Podcast

The AI CEO

Conversations with the people actually shipping it

Every week Trent talks with operators, founders and executives who have put AI into production and lived with the results. No predictions, no panels about the future of work. Just what they built, what it cost, what broke and what they would do differently.

Episodes

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Episode 01 · [42 min]

The pilot that ate a year

A transformation lead walks through an 11-month AI pilot that never shipped, and the three decisions that doomed it in month one.

Episode 02 · [38 min]

What a bot actually costs

Line by line through the real cost of a production AI deployment, including the parts nobody budgets for.

Episode 03 · [35 min]

The nonprofit that automated its inbox

A ten-person organization recovered [XX] staff hours a month with tools costing less than a phone line.

Episode 04 · [47 min]

Saying no to the board

A CIO on refusing an AI initiative the board wanted, and how to make that case without becoming the obstacle.

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