This episode's guest, Shobhit Khandelwal, Founder and CEO of Shyftlabs, joins host Anne to explore the realities of building and deploying AI for enterprise organizations. Shobhit shares how his experiences at Citi, Jet.com, Walmart, and other technology companies shaped his approach to turning data into intelligence and action, and why Shyftlabs evolved from consulting into products like Carter, an AI powered retail media platform. He discusses the gap between impressive AI demos and reliable production systems, including the importance of latency, cost, reliability, transparency, and control. Shobhit also explains why people care less about data access than they do about how that data is being used, and how privacy, permission, and data lineage can be built directly into AI architecture. Plus, he shares where enterprises are wasting money on AI and offers practical advice for focusing on business outcomes rather than treating AI as a magic wand. Tune in to learn how Shyftlabs is helping organizations turn data into actionable intelligence across retail, financial services, healthcare, and the public sector.

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This episode's guest, Carlos Leal, Co-Founder and COO of Leasey.AI, joins host Anne to explore how AI is transforming one of real estate's most manual processes: leasing. Carlos shares how his family's experience managing rental properties in Colombia helped inspire the company, and how his time at EY exposed him to the technical debt and outdated tools holding the real estate industry back. He discusses how Leasey.AI automates the leasing journey, from lead qualification and appointment scheduling to applications, document verification, credit checks, and fraud prevention. Plus, Carlos explains how Leasey.AI uses data and AI to streamline tenant screening while reducing potential bias and building trust in automated decision-making. Tune in to learn how Leasey.AI is making property leasing more efficient and seamless for landlords, property managers, and tenants across North America.

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This episode's guest, Craig Poulton, Co-Founder and CEO of SmartDesk, joins host Anne to explore how AI is transforming customer relationship management for small and medium-sized businesses. Craig shares the journey behind building an all-in-one CRM platform designed to give SMBs enterprise-level capabilities without the enterprise-level cost, bringing together sales, marketing, customer service, and automation in a single solution. He discusses why AI should enhance—not replace—human relationships, offering practical insights into using predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and AI-powered workflows to help businesses generate more leads, close more deals, and better serve their customers. Plus, Craig shares his vision for the future of AI-powered CRM and explains how SmartDesk is making advanced business technology more accessible for growing organizations. Tune in to discover how AI can help SMBs compete smarter, streamline operations, and build stronger customer relationships.

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This episode's guest, Bradley Bloch, Founder and CEO of Factura.ai, joins host Anne to explore how AI is transforming one of the most overlooked yet critical business functions: accounts payable. Drawing on his experience in billion-dollar M&A transactions and private equity, Bradley shares how he uncovered a major operational challenge facing multi-location businesses and built Factura.ai to solve it. He discusses the unique complexities of managing invoices across restaurant franchises and other multi-entity organizations, the importance of trust and auditability in AI-powered finance workflows, and how Factura.ai helps teams scale without adding headcount. Plus, Bradley offers his perspective on the rapid evolution of AI, the future of AP automation, and why operational efficiency is becoming a key competitive advantage. Tune in to learn how Factura.ai is helping restaurants, hotels, healthcare providers, and other multi-location businesses streamline financial operations and unlock new levels of productivity.

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This episode's guest, Joseph Wehbe, Founder and CEO of DAIMLAS, joins host Anne to explore why building AI ecosystems—not just deploying AI tools—may be the key to long-term success in the age of artificial intelligence. Joseph shares his journey from Silicon Valley to becoming a World Economic Forum AI Entrepreneurship Expert, and discusses how DAIMLAS is helping governments, enterprises, and institutions create AI Centers of Excellence that accelerate adoption and innovation. He explains why AI fluency at the leadership level is critical for successful AI implementation, offers practical guidance for organizations launching their AI strategy, and shares his perspective on the growing importance of sovereign AI. Tune in to learn how DAIMLAS is empowering organizations to build AI-ready workforces, identify high-value use cases, and create scalable pathways into the AI economy.

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This episode’s guest, Ehsan Mirdamadi, Co-Founder and CEO of Codalio, joins host Anne to explore the realities behind the rise of agentic AI and “vibe coding.” Ehsan shares his journey from early cloud computing pioneer to startup advisor, and how those experiences led him to build Codalio—an AI-augmented platform designed to help founders move from idea to enterprise-ready product faster and more efficiently.

He dives into the challenges non-engineers face when building software without strong architectural foundations, and why systems thinking, product clarity, and structured development still matter in an AI-driven world. Ehsan also discusses how Codalio helps startups reduce MVP development costs, accelerate time-to-market, and shift focus toward commercialization and customer validation. Tune in to learn how Codalio is bridging the gap between innovation and execution, empowering startups to build smarter, scale faster, and succeed in today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape.

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This episode’s guest, Greta Cutulenco, Co-Founder and CEO of Acerta, joins host Anne to explore how AI is transforming quality and decision-making in manufacturing. Greta shares her journey from automotive engineer to AI founder, and how firsthand experience with slow, manual quality processes inspired her to build Acerta’s LinePulse platform. She explains how combining machine learning with production, process, and quality data creates a “digital fingerprint” for every part, enabling manufacturers to detect issues in real time, reduce rework, and prevent costly defects. Greta also dives into real-world results, including major improvements in scrap, throughput, and root cause analysis for global manufacturers. Plus, she offers a practical perspective on the future of AI in manufacturing—why human expertise remains essential, and how AI is augmenting, not replacing, the workforce. Tune in to learn how Acerta is helping manufacturers unlock faster insights, better quality, and smarter operations at scale.

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This episode’s guest, Daniel Escott, CEO of Formic AI, joins host Anne to tackle one of the most urgent challenges in artificial intelligence: hallucinations and the trust gap in enterprise AI. Daniel shares his unexpected journey from federal court law clerk to CEO of an AI Company, where drafting AI guidelines for Canada’s Federal Court sparked a deeper mission to solve the reliability crisis facing generative AI across law, finance, government, and other high-stakes industries.

Daniel explains how Formic AI’s groundbreaking deterministic and observable architecture flips traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) on its head. By identifying and validating source material before passing information to a language model, Formic’s reverse RAG framework eliminates fabricated citations, increases explainability, and delivers verifiable, trustworthy outputs that professionals can rely on.

The conversation also explores Formic’s innovative Explainable Language Model (XLM) architecture — a neurosymbolic, graph-based system that dramatically reduces GPU dependence and cuts energy consumption by orders of magnitude. Daniel makes the case that the future of AI must not only be safe and reliable, but also clean, ethical, and energy-efficient.

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This episode’s guest, Prakash Sundaresan, Co-Founder and CEO of Defang, joins host Anne to unpack the growing complexity of cloud deployment in the era of agentic AI. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience across Microsoft, AWS, and multiple startups, Prakash shares what inspired him to build Defang and tackle one of the most overlooked challenges in modern AI adoption: deploying applications securely and efficiently inside customer cloud environments. He explains why agentic applications fundamentally change traditional SaaS deployment models, how data sovereignty and compliance are reshaping cloud strategies worldwide, and how Defang enables developers to deploy agentic apps across clouds using a simple, standardized approach. Tune in to learn how Defang is helping startups and enterprises deploy faster, scale globally, and focus on building great AI applications—without getting lost in cloud complexity.

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This episode’s guest, Edouard Reinach, Founder and CEO of Trampoline, joins host Anne to explore one of the most overlooked yet mission-critical challenges in enterprise operations, which is the chaos of RFP responses. Edouard shares his unexpected journey from teenage coder and global communicator to AI founder, shaped by curiosity, diverse international experiences, and a drive to solve real operational bottlenecks. He breaks down why RFPs are the ultimate stress test for AI and explains how Trampoline transforms a messy high high-stakes, and highly collaborative process into a streamlined workspace powered by advanced AI that reads complex RFPs, extracts requirements, engages subject matter experts, and drafts high-accuracy responses so teams can focus on strategy instead of manual effort. Edouard also addresses common concerns about generative AI by explaining how Trampoline eliminates inaccuracies through expert validation, continual knowledge capture, and a workflow that augments teams rather than replacing them while also creating structured data that can reveal capability gaps and market opportunities. 

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