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August 14 Is Your Store Lying to You?
Every retail store runs on a "plan of record". The perfect, on-paper version of how things should work. But the floor is messier.
Everseen CEO Joe White joins David Savage to unpack that gap. We find out how vision AI governs itself across GDPR and global privacy rules without ever storing a face, why 25% of retail loss comes from honest mistakes rather than theft, and why the best technology is the kind you never notice.
Plus the real return retailers see in year one, and the "bouncer" philosophy behind stopping shrink before it happens.

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33 min
August 12 Is There Still Room for a Chief People Officer?
AI is dissolving the walls around job architecture, but not deleting it, says Skillsoft Chief People Officer Ciara Harrington.
She joins David Savage to explain why the sharpest AI innovation comes from senior leaders, not digital natives, why functional depth matters less than critical thinking, and why the C-suite itself (CHRO, CIO, maybe a "Chief Work Officer") may not survive in its current form.

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29 min
August 10 The Death of Tokenmaxxing: Why Enterprise AI is Shifting to Open Weight Models
Are West Coast tech giants losing their grip on enterprise AI?
Harpreet Arora from Vercel joins David Savage to break down the massive shift from closed frontier models to open weight alternatives.
Discover how data sovereignty, latency, and a sudden shift from speculative "token maxing" to strict ROI are rewriting the playbook for tech leaders. Learn how to navigate spend sprawl and deploy AI that actually delivers business outcomes.

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31 min
August 07 Is Your AI Guardrail Solving One Problem and Creating Another?
Two-thirds of office workers now use AI tools IT never approved.
PagerDuty's Chief AI Officer, João Freitas, explains why: guardrails are being built for an ecosystem that changes monthly, and the abstraction layers meant to fix 'Shadow AI' raise a harder question underneath.. data sovereignty.
We also dig into the AI cost reckoning: why boards have moved past “are we using AI” to demanding real return on investment, and what that means for your AI stack.

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33 min
August 05 Going Viral, Losing Yourself
When Laurence Benson got stranded in Bali with no income, he turned to TikTok.

He has built a massive following, but soon realised that accepting brand deals destroyed his authenticity. In this episode, we unpack the hidden human costs of creator burnout, the danger of using Al to replace your own ideas, and why he's refusing sponsorships as he restarts his journey in America.

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31 min
August 03 Is AI Quietly Making Your Best People Slower?
We're told AI saves time, so why is complex work taking longer? Foxit's Evan Reiss joins David Savage to unpack an emerging “productivity gap,” where AI speeds up simple tasks but buries knowledge workers in hours of verification.
They dig into the hidden long-term token costs of agentic models, why workflow redesign matters more than adoption numbers, and why hiring is shifting toward critical thinking over tool fluency.

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23 min
July 31 Is Chasing AI Efficiency Costing Marketers Their Trust?
Meta keeps pushing brands toward AI-generated visuals. Gozney's answer was to pour real paint over their pizza ovens instead.
Head of Growth Kirsty Tansey joins David Savage to unpack why Gozney refuses to optimise for the next purchase, and chase the next cook instead. Today's episode asks: in a world flooded with AI content, has authenticity become Gozney's real product?
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26 min
July 29 The Truth About Token Maxing: Why Your AI ROI Is an Illusion
For years, we've measured developer productivity in isolation.
Now "token maxing" is pouring kerosene on the fire, creating "agent anarchy" as individuals build local solutions that fragment enterprise systems.
SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone explains why optimising for individual AI output is the wrong metric, and why systemic thinking (not token spend) actually drives ROI.
We unpack the hidden costs of AI sprawl, and why the biggest gains come from redesigning business processes.

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40 min
July 27 Is Your Global Footprint Actually Costing You the Talent You Need?
Setting up a legal entity abroad used to take 18 months and a small fortune in lawyers. Now enterprise companies are quietly reversing course, closing entities while keeping their best global talent.
Charlotte Johnson, RVP at Pebl, joins the podcast to talk about "entity rationalisation," and how an AI model trained on 186 countries' worth of employment law is changing workforce planning. However, the one place she refuses to let AI anywhere near: letting someone go.

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27 min
July 24 The Truth About Renting Someone Else's AI
Today's episode features Checkatrade CEO Jambu Palaniappan, talking about why AI ownership, not AI adoption, is the real boardroom question.
He explains why five or six US tech companies still control most of the ecosystem, why open-source alternatives can't come fast enough, and why every business betting on someone else's model is quietly taking on someone else's risk. This episode is a sharp look at what "data sovereignty" actually means for a company that isn't Google or OpenAI.

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28 min