The Future of Accounting and Finance: AI, Talent, and Executive Leadership
Featuring special guest Ken Philbrick, Jim and Veer discuss how AI is changing finance work and the people companies hire to lead it. Ken, a Partner at…
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The cost of adopting AI, how to measure its value, and what changes for finance and operating teams.
Data Readiness, Learn by Building, and the Build-or-Buy Decision
Meeting notes, project files and conversations can help an AI understand a business, but someone has to decide how that information fits together. Jim and…
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The AI Shift Nobody Saw Coming - From Chatbots to Self-Driving Marketing
Featuring special guest Justin Rae, Jim and Veer begin a two-part conversation about how Cinch uses customer data to help local businesses make better…
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AI reps, local agents, and why business cases still matter
Veer shares an experiment with a local AI assistant that can see what's on his screen and offer help while he works. Running a smaller model on his Mac…
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Rethinking AI Utilization: Beyond Vanity Metrics to Real Business Value
Tracking usage can show that employees are trying AI, but it leaves a lot unanswered about the work. Jim and Veer discuss how to evaluate adoption as…
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Moving From AI Novelty to Operating System: Maturity Curves for Mid Sized Businesses
Jim and Veer discuss how a mid-sized business can judge its progress with AI. They compare occasional experiments, such as rewriting an email, with…
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Unlocking the Power of AI in Executive Productivity
Veer walks through the morning briefing he built with Cyrano and Balcony. It brings together his calendar, recent conversations and unfinished work so he…
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From Hype to Practicality: Functional Executives on Real-World AI Applications
Jim and Veer compare what they are learning while building tools for real work. Jim describes a reporting product with a very specific output: an email…
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Executive Function in the Age of AI: Margin, Meaning, and Machines
Jim Boswell and Veer Hossain introduce Functional Executives and the work they want to explore together: practical uses of AI for people responsible for…
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Real AI Workflows for Modern Leaders
Jim Boswell and Veer Hossain introduce Functional Executives with a short example of what they have been building. Jim, a CFO without formal software…
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