described Agent OS 2.0 and eight new products launched at Sierra Summit, its first customer conference, including a move from separate channels toward a single agent.2
In September 2026 the co-founders wrote about Ghostwriter, Sierra's tool for building and deploying agents from prompts, becoming a proactive teammate. In October 2026 they announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard Meta and Sierra are developing with industry partners to define how personal agents authenticate and interact with businesses.34
Work
Google Lens and Project Starline
Started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline and Google Lens, according to Sierra's founder biography.1
Personal Agent Protocol (external site: sierra.ai)
Co-author of the October 2026 announcement of an open standard, developed by Meta and Sierra with industry partners, for how personal agents interact with businesses.4
Career timeline
Nov 5, 2025
Co-authored the announcement of Sierra Agent OS 2.0 and new products from Sierra Summit.2
Sep 28, 2026
Co-authored a post on Ghostwriter becoming a proactive teammate for agent builders.3
Oct 6, 2026
Co-announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for how personal agents interact with businesses.4
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Led Google Labs; earlier started and led Google's AR/VR effort, Project Starline and Google Lens, and led product and design for Google Workspace (18 years at Google), Google1
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