Today's guest is Chris Wexler, CEO of Krunam, a firm that helps detect and prevent the spread of children's criminally distasteful images; this is a job well suited for AI and essential for keeping bad things from happening globally. Chris is also a member of our Emerj Plus community. He speaks to us today about how he came up with the idea and how he bootstrapped and pulled together the necessary talent through partnerships and other arrangements without increasing unnecessary headcount to get his company off the ground. If you are interested in more AI use-cases and tools, you can join Emerj Plus at emerj.com/p1

Today's guest is Nikunj Mehta, CEO, and Founder of Falkonry, an AI platform firm in the industry space. Nikunj speaks to us in this episode about the importance of focus on getting a company off the ground. What does it look like to focus on a sector and workflows to build early traction with sales and deliver more value? He speaks a lot about the importance of subject matter experts, not just folks who can write Python code but also people who understand the processes within a given industry. Nikunj's lessons today are something to transfer to everybody listening in. Do you want more keys and a clear path to success in your own AI consulting career? Register for our new webinar, free for a limited time only, "How to Start and Grow an AI Consulting company" at: emerj.com/st1

Today's guest is Luv Tulsidas, Founder, and CEO of Techolution, an Inc 500 firm, servicing rather large enterprise customers with cloud and AI services. Luv speaks to us in this episode about what he started his consulting firm off as in the first place, about some of the early blunders he made regarding what services he brought to market and what he thought he was going to be. And then he talks about he got his firm up and running and growing quickly without having to staff up before he had the money to pay folks. How did he have a warm bench of talent to be able to grow with his early projects. We also discuss how and why he later on pivoted to AI and ML from a services firm that had nothing to do with AI in the first place. Do you want more keys to success in your own AI consulting career? Register for our new webinar, free for a limited time only, "How to Start and Grow an AI Consulting company" at: emerj.com/st1

Today's guest is Dave Timm, CEO of Red Marble AI, an AI consulting software development firm in Melbourne, Australia, with an overarching focus on how AI can enhance human performance and workforce productivity. In today's episode, Dave talks to us about developing your AI consulting business idea, finding your first clients, and landing your first projects. He also goes into how to find technical talent without hiring them full-time from the start. Do you want more keys to success in your own AI consulting career? Register for our new webinar, free for a limited time only, "How to Start and Grow an AI Consulting Company" at: emerj.com/st1

Today's guest is Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI at Cognizant, one of the top 5 largest tech consulting companies globally, with 2019 revenue at nearly $17B. Bret shares with us today the importance of educating our buyers. What does it look like to interact with a client who has an idea of an AI project, inform their idea of what AI is, and help refine and define the problem to solve it. It is often not the case where a client will immediately have a robust understanding of what they need to do, or they will come in with a granularly very tight and coherent idea of where AI can drive value in their business. Bret goes into tactfully bringing education into the sales and delivery process to add more value to clients. Do you want more keys to success in your own AI consulting career? Register for our new webinar, free for a limited time only, "How to Start and Grow an AI Consulting Company" at: emerj.com/st1

I’m excited to announce the launch of our AI Consulting Podcast! If you want to start or grow an AI consulting company, you’re in the right place. In this short introduction episode, I cover: (a) What themes and insights we’ll be covering for AI consultants on this show, and (b) A highlight reel of some of our early AI Consulting Podcast guests and topics for next week. Be sure to subscribe - we’ll be going live with four new episodes this coming Monday.