Above the Noise

About this podcast

Here's the uncomfortable truth about AI right now: almost everyone explaining it to you is being paid to. The vendor wants the contract. The consultant wants the engagement. The analyst wants the subscription renewal. The influencer wants the clicks. Every one of them is incentivized to sound certain — which is exactly why you can't trust the certainty. The hype isn't an accident. It's a business model. Above the Noise is the antidote: the unbiased AI brief for enterprise leaders. I build enterprise AI for a living. On this show, I'm selling you nothing — no sponsors, no affiliate links, no vendor I'm quietly rooting for, no agenda hiding under the analysis. That's the whole point. When no one's paying me to believe something, I'm free to just tell you what's real. My only filter is a simple question I run on every story: who profits if you believe this? Follow the incentives, and the noise starts to separate from the signal fast. This show is built for the leader who feels the pressure. You're a Director, a VP, a CIO — somewhere in that range — and the mandate has landed on your desk: "do something with AI." But between the breathless headlines, the board asking pointed questions, the vendors circling, and your own team looking to you for direction, you genuinely can't tell what's a breakthrough and what's a sales deck in a trench coat. You don't need more hype. You need someone in the arena who'll give it to you straight. Every episode runs the same four segments, so you always know what you're getting: • News Brief — what actually moved in AI since last time, and more importantly, what it means for you and your org. No breathless recaps. Just the developments that matter and why. • Deep Dive — one topic, taken apart and rebuilt in plain English. The thing everyone's name-dropping in meetings but few can actually explain. You'll leave able to hold the conversation — and call the bluff. • Expose a Lie — the signature segment, and my favorite. I take a popular AI claim that everyone repeats as gospel and put it up against cited evidence. Sometimes it holds. Usually it doesn't. I go after claims and myths, never people — this is about the truth, not a takedown. • A Thought-Provoking Question — I close every episode with something to sit with. No tidy bow. Just a question worth carrying into your next decision. Biweekly. Solo — no guests, because the second I put a vendor or a "thought leader" in the chair, the no-agenda promise is gone. About 30 minutes, because your time is the scarcest resource you've got. No hype. No agenda. Just the unbiased signal — above the noise. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.