# AI Operators: published catalogue

Canonical site: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/
Show: AI Operators is an Australian show about the practical work of implementing AI in real organisations, with a weekly live panel, short Field Notes and one-to-one Operator Stories.
Audience: It is for business owners, operators and technical leaders who own a process, budget, system or adoption outcome.
Editorial approach: We start with the operating problem, follow the implementation trade-offs, and ask what changed after the demo. Tools are evidence, not the story.
Format: Watch the weekly panel for a live operator conversation, Field Notes for short tips and experiments, and Operator Stories for one-to-one interviews with people doing the work. YouTube is the video distribution platform. Website pages add show notes, chapters, resources and transcripts where available. AI Operators also publishes IRL event recaps, talk pages and guest profiles.
Topic guide: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/topics
Updated source set: 39 published episodes, 10 Field Notes, 4 Operator Stories, 21 hosts and guests, 1 published IRL recaps.

## Episodes

### Episode 040: Nobody Wants Your App. They Want Their AI Agent to Use It.
- Published: 2026-10-21
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep40-21-oct-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep40-21-oct-2026.md
- Summary: The panel explores how AI agents use MCP tools to carry out work across existing systems, with examples in webinar attribution, inbox triage and task capture. They also debate AI-assisted creativity, automated content, cognitive load, platform adoption and accountability under an AI manager.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Live intro and operator stories | 4:58 Local hardware limits and cloud costs | 8:48 AI video, code and modern CSS | 13:11 Crayons, craft and AI-assisted creativity | 21:25 LinkedIn slop and human connection | 28:32 When outreach feels like spam | 35:32 Recruitment filters and AI application spam | 38:40 Hugging Face and the AI doom narrative | 43:54 Agent wins and voice-first workflows | 48:04 Hermes, Telegram and Plane for task capture | 49:04 Fixing webinar attribution with an agent | 50:50 MCP tools and operational agents | 53:30 Productivity gains and cognitive load | 55:25 Micro apps and the future of work | 59:47 Agents flag subscription spend | 1:02:10 Nobody wants another app | 1:06:11 Would you work for an AI boss? | 1:08:40 Agents building while you sleep

### Episode 039: AI Can Build It. Taste Is What Makes It Valuable.
- Published: 2026-10-14
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep39-14-oct-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep39-14-oct-2026.md
- Summary: The panel explores why human judgement, taste and useful outcomes matter when AI makes building easier, with a live procedural game-art demo and practical ChatGPT/Hermes feedback loops. They also debate AI branding, workforce augmentation and the economics of local AI hardware versus cloud APIs.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Christmas ham, old sayings and inherited habits | 4:50 AI to SI: branding and public trust | 11:53 Cloud lessons, shadow IT and useful automation | 18:23 Imagination, expertise and the human review loop | 22:31 Retrospectives and self-correcting feedback | 23:40 ChatGPT, Hermes and approval friction | 27:00 Creativity, culture and showing what is possible | 33:02 Starlink, spectrum and the Next G comparison | 36:13 AI disclosure, craftsmanship and perceived value | 42:54 Demo: procedural game art built with AI | 47:54 Creative IP, taste and execution skill | 56:47 Augmenting workers instead of promising job cuts | 1:00:46 Customers buy the outcome, not the AI | 1:02:32 Anthropic policy claims and a media sanity check | 1:03:46 Caveman and token efficiency | 1:04:42 Remotion, home AI boxes and portable memory | 1:08:34 Ambient notes and replaying conversations | 1:09:59 Merch ideas and wrap-up

### Episode 038: One AI Bot or a Whole Team? The Context-Switching Trap
- Published: 2026-10-07
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep38-7-oct-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep38-7-oct-2026.md
- Summary: Dave Pengelley, Richard Webbe and Matt Slager debate one AI assistant versus specialist bots, project context and how to get useful pushback instead of automatic agreement. Dave shows an AI-edited camping Field Notes video and an early career game prototype, alongside discussion of proactive help, model efficiency, second-brain notes and data risks.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Opening chat: daylight saving and smart clocks | 5:02 Welcome to AI Operators | 6:44 One assistant or a team of specialist bots? | 11:12 The context-switching trap | 17:51 Proactive assistants and the outer loop | 20:18 Model efficiency and cost per task | 23:07 Agent escapes or exposed data? | 27:16 Generic AI websites and pushing work back | 30:18 Wins: better research questions | 32:29 Hiring, peer interviews and confirmation bias | 35:30 Hiring incentives and the AI yes-machine | 42:18 Second brains, smart pens and recorded notes | 47:56 Surveillance, deepfakes and who owns the truth | 51:34 Demo: AI video editing from a campsite | 55:39 An early AI-built career game | 58:07 Calling your AI assistant | 59:35 Infrastructure, cybersecurity and funding | 1:03:13 Wrap-up

### Episode 037: OpenAI Dev Day: Dots, Pricing and the Everything App
- Published: 2026-07-01
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep37-1-july-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep37-1-july-2026.md
- Summary: Dave, Matt and Richard assess OpenAI's Dev Day through an operator lens, focusing on Dots, pricing and the emerging everything-app strategy. They weigh voice agents, privacy and practical workflows against the need to start with a real business problem.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open and the LinkedIn algorithm | 4:00 OpenAI Dev Day: demos and business value | 9:30 Dots, pricing and Codex quotas | 15:42 Fast modes and agent tools | 19:30 Voice agents and personal data | 23:00 Government data, privacy and convenience | 30:00 ChatGPT, Spaces and the everything app | 40:33 Subscription economics and value | 45:36 Ambient agents and voice experiences | 50:16 Image-led design and building workflows | 56:29 Start with the problem, then choose the tool | 1:00:18 Operator Stories and the channel cadence

### Episode 036: Is Australia Falling Behind on AI? Practical Workflows, Not Hype
- Published: 2026-09-23
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep36-23-sep-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep36-23-sep-2026.md
- Summary: Dave Pengelley, Matt and Richard Webbe explore AI-generated content, human judgement, practical workflows and the question of how Australia approaches AI adoption. They compare voice-led planning, connected tools and classifier-style workflows, ending with a test for whether a new tool solves a real problem.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Model limits, generated video and attention | 5:51 Kids, creativity and innovation with AI | 19:37 Typing, voice and future interfaces | 26:52 AI adoption, culture and education in Australia | 37:00 Practical AI use cases for work and home | 45:31 AI news and tools discussion | 53:03 Classifiers, routing and local AI workflows | 1:01:15 Win of the week: voice-led planning and connected tools | 1:06:16 Integration choices and avoiding shiny tools | 1:10:41 Wrap-up and audience questions

### Episode 035: AI Doomers, Data Centres and Why Structured Outputs Matter | AI Operators #35
- Published: 2026-09-16
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep35-16-sep-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep35-16-sep-2026.md
- Summary: Dave Pengelley, Richard Webbe and Matt Slager debate data centres, AI risk narratives and JEV's structured-output approach to automation. They then turn to API-first products, MCP access, human-led iteration and fast micro-app builds.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Chapters: 0:00 AI diet trackers and pre-show banter | 7:38 Data centres and the AI doomer debate | 16:27 JEV, structured outputs and confidence | 24:41 Context, correlation and AI claims | 29:50 Satellites, AGI and what we cannot predict | 35:22 Doomer scenarios and human responsibility | 43:22 AI likeness, parody and copyright | 51:08 MCPs, APIs and the best interface | 59:49 Micro apps and rapid iteration | 1:01:01 AI-assisted websites and time to market | 1:04:15 How to join the conversation

### Episode 034: Your AI Stack Needs Boundaries, Not Just Better Models.
- Published: 2026-09-09
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep34-9-sep-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep34-9-sep-2026.md
- Summary: Dave Pengelley and Shawn Hain compare the AI tools in their daily work, from browser agents and cloud environments to multi-model reviews. They examine vendor lock-in, sandboxed client work, long-running agents and the discipline needed to turn AI-assisted building into useful output.
- Hosts: DP
- Guests: shawn-hain
- Chapters: 0:00 Working within laptop limits | 6:50 Building a practical AI stack | 9:40 Astra, Grokbot and browser agents | 15:59 Pruning skills and framework ceremony | 22:37 Cloud agents, local machines and context | 31:36 Multi-model systems and adversarial reviews | 38:10 Long-running agents and real feedback | 45:42 Sandboxes, client data and project isolation | 56:16 WSL, Linux and working environments | 1:00:02 Windows shortcuts for daily operator work

### Episode 033: Steve Jobs' 30-Year-Old Tip for Getting ROI from AI
- Published: 2026-09-02
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep33-2-sep-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep33-2-sep-2026.md
- Summary: John Ansley, Co-Founder, Board Member and Chief Revenue Officer at Knowby, joins Dave Pengelley, Richard Webbe and Matt Slayga to connect a 1992 Steve Jobs lesson about operational productivity with the challenge of getting ROI from AI. They explore how Knowby turns real work into step-by-step instructions, then discuss process improvement, interfaces and keeping AI context portable.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Guests: john-ansley
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open | 3:10 Meet John Ansley and Knowby | 7:17 Why process maps fail the worker | 10:55 Steve Jobs and the productivity lesson | 14:51 AI can accelerate the mess | 17:30 Knowby alongside your existing tools | 19:18 From browser capture to step-by-step instructions | 22:14 QR codes, fast implementation and MCP | 25:22 Searchable organisational knowledge | 27:39 Improving a process before automating it | 34:30 Capturing data, evidence and feedback | 38:21 AI speed and smaller product teams | 40:36 Apple, hardware and user experience | 45:46 Agent interfaces, voice and wearables | 56:32 Keeping humans at the helm | 57:41 Subscriptions, portability and owning context | 1:07:02 Token resets and wrap-up

### Episode 032: AI Is an Amplifier, Not a Substitute for Thinking | Darren Mitchell
- Published: 2026-08-26
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep32-26-aug-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep32-26-aug-2026.md
- Summary: Darren Mitchell joins Dave Pengelley, Richard Webbe and Matt to explore AI as an amplifier for customer research and sales work, not a replacement for human judgement. They discuss critical thinking, provenance, deterministic systems and agent-friendly websites.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Guests: darren-mitchell
- Chapters: 0:00 The pub test and the guest introduction | 5:16 Darren Mitchell on useful, unscripted conversations | 15:35 AI as an amplifier for sales and customer research | 21:31 Why human judgement still differentiates B2B sales | 31:47 Start with the customer's problem | 35:08 AI quotas, costs and provenance | 42:50 Teaching people how to think | 50:11 The risk of becoming a meat proxy | 52:00 Deterministic systems around agent work | 57:20 AEO, agent-friendly websites and WebMCP | 1:06:41 Where to find Darren Mitchell

### Episode 031: AI Made Developers Faster. So Why Does Work Feel Harder?
- Published: 2026-08-19
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep31-19-aug-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep31-19-aug-2026.md
- Summary: Annie Vella joins Dave Pengelley, Matt Slayga and Richard Webbe to examine how AI-assisted development changes cognitive load, flow state and accountability. The panel explores supervisory engineering, meaningful productivity measures and the systems thinking required for enterprise AI.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Guests: annie-vella
- Chapters: 0:00 Meet Annie Vella | 2:09 AI and the changing engineering career | 9:25 Technical literacy beyond prompt engineering | 17:04 Managing agents and context limits | 22:19 Developer experience, cognitive load and dark flow | 29:25 Productivity gains and system bottlenecks | 37:18 AI governance and enterprise architecture | 45:31 Code review and supervisory engineering | 53:00 The satisfaction of making things | 1:00:57 AI creative tools and earned effort

### Episode 030: AI Attacks at Machine Speed. Zero Trust Is Not a Slogan.
- Published: 2026-08-12
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep30-12-aug-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep30-12-aug-2026.md
- Summary: Tony Kirkham joins Dave Pengelley, Richard Webbe and Matt Slager to examine AI-driven cybersecurity, zero trust, observability, identity controls and the enduring value of network fundamentals.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Guests: tony-kirkham
- Chapters: 0:00 Tony Kirkham joins the panel | 2:42 Cybersecurity and AI moving at machine speed | 8:43 Why cyber fundamentals still matter | 11:14 AI-assisted vulnerability discovery | 14:19 Isolation, segmentation and agent boundaries | 15:17 Securing agent credentials and secrets | 18:13 Combining cyber skills with AI fluency | 21:03 Why junior cyber roles are changing | 25:41 Observability and behavioural detection | 29:17 Security assurance versus insurance | 32:34 The cost of doing nothing | 36:25 What zero trust actually means | 42:21 Stronger authentication and passphrases | 49:17 AI for legacy systems and undocumented rules | 53:05 AI-assisted code analysis and data recovery | 55:42 Building practical tools with AI

### Episode 029: AI Agents Need Guardrails. Your Software Rebuild Needs a Plan.
- Published: 2026-08-05
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep29-5-aug-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep29-5-aug-2026.md
- Summary: Dave Pengelley, Richard Webbe and Matt examine whether AI will reshape monolithic software, and why a business-first approach matters when rebuilding systems. They explore agent harnesses, guardrails, progressive disclosure, technical debt and validation practices for production work.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Chapters: 0:00 The virtual water cooler | 6:18 Roobot, Hermes Agent and the Flux 3 bumper | 10:50 Why people push back on AI | 16:00 Will monolithic software face a reckoning? | 22:30 Vibe coding, technical debt and return on investment | 29:31 Agents, harnesses and guardrails | 35:49 Why the harness is the moat | 41:42 A real-world agent setup problem | 46:48 Progressive disclosure, procedures and skills | 50:30 Do not blindly trust your agents | 54:17 Validation systems over generated code | 59:30 Get started, but solve the right problem

### Episode 028: Stop Asking When You Can Have an Agent. Ask Why You Need One.
- Published: 2026-07-29
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep28-29-jul-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep28-29-jul-2026.md
- Summary: Dave, Richard, and Matt unpack Substack AI scanning, the cut-and-paste economy, Hermes book packaging, algorithm gaming, go-to-market engineering with free MCP tools, and why wanting an AI receptionist is the wrong first question if your process cannot support it.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open and camera chaos | 3:20 Inside baseball and guest ideas | 7:12 SEO Lab plug and pre-recorded pipelines | 9:05 Substack AI content scanning | 12:03 Cut-and-paste economy | 12:08 Hermes formats Richard's book for Kindle | 16:30 Original content vs algorithm fishing | 21:20 Campaign structures without the shortcuts | 24:20 First to market vs the me-twos | 27:00 Keyboard swag and custom boards | 30:40 Will keyboards die for voice? | 33:41 Speak to ideate, type to structure | 36:09 Go-to-market engineering and free MCP tools | 39:20 Prediction markets and group intelligence | 42:20 Free tiers that filter real buyers | 45:07 When can I have an AI receptionist? | 48:20 AI voice demo nobody bought | 51:30 Lightning news: open weights | 54:35 DeepSec agent security reviews | 58:27 GPT live mode and model notes | 1:00:12 Doug on context and living ontologies | 1:04:09 New MCP standard and local auth | 1:09:00 Wrap, share, and subscribe

### Episode 027: Stop Uploading Private Files to Sketchy Sites. On-Device Tools with Angus
- Published: 2026-07-22
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep27-22-jul-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep27-22-jul-2026.md
- Summary: Angus Lee Forbes joins the panel on FWIP (fwip.app): on-device private file tools and a one-off fee after a sketchy e-sign subscription trap. The crew also covers token burn, models that game evals, harness wars versus base models, ownership when agents multiply, and sovereign dependency risk.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Guests: angus-forbes
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open welcome Angus | 1:48 Fable credits and token burn | 2:27 Fifty dollars for one morning run | 3:34 Seven billion tokens in a week | 4:15 AI video slot machine | 5:12 Angus introduces FWIP | 5:55 Swiss Army knife on your device | 7:28 Free trial then ninety bucks US | 9:33 One-off fee not subscription trap | 12:20 Wide market and on-device economics | 15:00 Always online subscription pain | 15:33 Agents bash and local tools | 27:00 News models gaming evals | 31:20 Alignment and sandbox escape | 35:37 Zero refusals and Kimi demos | 38:32 Harness wars and execution layer | 40:12 Cost per task Soul and GLM | 43:00 Agents flow and ownership loss | 45:06 Define the problem first | 47:53 Productivity paradox and first principles | 54:00 Industry sentiment and Fable mythos | 59:13 Sovereign models and dependency | 1:04:38 fwip.app wrap and thanks

### Episode 026: AI Without Strategy Is Theatre. Process First with Kate Fabian
- Published: 2026-07-15
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep26-15-jul-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep26-15-jul-2026.md
- Summary: Kate Fabian (Adoptech) joins the panel from Far North Queensland on process-first AI for trades and regional SMEs. The hour covers strategy versus theatre sub-agents and token budgets CRM as process design and sovereign AI questions before the next tool purchase.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Guests: kate-fabian
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open Kate joins the panel | 1:52 Kate Adoptech Far North Queensland | 3:11 Trades construction job management | 5:16 They want AI what is the problem | 7:20 Wins of the week Fable and tools | 8:44 Plan then cheaper models sub-agents | 11:30 Hermes harness and model defaults | 14:04 Autonomous queues and green gates | 16:05 Token limits and budget plans | 18:39 Org chart analogy for model tiers | 21:00 Review the process then pick tools | 23:13 Planning guilt excitement and theatre | 26:54 Without strategy AI becomes theatre | 32:23 Bill shock measure ROI first | 35:21 Tradies CRM and bad process | 42:25 Faster broken process warning | 43:40 Task maths half a headcount | 47:21 Capture meetings while context is hot | 50:37 Idle time creativity for teams | 53:30 New models compute power sovereign AI | 1:06:48 First question before another AI tool

### Episode 025: Telstra Glitched This Morning: DR, Backhoes, and Agents Up the Creek
- Published: 2026-07-08
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep25-8-july-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep25-8-july-2026.md
- Summary: Mobile/Telstra friction the morning of the show opens into outage stories, sovereign AI, and Dave's vanished ChatGPT project with Notion as backup. Richard on untested LLM failover in business agents and the backhoe redundancy lesson; Dave on Hermes for the podcast; Matt on observability that acts.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open and banter | 4:37 This morning mobile challenge | 5:04 Aldi Telstra glitch and fallback | 5:36 Telstra outage war story | 8:08 Sovereign AI framing | 9:38 Vanished ChatGPT project Notion backup | 11:32 What ruins your day fastest | 13:37 Untested LLM failover up the creek | 15:09 Backhoe two telcos one pit | 17:20 Failover and fallback models | 22:46 Hermes routing and rate limits | 33:33 AI Operators Hermes profile | 40:04 Phone a friend CLI agents | 44:01 Agent bad habits and supervision | 52:30 Showroom vs AI research | 58:39 LinkedIn limits and sign-off

### Episode 024: Access, Audit, and Control Are the Product. Harness Bias, GLM 5.2, and the Local Hardware Boom.
- Published: 2026-07-01
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep24-1-july-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep24-1-july-2026.md
- Summary: Harness guardrails steer LLM answers before the weights do. Episode 24 opens on Richard's LinkedIn pushback on ethical-AI bias narratives, chatgpt.com versus API differences, and self-contained RAG where you only corrupt yourself. Matt's spine: access, audit, and control are becoming the product. News and economics cover GLM 5.2, GPT 5.6 limited preview, Claude Sonnet 5, local hardware growth, token spend comparisons, deterministic workflows versus agent loops, Richard's concentric ring rule, and build-versus-buy on dashboard mirrors and CRM maintenance.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:00 Cold open, stinger mix-up | 3:27 Ethical AI post and harness bias | 5:18 Self-contained RAG, own data lake | 6:31 Confirmation bias and lazy bias | 7:52 chatgpt.com vs OpenAI API | 11:30 Moral questions and LCD answers | 16:10 GLM 5.2 and media bias | 24:59 Hardware sales surge, local footprint | 25:36 Home stack cost for large open models | 26:38 ROI lens on LLM spend | 31:00 GPT 5.6 Sol Terra Luna preview | 39:10 Sonnet 5 vs GLM 5.2 tokenomics | 40:08 Deterministic code vs agent loops | 41:11 Access audit control are the product | 42:39 Token rug pull and subs | 49:14 Concentric ring cost rule | 53:19 Harness layers beyond the UI | 54:22 Can we but should we | 55:33 Dashboard mirror, seventeen sources | 57:13 CRM build vs buy | 58:50 Sign-off and new logo

### Episode 023: Smart Models Do The Wrong Thing Silently. Why Your AI Agent Just Made You Dumber.
- Published: 2026-06-24
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep23-24-jun-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep23-24-jun-2026.md
- Summary: Smart models do the wrong thing silently. The smarter the model gets, the sharper the human's judgment has to be — and almost nobody is investing in that judgment layer. Episode 23 anchors on the Rouse Hill IRL debrief, the deepfake video-call scam where the victim was the only real human, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas's line that the model is no longer the product, and Anthropic's agentic-coding persistent-returns-to-expertise paper. Dave's 32-agents-to-zero-productivity parable, Richard's bank-spreadsheet $40M/$140M caution, the baoyu comic-consistency anecdote, and the Roobot wearing different hats reframe on repo Claude Code plus hats vs fifty agents per project carry the practical corollaries. Enterprise translation covers Microsoft Agent 365, Copilot as harness, Claude Tag in Slack vs Salesforce Agentforce, and the on-prem-RAG pendulum swing.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold open, smart lights, "we miss Mano" | 02:45 IRL debrief: Rouse Hill, Kelly, Sean, IKA Tech Solutions videography, GoPro death | 06:30 Kelly's talk: dance studio, husband's business, NotebookLM, Lovable, building without a database | 09:00 Sean's quoting and trading demo: don't use AI for maths, deterministic vs probabilistic | 10:30 IRL audience questions: cost, where to start, AI literacy, harness vs model | 14:00 "How long is a piece of string" - the bleeding edge, M3 overthinks, Grok is lazy | 17:00 The blokes-walk bubble, normalising AI language, the Industrial Revolution thought experiment | 20:00 The 32-agents parable - "I ended up with so much productivity, I ended up with no productivity" | 22:30 Keyboard-ADHD, the squirrel-suit, atomised work, work-life balance under always-on agents | 23:40 News block 1: deepfake video-call scam - the victim was the only real human | 26:00 Voice-clone scams, Terminator 2, the scam-call car game, AI literacy counterweight | 28:30 News block 2: Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity CEO) on 20VC - "the model is no longer the product" | 30:50 The harness is the product, the model is commodity - what this show has been saying | 32:00 Matt's editorial spine: "as models get smarter, human judgment has to be razor-sharp" | 32:30 Dumb models fail loudly, smart models fail silently - the worked example | 33:36 Richard's bank-spreadsheet typo parable - $40M/$140M lost to one wrong number | 34:30 Hiring 32 super-intelligent toddlers - over-compartmentalisation breakdown | 35:30 The baoyu "why is Matt 200 kilos?" comic-consistency anecdote | 37:45 Anthropic paper: "agentic coding and persistent returns to expertise" | 39:00 Domain expertise is the moat - Kelly, Sean, Chart Report, the SEO tool Dave couldn't build | 42:28 Over-compartmentalisation vs ambient context - the Mario squirrel-suit reframe | 43:30 Hats, not 50 agents - repo Claude Code plus hats beats the agent fleet | 45:00 Brain break: infinite monkey theorem, Aristotle, Cicero, De Natura Deorum | 46:00 The autocorrect-to-LLM origin story - keyboard autocomplete and large language models | 48:14 Microsoft Agent 365 - the control plane, the harness is the product | 49:30 Copilot + Power Automate + SharePoint - the enterprise reach no one talks about | 50:30 On-prem-RAG pendulum swing - hardware sales climbing back, sovereignty | 51:30 Quantum tease - Australia as a quantum-computing leader, superposition, next week | 54:47 Claude Tag in Slack - Anthropic vs Salesforce Agentforce - the agentic-layer race | 55:50 Sign-off: Marno returns next week, AIOperatorsPod on Instagram / Facebook / X | 57:30 Hit subscribe, hit the bell, drop a question, see you next week

### Episode 022: Two Markets, Two Stacks. Why Your Solo AI Won't Survive The Enterprise Audit.
- Published: 2026-06-17
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep22-17-jun-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep22-17-jun-2026.md
- Summary: Anthropic pulled Fable five days into its release after a US government escalation over a jailbreak, and the panel reads the rug pull three ways: as hijack marketing (Savio's Indian-cinema parallel), as an iPhone-moment marketing coup (Dave's Apple G4 reference), and as a real safety-versus-export-control fight. The bigger conversation is the two-market split the Fable story made obvious. Individual productivity (Claude CoWork, Hermes, Antigravity, the personal AI OS) is real but is no longer the product. Enterprise, government, and mid-market buyers need a governed, sovereign, decentralised, audit-ready stack, and that is where the margin and the durability live. New guest Savio Francis from StarFCM has been building for that second market for 16 years. His flagship product Theos ships as an AI native environment that sits above the existing OS, lands as a sovereign in-a-box for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 customers, and targets the data-friction and knowledge-friction taxes that the personal AI OS does not even see. Plus: the Fable 72-hour lived-experience, OpenRouter Fusion as the sub-fable multi-model workaround, Cursor being absorbed by SpaceX AI, the cybersecurity time-to-exploit collapse from six weeks to thirty seconds, and the IRL event at the Australian Brewery in Rouse Hill.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS
- Guests: shawn-hain, savio-francis
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold open: cameras, heaters, Bitcoin miners as room heaters | 05:00 The AI OS for individuals vs the AI OS for teams - the split begins | 07:00 Matt launches Operator Systems on Skool | 09:00 IRL plug: aioperatorspod.com, Australian Brewery, Rouse Hill, next Tuesday | 11:00 Jarvis, the Facebook-marketed AI assistant, and the "two categories of agents" question | 13:00 The personal AI OS does not follow you between machines - the CoWork portability gap | 15:00 Antigravity, repo-based agent profiles, and the brain-that-does-not-transfer problem | 17:00 Hermes, Tailscale, Rust Desk, and the private-VPN workaround | 20:00 The two markets: prosumer vs enterprise, ChatGPT as a verb, grandmother-and-granddaughter test | 22:00 Fable news: 72 hours live, then pulled | 24:00 Jailbreak, the Amazon escalation, and the US government export control fight | 28:00 SQL injection for LLMs and the "hammer it until it gives in" pattern | 30:00 The Apple G4 ad, the iPhone-moon-photo moment, and the marketing coup | 33:00 Hijack marketing, Mortal Kombat, and the Indian cinema parallel | 34:00 Dave's Fable 48 hours: full code review, UI overhaul, trade-replay chart | 37:00 The Theo clip on "taste" as a model differentiator | 38:00 OpenRouter Fusion: war-room multi-model analysis as the sub-fable workaround | 41:00 Cursor absorbed by SpaceX AI, Anysphere and the next Composer model | 43:00 Cybersecurity as the AI-only game - the time-to-exploit collapse | 46:00 The frog in the warming pot - API access, SSH keys, and the agent blast radius | 48:00 Savio Francis on StarFCM and Theos: 16 years in wireless and network security | 51:00 The "AI native environment, not a platform, not an OS" positioning | 53:00 Sovereign in-a-box, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and the enterprise procurement angle | 55:00 Phased adoption: ChatGPT interface, infinite canvas, sovereign deployment | 57:00 The 8-to-10 hour quote that became 45 minutes | 59:00 Above the OS, not replacing it - the phased displacement strategy | 1:01:00 Salesforce Agentforce, Airtable HyperAgent, and the governed-agentic layer race | 1:03:00 Wrap, IRL reminder, like and subscribe

### Episode 021: The Model Is the Battery. Pick Your Poison.
- Published: 2026-06-10
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep21-10-jun-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep21-10-jun-2026.md
- Summary: Two-person show, just Dave and Matt. The token rug pull is now scheduled. Anthropic is offering Fable at 2x Opus burn rate until 22 June, then it is extra-usage billing only. From there the conversation opens up into the real story of the week: the harness is the product now, not the model. Kimi, Mimo, the Chinese labs and Minimax are all racing for the same layer. Dave walks through his actual daily driver stack: Hermes profiles, Perry White personas, M3 at $20 a month, Telegram as couch interface. Matt brings the hands-off build reality check: 48 hours of Droid Missions produced magical output and nothing that worked. They land on three operating principles: the human SOP and the agent SOP are not the same, ambient context is what humans have that prompts do not, and adoption requires a use case not a licence.
- Hosts: DP, MS
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold Open: shirts, mirror settings, the dead mouse | 04:00 Fable rug pull: the post-June-22 token cliff | 06:00 China efficiency and the harness race | 12:00 Fable graphics, VFX houses and the "average of all outputs" problem | 16:00 Rubik's cubes, formulas and the rise of "agent-as-navigator" coding | 20:00 Why Dave runs Hermes + M3 for $20 a month (and what it actually does) | 27:00 "Done well, done cheap, done fast - pick any two" | 29:00 Context reload: the cheap-model tell | 31:00 The battery vs the person: Hermes vs Claude Code architecture | 34:00 AI as the worker that builds the other things (IRL venue-pricing app) | 36:00 Fiverr is dead, but bespoke craft is not | 38:00 WWDC, SiriKit's successor and on-device AI on the iPhone | 41:00 Ambient AI: smart speakers, meatballs, and "fairy bread" | 44:00 Jony Ive / OpenAI IO, Plaud, Humane Pin - the wearable form factor race | 45:00 "SaaS is dead" was wrong - the swing back | 47:00 Is your business building a CRM or doing its actual business? | 48:00 Hands-off long-running builds: 48 hours of Droid Missions and "nothing worked" | 51:00 Human SOP vs agent SOP: "what's the decision you need from me?" | 54:00 Ambient context and why "a few paragraphs" will never match a lifetime of pattern-matching | 56:00 Pre-suasion: Cialdini, framing, and the next evolution of prompting | 58:00 "What am I missing?" - biasing the agent without caging it | 59:00 Sycophancy and the Ralph Loop / third-party review pattern | 1:01:00 Dave's actual stack: Hermes default + Perry White personas + Telegram | 1:04:00 "What do you need?" - adoption, toys vs tools, and the son-with-a-VPS story | 1:07:00 IRL reminder: aioperatorspod.com, Rouse Hill, two weeks out

### Episode 020: Stop Building Agents. Start Building Judgement Around Them.
- Published: 2026-06-03
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep20-03-jun-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep20-03-jun-2026.md
- Summary: OpenAI ships SharePoint-style internal Sites inside Codex. Employees are already shipping unsecured Lovable and Replit links. The panel lands on the reframe of the year: models are no longer the product, the harness is. Dave walks through his full refactor journey from ChatGPT projects to Hermes soul files and skills, and explains why a $10 a month Minimax m3 plan is now enough to do most of the work. Returning host Joanna Jones joins the panel from Western Australia, where she is now backing a statewide AI education push with the WA Chamber of Commerce.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Guests: joanna-jones
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold Open: lip sync, dial-up nostalgia and the Dingo Blue always-on internet | 08:30 IRL event: AI Operators Rouse Hill, 23 June, Luma link live | 12:30 AI Update: OpenAI Codex ships internal Sites (SharePoint for AI-built tools) | 15:00 Visual aids and the death of the IT-owned intranet | 16:30 Matt: models are not the product any more, the harness is | 19:30 Agent sprawl: unsecured Lovable and Replit links in the wild | 22:00 Token costs: Matt on Cursor Composer 2.5, Dave on Hermes and Minimax m3 at $10 a month | 28:00 AI ads, commercial bias and the fuzzy logic problem | 33:00 NVIDIA N1X: 120-billion-parameter models on a laptop | 36:00 Musk's space data centres and the power bottleneck | 42:00 Hermes desktop app: native Windows installer and computer use for non-devs | 44:30 Richard: pick the business problem before you pick the tool | 46:00 Matt: the winners will have better judgement, not better models | 50:00 Jo on vibe coding as the entry point for non-technical operators | 53:00 Matt's recommendation: the Codex desktop app | 55:00 Dave's full refactor journey: ChatGPT projects to Hermes soul files | 60:00 The Stockholm syndrome warning and Claude's sycophancy layer | 68:00 Skills versus agents: disaggregating the thinking from the doing | 69:00 Closing: Business AI for Business, "You're right to push back" | 70:00 Sign-off and IRL reminder

### Episode 019: Your AI Subscription Is Already Too Expensive. Here's What Comes Next.
- Published: 2026-05-27
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep19-27-may-2026
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep19-27-may-2026.md
- Summary: Covers AI agent harnesses, rate limits and silent failures, sovereign/local AI infrastructure, enterprise adoption challenges, and the upcoming IRL event in Sydney.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 0:50 Musk and Zuckerberg convinced Trump to scrap the AI executive order | 8:00 Everything stopped: the silent rate limit failure | 9:20 Claude Code vs Codex — the tool taxonomy that actually matters | 44:00 Building a smart home data center: why your house should be a compute cluster | 52:00 The IBM report stat: 40k reports, 0.01% read — the case for shutting up | 54:30 Why your competitive advantage is probably a human thing, not a process | 58:00 Neck stiffness vs the eyes: how algorithms measure the wrong signals

### Episode 017: It's Not If, It's When: The Backup You Don't Have
- Published: 2026-05-20
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-017-its-not-if-its-when
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-017-its-not-if-its-when.md
- Summary: Railway went dark for three hours. A ransomware crew took an ERP offline for weeks — and there were no backups. When it happens to you, do you have a recovery protocol, or just a hope?
- Hosts: DP, MS, MB, RW
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold open — Hamilton, binaural beats and focus music | 05:05 Welcome — how's everyone going | 05:37 Matt's morning: Railway down, services dark at an 8am demo | 07:13 Telstra scam calls and AI voice cold-callers | 09:13 AI avatars on video calls — the four-finger test | 11:21 AI Update: the Railway outage, breakdown (Google Cloud block) | 13:16 What Railway is — and the redundancy lesson | 14:54 Disaster recovery architecture — distributed vs one throat to choke | 16:40 Pronto ransomware — weeks down, no backups | 17:34 "It's not if, it's when" — air-gapped redundancy for production | 19:15 DR as insurance — when do you roll the dice? | 20:49 Dave's war story — dropping the live database | 22:00 Critical path — analyse what actually breaks | 23:17 Augmentation over automation — superhuman teams, not replacement | 24:23 Token cost forces the question — which agents add value? | 25:00 Satya Nadella clip — start with the output you care about | 26:20 Start with the end in mind — find the constraint | 28:33 Know your KPIs — Netflix and the insurance-payout data story | 30:03 Data without experience is just data | 32:11 News: Antigravity 2.0 and the Gemini CLI | 33:31 Gemini 3.5 Flash — speed, TPUs, pricing | 35:08 Google's $100 Ultra plan vs staying on Claude | 36:26 Karpathy joins Anthropic; Musk's OpenAI lawsuit thrown out | 38:33 Win of the week — the Adaptive AI Solutions site | 40:24 Marno's win — surpassing his old salary as a business | 41:22 Richard on AI conferences and the fundamentals | 42:57 The monetisation eras — internet, social commerce, what's next | 45:00 Agentic commerce — your agent buys before you blink | 46:49 Ads inside AI research — AI as a biased single source of truth | 49:53 Prompt injection — the unsolved problem | 52:28 Fake news on steroids — trust, regulation and zero trust | 53:53 Digital currency and the risk to banks | 55:43 Dave's wins — his son's first agent, and "AI for AI's sake" | 57:32 aioperatorspod.com launch + the AI Operators IRL event | 58:35 Building the site agentically — Claude Design to Claude Code | 1:03:49 Wrap + sign-off

### Episode 016: Everyone's Running AI. Nobody's Getting More Done.
- Published: 2026-05-13
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-016-everyones-running-ai-nobody-getting-more-done
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-016-everyones-running-ai-nobody-getting-more-done.md
- Summary: Your whole team is using AI. You're generating more than ever. So why isn't anything shipping faster?
- Hosts: DP, MS, RW
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold open — AirPods, binaural beats, and a bowling injury | 05:56 Welcome + show intro | 06:32 Agent experience vs UX — redesigning for agents, not humans | 07:40 SMB AI orchestration gap — Richard's psychologist-friend story | 10:28 Scaling AI from individual to org — shared context, shared agents | 14:36 Matt's bespoke CRM — building from primitives | 17:00 The Microsoft paradox — people use 3–4% of software features | 20:07 Systems of record — where is your source of truth? | 22:25 Dave hits his quota — $50 in half a day; LM Studio fallback | 28:02 Cameron Adams (Canva CPO) — individual AI ≠ team velocity | 30:36 Richard: information islands and the trust evolution | 33:01 KPIs for your agents — benchmarking AI productivity | 37:41 The 'slot machine' learning critique — AI disincentivises mastery | 46:00 The cooking analogy — same tools, the chef still matters | 51:42 Forward Deployed Engineer — the role emerging at AI-native companies | 53:34 IBM: 76% of enterprises now have a Chief AI Officer | 55:44 AI Operators IRL event — June, Northwest Sydney | 59:39 Wrap + sign-off

### Episode 015: Anthropic Just Spent $1.5B to Replace Us. Five AI Operators Respond.
- Published: 2026-05-06
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-015-anthropic-spent-1-5b-to-replace-us
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-015-anthropic-spent-1-5b-to-replace-us.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MB
- Guests: manjula-kerai, shawn-hain
- Chapters: 00:00 Welcome + five-panel format (Shawn debut) | 06:37 The GitHub CEO's Tesla, magnesium, and the M3GAN problem | 12:57 LinkedIn AI bots, fake CEOs, and spotting the fakes | 21:00 The phishing scam that booked a calendar slot | 26:14 Anthropic's $1.5B Wall Street consulting JV | 28:48 Three types of AI: personal / off-the-shelf / bespoke | 33:45 Why secret sauce is the SMB advantage | 39:39 Vibe coding: limits, support gaps, and one Family Guy clip | 43:31 Don't reinvent the CRM (Shawn's Twenty CRM custom wrapper) | 47:08 Wins: Manjula's solopreneur outreach stack | 50:13 Shawn's planning-first software engineering loop | 52:54 Dave's Linear cross-pollination across workspaces | 55:23 Marno's Microsoft To Do integration + Hermes | 55:56 The dawn / dusk / heartbeat rhythm system | 1:01:00 Anthropic's Claude agent templates for financial services | 1:04:50 The 10X solopreneur question | 1:09:43 Data fragmentation: knowledge layers, RAG, PACE layering | 1:13:06 Sign-off

### Episode 014: Vibe Coding Removes the Typing. Not the Engineering.
- Published: 2026-04-29
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-014-vibe-coding-removes-typing-not-engineering
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-014-vibe-coding-removes-typing-not-engineering.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold Open: Richard's Indonesia Rib, ADHD, Regular Roster | 01:00 Ep 13 Recap: Manjula's Smart Syllabus, Super Friends Roster | 01:37 AI in Education: Data Sovereignty, Curriculum-Specific Tools | 02:21 AI in Religious Orgs: Sermon Prep, Church Admin, Papal Ban | 05:22 Live Build Showcase: Letterbox Drop iPad App (Church) | 07:53 Dave's Win: n8n to YouTube Metadata Pipeline Automated | 11:14 AI Video Clipping: Descript, Hyperframes, the Slop Debate | 19:04 AI Update: Taylor Swift Trademarks Voice and Image | 23:12 AI Update: OpenAI Codex on Amazon Bedrock | 26:00 AI Language Drift: The Delve Effect | 28:07 Cognitive Security: Boiling the Frog with AI | 39:00 Wins of the Week: Richard's 608% ROI Manufacturing Case | 44:00 Wins: Matt — 3x Revenue Month, Two Projects in Parallel | 49:20 Matt's Tabletop Life Framework | 51:50 Wins: Marno — Hermes Agent Live, Docker Saga | 59:18 Wins: Dave — Sentry + PostHog Caught Stripe Misconfiguration | 1:03:43 Codex Image Gen Live Demo (On-Air) | 1:05:09 Closing: Vibe Coding Removes the Typing. Not the Engineering.

### Episode 013: Vibe Coded. No Security. Dead in 72 Hours.
- Published: 2026-04-22
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-013-vibe-coded-no-security-dead-in-72-hours
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-013-vibe-coded-no-security-dead-in-72-hours.md
- Summary: 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?
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Guests: amber-hills, manjula-kerai
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro & Cold Open | 01:00 Panel Welcome: Amber Returns, Manjula Debuts | 07:00 AI Update: Vercel/Cel Data Breach — Roll Your Keys | 18:28 Vibe Coded SaaS Shut Down in 72 Hours (Zero RLS, Open DB) | 25:10 MasterCard Agentic Payments: Agents With Budgets | 28:00 Wins of the Week: Dave's Cowork Routines + MCP Into Chart Reporter | 30:58 Wins: Manjula's Smart Syllabus + Diocese Meeting | 35:21 Wins: Amber's Cairns Speaking Tour & Touch Point Strategy | 38:34 Wins: Marno's Purpose Pivot — Education Over AI Hype | 43:18 'The Customer Is The Hero' — AI Is Just The Tool | 48:32 Deep Dive: Claude Design Live Demo (AI Operators Branding) | 55:15 Bonus: Claude Sonnet Builds a 9-Page Sponsor Deck Live | 1:07:00 Hormozi Rule: Pick One Thing, Give It Six Months

### Episode 012: The Jury of 12: Why You Still Need Humans In An Agent Stack
- Published: 2026-04-17
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-012-jury-of-12-humans-in-the-agent-stack
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-012-jury-of-12-humans-in-the-agent-stack.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, MS, MB
- Guests: nataliya-shalygina
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro | 02:16 Welcome Nataliya: Day Job Change Manager, Night Job LeadMark AI | 03:20 'If You Can Work With People, You Can Work With Agents' | 05:47 Nataliya's 2017 AI Origin Story (Before It Was Cool) | 09:19 AI Update: Gemma, The Campfire Refusal | 12:33 Model-To-Mind Matching: The LinkedIn Quiz | 14:35 Harnesses Orchestrating Mixed Model Stacks | 23:42 Building In Public Is A Distribution Strategy | 24:40 Vendor Agnostic: Why Dave Moved Off Gemini | 26:15 Context Migration Services: The Missing Product Category | 31:13 Wins Of The Week: Matt Lands Client Number Six | 37:28 The Jury Of 12: Diversity Of Thinking Beats Speed | 38:56 'Agents Inherit Your Biases' | 40:05 Marno Launches Adaptive AI Solutions & Turns 30 | 46:41 Dave: Change Management Is The Critical Layer | 53:23 The Harness Analogy | 56:08 Nataliya: The Harness Is The Org Chart

### Episode 011: Tokenomics: Why Your $120 AI Plan Is About to Break
- Published: 2026-04-09
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-011-tokenomics-your-120-ai-plan-about-to-break
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-011-tokenomics-your-120-ai-plan-about-to-break.md
- Summary: 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?
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Cold Open: Mythos, Mem Palaces & Men's Fashion | 00:27 Show Open: Suits, Stoicism & The Banquet of Life | 04:00 Fuel Prices as a Metaphor for Subsidised AI Subscriptions | 11:00 The Claude Code Source Leak Explained | 15:00 What Actually Got Exposed (Harness, Not Data) | 16:00 Anthropic's Mythos Model & Project Glasswing | 21:00 The Pricing Play: Blocking OpenCode With Credits | 23:00 Tokenomics: The $120 vs $65 Arbitrage | 29:00 Alt Harnesses: Goose, Hermes, PI & Sergeant | 31:00 Hierarchies & Subagents to Contain Token Burn | 43:00 Matt Walks Out of the Claude Code Walled Garden | 47:00 Memory & Context: Compilation, Retrieval, Continuity | 55:00 Dave's Hybrid Memory System (80% of Both) | 1:00:00 The Crux: What's the Real Problem You're Solving? | 1:02:00 Your Personality Is the Moat

### Episode 010: Was This Built for a Previous Reality?
- Published: 2026-04-07
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-010-was-this-built-for-a-previous-reality
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-010-was-this-built-for-a-previous-reality.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro | 04:30 Show Open: Why Businesses Are 'Stiff' | 07:00 Dave's Calendar Fail (Cal.com, Public Holidays & Context Gaps) | 09:30 The Edge/CLI Revolution: Compute Swings Back to Local | 14:30 The Axios Supply Chain Hack: NPM Install as Attack Vector | 20:30 Matt's Camera Diagnostics: Let the Agent Fix It | 24:30 Marno: 'We're Doing a Disservice by Not Shipping These Tools' | 28:30 Dave: Church Budget Dashboard (Xero Integration) | 33:30 'You're Not Replacing a Person, You're Replacing a Workflow' | 40:00 Matt: MSP Boardroom Win — 'We Won't Be Around in 5 Years' | 42:30 Richard: 'What Is the Problem We're Trying to Solve?' | 53:30 Matt Barry's Essay: Token Burn & the Subscription Trap | 59:30 Token Economics: $150K Human vs $335 LLM | 1:03:30 'Stop Designing AI Systems. Start Designing Business Habits.'

### Episode 009: Expert in the Loop: AI File Recovery, $1.50 Personal Agents
- Published: 2026-03-26
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-009-expert-in-the-loop
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-009-expert-in-the-loop.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro: Smoked Meats, Saunas & Can AI Cook Better? | 08:00 'Expert in the Loop' — The Concept That Changes How You Use AI | 13:00 Marno's Anti-Gravity Bot: 72 Tasks, $1.50, and It Calls Out Procrastination | 16:00 Richard's GTM Perspective: Everyone Wants AI, No One's Doing It | 19:30 AI Slop, Influencer Collapse & Why Authenticity Wins | 29:30 Dave's Claude Code Meetup Recap: Who's Actually Using OpenClaw? | 33:00 Matt's ADHD Single-Task Briefing & Secure OpenClaw Defaults | 37:00 Dave's Mac-to-PC Migration: WSL, Docker & the NemoClaw Nightmare | 41:00 Is SaaS Dead? Build vs Buy in the Age of AI | 46:00 Dave's Website Flipping Pipeline: n8n → Twenty CRM → Claude Code → SMS | 54:00 'AI Is Eating Software' — Richard's Entrepreneur Mate Nails It | 56:30 Dave's Big Win: Recovering a Dead Voice Recorder File With Claude Code | 1:03:00 Wrap Up: Just Start, Reach Out, We'll Help

### Episode 008: To Claw or Not to Claw: Dave Ditches Google
- Published: 2026-03-18
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-008-to-claw-or-not-to-claw
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-008-to-claw-or-not-to-claw.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro: Adelaide, Ocean Road & Dubai Chocolate | 04:30 Matt's AI Win: Ingesting Alex Hormozi's Entire Library | 07:00 Dave Ditches Google Gemini | 10:30 Claude Code First Impressions: Subagents, Terminals & Building the Business OS | 17:00 Marno's Working AI OS: Discord Bot + Whisper + Calendar + Invoicing | 22:00 Workflow Decomposition: The Alex Hormozi Atomic Task Method | 29:00 Reverse Engineering Undocumented APIs With Browser Automation Agents | 34:00 Claude Cowork / Dispatch: Running Claude Code From Your Phone | 37:00 OpenClaw vs Claude Code: The V8 vs Monaro Breakdown | 41:00 NVIDIA Announces NemoClaw + OpenShell | 46:00 Who Do You Serve? Marno's Rebrand & Education Pivot | 59:00 Why Business Owners Aren't Adopting AI (Yet) | 1:02:00 Systems Beat AI: The Non-AI Report That Saved 20 Hours a Week | 1:06:00 Approval Fatigue: When You Auto-Approve Everything, the Loop Breaks

### Episode 007: Change Management in the Age of Agents
- Published: 2026-03-10
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-007-change-management-age-of-agents
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-007-change-management-age-of-agents.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, MS
- Guests: amber-hills, joanna-jones

### Episode 006: Stop Using Web UIs: Why LLM APIs Are 10x More Accurate
- Published: 2026-03-03
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-006-stop-using-web-uis-llm-apis
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-006-stop-using-web-uis-llm-apis.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro & AI Video Platforms (Higgsfield, Fal) | 03:13 The Threat to Creativity & Why 'Taste' Wins | 12:53 Social Media Algorithms & Ending Engagement Farming | 26:48 API vs Web Interface: Why Context Windows Matter | 36:00 Sovereign AI & The Infrastructure Power Crisis | 45:35 The Logic Behind Space Data Centers (Zero Cooling, 100% Solar) | 52:13 Australia's AI Investment Gap | 1:03:00 Outro & Contact

### Episode 005: The Chainsaw Paradox: Why Your New AI Tools Are Making You Slower
- Published: 2026-02-25
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-005-chainsaw-paradox
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-005-chainsaw-paradox.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 The Midday Show Heat | 05:45 The 1400% ROI Benchmark | 14:10 Building a Knowledge Core (Obsidian + CLI) | 42:50 The Chainsaw Metaphor | 58:20 Microsoft's Sovereign Move

### Episode 004: Your AI Agent Can Be Hacked While You Make Coffee
- Published: 2026-02-17
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-004-your-ai-agent-can-be-hacked
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-004-your-ai-agent-can-be-hacked.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, RW, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Welcome & Richard Webbe joins the cast | 02:31 Whoop, sleep data & the integrated life OS | 07:36 Open Claw / Claude Bot — what is it really? | 12:44 The autonomous loop: why agents are different from chatbots | 20:22 Prompt injection — the AI-era SQL hack | 24:35 Image metadata injection (the scary one) | 27:05 DC Comics personas & agent culture | 35:19 Method acting, apprentices & how to brief an AI | 43:33 Cognitive security — the term you need to know | 44:03 Sovereign AI: build vs. buy at enterprise scale | 45:03 AWS Bedrock Sydney & the data sovereignty play | 51:56 Open source AI: the Red Hat liability trap | 57:23 Chrome MCP — the web is becoming an agent interface

### Episode 003: Just-In-Time Interfaces: Why Your Next App Won't Have Fixed Buttons
- Published: 2026-02-11
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-003-just-in-time-interfaces
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-003-just-in-time-interfaces.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro & Weekly Updates | 04:04 Teaching AI at TAFE: The Knowledge Gap | 09:33 Just-In-Time Interfaces & Dynamic UI | 18:09 Why Agents Won't Use Human Code Forever | 24:10 Branding & Personalization in the AI Era | 30:10 OpenClaw Experiments: Giving Agents Budgets | 37:01 Google's Full Stack Advantage | 42:12 Knowledge Management: Why Local Files Win | 50:09 Designing Systems for Agents, Not Humans | 57:12 Live Demo: Building a Pricing Calculator in 60 Seconds

### Episode 002: AI 'Context Rot' Explained: Why Your Agents Get Dumber
- Published: 2026-01-30
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-002-context-rot-explained
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-002-context-rot-explained.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Intro & The 'Cost of Inaction' | 12:41 Marno: Stop treating AI like a tool | 13:46 Matt's Hot Take: 'Prompt Engineering is just Sales' | 15:00 Dave: Moving from Chat to 'Anti-Gravity' (Google's IDE) | 21:46 Technical Deep Dive: Why context windows 'Rot' | 32:00 The 'Inherited Bad Habits' of AI Models | 42:00 Q&A: Is my business data actually safe? | 46:00 Security: Understanding your 'Attack Vectors' | 54:00 The 'MoltBook' & ClawdBot/Moltbot/OpenClaw Saga

### Episode 001: Start a New Chat — What 3 AI Operators Actually Use It For
- Published: 2026-01-25
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-001-start-a-new-chat
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/episodes/ep-001-start-a-new-chat.md
- Summary: 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.
- Hosts: DP, MS, MB
- Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to the AI Operators | 03:27 The AI 'Thinking' Load & Cognitive Fatigue | 07:20 Why we're always 'Printing': The missed opportunity trap | 13:13 Prompt Engineering is DEAD (Long live Context Engineering) | 21:45 Building a Business Blueprint with AI Audits | 26:45 The Ethics of Constant Context: Wearables & Privacy | 30:14 The Truth About ClawdBots / MoltBots | 34:00 Running Open Source Models on a VPS | 40:00 Tamagotchis for Adults: The Soul of your AI Agent

## Field Notes

### Stop copy-pasting between your AI agents
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn10-shared-bot-spine
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn10-shared-bot-spine.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7HdJ9edEs
- Summary: Dave uses Plane for shared scope and feedback, with GitHub for code, so agents on different platforms can collaborate without relying on copy-pasted chats. He still prompts handovers, tests builds and makes the decisions.
- Published: 2026-10-23
- Duration: 9:05

### I gave AI a WhatsApp screenshot. It built me an app.
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn9-mc-cards
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn9-mc-cards.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqjqDmasWcY
- Summary: Dave turns a WhatsApp announcement list into a mobile cue-card app, then improves the swipe interaction so he can use it while presenting. He explains browser-local storage and link-based sharing.
- Published: 2026-10-16
- Duration: 7:36

### AI thumbnails: generate the art, not the layout
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn8-thumbnail-template
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn8-thumbnail-template.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T37l1xu9V34
- Summary: Dave separates generated key art from a fixed HTML/CSS layout so AI Operators thumbnails keep consistent typography, logos and branding. He shows transcript-led prompts and the agent reviewing its first attempt.
- Published: 2026-10-09
- Duration: 10:58

### ChatGPT Dots can be your YouTube producer and editor
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/chatgpt-dots-video-editing
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/chatgpt-dots-video-editing.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QU5latsqCM
- Summary: Dave shows how his OpenAI dot Hamilton used Remotion to improve an animated website video, then assembled this Field Note from iPhone recordings, kangaroo B-roll and branded bumpers.
- Published: 2026-10-02
- Duration: 4:04

### I Unlocked ChatGPT's Hidden Powers
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/chatgpt-hidden-powers
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/chatgpt-hidden-powers.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asKk4RUK-AI
- Summary: Dave connects ChatGPT with Airtable, GitHub and Google Drive, showing how conversations can become structured project records and a reusable document outside the chat.
- Published: 2026-09-25
- Duration: 10:04

### Your AI Agent Can Share a Live Demo Without the Vercel Detour
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn5-here-now
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/fn5-here-now.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4bXK6ZiTg
- Summary: Dave uses here.now to share a web presentation, a live button demo and an open-source cursor effect. He distinguishes quick, low-risk demos from production deployment and security review.
- Published: 2026-09-18
- Duration: 12:09

### AI Fast Mode Gave Me a 24-Hour Hangover
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/go-fast-reupload
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/go-fast-reupload.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy26-TD9Qrg
- Summary: Dave's fast-mode Field Note returns in a new upload: faster iteration moved several projects forward, but the intense session was followed by mental fatigue and a rethink about his limits.
- Published: 2026-09-14
- Duration: 8:38

### GPT-6 Astra Won Me Over. Then It Got the Details Wrong.
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/astra-web
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/astra-web.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQb9Uuztni8
- Summary: Dave shows how Astra moved his website redesign forward after earlier attempts missed the visual brief, then explains where he still had to challenge the model's output and staging advice.
- Published: 2026-09-11
- Duration: 8:54

### Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents to Find It?
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/is-agentic
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/is-agentic.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIL0zLHBN6E
- Summary: Dave tests whether AI agents can understand the AI Operators website, then works through the content gaps and technical improvements surfaced by the report.
- Published: 2026-08-28
- Duration: 6:49

### I burned a billion AI tokens. The fix ran while I slept.
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/hermes-kanban
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/field-notes/hermes-kanban.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqdt7tc0Tk
- Summary: Dave explains why parallel sub-agents struggled with sequential software-build dependencies, and how a Kanban board with a supervising model helped move the work forward while he was away.
- Published: 2026-08-21
- Duration: 11:48

## Operator Stories

### Who manages the work when AI writes the code? | Corey Pritchard
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/corey-pritchard
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/corey-pritchard.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3yKU7Z_NGE
- Summary: Corey Pritchard joins Dave to explain why he built alterac.ai to coordinate coding agents. They discuss planning, context, dependencies, fresh-context reviews and the engineering judgement needed to verify AI-generated work.
- Published: 2026-10-19
- Duration: 1:08:01
- Guests: corey-pritchard

### They Declined $250K to Replace 50 Staff With AI | Operator Stories
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/michael-turner-marcus-barnett
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/michael-turner-marcus-barnett.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=199uJpSPxwM
- Summary: Michael Turner and Marcus Barnett of Turner & Barnett Consulting join Dave to discuss AI automation that supports staff rather than replacing them. They share their approach to discovery, phased implementation, finding clients and the ethical boundaries they set for their work.
- Published: 2026-10-12
- Duration: 59:19
- Guests: michael-turner, marcus-barnett

### Why Your Company Isn't Seeing AI ROI (And How to Fix It) | Ankit Mishra
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/ankit-mishra
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/ankit-mishra.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x14gXiPswcg
- Summary: Ankit Mishra joins Dave to discuss why giving a company AI tools is not enough. He shares his route into AI consulting and argues for fluency, technical expertise, secure systems and informed build-versus-buy decisions.
- Published: 2026-10-05
- Duration: 53:47
- Guests: ankit-mishra

### You're NOT Behind on AI | Tanya Ferguson — Operator Stories #1
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/tanya-ferguson
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/operator-stories/tanya-ferguson.md
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3Jgg68gCx0
- Summary: Tanya Ferguson tells Dave how she moved from insurance into AI consulting and the operational blind spots she looks for in small businesses. They discuss missed-call follow-up, AI fatigue and starting with business needs rather than tools.
- Published: 2026-09-24
- Duration: 56:15
- Guests: tanya-ferguson

## Hosts and guests

### Dave Pengelley
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/dave-pengelley
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/dave-pengelley.md
- Role: Founder / Operator / Innovator
- Organisation: Syllogism · Chart Reporter
- IRL appearances: AI Operators IRL · Sydney

### Richard Webbe
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/richard-webbe
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/richard-webbe.md
- Role: Turning Disruptive Technology & AI into revenue
- Organisation: Syllogism · Esource
- IRL appearances: AI Operators IRL · Sydney

### Matt Slager
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/matt-slager
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/matt-slager.md
- Role: Systems & agent architecture
- Organisation: Slaytek Systems

### Marno Brits
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/marno-brits
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/marno-brits.md
- Role: Workflow mastery & hard lessons
- Organisation: Kalgoorlie AI

### Amber Hills
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/amber-hills
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/amber-hills.md
- Role: Speaker & AgTech operator
- Organisation: AI Automation Australia

### Joanna Jones
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/joanna-jones
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/joanna-jones.md
- Role: AI agency builder
- Organisation: EmuApple AI

### Nataliya Shalygina
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/nataliya-shalygina
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/nataliya-shalygina.md
- Role: Change management & AI embedder
- Organisation: LeadMark AI

### Manjula Kerai
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/manjula-kerai
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/manjula-kerai.md
- Role: Solopreneur · education AI
- Organisation: Smart Syllabus Assistant

### Shawn Hain
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/shawn-hain
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/shawn-hain.md
- Role: Founder | Practical AI & Workflow Automation for SMBs
- Organisation: Synvaren AI
- IRL appearances: AI Operators IRL · Sydney

### Kelly Adams
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/kelly-adams
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/kelly-adams.md
- Role: General Manager
- Organisation: RKA Tech Solutions
- IRL appearances: AI Operators IRL · Sydney

### Kate Fabian
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/kate-fabian
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/kate-fabian.md
- Role: Founder / Digital Business Consultant
- Organisation: Adoptech

### Angus Forbes
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/angus-forbes
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/angus-forbes.md
- Role: Founder & Head of Product - fwip.app

### Tony Kirkham
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/tony-kirkham
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/tony-kirkham.md
- Role: Networking, cybersecurity and telco consultant
- Organisation: Neon Knight Consulting

### Annie Vella
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/annie-vella
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/annie-vella.md
- Role: Engineer and researcher

### Darren Mitchell
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/darren-mitchell
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/darren-mitchell.md
- Role: Sales leadership coach, mentor & speaker
- Organisation: Exceptional Sales Leaders

### John Ansley
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/john-ansley
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/john-ansley.md
- Role: Co-Founder, Board Member, Chief Revenue Officer
- Organisation: Knowby

### Ankit Mishra
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/ankit-mishra
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/ankit-mishra.md
- Role: Founder and Principal Consultant
- Organisation: AM Consulting Group

### Corey Pritchard
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/corey-pritchard
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/corey-pritchard.md
- Role: Founder
- Organisation: alterac.ai

### Marcus Barnett
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/marcus-barnett
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/marcus-barnett.md
- Role: Co-founder
- Organisation: Turner & Barnett Consulting

### Michael Turner
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/michael-turner
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/michael-turner.md
- Role: Co-founder
- Organisation: Turner & Barnett Consulting

### Tanya Ferguson
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/tanya-ferguson
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/guests/tanya-ferguson.md
- Role: Founder
- Organisation: Clearbrook AI Solutions

## AI Operators IRL

### AI Operators IRL · Sydney
- Date: 2026-06-23T18:00:00+10:00
- Location: Australian Hotel and Brewery, Sky Room — Rouse Hill, NSW
- Canonical: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/events/ai-operators-irl-2026-06
- Markdown: https://www.aioperatorspod.com/events/ai-operators-irl-2026-06.md
- Summary: Twenty operators showed up on a Tuesday night in Rouse Hill — four lightning talks, a long panel, and honest conversation about what is actually shipping in SMB AI. Community Event sponsor **Australian Hotel and Brewery** hosted the room and AV. **RKA Tech Solutions** backed the night as sponsor. The replay playlist and talk transcripts are now available below.

## Citation guidance

- Cite the canonical HTML page for public references.
- Use the Markdown pages for a deterministic text representation of the same public record.
- Attribute live commentary to the named speaker and episode.