Leveraging AI
Isar Meitis
Dive into the world of artificial intelligence with 'Leveraging AI,' a podcast tailored for forward-thinking business professionals. Each episode brings insightful discussions on how AI can ethically transform business practices, offering practical solutions to day-to-day business challenges. Join our host Isar Meitis (4 time CEO), and expert guests as they turn AI's complexities into actionable insights, and explore its ethical implications in the business world. Whether you are an AI novice or a seasoned professional, 'Leveraging AI' equips you with the knowledge and tools to harness AI's power responsibly and effectively. Tune in weekly for inspiring conversations and real-world applications. Subscribe now and unlock the potential of AI in your business.
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Apr 7, 2026 • 46min
282 | How to Turn Claude Into Your Automation Engineer and Ship n8n Workflows with Jeremy Grandillon
Jérémy Grandillon, founder and CEO of TC9 and a GTM automation expert, shows how he uses Claude to generate production-ready n8n workflows. He walks through a live lead-nurturing build, explains why combining AI agents with deterministic automations matters, and details the prompts, tooling choices, and practical testing tips that let him ship complex workflows fast.
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Apr 4, 2026 • 59min
281 | AI is taking over the business world: 2 people company generates $1.8B, OpenAI paying $500 an hour to train AI on professional tasks. Oracle lays off 30k, and more important AI news for week of April 3, 2026
Rapid-fire coverage of AI reshaping how companies operate, from OpenAI paying experts hundreds an hour to train models to AI-driven firms scaling with tiny teams. Discussion of massive layoffs, de-skilling risks, and the collapse of billable hours. Deep dives on agent-driven interfaces, cost-cutting multi-agent designs, new multimodal models, and high-profile outages that expose dangerous single-point dependencies.
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Mar 31, 2026 • 59min
280 | Build a Marketing Machine That Runs Itself with Claude Cowork (Without Losing Control) with Dr Nici Sweaney
Dr Nici Sweaney, a former academic and data scientist who builds AI-powered systems, explains how to turn marketing into an automated, controllable machine. She discusses AI agents as team members, skills files that prevent bland outputs, a Claude/Notion pipeline that turns weekly inputs into abundant content, and practical steps to keep strategic control while scaling without burnout.
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Mar 28, 2026 • 56min
279 | Anthropic changing the world - again! Automate any knowledge work from your phone 🤯 leaked ‘Mythos’ model that spooks Wall Street, Musk’s 50× chip ‘Terra Fab’, OpenAI kills Sora and more AI news for the week ending on March 27, 2026
Rapid-fire AI product launches and why shipping speed now shapes platform choice. Phone apps that control cloud and automate full business workflows. Building an end-to-end YouTube growth engine using autonomous agents. Leaked model capabilities, cybersecurity and market fallout. Shifts in hiring, which jobs are most at risk, and why vocational and neurodivergent skills may be more resilient.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 52min
278 | How To Build AI Agents: A Step-by-Step Playbook for Business Leaders with Jim Spignardo
Jim Spignardo, Director of Cloud Strategy & AI Enablement at ProArch who builds practical AI agents for sales and operations. He walks through building RFP-focused AI agents, organizing and cleaning data, writing instruction-first workflows, controlling sources to avoid hallucinations, and deploying agents across apps to cut proposal effort and speed decision-making.
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Mar 21, 2026 • 1h 9min
277 | AI Agents Take Over: Nvidia’s NEMO Claw, Meta’s “My Computer,” and OpenAI’s "Superapp”. Stripe & Visa’s new Machine-Payment Protocol, More investment in data centers than office buildings, and more AI news for the week ending on March 20, 2026
AI agents are shifting from assistants to autonomous workers, with Nvidia building enterprise agent stacks and new chips for faster inference. Meta and Anthropic push local and browser-based desktop agents. Stripe, Visa and Tempo enable AI-to-AI payments and agent commerce. OpenAI pivots to enterprise and a combined superapp while data centers outpace office construction.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 59min
276 | The AI Automation Playbook: Turn One Idea into 1000 Assets (Without Technical Skills) with Ross Symons
Ross Symons, creative technologist and co-founder of Zen Robot who builds generative AI systems for creative production. He explains node-based visual workflows, how to turn one idea into scalable asset machines, pipelines that feed LLMs into multi-step automations, techniques for consistent multi-aspect images and emotion-driven variants, and practical tips for cost-effective AI-driven campaigns.
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Mar 14, 2026 • 1h 3min
275 | Knowledge work as we know it is over, self improving agents loops connected to Microsoft or Google eco systems are now possible, build entire software suite autonomously, Meta is cutting 20% of it’s workforce, & more AI news for Mar 13, 2026
Discussion of AI shifting from assisting to doing knowledge work and what that means for business leaders. New Google and Microsoft tools enabling autonomous agents to act across Gmail, Drive, Docs and Microsoft 365 are explored. The rise of self-improving agent loops and rapid model iteration is highlighted. News covers major tech layoffs, legal battles over AI, and advances in AI code review and enterprise automation.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 1h 2min
274 | Stop Building AI Demos: How to Build Production-Grade AI Solutions with Joanna Stoffregen
Joanna Stoffregen, product manager and founder focused on shipping production-grade AI products. She walks through the gap between flashy prototypes and maintainable systems. Short, practical steps cover design tokens, Storybook components, Figma-to-code workflows, AI-enabled IDEs, PRD-driven agents, and refactoring for scale.
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Mar 7, 2026 • 51min
273 | AI’s civil-war: Anthropic vs OpenAI vs Dept-of-War showdown, Anthropic revenue doubles since January 1st, GPT-5.4 & Gemini 3.1 released, Perplexity Computer launches, and more pivotal AI news for the week ending on March 6, 2026
A deep-dive on the public showdown between major AI companies and the U.S. government over surveillance and autonomous weapons. Coverage of rapid model releases like GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 and new agentic tools such as Perplexity Computer. Business implications for contracts, supply-chain risk, app reactions, startup moats, and advances in local chips and AI-powered learning tools.
