PODCAST · THE ML LABS BRIEFING
Know what to ask.
Conversations on custom AI designed, built and run for you: the questions you ask before you commit, answered by the engineer behind the systems.
- What your team needs ready before an AI system goes live.
- Which workflow to fix first, and what a build must prove.
- About seven minutes, between meetings or on the move.
Episode 17
An owner, an off switch and a budget
Your teams already run AI agents with real access, and their bills grow with use. Give every agent a named owner, an off switch and a budget before it runs, and build the agents and their controls around your own workflows.
Omar Trejo speaks in a clone of his own voice. Reid, an AI voice, tests the assumptions. ML LABS writes the script.
Video, 6 minWhen your people build their own AI workflows
Workplace software now lets your staff build AI workflows without writing code. Decide which ones your people may run alone, which need a second look, and which you engineer and own, so the work itself keeps getting better.
Video, 6 minBuild or buy AI: rent models, own the workflow
You hold a quote for AI seats and a quote to build, and neither is the whole decision. Compare the full cost of every option over three years, rent the models, and own the workflow layer where no product fits your process.
Video, 6 minWhen automation costs more than the people it replaced
Your robots, bots and AI agents removed headcount, and the cost of running the work went up. Price the cost lines your business case never counted, before you sign the next automation and after it has gone live.
Video, 6 minYour first quarter as the new CFO or COO
A new finance or operations leader has a short window in which to make changes, and less information than anyone who reports to them. Turn the operating review into one focused software priority your team can deliver.
Video, 7 minThe seven layers of an AI adoption stack
An AI system depends on more than a model. Work through all 7 layers, from data and models up to outcomes, and the controls that sit under them, to find the layer that is limiting your operation before you buy the easiest one.
Video, 7 minBuy the software you can afford to replace
The tools improve every few months. What you build now will need changing within a year or two. Choose software with clear ownership and a scope small enough to replace as better tools become available to your business.
Video, 7 minYour team ships more and understands less
AI now writes more of your code and analysis, and nothing in the loop requires anyone to learn why the work succeeded. Keep the decisions, lessons and context your team needs to improve its systems as AI takes on more work.
Video, 7 minThe savings you announced have no mechanism
The filing names the savings and the period, not the mechanism, and nobody is responsible for producing one. Turn the target into a change people can deliver, with a clear process, a named owner and evidence of progress.
Video, 7 minOne workflow across two entities before the ERP merges
The ERP merge is months away, and meanwhile one process runs every week across both companies on a spreadsheet and one person. Help them run it with clear records, roles and approvals before their core systems merge.
AFTER THE EPISODE
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