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Hosts: Srini Annamaraju & David Royle . Guest: Ravi Ramchandran. Welcome to episode 8. AI agents are getting easier to build. That’s the exciting bit. The risky bit is that organisations can now create weak, badly governed automations before leadership has worked out what “good” actually looks like. In this episode, Ravi joins Srini and David to pull the conversation out of buzzword-land and i...

Hosts: Srini Annamaraju & David Royle “Evals are the weak link in enterprise AI adoption.” And we say it like it is in our Maven cohort Lightning Lesson. Enrol here or see the recording - or join the waitlist for the paid 4-part course (tba): https://shorturl.at/lA9ig This episode is a proper grilling on AI Evals : what they are, why boards should care, and why “ship it now, eval it later” is...

Hosts: Srini Annamaraju & David Royle . “The AI bubble is the wrong fear.” The real threat sits inside your own walls: shadow AI you don’t see, boards that confuse risk aversion with risk management, and leaders trying to govern a technology they don’t actually understand. We unpack why mid-market boards are exposed, how shadow AI reveals the truth about how your org really works, and what an...

Hosts: Srini Annamaraju & David Royle “AI kills jobs” is the wrong headline. The real story is structural: org pyramids flatten into diamonds, managers run fleets of agents, SMEs unlock backlogs without hiring sprees, and skills go modular with micro-credentials. We break down what changes now—and how to lead it without face-planting. What we cover Jobs vs. roles: Why the entry-level layer thi...

In this new Enterprise AI Field Notes deep dive, Srini Annamaraju (aka, 'the tech guy') and David Royle (who's 'the business guy') take the story past design into delivery — from the Target Operating Model (TOM) to the everyday reality of running AI inside the enterprise. Through the lens of a real Bank's AI copilot rollout, name changed to " Albion Bank", they map how real transformation happens...

AI dazzles in demos but stalls in the enterprise. In this deep dive with a new section on rapid-fire questions by Srini Annamaraju, the resident tech strategy expert on the No Effing AIdea podcast, David Royle , reveals why — and how a smarter Target Operating Model (T.O.M.) can finally bridge the gap between ambition and adoption. This episode connects TOM blueprints to the people dimension: the...

Episode 2 – Enterprise AI Field Notes: Traps, Hard Truths, Hallucinations, Shadow AI, and the 3 AI Rooms Hosts Srini Annamaraju and David Royle are back for episode two – and yes, the feedback is in. Some said we were a bit too serious last time. We’ll try not to become a Sunday love songs show, but we’re working on upping the “gags per minute.” This week’s conversation covers: Listener reach &amp...

Episode 1 — No Effing AIdea! - AI ethics, job disruption, GenAI “failures,” the AI bubble, India SMB adoption, coding risks, consultants falling behind, biotech breakthroughs, and AI in education — all collide in our first episode of No Effing AIdea! Welcome to the first episode. We are David Royle and Srini Annamaraju. We set the tone with a stark cold open: new Stanford data shows a 13% drop in...