Welcome to Episode 14 of AI, Actually! This week Pete Reilly hosts Jim Johnson, Shanti Greene, and Stew Chisam for a conversation about three interconnected developments forcing enterprises to rethink everything from organizational structure to software procurement. The discussion opens with OpenClaw (formerly ClaudeBot and briefly MoltBot)—an open-source AI assistant that doesn’t just suggest actions […]

Welcome to Episode 13 of AI, Actually! This week takes a different format—Pete Reilly hosts a live demo and discussion with Alon Goren, Mike Finley, and Andy Sweet as they walk through a working CRM built in just a few weeks using AI coding agents. But this isn’t about showing off a new CRM—it’s about

Welcome to Episode 12 of AI, Actually. This week features Jim Johnson as host, joined by Joey Gaspierik, Nicole Kosky, and Stew Chisam for a deep dive into what might be the most important emerging discipline in enterprise AI: Agent Operations (AgentOps). As enterprises move from impressive demos to production agents doing real work, a

Welcome to Episode 11 of AI, Actually! This week features Pete Reilly as host, joined by Jim Johnson, Alon Goren, and Shanti Greene to unpack OpenAI’s recent white paper “From Experiments to Deployments: A Practical Path to Scaling AI.” But this isn’t just a review—it’s a reality check based on years of front-line experience helping

Welcome to Episode 10 of AI, Actually! This week features Pete Reilly as host, joined by our technical dream team: Andy Sweet, Shanti Greene, and Stew Chisam. Fresh off Gemini 3’s launch, the team goes deep on what’s actually different, how it stacks up against GPT-5.1 and Claude, and why Google’s play is about ecosystems,

The conversation around AI agents has reached a fever pitch. Every enterprise leader we talk to wants to know: How do we actually do this? How do we move from proof-of-concept demos to agents that get real work done? We recently sat down with our AI Business Transformation team: Nicole Kosky, who leads the practice,

Welcome to Episode 9 of AI, Actually! This week features Jim Johnson as host, joined by three voices from the front lines of AI implementation: Joey Gaspierik (Sales Director who meets with clients daily), Shanti Greene (Senior Data Scientist with deep technical expertise), and Nicole Kosky (leader of our AI Business Transformation practice). This episode

OpenAI’s recent Dev Day made waves with the announcement of Apps SDK and AgentKit, tools designed to make building AI agents more accessible than ever. But beyond the flashy demos and 800 million daily users milestone, what does this really mean for enterprise leaders navigating the AI landscape? Our team weighed in on the latest

Welcome to Episode 8 of AI, Actually! This week features Pete Reilly as host, joined by Alon Goren (founder and CEO), Jim Johnson (who leads our services organization), and Mike Finley (our guide through the LLM landscape). The team tackles one of the hottest debates in enterprise AI: is 2025 really the “year of the

Welcome to Episode 7 of AI, Actually! This week features Jim Johnson stepping in as host (while Pete enjoys 30A), joined by Mike Finley, and two special guests from our AI Business Transformation team: Nicole Kosky, who leads the practice, and Reilly Carroll, Senior AI Solutions Consultant. Fresh off client meetings in Europe, Jim brings

Welcome to Episode 6 of AI, Actually! This week features Pete Reilly as moderator, joined by Mike Finley, Andy Sweet, and Stew for a deep dive into the engineering principles that separate successful AI implementations from failed proofs of concept. This episode unpacks six critical engineering principles from AI thought leader Nate B. Jones, translating

Co-authored by Stew Chisam, Operating Partner, StellarIQ After extensive hands-on testing with Replit Agent 3, we can tell you it represents a meaningful step forward in AI-assisted development. But not for the reasons you might expect, and not without significant limitations you need to understand before adopting it. What Is Replit Agent 3? Replit Agent

Welcome to Episode 5 of AI, Actually. This week features Pete Reilly as our moderator, joined by Alon Goren (CEO and co-founder), Shanti Greene (Head of Data Science and AI Innovation at AnswerRocket), and Stew Chisam (Operating Partner at StellarIQ). This episode tackles three major themes shaping enterprise AI today. First, we dive into Sequoia’s

Welcome to Episode 4 of AI, Actually! This week brings a fresh lineup with Jim Johnson stepping into the moderator role, joined by Mike Finley, Andy Sweet (leader of AnswerRocket’s advanced models practice), and Shanti Greene (senior data scientist and our resident “mad scientist running more models locally than OpenAI”). This episode dives deep into

Welcome to Episode 3 of AI, Actually! This week, we’re joined by Alon Goren, our CEO and co-founder who’s been leading AnswerRocket since 2013. Together with Pete Reilly, Mike Finley, and Jim Johnson, we dive deep into three critical topics shaping the AI landscape right now. First, we tackle the infamous MIT study claiming a