ZERO SHOT - AI & Business. Anti-Hype.

⁠⁠⁠ Shape the show Two businesses run the exact same AI with the exact same results. The difference only shows up the day one of them tries to leave. Which one are you? In Episode 37 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury ⁠ go underneath the postcode of where your data sits and into what AI so...

⁠⁠⁠ Shape the show When AI can search, compare, and negotiate for you, which of the businesses built to do that for you still deserve to exist? In Episode 36 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury turn their attention to the intermediaries, the brokers, comparison sites, aggregators, and advisors...

⁠⁠ Shape the show For decades you competed for human attention. So what happens when an AI is the one searching, comparing, and choosing on your customer's behalf? In Episode 35 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury explore one of the biggest shifts coming for every business that sells anything:...

For twenty years, being good at your job meant learning how to navigate software. So what happens when AI is the one clicking the buttons? In Episode 34 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury unpack one of the biggest shifts coming for enterprise software: when AI becomes the primary user, the whole relat...

What if the biggest obstacle to AI isn’t the model, but the data underneath it? In Episode 33 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury go beneath the AI interface to explore the data foundations that determine whether enterprise AI actually works. They unpack AI readiness, data quality, data governance, da...

What happens when AI gives us more capability, but less human agency? Recorded live from the Green Room at Something Digital in Brisbane, James Gauci and Llew Jury explore three growing tensions in AI and business: automation versus human agency, bigger systems versus fragile trust, and greater intelligence versus better decision making. They unpack AI dependency, responsible AI adoption, workplac...

Standing with Colombia What happens when AI uncertainty becomes a business risk? In Episode 31 of ⁠⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury discuss how AI anxiety ⁠is becoming part of the conversation around AI adoption, workplace transformation and leadership. In this episode, James Gauci and Llew Jury explore the...

Every business is thousands of decisions stacked on top of each other. So what actually changes when AI pulls up a seat at the table? In Episode 30 of ⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury move past productivity and into something bigger: how AI is reshaping the way leaders make decisions. When people hear AI decisi...

You have probably nodded along in a meeting about autonomous AI agents without being totally sure what one actually is. You are not alone. In Episode 29 of ⁠ ⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury ⁠⁠ cut through the most hyped and least understood term in AI right now: the agent. This is the honest, no-jargon picture of...

Six months ago the AI leaderboard looked completely different. So who climbed, who slipped, and who fell off the board entirely? In Episode 28 of ⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury rebuild their AI tier list from scratch, ranking the major model providers across the US, China, and beyond. This is not about telling yo...

Most people with access to the most powerful AI model available are using it at about two percent of what it can do. What would you do with the rest? In Episode 27 of ⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury ⁠ demystify Fable 5, Anthropic's most capable frontier model, and the class of model that now includes OpenAI's S...

Why does AI give some people sharp, useful output and everyone else a generic, average answer? In Episode 26 of ⁠ ⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury ⁠ go deep on prompt engineering, the skill that separates people getting real value from AI and people quietly disappointed by it. The honest truth is it is almost never the...

How do you tell the difference between a task worth handing to AI and one that should stay human? In Episode 25 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury tackle the decision most businesses get wrong: choosing what to actually point AI at. The instinct is to reach for the shiny, visible task: customer service, the website, emai...

What actually changed between the automations businesses built ten years ago and the AI agents being built today? In Episode 24 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury go back to first principles on process automation. They trace the shift from rigid, rules-based workflows to AI agents that reason over messy, unstructured data, a...

What if the way most people are using AI is actually the lowest value thing it can do? In Episode 23 of ⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury sit down with their second-ever guest, Ben Cooper, Global Executive Director of AI Products at R/GA and one of Australia's most original applied AI builders. From the world's first AI...

What are the questions worth asking before you trust AI with anything important in your business? In Episode 22 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury lay out the practical frameworks they wish someone had handed them when they started: the questions to ask before you choose a tool, before you trust an output, and before you scale AI ac...

How many times did you actually use AI yesterday, and did any of it save you real time? In Episode 21 of ⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury ⁠ pull back the curtain on their own daily AI workflows: the boring, unglamorous, hour-saving habits that rarely make it into the headlines. From doing email entirely by voice to automated morning cl...

What is your AI actually storing about you, and where does that information live? In Episode 20 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury go under the hood of one of the most misunderstood features in AI today: memory. From why AI systems seem to forget things mid-conversation to the difference between context windows, persistent memory, and proje...

Which AI model is actually worth your time and money in 2026, and how do you decide? In Episode 19 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury ⁠ do the episode the audience has been asking for: a real, no-benchmarks, no-lab-scores breakdown of the four major frontier AI models. This is not a comparison of leaderboard scores or press releases. It is a pr...

What is it actually costing an organisation to keep having conversations about AI without acting on them? In Episode 18 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury go after one of the most uncomfortable topics in business right now: the anatomy of AI inaction. From Japan losing the equivalent of $78 billion a year due to stalled modernisation to Australian...

What does it actually look like to build an AI business from the inside out? In Episode 17 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury do something they have never done before on this show: they turn the lens on themselves. After 16 episodes covering the tools, the models, the governance debates, and the industry shifts, this is the honest, unscripted account o...

What happens when the tools that generate synthetic media become available to anyone with an internet connection? In Episode 16 of Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury cut through the noise around AI image and video generation to deliver an honest, grounded assessment of what is actually production ready in 2026 and what is still closer to a compelling demo. Fr...

AGI is the most talked about idea in AI. Agentic AI is the one actually changing businesses right now. What is the difference, and why does it matter for where you invest, what you build, and how you lead? In Episode 15 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury cut through the AGI hype and get into what is actually happening on the ground in 2026. From...

What does AI governance actually look like when it is not just a document filed somewhere? In Episode 14 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury get into the pointy end of AI risk. From deepfake boardroom scams to prompt injection attacks, from compliance theater to the liability shuffle — this is the honest, no-hype breakdown of what AI security a...

If your AI strategy is failing, it has nothing to do with the technology. In Episode 13 of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Zero Shot ⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠ James Gauci ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Llew Jury tackle the conversation that most AI consultants avoid — the human side of AI adoption. While everyone's debating which model to use or which tool to licence, the real reason AI projects stall, fail, or go nowhere inside or...