Business AI Explained

Igor Pogany just hosted the largest AI event in history — 600,000+ people — and grew a 400K+ channel teaching mid-career professionals how to actually use AI. So I asked him the obvious question: what did running it all teach you about using AI? His answer isn't about prompts or the newest tool. It's about context: stop treating AI like a vending machine, start feeding it your context, a...

Most companies are buying AI, then quietly failing at the last mile. Michael LaVista has spent 25 years shipping the hard final stretch — here's how he gets AI into production. Michael LaVista, founder of Caxy (a Chicago software firm that's spent 25+ years staying a few steps ahead of the market), breaks down "last-mile AI" — why most AI projects run out of steam right at the...

Lanch went from zero to $200M in under three years selling chicken. Leander Gruss, Head of Growth at Lanch, will explain us how. In this episode: • Why you should never "vibe-code" your source of truth — and how to decide build vs buy • How a non-technical growth lead actually ships internal tools (the exact stack) • The 2-day prototype rule that stops AI builds from sprawling • Running...

Most AI agent projects stall at the last mile: the legacy browser workflows no API can reach. Idan Raman, founder of Anchor Browser, joins Vlad to explain why browser agents are the missing piece in enterprise AI, how the Cloudflare partnership is changing the economics of automation, and why the OpenClaude security fallout was a wake-up call for anyone running computer-use agents in production. I...

AI training usually fails for a simple reason: it is too generic. In this episode of Business AI Explained , I sit down with Elise Masurel de Laval , co-founder of Catalyst.ai Academy , to break down what makes AI training actually work inside companies. Elise and her team focus on practical AI training for non-technical roles, with a strong emphasis on role-based use cases and learning by doing r...

Max Emma started in landscaping and construction, then got hit hard during the 2008 recession, a period that eventually led to bankruptcy and some hard-earned lessons about risk, financial management, and resilience. He later co-founded Booxkeeping , a bookkeeping business built around fixed pricing, operational efficiency, and standardized financial reporting. That business went on to scale throu...

AI adoption usually breaks when companies try to force it top-down or keep it stuck in experimentation. Charlotte Lucas is Head of Strategy at ScorePlay , where she’s driving AI adoption across the business to help teams in sales, customer success, marketing, and operations move faster and work smarter. As ScorePlay competes in sports broadcasting with a lean team, Charlotte is building practical...

AI is no longer just a buzzword in sales, it’s becoming the backbone of how companies engage customers, qualify leads, and scale go-to-market. In this episode, I’m joined by Adis Ceman , Regional Enterprise Sales Director at Cequens , a company building AI-powered communication systems across channels like WhatsApp, SMS, and voice. We go deep into how enterprises are actually using AI today, beyon...

Many companies are experimenting with AI. But very few are restructuring their operations around it. In this episode of Business AI Explained , Vladimir de Ziegler sits down with Sean Griffith , founder of Truffle , to discuss how AI is reshaping hiring, software workflows, and internal operations. Sean explains how his team is able to produce the same level of output with fewer than 10 people com...

Most companies talk about AI. Very few actually implement it in production. In this episode of Business AI Explained , Vladimir de Ziegler sits down with Alexis d'Eudeville , AI Product Manager at Lemlist , to discuss how AI is being used inside real companies. Alexis shares practical lessons from building AI products, launching startups, and working at Google . They explore how AI is transfo...

AI in e-commerce is transforming automation, positioning, and trust for modern online brands. In Episode 4 , I sit down with Tim Masek, CMO of Storetasker , to break down how AI is actually being used inside real e-commerce businesses. Not demos. Not theory. Real execution. We cover: Using AI for copywriting and site structure Rethinking positioning with AI Automating workflows without losing orig...

AI in operations for hardware companies looks very different from AI in software, especially after a bankruptcy. Eliott Wertheimer is the CEO of VanMoof , the iconic European e-bike brand rebuilding after bankruptcy. In this episode of Business AI Explained , we explore AI in operations for hardware companies and what it takes to rebuild trust, reliability, and economics in a physical product busi...

GTM AI teams break down the moment you try to scale beyond a few workflows into real operations. David Arnoux is a fractional GTM AI strategist who sits inside companies building AI implementation, not just advising.  He runs Gen AI Circle (400+ heavy AI adopters) and has worked with scale-ups and enterprise companies transforming their go-to-market teams with AI. In this episode of Business AI Ex...

Business AI Explained is a podcast about how AI actually gets implemented inside real companies. I’m Vlad Ziegler, founder of Elements Agents.  For the past two years, I’ve helped companies move from “we want to use AI” to actual production systems that drive measurable ROI. Every conversation starts the same: “We want to use AI. We just don’t know where to begin.” The gap isn’t technical knowledg...

AI implementation in go-to-market (GTM) breaks down the moment it moves from demos into real teams. Abraham Gomez is a Strategic Startups Customer Engineer at Google , where he has advised 400+ founders on AI implementation in go-to-market (GTM) teams.  In this episode of Business AI Explained , we break down how AI actually gets implemented inside sales, marketing, and GTM operations and why most...