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You've been to the corporate training that's
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just bloody awful.
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What have you seen that's changed in the
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last two years or so?
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We don't even think you need to prove your
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value.
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You just need to be valuable.
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The pace of change and the cost of change
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is reducing.
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It's racing towards zero.
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Most organizations are still very much 99%
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human, but there's a lot of this AI agent
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hybrid coming in.
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Do those agents come to the daily scrum?
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How does KaiRise support that, if at all?
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It's a little bit outside of our wheelhouse.
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They're using it like a Google search engine,
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and it's like, wow, there's a huge gap.
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It sounds like Ask Mike was created first,
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and so can you explain sort of the origin
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of that?
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If I was checking my email fast enough,
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I would review the screenshot and go,
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hey, great job, Sarah.
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Well, you could, but that response was going
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to be very generic.
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It sounds very valuable to your client.
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I think there's plenty of content.
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Does any of it stick?
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Does anybody remember anything?
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Natural language is the way you control
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all this technology.
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It's not going to do with what they wanted.
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It did what they said.
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A classic software engineering problem.
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Welcome back to the AI Accelerator Podcast,
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the show where we cut through the hype and
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get to what actually works when you put
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AI to work inside real companies.
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My guests today are Mike Lyons and Greg
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Pfister, co-founders of KaiRise.
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Mike has spent more than 20 years tripping
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digital products leading cross-functional
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teams.
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For the last several years, he's been rebuilding
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what corporate training looks like inside
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an AI-powered world.
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KaiRise is an accredited IC Agile member
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organization and their courses carry real
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certification weight.
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Mike and Greg, we're going to get into it
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more.
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Welcome to the show.
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Thanks so much.
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Good to be here.
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I'd love to have you each just provide more
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color to your background for our listeners.
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What is KaiRise?
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What's its mission on the planet to make
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a dent in the planet and make a difference
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out there?
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Share a little bit of who you are and who
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KaiRise is and who you serve.
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Thanks for the intro and thanks for letting
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us come on and get to talk a little bit
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about how AI is changing things for everybody.
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I think that's kind of like the name of
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the game.
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Everyone says it.
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AI is going to disrupt, I mean, insert category
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here.
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AI is going to disrupt it.
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Greg and I, we started a company called
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KaiRise just about six years ago.
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And originally we started as a self-paced
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training company offering certification
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in agile software delivery, mainly sort
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of adaptive project management disciplines
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with five certified courses that we offer
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people.
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Over the last couple of years, though, we've
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really transitioned into more of an L&D
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type company where we're helping companies
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really understand how learning and development
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works within their organizations.
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We do that by way of making self-paced training
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that doesn't suck because you've been to
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the corporate training that's just bloody
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awful.
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And nobody wants to watch somebody talk
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to PowerPoint slides and a little head in
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the bottom left corner, a little circle
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pointing, you know, like even trying to
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be creative.
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Nobody wants that.
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Nobody wants that.
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Nobody has an hour to watch a video.
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So we said, like, let's change it all up.
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Let's learn in the flow of work, short,
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fast paced, funny videos that you can watch
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and learn.
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And every course, everything we do has customized
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interactions with our digital clone called
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Ask Mike.
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It's an AI rag.
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And we built that out.
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And now we have a new product we're bringing
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to market called Ask Me where anybody can
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do the same thing in those courses.
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So that's a little bit about me, a little
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bit about KaiRise.
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That's awesome.
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Greg, how about you?
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Sure.
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So it's similar to Mike.
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Mike and I were co-workers at our former
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employer and then obviously co-founded KaiRise.
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I mean, my background is from the technical
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engineering side of the house.
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You know, 30 plus years working software
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engineering on up through leadership and
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management.
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Several companies through acquisition into
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larger companies.
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And, you know, so very familiar with the
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whole agile way of working and the engineering
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play in that whole thing.
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And of course, AI is changing everything
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as we as we all know.
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So, yeah, Mike pretty much covered it, what
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we're doing over in the KaiRise space.
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But looking forward to chatting with you.
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Yeah, that's great.
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You've both been obviously involved in the
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agile world for the last decades or so,
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myself as well.
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I've been teaching agile involved with agile
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product development, et cetera, for a long
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time.
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What have you seen that's changed in the
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last two years or so about how the traditional
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online course model has changed?
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Maybe something else has significantly changed
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that a lot of things happening with with
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AI and other tech changes, obviously.
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But what are your thoughts on just sort
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of what's been changing over the last couple
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of years and how have you responded to those
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changes and made something available to
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the marketplace to really help people through
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this change?
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Well, let me let me jump.
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I think that like the one thing that's been
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changing over a couple of years in the agile
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space,
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of y'all, is just this idea of sort of like
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what's the value of agile coaching, agile
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scrum mastering?
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Like that whole vibe that, you know, that
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picked up like 2021, 2022 that remember,
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remember Capital One kind of cut their whole
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agile group, right?
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You remember that?
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And then, well, they weren't just the only
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one like companies, Wells Fargo and others
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followed suit.
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float around.
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This was really before I took off.
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agile ways of working, all these agile delivery
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things if we're not impacting the outcomes
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that the organizations are delivering?
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And so so that's been a big one.
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And for us at KaiRise, we're always kind
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of trying to keep our foot on that gas pedal
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that says it doesn't matter what your title
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is or what the scrum guide says.
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All that matters is are you impacting top
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line revenue growth or bottom line cost
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reduction?
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And we say that over and over and over.
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And it's not so much about like trying to
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prove your value.
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You know, the HR professional doesn't prove
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her value.
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What are you talking about?
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You ever see those LinkedIn posts?
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Here's the three things you need to do to
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prove your value.
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And what a bunch of nonsense like nobody
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else, nobody else in the organization has
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to prove their value.
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They either add value or they're fired like
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it's pretty simple, right?
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So so we don't even think you need to prove
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your value.
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You just need to be valuable.
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And here's how you do that.
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So that's the way we teach.
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years.
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And that's where I kick it over to Greg,
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our developer, our AI developer.
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Well, yeah, I mean, the question regarding
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change, obviously, the notion of agile,
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I think, has sort of a little bit of a stigma
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on it right now.
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this all the time.
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The reality is those core first principles,
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those ideas, they're not going away.
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Those are still essential in everything
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that we're doing, in fact, maybe even more
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so at the pace of change that AI is going
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through, making us go through.
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things that we've changed and maybe this
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is the scene that I've seen change as we
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move forward is as you have to.
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I'm sure not with AI, the the the AI of
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three years ago in the AI of today is amazingly
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different.
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change, it kind of then drives back into
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chief when it comes to project management
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or product management and things of that
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sort.
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the pace of change and the cost of change
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is reducing.
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It's it's racing towards zero.
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So, yeah, a lot of change happening.
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need to figure out if you're a manager today
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of people, you're going to also have to
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figure out how you manage agents, AI agents
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as well.
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I think that's that's a huge one is that
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the team members are not necessarily all
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human anymore.
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people in your audience where everybody
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is still a human.
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start to see multiple agents engaged and
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it's like, well, do those do those agents
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come to the daily scrum?
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Like, how do you like?
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I don't know.
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It's crazy to think about.
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Just to get techie on the on the AI side.
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What is your approach to you providing the
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assistance to or how does KaiRise provide
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assistance to these more hybrid organizations
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that are starting?
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Most organizations are still very much 99
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percent human, but there's a lot of this
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AI agent hybrid coming in.
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And and it's definitely going to grow over
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the next over the next several years.
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How does KaiRise support that, if at all,
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that type of massive change management organizations
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that's happening to everybody?
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That's a little bit outside of our wheelhouse.
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Greg and I are not consultants anymore.
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Although we kick around that idea every
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once in a while.
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But like we have we have one small course
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on how to use AI to help product managers
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understand customer insights.
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It's a very lightweight micro credentialed
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course.
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we have now allows allows coaches and sort
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of instructors,
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even higher ed professors, the ability to
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have access to an AI tool without having
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to sort of go build and understand deeply.
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But as far as like how do we teach people
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about AI or how you might coach agents?
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That's a little bit outside of our area.
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of our careers, we were at very large consulting
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organizations.
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So it's a little bit of our pushback in
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that we're we're not looking to go get into
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consulting again.
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However, the little bit that we're doing
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is we're bringing AI into that training
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format, which I think is a bit of a change.
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And it's a stepping stone.
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And we also see this is like any other technology
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s curve, stacking s curves.
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You know, where, you know, in the late 80s,
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early 90s, it was like, hey, we got these
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desktop computers.
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to put the cards in and make the interrupts
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not conflict with each other.
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And but then the Internet and the phones
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and, you know, all of these things have
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all had
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And so what's fascinating is that we're
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we're fairly involved and we're doing some
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technical things with it.
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with AI.
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But we also know there's a whole community
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that's probably, you know, miles beyond
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us.
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But we also know there's even a larger cohort
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that just they're using it like a Google
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search engine.
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And and it's like, wow, there's a huge gap
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and it's it's widening.
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And the more I see it, the magic of AI is
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going to start to move away from the prompt
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and you typing up what you want.
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And it's going to get embedded in the everyday.
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What do we do?
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How do we run our business?
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It'll just be a smarter.
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It'll just make us all smarter in that regard.
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So it'll be interesting.
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I kind of think about it.
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And this might be I'm just trying this language
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on for size.
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So you guys correct me if I'm not thinking
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right.
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But you know how like people will use Microsoft
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Excel.
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Right.
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And they'll even like I've been using it
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this morning for something.
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It's a very popular tool or Google Sheets.
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Whatever.
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Pick your whatever.
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But but not everybody wants to learn how
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to develop and create Google Sheets.
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Like not everybody wants to create Google
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Sheets.
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But man, a lot of people want to use it.
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And so I think like I was talking to Greg
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yesterday, we're talking about maybe we
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should build a course on like an introduction
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to AI agents.
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And I'm going, well, I guess 5000 of those
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courses are in my feed all the time.
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Join us for the two day, two hour seminar
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on how to build agents.
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What I think is there'll be an audience
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for that.
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But I think there's a bigger audience that
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just want to buy an agent.
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They just want they just want to use Excel.
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They could care less how you built it.
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And it better be fast.
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They better do exactly what you told it
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to do.
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I think there's a huge marketplace there
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for I don't even have the right language.
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Right.
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But it's like, yeah, I don't know.
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Could you could you build an agent and then
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just sell that and say this agent does.
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Boom.
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I don't even know what an agent is.
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Yeah, I think that's happening.
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I mean, it's the tools like Crockbot and
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others that are kind of simplifying the
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idea.
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But to be able to package it up.
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You know, there's a balance between overly
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generic and specific to your needs.
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Right.
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So there's a little bit of that of that
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gap that needs to be nuanced.
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But but yeah, I could definitely see people
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saying I need one of those and just, you
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know, pay to pay your fee.
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And now you have it and it's running.
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But to your point, Mike.
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Not everybody is a Excel macro writer.
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Yeah.
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But people are glad there are some because
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it makes them using Excel.
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Right.
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So same thing.
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Same thing.
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So is there going to be like a market like
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the app store?
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Will there be the agent store?
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I think there's absolutely going to be.
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The plug ins are the beginnings of
that.
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The skills.
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Are the beginnings and some of them behind
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paywalls.
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But I think it will just get more and more
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sophisticated.
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So I don't know.
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What do you think?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think it's going to be so blended into
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the system that most people.
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I think we're going to stop talking about
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agents within a year or two.
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It's just going to be baked into the cake
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and it's just everybody.
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I think what's really exciting about this
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is that natural language is the way you
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control this technology.
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You don't need the tech backgrounds that
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that we have to succeed with this technology
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change.
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So we're not far away from just anybody,
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any human on the planet speaking what they
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want.
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And then A.I., technology, robots, whatever,
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just giving them what they want.
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And that's it.
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It's like, I want this.
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And it's it's a near instant real time manifestation
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of what they're asking for.
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You know, forget about the way it happens
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with agents and A.I.
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and bots and stuff like that.
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I think it's going to become more seamless.
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Yeah, I do think it's going to be there.
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I don't know how long it will be, because
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what is also interesting, I was listening
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to a different podcast and they were talking
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about product management.
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So the people that are really taking advantage
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of all of this technology really are playing
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product managers.
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They are articulating what it is they want
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it to make.
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So to your point, it's and part of the challenge
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will be there's
a lot of people that don't
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think like that.
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They don't know how to ask it what they
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want, even in a natural language.
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So I think there's I don't know how that
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gap gets filled and maybe it gets smarter.
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But it's some you know, somehow the A.I.
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is going to have to continue to understand
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who you are and what your background is
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and things of that sort.
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And that's going to happen and continues
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to happen.
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But that's what's going to lead to sort
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of that world you're saying, Matt.
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But I still think there'll be people who
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are extremely frustrated with it because
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it's not going to do what they what they
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wanted.
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It did what they said.
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Yeah, exactly.
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The classic software engineering problem.
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I was going to say, wait a minute.
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Didn't the Agile Manifesto get written for
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that?
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The exact same thing.
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We're going to be running through that for
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about three years.
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People are going to say this thing is terrible.
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Right.
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Exactly.
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Let's talk about something more familiar
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for both of you that's unique to you.
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And I think it'll be very interesting for
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our audiences.
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Let's talk about Ask Mike and ask me.
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Right.
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This is these are products you created.
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It sounds like Ask Mike was created first.
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And so can you explain sort of the origin
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of that, how that's benefited your company,
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your clients, etc.
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And then how what ask me is and just share
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about that.
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Thanks.
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Thanks for that.
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Let me let me start with the Ask Mike part
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of that.
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Maybe Greg can cover ask me.
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But we had a we had a problem in our organization
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where learners were going through the content,
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but not getting any type of real feedback.
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And so back in the early days, what they
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would do to meet certain learning objectives,
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where they had to demonstrate some proficiency
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with a skill that they just learned, for
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example,
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they might take a screenshot of, say, you
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know, a stakeholder impact map that they
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created and upload it to like a discussion
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board type thing.
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And then I would get an email.
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And if I was checking my email fast enough,
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I would review the screenshot and go,
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hey, great job, Sarah, you know, maybe consider
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this person goes in the bottom left quadrant
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or whatever.
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I would give them feedback.
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But it was it was that kind of synchronous
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depending on did I get the notification?
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Did Sarah screenshot to have the right information?
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It was quite cumbersome, you can kind of
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imagine.
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Right.
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And so the learner it wasn't awful.
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It wasn't an awful learning experience.
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And people were still happy with the course
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overall.
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But, you know, occasionally we get reviews
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like that was cumbersome.
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You made me do elsewhere.
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Anyway, so so we began to wonder, well,
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could we could we create some sort of asynchronous
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interaction where if a learner submits something,
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they could get a response and, you know,
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sort of chat.
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GPT came on the scene and we're like, well,
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could we use something like that?
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Well, you could.
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But that response was going to be very generic.
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It could be based on whatever's in the
chat
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GPT ecosystem, which is like the whole Internet,
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not necessarily what we teach in our class,
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which is very specific to a set of learning
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objectives.
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And then the invention of the A.I.
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rag came about and we discovered we could
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actually create our own sort of knowledge
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set,
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if you will, within this rag and then corral
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the A.I.
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to just that information so that the learner
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would get a near immediate response with
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just our content.
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And so we built Ask Mike.
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We called it my digital clone.
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And at the time, even you could text it,
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00:18:54,610 --> 00:18:56,090
you could you could interact with it as
554
00:18:56,090 --> 00:18:56,970
a sort of chat.
555
00:18:57,010 --> 00:19:00,270
But then the real sort of aha moment came
556
00:19:00,270 --> 00:19:04,090
when we began to create interactions within
557
00:19:04,090 --> 00:19:05,770
the learning management system,
558
00:19:05,930 --> 00:19:09,110
the LMS that are very context specific.
559
00:19:09,110 --> 00:19:12,050
So in that stakeholder impact survey that
560
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I mentioned that Sarah filled out.
561
00:19:13,450 --> 00:19:15,870
Now, when Sarah drags and drops within our
562
00:19:15,870 --> 00:19:18,090
LMS, if she's putting something in the wrong
563
00:19:18,090 --> 00:19:20,830
one, Micah says, hey, you know, you're this
564
00:19:20,830 --> 00:19:21,770
one needs to go down there.
565
00:19:21,870 --> 00:19:22,370
Here's why.
566
00:19:22,490 --> 00:19:25,150
Or reconsider or and she can she can communicate
567
00:19:25,150 --> 00:19:27,530
back and forth within the interactions.
568
00:19:27,710 --> 00:19:29,530
That's just not like a chat bot or something.
569
00:19:29,650 --> 00:19:31,950
It's taking the information she's providing
570
00:19:31,950 --> 00:19:34,570
and it looks at her learner profile and
571
00:19:34,570 --> 00:19:34,810
says,
572
00:19:35,070 --> 00:19:37,310
Sarah, you know, refers to her by name in
573
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your role as a as a contract agent at a
574
00:19:41,370 --> 00:19:42,170
consulting firm.
575
00:19:42,170 --> 00:19:44,730
This is why you want to treat your vendors
576
00:19:44,730 --> 00:19:46,990
in the upper right quadrant of the stakeholder
577
00:19:46,990 --> 00:19:47,530
impact group.
578
00:19:48,330 --> 00:19:49,330
Anyway, so that was Ask Mike.
579
00:19:50,370 --> 00:19:50,850
And we.
580
00:19:51,430 --> 00:19:53,250
Gosh, Greg, when did we launch that?
581
00:19:53,450 --> 00:19:54,250
It's probably been three.
582
00:19:54,650 --> 00:19:56,050
Was it this three years too long?
583
00:19:56,770 --> 00:19:57,290
About three.
584
00:19:57,630 --> 00:19:58,210
Yeah, around three.
585
00:19:58,470 --> 00:19:58,970
Maybe three years.
586
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That was Ask Mike.
587
00:20:01,050 --> 00:20:01,170
Yeah.
588
00:20:01,450 --> 00:20:04,670
And just to follow on to that.
589
00:20:04,890 --> 00:20:08,690
So in part, it was to help us meet the accreditation
590
00:20:08,690 --> 00:20:09,890
that we needed for this.
591
00:20:09,890 --> 00:20:11,870
These are publicly accredited courses and
592
00:20:11,870 --> 00:20:12,750
we needed some way.
593
00:20:12,870 --> 00:20:15,730
And it went from cumbersome to something
594
00:20:15,730 --> 00:20:20,210
like really more poignant and on point when
595
00:20:20,210 --> 00:20:21,010
people are interacting.
596
00:20:21,230 --> 00:20:23,070
And we didn't mention, but all of our courses
597
00:20:23,070 --> 00:20:24,790
are online, self paced.
598
00:20:25,670 --> 00:20:27,550
We're familiar with corporate training and
599
00:20:27,550 --> 00:20:28,370
we know it's terrible.
600
00:20:28,590 --> 00:20:31,970
And we really felt like, gosh, you can get
601
00:20:31,970 --> 00:20:33,830
a three minute YouTube video and learn how
602
00:20:33,830 --> 00:20:34,570
to change a tire.
603
00:20:34,570 --> 00:20:36,250
We should be able to teach people these
604
00:20:36,250 --> 00:20:38,830
kinds of topics in short, little consumable
605
00:20:38,830 --> 00:20:39,210
chunks.
606
00:20:39,470 --> 00:20:39,470
Right.
607
00:20:40,410 --> 00:20:43,670
And and of course, the packaged LMS is of
608
00:20:43,670 --> 00:20:44,190
the world.
609
00:20:44,610 --> 00:20:47,150
The think it fixed the job is all those.
610
00:20:47,150 --> 00:20:49,510
They have their quizzes and things of that
611
00:20:49,510 --> 00:20:49,830
sort.
612
00:20:50,310 --> 00:20:53,370
But the quiz isn't providing you feedback.
613
00:20:53,370 --> 00:20:55,230
And so that's really where Ask Mike was
614
00:20:55,230 --> 00:20:57,270
like, well, we want it to feel more like
615
00:20:57,270 --> 00:20:58,050
it's Mike.
616
00:20:58,050 --> 00:21:00,290
He's our face in all of our courses.
617
00:21:00,770 --> 00:21:03,430
It's Mike providing you, Matt, feedback
618
00:21:03,430 --> 00:21:06,450
on on whatever your that interaction was
619
00:21:06,450 --> 00:21:08,370
asking you, whether it's a case study or
620
00:21:08,370 --> 00:21:09,210
what have you.
621
00:21:09,930 --> 00:21:13,890
And and about a year ago, we started shifting
622
00:21:13,890 --> 00:21:16,270
a little bit more from instead of it being
623
00:21:16,270 --> 00:21:20,090
a one off specific for KaiRise Ask Mike.
624
00:21:20,090 --> 00:21:23,470
We started turning it into an Ask Me product
625
00:21:23,470 --> 00:21:26,130
that then can be configured and used by
626
00:21:26,130 --> 00:21:29,430
anybody for their
self-paced classes, instructor
627
00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:31,590
led training, webinars or whatever.
628
00:21:31,750 --> 00:21:33,550
The activities are all they all work the
629
00:21:33,550 --> 00:21:33,730
same.
630
00:21:33,870 --> 00:21:35,650
What they do is they get people engaged
631
00:21:35,650 --> 00:21:38,110
and they actually get coaching feedback.
632
00:21:38,110 --> 00:21:40,450
And that's really the significance.
633
00:21:40,810 --> 00:21:42,390
So it's fascinating time.
634
00:21:42,390 --> 00:21:45,130
We kind of playing off of the whole evolution
635
00:21:45,130 --> 00:21:47,830
here in the learning and development space,
636
00:21:47,930 --> 00:21:48,970
in the training space.
637
00:21:49,530 --> 00:21:51,670
There's a lot of tools that are popping
638
00:21:51,670 --> 00:21:53,670
up that are all about building content faster.
639
00:21:54,370 --> 00:21:56,810
I don't think our problem is creating content
640
00:21:56,810 --> 00:21:57,650
in this world.
641
00:21:57,790 --> 00:21:59,070
I think there's plenty of content.
642
00:21:59,270 --> 00:22:01,010
It's the question is, is any of it sticking?
643
00:22:01,610 --> 00:22:03,150
Does anybody remember anything?
644
00:22:03,510 --> 00:22:05,790
Do they what's the biggest complaint in
645
00:22:05,790 --> 00:22:06,130
training?
646
00:22:06,270 --> 00:22:08,130
Typically, it's like, yeah, I like that
647
00:22:08,130 --> 00:22:09,790
example, except for my world's not like
648
00:22:09,790 --> 00:22:09,990
that.
649
00:22:09,990 --> 00:22:10,950
My world's like this.
650
00:22:11,390 --> 00:22:13,990
And so they don't they have to do the translation.
651
00:22:14,930 --> 00:22:16,870
How do I how do I take this square peg and
652
00:22:16,870 --> 00:22:18,790
fit it into the round hole over here?
653
00:22:19,050 --> 00:22:22,870
And what ask me allows us to do is exactly
654
00:22:22,870 --> 00:22:23,150
that.
655
00:22:23,310 --> 00:22:26,110
So we have a learner profile at the beginning
656
00:22:26,110 --> 00:22:29,570
of our course, which we gather not sensitive
657
00:22:29,570 --> 00:22:30,850
information, but some background.
658
00:22:30,990 --> 00:22:33,570
So let's say a little bit of your career,
659
00:22:33,730 --> 00:22:34,770
your scope of authority.
660
00:22:34,790 --> 00:22:35,470
What are you doing?
661
00:22:35,550 --> 00:22:37,710
Are you aspiring to be this new role or
662
00:22:37,710 --> 00:22:39,570
are you currently been in it for five years?
663
00:22:39,570 --> 00:22:40,690
You know, that kind of thing.
664
00:22:41,170 --> 00:22:42,810
And then we have a North Star.
665
00:22:42,970 --> 00:22:44,690
Like, what do they want to get out of this
666
00:22:44,690 --> 00:22:47,190
course or this lecture or this whatever,
667
00:22:47,710 --> 00:22:50,050
just like you would in a live class.
668
00:22:50,170 --> 00:22:51,570
And everybody goes around the room a little
669
00:22:51,570 --> 00:22:53,330
bit and describes who they are and what
670
00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:54,370
they want out of the course.
671
00:22:54,490 --> 00:22:55,970
And, you know, you put it up on the board
672
00:22:55,970 --> 00:22:56,690
kind of thing.
673
00:22:57,410 --> 00:23:00,770
Same deal, except for now, that's included
674
00:23:00,770 --> 00:23:03,750
with the rag content, with the activity
675
00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:05,970
they just interacted with along with their
676
00:23:05,970 --> 00:23:06,530
profile.
677
00:23:06,530 --> 00:23:10,630
And we bring back a very, very tailored
678
00:23:10,630 --> 00:23:14,230
response that would say, yeah, you did.
679
00:23:14,470 --> 00:23:17,030
This is how you did in the activity, let's
680
00:23:17,030 --> 00:23:17,870
say the interaction.
681
00:23:18,530 --> 00:23:20,830
But Matt, this is how it applies to you
682
00:23:20,830 --> 00:23:23,110
in your role of doing such and such and
683
00:23:23,110 --> 00:23:23,670
so and so.
684
00:23:23,810 --> 00:23:26,270
So it does that translation for you.
685
00:23:26,370 --> 00:23:29,070
And we since we've really rolled this out,
686
00:23:29,570 --> 00:23:32,190
we've we've gotten a lot.
687
00:23:32,190 --> 00:23:33,990
I mean, we get a lot of reviews anyway,
688
00:23:34,110 --> 00:23:35,250
and it's all been positive.
689
00:23:35,390 --> 00:23:37,370
But now they really are.
690
00:23:37,610 --> 00:23:39,490
It seems like they're talking about this
691
00:23:39,490 --> 00:23:41,450
aspect of it much more.
692
00:23:41,650 --> 00:23:43,530
So we think we really believe that we've
693
00:23:43,530 --> 00:23:46,230
sort of changed the game when it comes to
694
00:23:46,230 --> 00:23:49,430
training and coaching in an async kind of
695
00:23:49,430 --> 00:23:52,230
model, which which is kind of cool.
696
00:23:52,350 --> 00:23:54,350
So I don't know, kind of going down that
697
00:23:54,350 --> 00:23:55,770
rabbit hole, but just trying to explain
698
00:23:55,770 --> 00:23:58,470
how that's changed and why it's gotten better.
699
00:23:59,330 --> 00:24:01,850
Yeah, it sounds it sounds it sounds very
700
00:24:01,850 --> 00:24:02,930
valuable to your client.
701
00:24:03,050 --> 00:24:05,510
So it sounds like it's a it's sort of like
702
00:24:05,510 --> 00:24:06,750
ask my two dot oh, right.
703
00:24:06,850 --> 00:24:09,310
It's a customized version that each is to
704
00:24:09,310 --> 00:24:13,870
the ask me is for each participant in any
705
00:24:13,870 --> 00:24:15,010
program that you have.
706
00:24:15,910 --> 00:24:18,090
It's it's asked me is what they do for you.
707
00:24:18,310 --> 00:24:20,490
Yeah, you could have an account and you
708
00:24:20,490 --> 00:24:22,310
could create your own activities and you
709
00:24:22,310 --> 00:24:25,170
use them in your own webinars or whatever.
710
00:24:25,170 --> 00:24:27,070
And that would appeal.
711
00:24:27,210 --> 00:24:29,890
And it's it's using the knowledge in the
712
00:24:29,890 --> 00:24:32,210
rag that you've put in.
713
00:24:32,290 --> 00:24:33,290
You know, it's your stuff.
714
00:24:33,290 --> 00:24:34,130
It's not our stuff.
715
00:24:34,290 --> 00:24:36,430
It's got to make sense for your world.
716
00:24:37,370 --> 00:24:37,810
Yeah.
717
00:24:38,030 --> 00:24:38,670
And then you name it.
718
00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:39,890
You name it whatever you want.
719
00:24:39,970 --> 00:24:41,250
You should be asked Matt.
720
00:24:41,450 --> 00:24:42,970
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
721
00:24:43,450 --> 00:24:43,690
Whatever.
722
00:24:43,810 --> 00:24:44,750
That's just part of the setup.
723
00:24:44,790 --> 00:24:47,450
You name your coach and see and you can
724
00:24:47,450 --> 00:24:49,630
have multiple courses and multiple instructors
725
00:24:49,630 --> 00:24:51,750
because that's real.
726
00:24:51,750 --> 00:24:52,030
Right.
727
00:24:52,230 --> 00:24:54,370
So and they all respond differently.
728
00:24:54,690 --> 00:24:59,270
My my ask Mike is kind of mouthy and direct
729
00:24:59,270 --> 00:25:01,210
and to the point and like doesn't tell you
730
00:25:01,210 --> 00:25:03,010
good things when you start like, hey, that's
731
00:25:03,010 --> 00:25:03,910
a great question, Greg.
732
00:25:03,910 --> 00:25:05,610
I never say I wouldn't say that in real
733
00:25:05,610 --> 00:25:05,910
life.
734
00:25:06,150 --> 00:25:07,630
I don't my clone doesn't say that.
735
00:25:08,010 --> 00:25:09,930
Your clone might want to start with that.
736
00:25:09,930 --> 00:25:11,910
And you can just you can make it do that.
737
00:25:11,910 --> 00:25:12,630
Yeah.
738
00:25:12,950 --> 00:25:14,390
So, yeah.
739
00:25:14,550 --> 00:25:16,830
So it definitely is a tailored.
740
00:25:17,010 --> 00:25:19,390
And then the last little bit that's in this
741
00:25:19,390 --> 00:25:22,170
is so you've got this the bookends to the
742
00:25:22,170 --> 00:25:24,290
learner profile, a bunch of activities through
743
00:25:24,290 --> 00:25:26,330
the course or the whatever it is you're
744
00:25:26,330 --> 00:25:26,710
presenting.
745
00:25:26,910 --> 00:25:29,010
And at the end, we have what's called a
746
00:25:29,010 --> 00:25:31,850
coach summary activity and it looks through
747
00:25:31,850 --> 00:25:34,790
all of your responses and gives you sort
748
00:25:34,790 --> 00:25:35,830
of the hey,
749
00:25:35,830 --> 00:25:37,950
here's what we this is the things you're
750
00:25:37,950 --> 00:25:39,230
really knocking out of the park.
751
00:25:39,230 --> 00:25:42,050
Here's some areas you could improve on.
752
00:25:42,390 --> 00:25:44,350
And this is what you could do starting on
753
00:25:44,350 --> 00:25:46,710
Monday kind of thing like no kidding.
754
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:49,790
Here's what you could go take out of this
755
00:25:49,790 --> 00:25:52,490
based on what we've seen in your interactions
756
00:25:52,490 --> 00:25:55,490
on go go do this Monday morning kind of
757
00:25:55,490 --> 00:25:55,630
thing.
758
00:25:55,750 --> 00:25:58,190
So, yes, it's very well received and we're
759
00:25:58,190 --> 00:25:59,370
excited about it.
760
00:25:59,370 --> 00:26:02,150
Yeah, that's that's that's very, very exciting.
761
00:26:02,350 --> 00:26:04,390
So as we're as we're getting ready to wind
762
00:26:04,390 --> 00:26:06,370
down, I'd love for you to share sort of
763
00:26:06,370 --> 00:26:10,470
like describe your your ideal client profile.
764
00:26:10,670 --> 00:26:12,090
Who gets the most benefit out of it?
765
00:26:12,230 --> 00:26:13,970
Is it is it is it the coaches, the trainers?
766
00:26:14,270 --> 00:26:17,590
Is it the business leaders at mid-market
767
00:26:17,590 --> 00:26:18,090
companies?
768
00:26:18,790 --> 00:26:22,050
Let's talk about who is who would be most
769
00:26:22,050 --> 00:26:25,730
interested in taking advantage of one of
770
00:26:25,730 --> 00:26:27,370
the car rides, you know, product services,
771
00:26:27,490 --> 00:26:27,870
etc.
772
00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:30,670
And then and then what can they do if they're
773
00:26:30,670 --> 00:26:31,830
listening or viewing this?
774
00:26:32,330 --> 00:26:34,150
What can they do to start to move down that
775
00:26:34,150 --> 00:26:35,150
path with you?
776
00:26:36,870 --> 00:26:38,710
Let me I think that there's really like
777
00:26:38,710 --> 00:26:40,970
sort of two verticals that this appeals
778
00:26:40,970 --> 00:26:41,170
to.
779
00:26:41,330 --> 00:26:44,210
One is the L&D professional.
780
00:26:44,870 --> 00:26:47,450
So this is this is the folks who are responsible
781
00:26:47,450 --> 00:26:50,190
for helping organizations get smarter about
782
00:26:50,190 --> 00:26:52,530
whatever the thing they need to get smarter
783
00:26:52,530 --> 00:26:53,270
about is.
784
00:26:53,270 --> 00:26:55,190
And there's a bit of understanding.
785
00:26:55,470 --> 00:26:56,930
What are they trying to get smart about?
786
00:26:58,050 --> 00:27:00,110
But but for L&D professionals, the sort
787
00:27:00,110 --> 00:27:02,330
of holy grail of learning has been that
788
00:27:02,330 --> 00:27:05,050
customized, personalized training.
789
00:27:05,890 --> 00:27:08,030
You really can't do it in person, even in
790
00:27:08,030 --> 00:27:09,010
person, an instructor.
791
00:27:09,410 --> 00:27:11,750
And I've led many of these.
792
00:27:12,070 --> 00:27:14,210
Let's say there's 15 students in a class.
793
00:27:14,210 --> 00:27:16,530
I can really only get to know three or four
794
00:27:16,530 --> 00:27:18,390
of them at any sort of level where I can
795
00:27:18,390 --> 00:27:20,470
say, oh, and in your role, it might look
796
00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:20,890
like this.
797
00:27:20,890 --> 00:27:22,710
Meanwhile, the rest of the class is like,
798
00:27:22,910 --> 00:27:24,030
well, yeah, but I've got this other role
799
00:27:24,030 --> 00:27:24,410
over here.
800
00:27:24,810 --> 00:27:26,510
So that sort of individualized customized
801
00:27:26,510 --> 00:27:29,810
training on the fly for your organization
802
00:27:29,810 --> 00:27:31,650
really appeals to the learning
and development
803
00:27:31,650 --> 00:27:31,890
professional.
804
00:27:32,810 --> 00:27:36,430
And then secondly, are those the sort of
805
00:27:36,430 --> 00:27:37,830
instructors themselves.
806
00:27:38,110 --> 00:27:39,830
So these are these are the folks that are
807
00:27:39,830 --> 00:27:42,890
delivering content and and have all that
808
00:27:42,890 --> 00:27:44,850
knowledge, because as Greg pointed out,
809
00:27:44,950 --> 00:27:47,130
you load the clone up with all of your knowledge.
810
00:27:47,130 --> 00:27:48,070
It's not my knowledge.
811
00:27:48,290 --> 00:27:49,610
It's not the Internet's knowledge.
812
00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:52,030
It's your knowledge, all your blog posts,
813
00:27:52,190 --> 00:27:54,850
your book, whatever videos you have that
814
00:27:54,850 --> 00:27:55,390
goes in.
815
00:27:55,730 --> 00:27:58,030
So as an instructor, being available to
816
00:27:58,030 --> 00:28:00,830
your students pretty much 24 seven is is
817
00:28:00,830 --> 00:28:03,390
an interesting sort of play.
818
00:28:03,530 --> 00:28:05,310
I guess I guess there might be a third one
819
00:28:05,310 --> 00:28:05,990
I would throw in.
820
00:28:06,050 --> 00:28:07,710
It kind of lumps in learning and development.
821
00:28:07,710 --> 00:28:09,850
But that's the higher education community.
822
00:28:09,990 --> 00:28:13,130
I'm a I'm a adjunct faculty and a master's
823
00:28:13,130 --> 00:28:14,110
program at Wash U.
824
00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:17,470
And I use this in my in-person course.
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So we meet virtually, but we meet in real
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in real time.
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And we use this this the ask me clone in
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that.
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So it's got great, great play for higher
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education.
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It's SCORM compliant, can be imported into
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Canvas and Blackboard.
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All that's ready to go.
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So those are the kind of three.
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Greg, did I what did I miss?
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No, I think, you know, it's hard to narrow.
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I mean, we're just now starting to get this
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out to the broader audience and we've got
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a few pilots going on right now.
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But even that coach consultant play.
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Right.
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You can't be there 24 seven.
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But those activities and those things are
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kind of can speak on your behalf when there's
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still some of those questions or you use
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it for training.
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We've used it at very large Fortune 100
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organizations to engage an audience in a
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live presentation.
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Those kinds of things.
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So it's not mentee where you do the word
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cloud, which is cool and it's nifty and
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it gives you a sense of the audience of
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what's going on.
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But in this case, it literally can respond
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to them, each individual also.
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So it's it's pretty I think there's a lot
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of applications, but I think that it's really
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as creative as you see how you could apply
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it.
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It really works.
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If you're if you're getting in front of
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people, you're showing slides, you're doing
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training.
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You made some self-paced training or consulting.
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I think there's an application that it could
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apply.
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So if somebody is listening and they fit
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that criteria, they're their coach, consultant,
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learning, going professional or facilitator.
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Right.
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Professor and professor, educator, et cetera.
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What's the best way for them to get more
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information about each of you,
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about KaiRise, about what it could look
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like for them to start to move down down
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that path?
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They go to your website, they connect with
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you on LinkedIn, all of the above.
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What's the best way for them to get in touch?
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Yeah.
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Just a visit to KaiRise dot com.
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K-A-I-R-I-S-E.
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KaiRise dot com.
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You can try out my digital clone there.
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Just click on Ask Mike and you can ask me
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anything.
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There's also an ask me button there, which
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is the personalized clone.
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You can try one of those out, see what that
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could look like with custom activities.
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And of course, our email address.
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Contact us at the bottom there.
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And I'm easy to find on LinkedIn as well.
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That's great.
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Any any any special, you know, offers or
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anything you want to share with with our
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audience?
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Yeah.
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Thanks for the opportunity.
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Well, we want to we want to give a coupon
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to anybody who is interested in our current
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training, wants to try these certified courses
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out.
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We've got a 20 percent off coupon.
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We'll put that in the show notes below and
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give that to you here.
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And we would just love to have meet more
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meet more people that want to change the
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way they learn and learn in the flow of
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work.
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That's fantastic.
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Thank you so much.
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Yes.
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We'll include all that in the show notes
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for those of you who are maybe listening
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and walking your dog or doing something
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right now that will all be available in
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the show notes.
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Thank you.
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Thank you both for your time, for sharing
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everything that you shared, your insights
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based on your experience and how you're
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applying it.
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I think it's a really, really smart way
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to add value to the market right now in
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a time of in a time of significant need.
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So thank you very much for your time.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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Have a great day.
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Have a great time.