Cirrius Talk

Remote duty stations, four deployments, a school system that could not always use your certification, and a resume that reads like a map of the world: that is the starting point for a lot of military spouses looking at a Salesforce career. 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗺á𝗻, Lead Solution Engineer at Salesforce, sits down with Greg Banks on 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 to show how she turned 26 years of Army li...

Your team is generating more with AI than ever, and most of it still lands in a slide deck or a long email that nobody has time to read. Cirrius Solutions COO 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and Head of Custom Development 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 lay out 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, five tiers for sharing AI-built work, from a plain Excel sheet to a full application with its own database, and the use case that fits each rung. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂...

Semiconductor manufacturing is coming back to American soil, and the single largest private investment in New York State history needs skilled people to make it real. Greg Banks sits down with 𝗗𝗮𝗮’𝗶𝘆𝗮𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗮𝗺, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗸, and 𝗟𝘆𝗻𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗹𝗲 of the D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University to map out how veterans and military spouses can step into th...

When the life you built is taken in a single morning, finding a reason to keep going becomes the real fight. 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘇, Vice President of Outreach at the Robert Irvine Foundation, shares how he survived the worst day of his life and now helps other veterans through theirs. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: How the Foundation’s three pillars of food, wellness, and community drive Breaking Bread with Heroes,...

Most Salesforce projects that go sideways were already in trouble before anyone configured a single object: the discovery that got skipped, the stakeholders who never got the hours, the exceptions nobody thought to mention. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗢𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗶𝗻 of Cirrius Solutions has lived both sides of that story, first owning a Salesforce build as the client and now delivering them as a consultant, and he joins 𝗚𝗿𝗲...

Every agent you build runs on a large language model, and that choice quietly decides whether your AI program pays for itself or drains the budget. Cirrius Solutions leaders 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 compare the Anthropic and OpenAI lineups tier by tier, from model families to subscription plans to what a task really costs to run. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: How the two model families mirror each othe...

When a veteran carries invisible wounds, the whole family carries them too, and most support stops at the one who served. 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗻 of Camp Twin Lakes explains how Family Warrior Weekends give the entire military family a weekend of rest, community, and fully accessible outdoor recreation, all for fifty dollars. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: How Family Warrior Weekends work: twice a year, about 20 families...

AI can already write the user stories, draft the test scripts, and triage a Salesforce org overnight, so what exactly is left for the business analyst? Cirrius Solutions Senior Consultant 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗽 joins host Greg Banks and Delivery Director 𝗔𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮 to break down what his AI agents are allowed to do inside live client delivery, and what they are never allowed to do without him. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿...

The moment one person on your team builds a genuinely useful agent setup in Claude Code or Claude Cowork, you hit a new problem: sharing it without it splintering into a dozen diverging copies. Cirrius Solutions COO 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and Head of Custom Development 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 break down plugins - the packaged, version-controlled way to ship one standard agent configuration to a whole team and govern...

Most veteran nonprofits do one thing. The Robert Irvine Foundation runs a connected network of programs, and this episode is the guided tour. 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗬𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹 spent 25 years in the Marine Corps and now leads programs and outreach for the foundation, and he walks us through the full picture, the first in a series where each program gets its own episode. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: What the Robert Irvine Found...

Most Salesforce implementations are scoped for the users a company has today - then the business grows, and the platform becomes the constraint. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁 𝗚𝗶𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗻, a Solution Engineer at Salesforce, joins 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 with a better blueprint: build to grow, earn trust at every level of the business, and treat go-live as the starting line. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: Why “build to grow, not f...

The agentic AI race has a new leader every few months, and a platform bet that ignores that churn will cost you. In the finale of the Agentic OS mini-series, Cirrius Solutions COO 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and Head of Custom Development 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 break down 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 - the portable skills-and-commands layer that holds your company’s IP without handing any vendor a lock on your business. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻:...

Twenty-two years in uniform can end with a great job offer that still feels hollow. On this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲, retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel 𝗟𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗚𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗲 explains why the right paycheck in the wrong place burns veterans out, and how 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 is helping them find work that actually fits. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: Why 𝗟𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗚𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗼𝗲 gave up flying at the apex of hi...

Most Salesforce projects fail on alignment, not engineering — everyone agrees to build before anyone agrees on why. In this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗝𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿 and 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 break down the Business Value Assessment: the living document that ties every dollar you spend back to a strategic goal. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: Why you build a BVA from strategy down, not metrics up How the...

You have dreamed up a dozen things an AI agent could do for you, but the moment you open it, it feels like a stranger who has never met you. In this kickoff to the agentic operating system mini-series, 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 and 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 break down the first pillar - the signal layer and context management - so your agent starts acting like it actually knows you and your work. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: What a...

Six years as an Air Force Arabic linguist and intelligence operator didn’t prepare 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝘂𝘁 for the short trip home after her first deployment. On this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲, she explains how that gap, and a Salesforce career built by stacking every veteran resource she could find, shaped who she is today. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: Why 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝘂𝘁 wrote her own separation paperwor...

Most Salesforce implementations don’t fail because of bad technology. They fail because nobody protected data quality when it still mattered, and now AI is making that debt impossible to hide. 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗧𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, a 20-year Navy veteran and founder of 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀, joins 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 to explain why the fix was never the platform, it was always the discipline behind it. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆...

Most AI practitioners build an agent, use it for a few weeks, and then watch it quietly get worse. In this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜, 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 break down the four pillars of a true agentic operating system and explain what it takes to keep your agent useful for months or years, not just days. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: The difference between an agent ha...

Veterans leave the military carrying decades of leadership, problem-solving, and adaptability that most civilians will never develop, but the job market speaks a language they were never trained to use. 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 knows that gap from every angle, as a retired Marine Colonel who commanded 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, as the architect of Amazon’s veteran hiring program, and now as SVP at 𝗢𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻,...

A perfect Salesforce build can still fail the day real people log in, and the reason is almost never technical. In this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, Greg Banks sits down with 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝘁𝘁 of 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝘁𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 to unpack why deep expertise can become a blind spot, and how experts grow into the leaders an implementation actually needs. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: Why technical experts get blind...

Most AI agent initiatives do not fail in the build. They fail in the planning, where six teams each carry a ninety percent plan and nobody agrees on what success looks like. In this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜, 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 walk through the seven deliverables every organization should lock in before building a single agent. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: The thre...

Transitioning out of the military often means facing a hiring process that went fully digital while you were serving, where one job can draw thousands of applicants and a great resume still gets lost. On this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲, Greg Banks sits down with 𝗣𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹, co-founder of 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹, to talk about how free, expert interview coaching helps veterans and military spo...

Custom code used to mean long timelines, high cost, and a nagging fear of what happens when the developer who built it moves on. On this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲, host Greg Banks and co-host 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 sit down with developer 𝗧𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 to walk through how assistive AI is reshaping Salesforce development, from landing the project to delivering it. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: - Why...

The AI security conversation has two volume settings: hand over the keys, or the sky is falling. On this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜, 𝗧𝗶𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and 𝗚𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗻 give you the calibrated middle, a practical framework for AI dev tool security that holds up whether you are technical or not. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: - Which fears are overstated (internet access, file deletion, vendors training on...

What does it actually look like when a tech giant treats veteran and military spouse hiring as a talent strategy instead of a checkbox? In this episode of 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲, Greg Banks sits down with 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 of Salesforce - executive sponsor of Salesforce Veteran Initiatives at the company Forbes just named the #1 best employer for veterans in America for the second year in a...