The A to Z of AI

In the Season 2 finale, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Ellen Li, CFO at AI Fund, the venture studio founded by Andrew Ng that builds AI-native startups from the ground up rather than investing in deal flow. Ellen walks through how her day-to-day has shifted from formatting spreadsheets and manual research to reviewing AI output as she would a capable team member. She shares concret...

Ali Hussain is co-founder of Tabs, a billing and revenue recognition platform built on an AI layer that reads contracts, usage data, and product context to automate downstream billing and rev rec workflows. In this episode, Ali walks through how Tabs was purpose-built around a problem that was fundamentally unsolvable before LLMs arrived: the commercial complexity between B2B companies is too vari...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Tara L. Waters, Legal Innovation Partner at Harvey. Drawing on her time as Chief Digital Officer at Ashurst, where she led one of the first firm-wide deployments of Harvey, Tara explains what changed when generative AI arrived: technology adoption in legal shifted from something operators had to push against resistance to something se...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Laura Jeffords Greenberg, General Counsel at Worksome. Laura brings a perspective that is rare in legal leadership: a builder's mindset shaped by nearly a decade in European tech, stints at Unity Technologies and Wordsmith, and a deliberate focus on using AI to do more with less. The conversation covers how she has structured her...

Preet Gill, EVP at Lockton and head of the firm's global technology practice, joins Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson to discuss how the world's largest privately held insurance brokerage is embedding AI across both client-facing and internal operations. The conversation covers Lockton's structured approach to AI adoption, from a formal governance group to day-to-day workflow automation...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Jasmine Singh, General Counsel at Ironclad, the leading contract lifecycle management platform. Jasmine shares how her legal team is using AI across contract review, compliance analysis, employment law workflows, and team management, while maintaining the governance structures necessary to do it responsibly at scale. The conversation...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by John Glasgow, the CEO and CFO of Campfire. John shares how AI has changed both his own workflow and the way Campfire operates as a company, from finance and forecasting to internal tooling and team adoption. What stands out is not just the speed, but the shift from AI as a prompt-based helper to AI as a more autonomous teammate that c...

Season two opens with Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson reflecting on what stood out most from their first season of conversations. Rather than focusing on hype, they revisit what guests actually showed in practice: AI is helping people do better work, free up time, and create more space for thinking, collaboration, and family life. The episode also serves as a reset on what is actually working rig...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Nihal Shah, CFO at  Headspace. The conversation explores how AI is being used internally to improve support workflows, knowledge access, and operational efficiency. Nihal shares how his team applies AI to reduce repetitive work, streamline information retrieval, and enable employees to move faster without increasing headcount. The dis...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Ian Schumann from Eigen for a different kind of conversation. Instead of focusing on how Ian uses AI, the episode steps back to examine the broader question many people are asking right now: how quickly is AI actually reshaping work? Using recent essays and posts from Matt Shumer, Claire Vo, and Miles Deutscher as a starting point, th...

Tommie Tavares-Ferreira returns to discuss how quickly agent-based workflows are evolving and what has changed since her last appearance. The conversation centers on OpenClaw-style autonomous agents, how teams are experimenting with dedicated servers and guardrails, and why organizations are beginning to treat AI agents as a “digital workforce.” The discussion moves beyond tooling into organizatio...

In the season finale, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Stephanie Corey of UpLevel Ops to explore practical, high-impact AI use cases for legal operations. Steph explains how AI has fundamentally changed how her team works, helping them stay organized, capture institutional knowledge, and support more client work without adding headcount. The conversation stays grounded in operational...

In this pilot episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson set the foundation for The A to Z of AI . The conversation focuses on cutting through hype and exploring how artificial intelligence is actually being used in real work environments today. They introduce key concepts, define common terms, and share practical ways they use AI in their day-to-day workflows. The goal is simple: help listeners mo...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Shreman Shrestha, who leads business at Granola. The conversation explores how AI is reshaping daily workflows, decision-making, and team culture. Sree shares how his role evolved from manually researching, taking notes, and relying on engineering support to independently building workflows, automations, and product changes using AI t...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Tommie Tavares-Ferreira, Chief Strategy Officer at Lawtrades. The conversation explores how AI is transforming legal operations from manual, reactive work into proactive, system-driven execution. Tommie shares how his role has evolved from managing workflows and stakeholder requests to orchestrating agents, automations, and data syste...

In this episode, Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson are joined by Suk Kim, General Counsel at Zapier. The conversation explores how AI builds on traditional automation by adding an intelligence layer, enabling teams to move beyond simple workflows into dynamic, decision-aware systems. Suk shares how Zapier’s legal team is leveraging AI agents to automate regulatory monitoring, contract review, and i...

Get a quick preview of what to expect from The A to Z of AI . In this short trailer, hosts Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson introduce the show’s focus: practical conversations with operators who are actually using AI inside their businesses. Each episode explores real workflows, real decisions, and real lessons across finance, legal, operations, and beyond. No hype. Just clear insights into what’s...