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You can ask AI to complete a task. Someone still has to decide which task matters, how it connects to the rest of the business, and what happens next. Sam Pasupalak , co-founder and CEO of Skyfall AI, joins me to talk about his team's ambition to build an AI CEO. We discuss why he sees planning as the missing piece, how world models could help a system anticipate the consequences of business d...

Candidates use AI to write applications. Companies use AI to filter them. Everyone ends up frustrated. So how do we break the hiring doom loop? Sharawn Tipton , Chief People Officer at Greenhouse, joins Johannes Sundlo to discuss what happens when you give candidates a chance to speak before judging their CV. We explore voice AI interviews, the candidates recruiters might otherwise miss, and why t...

You can get everyone using AI and still have very little to show for it. Syed Ali Abbas, Global VP of People for Business Units at HelloFresh, joins me to talk about what the company is doing with AI and how it judges whether the work is paying off. We discuss the data cleanup behind its AI efforts, a US pilot offering 350 recipes to more than 25,000 customers, and what happens when the pace of ch...

Kantar has around 12,000 employees and around 15,000 agents. Andy Doyle is responsible for both, and he explains how they reached that scale in 18 months without an engineering army. In this episode: Why the CEO pushed for the title Chief People and Agent Officer, and what it changes in practice The bet behind giving all 12,000 people Copilot in three months, from 300 pilot licenses to everybody C...

In May I argued that AI is a work tool, not a perk. Three months and a lot of client work later, the gap between the people who have it and the people who don't is not closing. It's growing, and most organizations are fuelling it without meaning to. In this episode:- Why well-intentioned license decisions end up splitting your workforce in two- The two cohorts living side by side in the sa...

First episode of the new interview series with people who do stuff with AI, not people who talk about AI. Joe Shahmoradian runs talent acquisition for EMEA at Morningstar, and everything in this episode is running in his team today. In this episode: How his team cut post-call admin by 75% with AI transcription on screening calls, and why the first tool got killed Amira, the AI teammate that works...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter → https://fullstackhr.io Claude started watermarking every text it writes. Substack scores your posts for AI. Recorded from the car after two weeks off, this episode is about why both miss the point. In this episode: What Anthropic's new invisible watermark does, and what it can't do How Substack's Pangram scan works, and why it's easy to ci...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter → https://fullstackhr.io A week at Almedalen made one thing obvious. Most leaders shaping how Sweden thinks about AI have only ever touched Copilot or the free ChatGPT, and that single reference point is quietly capping what entire organizations believe AI can do. In this episode: Why almost nobody picks their own model, and how a Microsoft license becomes...

Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5, and I've run it through the same test suite he's used on every major model for 2.5 years. The verdict is clear, but the bigger lesson isn't about the model at all. In this episode:- Why Fable 5 feels like the most human-like model yet, and how it gives honest, direct feedback instead of patting you on the back- The worker scheduling test (30 peopl...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter → https://fullstackhr.io Organizations keep telling Johannes Sundlo, the host here, "we've got the basics covered, skip ahead." Then he asks them to show how they use AI, and gets blank stares. This episode is about AI shame, where it comes from, and the one step you can't skip. In this episode: AI shame, what it looks like and why it'...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter Yes, you can connect your HR system, ATS, or engagement tool to Claude and ChatGPT. In this episode Johannes Sundlo walks through the exact steps to add an MCP server to both tools, using a safe read-only demo. In this episode: What an MCP server unlocks for your AI, explained simply Adding a pre-made connector in Claude Adding a custom MCP server in Claude...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter → https://fullstackhr.io OpenAI just ran an event called Intelligence at Work, and the releases say a lot about where the world of work is going. Here is what dropped and why it matters for anyone leading AI adoption. In this episode: Why the bottleneck has shifted from model intelligence to a company's ability to absorb the tech The stat to sit with: 7...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter Performance reviews have looked the same since the 1950s, and they are still mostly task-based. AI breaks that. This episode asks what we should reward when the tasks get automated and the only thing left to value is human judgment. In this episode:- Why the task-based performance review is the wrong tool for the AI era- The judgment problem. If an agent do...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter →  https://fullstackhr.io Three and a half years into the AI shift, most leaders still know AI matters but have no idea how to use it. This episode is about why that gap exists, and why the answer is getting practical. In this episode: Why leaders keep asking for agentic workflows before they've done the basic Copilot grunt work The uncomfortable questi...

Subscribe to the FullStack HR newsletter An impromptu between-episodes take on the AI bubble panic. Johannes cuts through the headlines about rising token costs, Microsoft cutting Claude Code, and Uber's COO questioning AI ROI, and explains what's signal and what's noise. In this episode:- Why nobody can actually call a bubble, and what the market is and isn't telling us right now-...

The short answer is yes. But yes deserves an explanation. In this episode I make the case for why HR needs to get technically curious right now, and why that has nothing to do with becoming a programmer. We cover what's worth understanding (APIs, databases, MCP servers, and why they matter for HR), why playing around with tools like Claude Code, Codex, Lovable and Replit makes you a sharper bu...

In this episode, Johannes Sundlo explores a growing issue inside organizations adopting AI: the creation of an “A and B team.” Some employees get access to AI tools, licenses, education, and experimentation opportunities. Others are left behind. Not because of role or capability, but because of interest, visibility, or who happened to push hardest internally. Johannes argues that this is becoming...

Block just fired 4,000 people in a single day. Their CEO Jack Dorsey said it was because of AI. The stock jumped 20%. And the internet lost its mind. Half the people say this is pure hype. The other half say AI is coming for all of us. I think both sides are wrong, and I have thoughts. In this video I go through what actually happened at Block, weigh the evidence for and against the AI narrative,...

What if an AI manager could do a better job than your current boss? Johannes explores this deliberately provocative question – not to argue that we should replace managers with AI, but to challenge our assumptions about what management is actually for. From the industrial revolution roots of the manager role to DoorDash's algorithmic task distribution, he examines whether the core function of...

What happens when a four-week project takes 45 minutes? That's what I experienced over Christmas with Claude Code. In this episode, I share what I built, why this matters beyond coding, and the hard questions organizations need to start asking. Because this isn't slowing down.

Transforming Work with AI: Insights from EY and PWC SurveysIn this episode, Johannes Sundlo discusses the limited transformative use of AI in workplaces, referencing new surveys from EY and PWC. Despite high adoption rates for basic AI tasks, only a small percentage of employees leverage AI for advanced purposes. Sundlo emphasizes the need for better training, organizational alignment, and inclusi...

Read the full article here and get all the links: fullstackhr.io ROI Reality Check - IBM study shows 66% of companies already see significant AI productivity gains, with 41% expecting ROI within a year. But the gap between large enterprises and SMEs is widening fast. Ernst & Young's Smart Move - They've built a tool that shows employees exactly how their jobs are changing, what'll...

Link to all the articles mentioned here. This week's news highlights the rapid acceleration of white-collar automation, posing significant challenges for the workforce as training programs lag behind in preparing employees for an ai-driven future. The latest developments in ai adoption are transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, with companies like OpenAI making substantial investmen...

New data reveals why workers are choosing AI over human leadership – and what it means for the future of management

Read the article here. This weeks article argues that while curiosity remains important, it is insufficient on its own for effective leadership and organizational success in the AI era. I'm your host, Johannes Sundlo, highlights three essential traits leaders must combine: Curiosity  – A willingness to explore, ask questions, and learn about AI and new possibilities. Business Understanding  –...