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Disambiguation

Michael Fauscette

"Disambiguation is the process of removing confusion around terms that express more than one meaning and can lead to different interpretations of the same string of text." Host Michael Fauscette of Arion Research; a leading technology analyst, tech startup advisor, consultant, board member, and storyteller; and his guests "remove the confusion around" artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI and business automation by looking at the business solutions available today to improve business outcomes and gain competitive advantage.

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161 episodes

  1. Agentic AI Trends for 2026 25:00
  2. The Governance Gap: What 600+ Enterprise Leaders Reveal About Scaling AI 44:24
  3. The Human Side of AI Agents: Why Every Deployment Is a Workforce Redesign 33:44
  4. From Enterprise Search to Enterprise Action: AI Without a Knowledge Layer Is Just Guessing 40:51
  5. 500 Automations and Counting: What Breaks When AI Pilots Hit Real Business Operations 26:15
  6. The Right Chip for the Right Workload: How Inference Speed Shapes the AI Agent Era 39:37
  7. Data Governance is Sexy Again: Why Your AI Projects Fail Without It 35:52
  8. From Personalization to Individualization: How AI Reads Intent in the Moment 35:10
  9. From Pilots to Production: Agentic Commerce, Enterprise Trust, and the Quantum Horizon 53:27
  10. Beyond the Chat Window: Why Real Human-AI Collaboration Requires a Completely Different Product 48:42
  11. From AI Sprawl to AI Impact: Why Picking One Workflow and Going Deep Is the Only Strategy That Works 39:28
  12. Innovation Is a Leadership Problem: Why the Forces That Kill New Products Are Now Killing AI Adoption 42:04
  13. You Can't Automate a Broken Process: Why AI Readiness Starts with the Work, Not the Tools 42:33
  14. The Identity Threat: Why AI Adoption Is a Human Challenge, Not a Technology Problem 38:00
  15. From Pen and Paper to Agentic Workflows: Building AI That Works in the Real World 36:43
  16. AI as a Human Problem: Why Change Management Is Broken and Storytelling Is the Fix 50:50
  17. AI-Ready Is Not AI-Enabled: The Architecture Gap Most Enterprises Are Ignoring 52:36
  18. AI Exposes Lazy Management: Why Work Redesign Has to Come Before the Technology 46:20
  19. When AI Does the Building: Innovation, Ideation, and the New Creative Advantage 47:46
  20. The End of One Model to Rule Them All: Why Enterprise AI Is Going Small, Specialized, and Multi-Model 42:26
  21. AI Meets the Mid-Market: How PE-Backed Companies Are Leapfrogging with AI 52:33
  22. Beyond Efficiency: Why AI Is Forcing Marketing to Rethink Everything, Not Just Cut Costs 42:28
  23. The Cognitive Revolution in Leadership: Why AI Demands a New Human Operating Model 33:13
  24. The Flight to Relationships: Why AI Is Making Trust the Ultimate Sales Advantage 47:02
  25. The AI Tax: Why Your Agents Cost More Than Your People and What That Means for Scale 50:33
  26. Governance Is Functions: Why Your AI Won't Scale Without Discipline by Design 47:47
  27. AI Without Compromise: Why Data Sovereignty Is the Next Enterprise Battleground 35:09
  28. AI Is the Biggest Distraction in Sales: Why the Hard Work Is Still Human 52:55
  29. From Human in the Loop to Human in the Lead: The Road to Autonomic IT 39:08
  30. The Intelligence Model: Why Your Organization Needs a Map Before It Deploys AI 50:34
  31. Securing the Agentic Coding Era: When AI Writes Code, Who Guards the Gate? 43:09
  32. The Missing Layer: Why Your AI Agents Need a Governance Plane 44:54
  33. March 2026 AI Pulse 58:27
  34. The Human Operating System: Why People Infrastructure Is the Missing AI Investment 39:30
  35. From SEO to AEO: Preparing Your Content for AI Discovery 42:46
  36. MCP, AI Agents, and the Future of Network Infrastructure 52:01
  37. Building Visibility: How Personal Brand Drives Business Growth 49:02
  38. AI in the Back Office: Where the Real Enterprise Value Is Hiding 37:12
  39. The Human Blind Spot: Why Trust Is Your Biggest Cybersecurity Vulnerability 55:58
  40. Building Trust Through Empathy: How AI Companions Support Grief Work 46:25
  41. Vertical AI in Action: How One Insurance Company Transformed Go-To-Market, Underwriting, and Claims 41:09
  42. January 2026 AI Pulse 1:00:58
  43. When Machines Create: An IP Attorney's Perspective on AI Innovation 40:25
  44. ChatGPT Isn't Your Strategy: What Business Leaders Get Wrong About AI 47:41
  45. Welcome to Season 4! 20:14
  46. The State of Agentic AI in 2025: A Year-End Reality Check 56:16
  47. December 2025 AI Pulse 54:36
  48. Teaching Machines to Think Like Humans Who Think Differently: AI, Comedy, and Building Tools for the Margins 44:47
  49. AIOps Unfiltered: What Actually Works 46:25
  50. November 2025 AI Pulse 46:34