AI with Alec. Get smarter on AI. The easy way.
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AI with Alec. Get smarter on AI. The easy way.

Alec Coughlin

English United States Technology
Active · Publishes monthly

Key Metrics

Episodes
23
In catalog
Apple Rating
5.0 / 5
1 Apple ratings
Cadence
Monthly
~every 21 days
Avg Length
31m
Per episode
Latest
May 11, 2026
Active

About the Show

Conversations with leading technical minds in Artificial Intelligence - from CTOs of pioneering AI startups to AI architects at Fortune 500 companies. We explore their strategies, implementations, and innovations to help you better understand and deploy AI in the real world. Hear enterprise AI insights and practical perspectives you won't find anywhere else. If you're a technical leader, business executive, AI practitioner, or innovation strategist, this is for you.

Partnership & Audience Signals

Established Catalog

23 episodes — long track record

Production & Distribution

Active Since
Dec 30, 2024
Consistency
40%
Format
Episodic
Hosting
anchor.fm

Recent Episodes

S1E31 Are Your AI Agents Reasoning From a Snapshot That Never Existed? | Tacnode Founder + CEO

May 11, 2026 32m

Could Tacnode be the next Databricks? Yes. Imagine the world before writing. Before books. People had to learn everything from scratch.Thanks to writing, thanks to books, knowledge compounded.…

S1E30 "We Don't Do Tokenized Assets" Is the New "We Don't Do the Internet" | Jason Dobbs

Apr 17, 2026 34m

The promise of deploying autonomous AI agents at scale hinges on infrastructure and architectural truths. AI isn’t magic or a silver bullet. It most definitely isn’t one size fits all.What did it…

S1E29 The AI Questions CEOs Are Running Out of Time to Ask | Henrik Werdelin

Apr 09, 2026 44m

There's a short list of people who shaped my AI journey before I even knew it was a journey. Henrik Werdelin is at the top of that list.We met in NYC in 2011. A few months before he launched BARK. I…

S1E28 75% of Your Creative Team's Week Is Wasted. Shane Hegde Built a Salesforce for Creatives to Fix It.

Mar 27, 2026 38m

Creativity is magic. 75% of your creative team’s week is logistics, 25% is actually creating. What happens when you invert that?Shane Hegde has spent eight years fixing that problem and the…

S1E27 Polsia: The AI That Doesn't Just Help You Build a Business. It Runs it. | Ben Cera

Mar 15, 2026 42m

Would you believe me if I told you there’s an autonomous AI agent platform that enables anyone with a business idea to outsource to a swarm of AI agents to handle everything except what the founder…

S1E26 Greg Boone: AI Isn't an Intern, It's an Everything Machine | AI with Alec E26

Feb 04, 2026 43m

AI with Alec E26 with Greg Boone. 5 reasons to watch?1: Greg says the quiet part out loud2: The era of the lone “idea guy or gal” is over, now everyone can build3: You can’t mandate your way through…

S1E25 2 Weeks to 2 Days: How Calm's UX Team Tests 10X More Concepts with AI Prototyping | Chase Clark

Dec 19, 2025 45m

The way Chase Clark, Lead UX Researcher at Calm, demonstrates how AI is augmenting his workflows with real, tangible examples is outstanding. Personification of “hands in the dirt” use of AI that…

S1E24 Good Pirates Ship Fast: L'Oreal's AI-First in 90 Days (May '24), Accelerating Since | Thomas Menard

Dec 09, 2025 47m

Want to see AI-first at scale? Check out Thomas Menard and the rockstar team at L’Oreal showing us how it’s done.Embracing AI to drive “idea to impact” in less than 90 days for a 100,000 person…

S1E23 Banks Have 2-3 Years Before AI Leaders Pull Away, Forever. AIWA E23 w/Co-CEO of Evident.

Nov 26, 2025 46m

If you know who Evident is, you understand why I was so stoked to interview co-founder / co-CEO Alexandra Mousavizadeh. If you don’t know Evident, let’s fix that.Evident is all about data and…

Bret Greenstein: 'If You Can't Imagine It, You Can't Make It'-Science Projects to AI Transformation

Oct 10, 2025 33m

Is the failure rate for enterprise AI POCs super high because they’re “science projects” solving a problem that’s already been solved?Guest Bret Greenstein, Chief AI Officer of West Monroe, dropping…

$1M+ Sports Decisions on Ancient Tech vs. AI That Speaks the ‘Language of Movement’ | VueMotion CEO

Sep 16, 2025 21m

One of the most beautiful ways to describe the essence of the collaboration between athletes + coaches?“We see movement as a language that actually needs to be taught.”Ryan Talbot, co-founder and CEO…

Refined Graffiti Artist Loves AI and Paints Where Sports, Culture + Fashion Collide | Kyle Wallack

Sep 09, 2025 31m

Kyle Wallack’s art is phenomenal, but the way this “refined graffiti artist” has embraced AI? That’s an inspiration for artists everywhere.This AI with Alec interview is for you if you’re into…Street…

S1E19 Enterprise AI Agents: Is This The AWS Moment For Digital Labor? | Kurt Muehmel, Dataiku

Aug 26, 2025 38m

Enterprise AI agents help us “focus on making the beer taste better” aka the 20%+ of efforts that drive 80%+ of the results.Kurt Muehmel, Head of AI Strategy at Dataiku, returned to AI with Alec for…

Did Apple Just Prove AI Isn't Actually Thinking? According To Their Research...

Jul 03, 2025 22m

Is AI thinking or just imitating our thinking? A new Apple research paper, "The Illusion of Thinking," suggests these reasoning models are doing the latter. Sophisticated mimicry at a previously…

S1E17 Your Team Toggles 1,200x Daily Between Apps - HERE's AI Browser Ends This Madness

Jun 30, 2025 28m

If I told you the average employee toggles 1,200 times per day between applications, would you believe me?In my latest AI with Alec podcast, Chuck Doerr, co-Founder + CIO of HERE, not only confirmed…

Creating "Carbon Copies" Of Employees In Regulated Industries: Athena Intelligence CEO Brendan Geils

May 09, 2025 27m

After meeting the client in real life, the first job for an Athena Intelligence client-facing leader is to “build a carbon copy of themselves in the product for the customer”...If that doesn’t…

Beyond Moneyball: The Trillion-Dollar Sports Data Secret | Josh Walker CEO of Sports Innovation Lab

Apr 24, 2025 21m

What if the data opportunity on the business side of Sports is bigger than what was profiled in Moneyball on the team / athlete side? I had a fascinating conversation with Josh Walker, co-founder and…

Space-Based Data Centers: How Starcloud is Solving AI's Energy Crisis | CEO Philip Johnston

Apr 16, 2025 20m

What’s the first thing you think when you hear about a start-up launching data centers into outer space?For me, it went like this: “Wait, what? Why outer space…ohhhh wow, the AI energy issue. That’s…

Enterprise AI Playbook? There isn't one: How Wendy's AI Leader Will Croushorn Drives Innovation

Apr 01, 2025 32m

The enterprise AI playbook doesn’t exist. We’re all just trying to figure it out as we go. But thanks to AI leaders like Will Croushorn of Wendy’s, we get to hear insights from those doing the…

AI with Alec - Igor Jablokov: There’s Only One “Igor” In AI. This Is Him.

Feb 05, 2025 30m

In AI, there’s only one “Igor” and I am SO STOKED to share that he joined me for an AI with Alec interview. Please find time to hear legendary AI pioneer Igor Jablokov, founder + CEO of Pryon, move…

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