Most energy tech is built in a lab, then handed off cold. The result: slow adoption, commoditized pricing, and value getting stripped the moment it hits the market. Kailey Euceda has spent her career inside that gap, and she left Baker Hughes to build something different.
In this episode, Daniel Radabaugh and Derek Boyd sit down with Kailey to talk about why "putting people first" is not a soft idea, it is a financial one. Workflow-level time savings compound into project-level impact. Cross-functional stakeholder engagement is what turns innovation into execution. And the work happens upstream of go-to-market, not downstream.
Kailey walks through the founding of Acorders, the systems-level financial architecture behind it, and why she is convinced human flow state is the one thing AI cannot replicate. AI belongs in the loop for statistical perspective and bias reduction. The flow state belongs to the human.
We also get into neuroplasticity, the right-brain left-brain myth, how to think about workforce restructuring as AI absorbs more of the workflow, and her Zero to One immersive art and music exhibit at the Ion in Houston on May 29.
Chapters:
00:00 Show Intro
00:27 The Innovation Execution Gap
04:44 People First Economics
06:49 Leaving Corporate Behind
12:12 Army Lessons for the AI Era
17:55 Flow State Reprogramming
23:31 White Glove Work Habits
26:45 Art and Tech Exhibit at the Ion
29:27 Frameworks, Bias, and Ego
34:26 Beyond Cancel Culture
39:08 Spectrums and Paradigms
46:30 Global Teams and Energy Integration
51:39 Rapid Fire and Wrap Up
Connect with Kailey Euceda
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kailey-euceda/
Acorders: https://www.linkedin.com/company/acorders/
Zero to One Exhibit, Ion Houston, May 29: https://luma.com/cs7ytmg4
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