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how do you
also make sure that you're leveraging AI?
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But there's some type of governance.
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You don't have 20 people asking,
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20 salespeople asking something different.
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But yet what's happening at the enterprise
level?
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Right. Absolutely.
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And we're going to get into we're going
to get into the implementation of AI.
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But, we're joined here
by Stephen Cassell, who is with Chief
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Outsiders,
with a chief marketing officer.
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Focus, at a fractional component,
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which means you go in and help companies.
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And not are
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not a permanent employee position
with inside the company.
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Correct? That's correct.
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That's correct. be.
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Faster!
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Our stalled.
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Our our funnel
not working the way it should work.
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And then
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or exit
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or we've purchased as that look like
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those are typical scenarios.
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And you know I think it's it's
really something that I enjoy.
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And after many years working
for corporations and an operator role,
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you know,
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everything from big to,
you know, PE owned.
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It's,
it's been a really interesting way to,
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to really help accelerate growth for,
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for a lot of mid-sized companies
who are looking for that next stage.
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Well, a mid-sized company is unlikely
to have a chief marketing officer.
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That's you see that at a higher,
you know, fortune 500 company will have.
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So it gives you somebody
that has the knowledge base.
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So how did you how did you get into this
fractional position.
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Yeah, it was Cigna
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Healthcare here.
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And then also went worked
for a company up in Boston.
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032 health.
So a lot of health and services.
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And really I kind of boil it down
to it's all about B2B.
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And are you working with another business
or are you selling through
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another business
or you also selling to consumers.
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And so
how do you really think about those?
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Really struck me
after years of thinking about okay,
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well there's always another operator
roll out there.
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There's always another kind of next job.
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And then I was what I really love doing is
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either opportunities or
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if there's potentially something
that's not working well.
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Why am I not focusing on that and helping
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with those
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a lot of companies.
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Things are working well for things
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in all beauty of.
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Okay,
I'm going to have you on a full time right
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CMO basis.
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Yeah, I get what you need.
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I don't need lower price. Yep.
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You know, a full time
position hits the penal pretty hard
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when you are at that level.
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So if you can do that
for a fraction of that,
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then that's helpful.
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Well, Stephen, you and I met
and we had some great conversations about
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AI, the use of it,
and the governance and management of it.
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So that's kind of why
I wanted to get your input today.
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I've
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last year,
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even though everybody was screaming
AI from the
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the top of their lungs,
I have been a very slow believer,
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and a very cautious,
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to many science
fiction novels from my liking.
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So I feel like
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we're finally at the point
that everybody needs
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to at least be aware of it
and think about, can it help?
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Does it help?
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Or should I be making a
I do something that a I can't do?
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And if that's the case then I should be
marketing the heck out of that.
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So there's all all different ways
to consider it.
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What are your thoughts?
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Yeah, my thoughts are and it's obviously
evolving very, very quickly.
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Where we, where we are now.
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And I think that
there are some clear cases
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now where
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you know efficiency improvements from,
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from implementation.
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It's I think there's also places
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performance improvements.
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And then increasingly
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is where you places
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And if I break that down a little bit,
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I think it's really important
to realize that for years
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we've been leveraging what I would call
kind of the predictive analytics, and
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which is a type of what AI is now
accelerating.
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When you think about from a marketing lens
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how companies have leveraged,
predictive analytics for lead
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generation and identify and prospects
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That's been around for a bit.
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Now, what's accelerated is the idea
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that, okay, I can do
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parts of that process so much more quickly
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And I think the, the,
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is thinking that fast is always better
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without the proper oversight
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of what fast is actually producing.
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And so so that's where I think
the, the place where we are
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now is should a company be thinking about,
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okay, how do I improve my my growth.
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How do I see how do I think
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Of course, because now some of
these things really are accelerated.
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It's much easier now to, get out
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and, and do an hour's.
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What used to take weeks.
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But guess what.
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You still have to understand and
put a human eye on that to validate it.
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And, and so parts of it may be truncated,
but there's parts of it
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that you still need to really.
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Wait a second.
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Maybe we do need to talk to some real
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And maybe we need to really kind of
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And if we're talking about $1 million
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decision, doesn't that doesn't
that validate warrant the time.
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Little bit of time and energy.
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I think it's quickly accelerating.
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And those are just some of the
the ways that I think about,
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you know,
that that efficiency and performance.
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And then he I think that a lot of people
when this first hit
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equated it to the robot, right,
the robot arm that comes in
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and does the same thing over and over
and over very fast, very, you know,
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automation,
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and when I first started hearing
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AI, it was, I don't need interns,
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I have ChatGPT.
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And that's problematic
for a lot of reasons.
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Right? Short and long term.
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In the in the short term, what happens to
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those people that we're going
to start learning from you?
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As an intern,
they're not going to get the internship.
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So you're not
you're not growing the candidate pool.
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And it's problematic
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from the oversight of the AI
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because you can't set it
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possibly could a robot arm
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You need to be validating
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And certainly it's learning,
and certainly it's getting better.
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But, I don't know that
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we want to get rid of our interns
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not even shedding roles.
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It's how do you adjust roles that leverage
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to some things can be accelerated,
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but that doesn't mean you can take humans
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That's my perception.
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And yeah, what I've seen in
and to use the internet
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example, if you're not breach,
well guess what.
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When everybody is going out and retiring.
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We're going to put in their jobs. Right.
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And it's not like
AI is going to completely tight.
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Right now, can it
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Of course, of course.
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I had a lunch last week with a
a large firm,
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and, they said, oh,
we were told our mandate this year
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is to find 20%
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of every job in the firm
and attribute it to AI.
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And I said, to what end?
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Like, because you're firing 20% of your
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people resources the following year.
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Like, why are we.
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What are you trying to accomplish?
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And they went. Oh.
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Said, wait a second.
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Maybe I can use identify
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the segments
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and I can become more efficient
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or my
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how we're actually distributing,
you know, other parts of the business,
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not necessarily marketing,
but operations versus one who doesn't.
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Well, okay,
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some of these things
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Because you're going to see higher
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But nowhere in that sentence is it.
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Oh well let's, let's eliminate
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who are actually helping to, to
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one of the keys is again, it's
how do you augment, how do you accelerate.
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And at the same time,
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how do you also adjust
people's roles and jobs
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so that they're then overseeing
if something is also on the way?
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To make sure that you're in the jeopardy!
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Well, and I think to use AI just because
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I said use AI is probably the wrong
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the wrong adjustment.
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That's right.
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So if there's a purpose to employing AI,
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then I think it's a little
and it's a little easier
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to make it concrete
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But not just in their functions.
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As an advice level.
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Right. Governance and oversight.
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Really easy to have where it might be.
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When suddenly there's a reputation brand
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or you know one same thing.
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And guess what. They don't, they don't,
they don't square.
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Right. Market. Right.
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And so I think those are some kind of as.
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Yeah. Do we have our arms around this
the right way.
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Do do you solve that
with an enterprise system.
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Like is that the is that the solution.
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I think it's an enterprise approach.
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Okay. And and how do you think
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inside of things.
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How do you
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what are our rules,
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those kinds of kind of, questions
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that used to be reviewed
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They don't go away.
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Right. But
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because my understanding
of an enterprise system
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is that you can give it
things like brand scope and,
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and it can operate within the
that parameters.
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And then you train it.
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Right? Right.
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So that it learns your brand the way
you want things talked about the way.
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So that kind of governance and oversight
can create a powerful tool.
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Versus not having it right.
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Versus Bob uses chat, and and Jane uses
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Claude, and, you know,
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And and there's not any specific,
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colons between everyone.
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That's right.
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Kind of small and mid-sized companies.
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kind of accelerates
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if you thought it or growing
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your business, it
it accelerates the strategy
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and the insights and,
and kind of those types of things.
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But how do you know things.
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And so I think that's
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going to be one of the interesting things
that we'll start to see more
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and kind of switching it
over into
how do we actually use this
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in a systematic way.
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Enterprise system
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as well as you know these things are okay.
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Absolutely.
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We we're having a conversation
with a, a buying group
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that uses AI to read line there in days.
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Right.
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So in our process, you
when you go to market, you sign
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an NDA prior to receiving information
that proprietary.
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And we can get to confidentiality
and AI in a minute.
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But the, the NDA
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itself is, you know, a one page document.
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It's not really generally
that big of a deal.
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There's a few terms that are, you know,
we like 12 months.
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We like eight, you know, 24.
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We'll settle on 18.
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So they put the document into,
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not even chat into Gemini.
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And they had Gemini added it
and they sent it back.
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And they said,
we assume that you're using an AI tool
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to redline this.
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I was like, no.
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100% no.
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And one of our partners I touched on
goes, well, why aren't we then?
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And I'm like, because now
you're going to have a redlining for AI.
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What?
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How long is that going to take?
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Right. It's going to not even come back.
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It's going to come back and say
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we won't talk to each other or something
silly, right?
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Because they're each going to go back
and forth and cut things out.
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What do you end up with? Is it actually.
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Is it actually stable?
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So I do worry that
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about things like that as we head
further down into an interesting article.
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So whatever.
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You're
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right, a discoverable
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formation.
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So correct
that that gets to the what guardrails
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do you have right in mind,
especially with sensitive information and.
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Right.
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And of agents.
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Well and we you know on our we are highly
sensitive to confidential information.
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Right.
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We're getting all of the information
about a company.
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And discoverability is a key factor
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because ultimately somebody's
going to diligence it.
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And if there's a problem in a transaction,
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everything that we have communicated
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is discoverable.
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So, you know, even even using AI,
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we don't do a lot of it
within the operations of the company.
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We use it more for
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I have a report
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about the people
that are coming to the meeting.
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Yeah. Help me put together.
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Right. Right.
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Yeah, exactly.
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So it's more assistant based,
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whereas I know that
there are organizations that are like.
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Right. My sim.
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And we just don't think
that's a good idea.
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What's not possible?
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Right.
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And what what could agree with you?
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Yeah.
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We don't.
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And the other one that that we do that,
I, I think we're starting to get
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some pushback on buyers
love to have a note takers
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in meetings with owners.
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Why is that good for the owners?
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Right.
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So anything and everything they say
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is gonna be transcribed and can be
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effectively used against them.
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And so I, I said that to,
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to one of the groups that we're working
with a, a larger leadership team
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and they have an advisory board and etc.,
and I said, we don't use AI in meetings.
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And they're like, why? Well,
remember what they ask.
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I said, take notes on paper with a pencil,
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because everything you say in
that meeting will be in that transcript.
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And if there's ever a problem,
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it's on record.
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And
they're like,
does that apply to other meetings?
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I'm like, pretty sure pretty sure it does.
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I think we're also going to see,
down the down the line.
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Not yet, but not far down the line.
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I think that companies
that are using enterprise
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AI, the AI itself,
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is going to become part
of the diligence process.
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Because it's the IP of your company.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Once an enterprise system is set up,
then suddenly that becomes part of the
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it's part of what you're selling.
Part of what you're selling.
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Yeah.
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They bought all their data
because they just want to ingest that IP.
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Right. And and learn
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that happening very clearly.
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Yeah.
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I think that's, I think that's and I,
I think they're starting
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to see it at the larger deal levels.
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And we what we see is that trickles down
pretty quickly.
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So if you're building an enterprise
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documentation,
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all those guardrails, all the governance,
all that policy,
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you're going to need all of that
and diligence
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to show the buyer
that you have created something.
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And the companies
that are doing that better,
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more efficiently, more effectively.
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I think we'll see a bump in there.
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Multiples. Right.
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Which is it's a it's the analog getting
the sales and those types of things.
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If you have time in terms
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of how I'm going to market.
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That's a that's a better.
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But who's not doing that.
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Yeah. So yeah absolutely.
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So in marketing
what's the most valuable AI component.
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Yeah. I think
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predictive analytics
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that's clearly for the direct
to consumer side
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from, from
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I think the other bread and butter
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is really at this point around of assets.
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Which by the way
still have to check them out.
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Yeah. We've all seen out there.
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Oh my goodness I saw one on my Facebook
feed like yesterday.
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And it was,
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it had a heading on top of it
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that said something
about retail clothing.
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And then it was a picture of a completely
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unrelated, like, kitchen item.
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And I was like,
I still can't get it right, guys.
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Not ready for no governance.
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Exactly.
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It's about dimension
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and account based market, these systems
to do that more efficiently.
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But you still send me
human review right.
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Whatever.
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The second
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I think is really and then increasingly
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you see it starting to take place
on the execution side.
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So can I create an orchestrated,
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the product
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or service
in a much quicker way than I could before?
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So that's kind of where we are right now.
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So that could be not just
automated email campaigns,
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but when you tie it
to the creative generation
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together,
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I can see whether Deborah, has
she opened it.
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If she didn't, then what's my next action?
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Those are all common things before AI.
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But now the difference there a new idea.
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There's something that's already
kind of percolating in the system.
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So I think that's
where from a marketing perspective.
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And that's really the go to market
kind of selling.
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Buying
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the other bread and
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butter I see is really on the insights
side of things.
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Yeah.
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Where, you know, what used to take 3
or 4 months to, to to really understand
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what's happening in market can now like
take place in a matter of hours.
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And that's a substantial change.
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But it also brings with it.
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How do you validate that. It
does.
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And so so it brings some good.
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But then there also is the
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how do you validate what you've actually
just gotten in a matter of hours.
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And there's a phrase that,
that I sometimes use, where, where CEOs
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and other members of the leadership team
become kind of in effect, pocket moss.
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And it's well, wait a second.
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I just asked ChatGPT and said
I want to launch this new product
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and it just literally in 15 minutes told
me, you know, brought a placement pricing
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all of these things and then why can't,
why can't let's just go with it.
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And it's like yes, well
you should make sure it's right first.
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Right.
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So you've, you've you've sped up perhaps
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the, the insights
and a little bit of the strategy.
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But then you have to make
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execution and oversight.
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Sure.
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But you still have to have that
human oversight.
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That's how I see things really coming
alive right now in the marketing sector.
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The other thing that that I would say
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that that we see a lot now is
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think of it
as a creation of durable assets.
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So it used to be somebody would say, oh,
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you know, my sales are down
or I need to launch this new product.
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And it's it's a very tactical one time.
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Assignment so to speak.
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Okay. We don't know how to do that here.
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So let's bring in a fractional or sales
or marketing or whatever it might be.
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And that was
what was kind of the, the, the output.
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And now I think some of the things
that are able to be created
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are much more durable assets in terms of,
okay.
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It's not just a one time thing on
how are we going to increase sales?
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It's here's
this process that you can leverage AI for
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to help you create a repeatable process
that becomes
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one of your durable assets over time
and, and again,
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have to have the right oversight,
have have the right kind of people looking
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--> 00:27:34,277
at that switch
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is one I think that's really important,
especially for,
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small and mid-sized companies who perhaps
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didn't have access to that before.
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Where you would have to hire a big agency
to do a lot of things,
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which common at a huge company,
but where mid-sized company,
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that's where you've got to really
make sure you've
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leveraging these things,
but also making sure you're leveraging for
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for the duration and the right oversight
and how you set up your team for success.
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Yeah, I think that's key.
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But again, governance, human being.
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Right.
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And there's still going to be things
and jobs and roles
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that I can't do.
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And I think that
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it's an important distinction to know
when you're working with a company,
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what's going to be a
I, what's going to be a person
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for that conversation.
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And and really
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and and to the point used earlier
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we're going to 20%.
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You know we're going to implement
20% use of AI.
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Well what does that mean. Right.
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Like I.
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Does that's been some parameters.
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And spike that out a little bit. Right.
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Oh 20% increase in
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what is our normal, you know, sales rate.
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Right.
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We're able to things faster
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or get insights more quickly.
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But the blanket statements mean people
could also use it for the wrong things
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that don't grow the business right,
or the business interest in the right way.
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Right.
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Or at least in the way that the leadership
team has decided is the right way.
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That's right.
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Because I think you could easily
go down a rabbit hole,
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with AI
and just tangentially go that way
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down a rabbit hole.
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If the enterprise is not saying this is
what we're doing, what we're doing.
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Yeah. Then then that's time.
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That's also lost.
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Correct. Correct.
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20% in the wrong direction is
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less than helpful.
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40% less for helpful, actually.
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Oh, well, Stephen,
thank you so much for for joining me.
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I always wrap up with a single question.
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If you weren't doing what you do now
and you could go in any other direction
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in terms of a job,
where would you be going?
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The approach to how
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I would think about where I've been
because I love I love my
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my experience and everything
I've done from living in Brazil, Mexico,
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working in Asia, those,
these, these types of things,
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just much earlier
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kind of understanding as I work
with people and I just want to understand
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kind of their North Star
a lot faster earlier days.
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Okay.
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So really coming in and understanding,
you know, so you just want to be younger.
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Well, don't we all know that?
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I can handle that. But yeah,
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no regrets from where I've been.
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Just really looking forward to.
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Great. Well, thank you very much.
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If you'd like to get in touch
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with Steven, his, contact
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Great speakers.
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Great to be here.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Meet. Him.
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Maybe it.
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Means we.