Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company

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• The Unexpected Economics of AGI - with Christian Catalini, Tech Founder and Co-Creator of Libra 24.06.2026 53min

  Christian Catalini, tech founder, co-creator of Meta's Libra, and founder of Lightspark, joins Beyond the Prompt to explore the unexpected economics of AGI. Drawing on his recent paper, he argues that as AI makes intelligence increasingly abundant, value shifts to what can't easily be automated, measured, or verified. The conversation explores what becomes scarce when intelligence is cheap, why the doomers may be wrong, and how AI could unlock entirely new waves of scientific discovery and innovation.
• Why Fear Kills Curiosity and What That Means for AI - with Chantel Prat, Cognitive Neuroscientist 10.06.2026 1t 1min

  Chantel Prat, cognitive neuroscientist and author of The Neuroscience of You, joins Beyond the Prompt to explore why curiosity may be one of the most important skills in the age of AI. The conversation covers how brains learn, why people respond so differently to new technology, and why feeling threatened by AI can prevent the very learning needed to benefit from it.
• Why Your Favorite Brand Stopped Caring About You - Eric Ries, Author of The Lean Startup 27.05.2026 56min

  Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup and the newly released Incorruptible, joins Beyond the Prompt to argue that most founders misunderstand the most important decision they make: governance. As AI raises the stakes around power, trust, and control, Eric explains why companies drift from their original mission, why founders so often lose control of what they build, and why governance may be the highest leverage decision founders ignore.
• You Can't Outsource Wisdom: Bestselling Author Ryan Holiday on What the Stoics Have to Say About AI 13.05.2026 54min

  Ryan Holiday, bestselling author and writer on Stoicism, joins Beyond the Prompt to explore what the Stoics can teach us about living and working in the age of AI. As technology makes it easier to outsource thinking, writing, and decision-making, Ryan argues that wisdom still comes from doing the work yourself. The conversation explores cognitive offloading, agency, change, and why the defining skill of the AI era may be developing a finely tuned “bullshit detector.”
• Proof of Craft: What It Takes to Stand Out When Everything Looks Good - with Laura Jones, CMO of Instacart 29.04.2026 1t 6min

  Laura Jones, CMO of Instacart, joins Jeremy & Henrik on Beyond the Prompt to explore what happens to creativity when AI makes "pretty good" effortless. She shares why brand becomes a question of trust as products converge, how a data insight about bananas became both a product feature and a Super Bowl campaign, and why the best ideas still require human friction — not just human-bot dialogue.
• Nobody Is Getting New Manager Training for Their AI Team - with Dan Klein, UC Berkeley 15.04.2026 1t 3min

  Dan Klein, professor at UC Berkeley and CTO at Scaled Cognition, explains how today’s AI systems work in practice. He breaks down why they produce fluent answers that are often useful, but not always reliable, what the “jagged frontier” means, and why using AI well requires a new set of skills most people are still developing.
• AI-Native or Not: The Defining Choice for Companies Right Now - with Melissa Cheals, CEO of Smartly 01.04.2026 49min

  Melissa Cheals, CEO of Smartly, joins Henrik and Jeremy to explore what it really means to become an AI-native company—and why that decision is becoming unavoidable. From challenging $1M, 12-month product timelines to rethinking leadership, communication, and how teams work together, she shares how AI is forcing organizations to question long-held assumptions about how work gets done.
• Greg Shove on Why Most Companies Are Not Seeing ROI On AI (yet) 18.03.2026 59min

  Greg Shove, CEO of Section and Prof AI, joins Beyond the Prompt for the third time to discuss why most companies are not seeing meaningful ROI from AI and what enterprise AI adoption actually looks like today. While a small group of employees are already using AI to become more productive, organizations struggle to capture that value due to culture, incentives, and workflows that have not yet adapted. Greg describes how AI is breaking traditional capability boundaries, allowing individuals to take on new types of work across roles, while companies remain structured around older ways of operating. The conversation explores why ROI is “leaking” to employees, how uneven access to AI tools limits adoption, and what leaders must do to turn individual productivity gains into real organizational impact.
• How to Subtract: The Most Underrated Skill of the AI Era - with Leidy Klotz 04.03.2026 58min

  Leidy Klotz, professor at the University of Virginia and author of Subtract, joins Jeremy & Henrik on Beyond the Prompt to explore why we instinctively add rather than subtract when solving problems. From a simple Lego experiment to organizational design, he explains how additive bias leads teams to accumulate tools, meetings, and complexity over time. In the age of generative AI, where creating content and workflows is effortless, this tendency becomes amplified. The conversation explores how leaders can design systems and environments that protect focus, sleep, and what truly matters.
• From Roadmaps to R&D: How AI Is Changing Product Development - with Richard White, Founder of Fathom AI 18.02.2026 56min

  Richard White, founder and CEO of Fathom AI, joins Beyond the Prompt to discuss how generative AI is changing the way product teams plan and build. As model capabilities improve quickly, estimating effort and impact becomes harder, challenging traditional roadmap driven development. Richard explains why his team operates more like an R&D function, how they experiment with different models and use cases, and what it takes to build in a world where the underlying technology keeps evolving.
• Here’s How to Know If You’re Getting the Most Out of AI – with Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com 04.02.2026 59min

  Bryan McCann, CTO and co-founder of You.com, joins Beyond the Prompt to discuss how AI is changing the way people search for information, work day to day, and think about productivity. Drawing on his experience as an AI researcher, Bryan explains how he shifted from measuring productivity by writing code to focusing on making machines work continuously by “keeping the GPUs full,” and how that mindset applies to individuals, teams, and leaders.
• Building An Enterprise AI Innovation Lab: A Master Class with Humza Teherany, Chief Strategy Officer of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment 21.01.2026 58min

  Humza Teherany, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, joins Beyond the Prompt to unpack how AI is reshaping leadership, workflows, and company culture. He shares how returning to his technical roots changed his approach in the C-suite and why building hands-on is now a non-negotiable. From agentic development to idea competitions and instant prototyping, this episode is a masterclass in how to lead from both the boardroom and the command line.
• Why AI Gets People Wrong: The Real Source of Insight with Anthropologist Mikkel B. Rasmussen 06.01.2026 56min

  Mikkel B. Rasmussen, founder of the Human Activity Laboratory, joins Beyond the Prompt to explore what it really takes to understand people. Drawing on decades of applied anthropology, he shares why true insight requires surprise, struggle, and embodied experience. He also reveals how AI is already helping us get there. From LEGO to synthetic data, this episode is a masterclass in uncovering hidden assumptions and designing for real human behavior.
• How the World’s Leading AI-First Fashion House Flips the Cash Flow Equation - with Diarra Bousso 24.12.2025 1t 9min

  Diarra Bousso, founder of DIARRABLU, returns to share how AI is helping her reinvent the operating system of fashion. She explains how generative tools are not only streamlining production and eliminating waste, but also fueling creative joy, all while enabling her team to sell non-existent products, manage operations with scientific rigor, and experiment at scale. Diarra also opens up about her personal transformation, from surviving a traumatic accident to building a business rooted in learning and self-discovery. The conversation explores the deeper implications of designing with AI: who gets to be a “real” designer, how creativity and integrity intersect, and why fashion education needs to evolve.
• The Future of AI with Illia Polosukhin: The Man Who Put the T in GPT 09.12.2025 54min

  Illia Polosukhin, co author of Attention Is All You Need and founder of NEAR Protocol, joins Henrik and Jeremy to explore the origins of transformers, the evolution of AI inside Google, and why he believed a major step change was coming years before it arrived. He explains how blockchain can help create trust and provenance in a world where AI increasingly mediates information, and why personal AI ownership will matter as autonomous agents begin acting on our behalf. The conversation ranges from the technical breakthroughs that shaped modern AI to the risks of large scale manipulation and the infrastructure needed to support a trustworthy AI ecosystem.
• AI’s Next Frontier: World Models Explained by Christian Keller 27.11.2025 45min

  Christian Keller from Meta’s Superintelligence Lab joins Henrik and Jeremy to explain how world models help AI understand context, change, and cause and effect. He discusses why text alone captures only part of the picture, and how adding modalities like video can provide richer inputs. They explore how AI is now used to help train future models, how research workflows have evolved, and how personal experimentation often uncovers new possibilities.
• How Science Suggests You Change Your Organization - with Prosci’s Tim Creasey and Paul Gonzalez 11.11.2025 53min

  What makes organizational change so hard and why does AI make it even harder? Tim Creasey and Paul Gonzalez from Prosci join Jeremy and Henrik to unpack what 30 years of research reveals about transformation at scale. From bold leadership to cultural resistance, they explain why change always comes down to people, and what it actually takes to make new behaviors stick.
• You Can’t Vibe Code a 100-Ton Truck: Inside Applied Intuition’s Approach to Safety-Critical AI 28.10.2025 55min

  Most AI today lives on screens. But what happens when it runs a 100-ton truck, a fighter jet, or a fleet of defense vehicles? Applied Intuition’s co-founders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig join Jeremy and Henrik to unpack what it really takes to bring AI into the physical world. From safety-critical systems and autonomous fleets to the graveyard of companies that moved too fast, they reveal why building real-world AI requires a mindset rooted in precision, patience, and pragmatism.
• How IBM Used AI to Cut 40% of HR Operating Costs and Reinvest in the Company 15.10.2025 53min

  Mohamad Ali, Head of IBM Consulting, joins Jeremy and Henrik to share how IBM used AI to automate 94% of HR transactions, and cut HR operating costs by 40%, all while creating a model other organizations could learn from. This episode offers a rare inside look at AI transformation at scale, from infrastructure and incentives to the people and playbooks that made it real.
• How Do You Strategize in the AI Era? - with Martin Reeves, Head of BCG’s Think Tank 01.10.2025 1t 6min

  How do you strategize in the AI era? Martin Reeves, Chairman of BCG’s Henderson Institute, argues that strategy has always meant playing two contradictory games: optimizing today’s performance while simultaneously creating tomorrow’s. In this episode of Beyond the Prompt, Reeves explains why AI often commoditizes competitive advantage, what leaders must do differently, and how imagination, experimentation, and human creativity remain central in a machine-augmented world.