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Every episode, every framework.

16 episodes of agentic workflows, knowledge systems, ROI benchmarks, and hard lessons — from operators who shipped.

NEWEP 016
60 min
Hard lessons

Everyone's Running AI. Nobody's Getting More Done.

Your whole team is using AI. You're generating more than ever. So why isn't anything shipping faster?

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EP 015
73 min
Agentic workflows

Anthropic Just Spent $1.5B to Replace Us. Five AI Operators Respond.

Anthropic announced a $1.5B JV with Wall Street to deliver AI consulting at scale. Five independent operators discuss what that actually changes for SMBs — and why the answer is less than you think.

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EP 014
66 min
ROI benchmarks

Vibe Coding Removes the Typing. Not the Engineering.

608% ROI. 4.2 days down to 6.8 hours. One small manufacturing team. Richard brings the case study that answers the question most operators are afraid to ask.

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EP 013
70 min
Hard lessons

Vibe Coded. No Security. Dead in 72 Hours.

A founder vibe-coded a SaaS. Launched Friday. Dead by Sunday. How hard is it to get security right when you've written zero lines of code yourself?

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EP 012
57 min
Hard lessons

The Jury of 12: Why You Still Need Humans In An Agent Stack

Richard's surfing in Indonesia. Nataliya from LeadMark AI joins — enterprise change manager by day, SMB AI embedder by night — with the framing this panel's been circling for months: every 'AI implementation problem' is a change management problem in a tech t-shirt.

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EP 011
64 min
ROI benchmarks

Tokenomics: Why Your $120 AI Plan Is About to Break

Pull the loose thread of the Claude Code source leak and you end up unpicking the whole economics of AI subscriptions. Is a $120 plan or $65 worth of API tokens the better bet once the maths is run?

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EP 010
64 min
Frameworks

Was This Built for a Previous Reality?

Your calendar missed a public holiday. Your most trusted JavaScript library just got backdoored. Your CFO's two-week paper report just got replaced in five minutes. What do all three have in common? They were built for a previous reality.

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EP 009
63 min
Agentic workflows

Expert in the Loop: AI File Recovery, $1.50 Personal Agents

Richard's back. Marno's personal AI runs 72 tasks a day for $1.50. Matt locked down OpenClaw with secure defaults. Dave recovered a corrupted voice recorder file using Claude Code in under an hour. And we debate whether SaaS is dead or just getting reshuffled.

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EP 008
72 min
Agentic workflows

To Claw or Not to Claw: Dave Ditches Google

Dave finally pulled the trigger on Claude after Google Gemini trashed his quotas mid-session. Marno went full AI OS — calendar, email, invoicing, all through a Discord bot. Matt ingested Alex Hormozi's entire content library. NVIDIA just announced NemoClaw + OpenShell.

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EP 007
55 min
Hard lessons

Change Management in the Age of Agents

Dave and Matt are joined by Amber and Jo to deconstruct the reality of 'AI Operating Systems' — from deploying autonomous farm robots in regional WA to building compartmentalized AI agencies that parse SOPs to self-correct.

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EP 006
63 min
Tools & architecture

Stop Using Web UIs: Why LLM APIs Are 10x More Accurate

The crew dives deep into the infrastructure realities of Sovereign AI — including why the future of data centers might literally be in orbit. Plus the massive performance differences between standard AI web interfaces and direct LLM APIs.

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EP 005
60 min
Frameworks

The Chainsaw Paradox: Why Your New AI Tools Are Making You Slower

Why is it that the more AI we use, the busier we seem to get? Welcome to the 'Chainsaw Paradox.' Having the best tools won't save you if you're still hacking at the trees with the engine off.

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EP 004
60 min
Hard lessons

Your AI Agent Can Be Hacked While You Make Coffee

Your AI agent is running. You step away to make a coffee. By the time you're back — your API keys are gone, your files are exfiltrated, and a hacker you never saw is inside your system. Richard Webbe joins the cast.

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EP 003
58 min
Tools & architecture

Just-In-Time Interfaces: Why Your Next App Won't Have Fixed Buttons

What if your software interface changed based on what you needed to do — right now, in this moment? No fixed dashboards. No predetermined layouts. Just contextual, dynamic interfaces generated on demand.

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EP 002
57 min
Knowledge systems

AI 'Context Rot' Explained: Why Your Agents Get Dumber

Is your AI actually learning, or just rotting? We dismantle the 'stateless' nature of LLMs and how relying on long chat threads leads to 'context rot' — a digital dementia that degrades your results.

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EP 001
44 min
Frameworks

Start a New Chat — What 3 AI Operators Actually Use It For

The very first episode. Dave, Matt, and Marno pull back the curtain on how real operators are leveraging AI in the wild — the shift from prompt engineering to context engineering, and how to build infrastructure that isn't entirely rented from big tech.

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