ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What happens when AI meets decades of digital records, legacy systems, and the need for trusted, verifiable data?
In this episode of Inside the SaaS AI Shift, Kristi Perdue sits down with Mike Quinn, Chief Executive Officer of Preservica, to explore how AI is reshaping digital preservation, enterprise data management, and the future of SaaS.
Mike shares how organizations can protect critical digital information from technology obsolescence, make historical records searchable and AI-ready, and use AI to unlock value from decades of previously inaccessible data.
The conversation covers the difference between storage, archiving, and active digital preservation, why trusted data is essential for AI, and how organizations can balance AI automation with human judgment.
Kristi and Mike also discuss Preservica's approach to AI defensibility, AI-powered metadata enrichment, automated transcription, image description, PII classification, semantic search, and preserving digital records at the point of creation.
They also explore the human side of AI adoption, including employee fears, experimentation, AI leadership, and how Preservica built an internal culture focused on learning rather than fear.
In this episode, you'll learn about:
• Why storing digital records is not the same as preserving them
• How technology obsolescence can make critical records unreadable
• Why trusted, deterministic data matters in an AI-powered world
• How AI can unlock decades of historical and enterprise data
• AI-powered transcription, image description, metadata enrichment, and PII classification
• The role of semantic search in making enterprise archives AI-ready
• How SaaS companies can pressure test their AI defensibility
• Why human judgment still matters in AI-powered workflows
• How Preservica approached AI adoption internally
• What AI transformation looks like from the CEO's perspective
• Why SaaS companies need to make AI coherent with their strategy and domain expertise
• How organizations can turn legacy data into a valuable asset for AI
Mike Quinn is the Chief Executive Officer of Preservica, a company focused on active digital preservation and keeping digital information readable, findable, authentic, and usable over the long term. He brings more than 30 years of commercial leadership experience across software and technology companies.
Kristi Perdue is the host of Inside the SaaS AI Shift and a 30-plus-year SaaS operator, founder of Alter Bridge Strategies, and creator of PowerMoves AI.
If you're interested in SaaS, artificial intelligence, enterprise AI, digital transformation, data governance, digital preservation, AI strategy, AI adoption, and the future of enterprise software, this conversation is worth watching.
Learn more about Preservica and its approach to AI-powered digital preservation.
Connect with Mike Quinn on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-quinn-358844
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AI is changing the SaaS business itself - from what companies build and monetize to what enterprise buyers are willing to trust. Inside the SaaS AI Shift is the executive decision making podcast for leaders responsible for what comes next.
Host Kristi Perdue brings more than 30 years of SaaS experience and credentials as a Certified Chief AI Officer (CAIO) and Certified Information Governance Officer for AI (CIGO/ AI). As founder of AlterBridge Strategies and creator of Power Moves AI™, she gets past the demos and into the decisions reshaping enterprise software.
Each episode examines the consequential choices behind the shift: how AI changes product strategy and the SaaS business model, where anticipated ROI breaks down, when governance must become operational, and what enterprise buyers will require before they trust AI at scale.
Through candid conversations with executives doing the work, the show surfaces the tradeoffs and hard-earned lessons behind those decisions. It is built for SaaS founders, CEOs, product leaders, and executive teams preparing to lead through a fundamental transformation of the SaaS business.
