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AI Strategy: What to Try, What to Skip

2026-10-2837:46

Episode 28: AI Strategy: What to Try, What to Skip

AI strategy is a collection of choices. Justin and Kellan talk about learning enough to make those choices, figuring out whether a problem actually needs AI, and being clear with your team about what you’re trying and why.

Inside This Episode

  • An AI conversation with a client that led to a different technology and process problem.
  • The burden of context: what an agent needs to know before it can do the job.
  • Pull requests for business processes—reviewing changes before they become shared instructions.
  • Using AI to improve the process before giving it more autonomy.
  • Four decisions to communicate: try, don’t try, continue, stop. Name the goal, people, tools, and criteria for success.
  • Being clear about what you don’t know yet.

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