AI to ROI is a podcast that shares how enterprises translate AI investments into measurable business value. Hosted by Ray Rike, Founder and CEO of Benchmarkit, the show features senior enterprise leaders and AI software executives who share how AI initiatives move from pilots to production, and how ROI is actually measured and achieved. In addition, each week, we publish a bonus episode with AI to ROI Newsletter co-author, Peter Buchanan to discuss the Big Story of the Week. The AI to ROI podcast is the evolution of the original "Metrics to Measure Up" podcast.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAI to ROI is a podcast that shares how enterprises translate AI investments into measurable business value. Hosted by Ray Rike, Founder and CEO of Benchmarkit, the show features senior enterprise leaders and AI software executives who share how AI initiatives move from pilots to production, and how ROI is actually measured and achieved.
AI to ROI is hosted by Ray Rike. The show has published 270 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Morally Binding AI Governance Isn’t Legally Binding AI Regulation: AI Safety, Muse, and Data Center Financing" (15 October 2026, 37 minutes), "The CEO and Employee Role in Delivering AI ROI - with Jeff McMillan, CEO of McMillan AI & Former Head of AI, Morgan Stanley" (6 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Rogue Agents Are the Big New AI Risk" (6 October 2026, 30 minutes).
AI to ROI publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 35 minutes across 270 episodes.
Booking probability for AI to ROI is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. AI to ROI requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. AI to ROI's contact route on record: verified email.
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Ray Rike hosts AI to ROI, a business show with 270 episodes published.
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In this special edition of AI to ROI, Ray and Peter step outside the usual format to break down four of the most important stories from the latest AI to ROI News and Analysis edition. Recording from Bratislava, Slovakia...
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Jeff McMillan, Founder and CEO of McMillan AI and former Head of AI at Morgan Stanley, joins Ray Rike to explain what separates AI programs that deliver measurable returns from those that stall in pilot mode. Jeff led...
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This summer, three frontier labs found that their models had hacked real companies without anyone telling them to. In this episode, Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan walk through the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta incidents, why...
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When Dario Amodei published his essay calling on frontier labs to pace their releases, the leaders of the largest competing labs endorsed it within a weekend, and Microsoft followed on Monday. In this episode, Ray Rike...
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Deloitte research shows 85% of enterprises are working on agentic AI use cases, yet only 5% have put one into production that delivers meaningful ROI. In this episode of the AI to ROI Big Story, Ray Rike and Peter...
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Francis Brero, VP of AI Strategy at HG Insights, joins Ray Rike to unpack what it actually takes to move a established software company toward an AI first operating model. Francis founded MadKudu, which was acquired by...
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Our co-hosts, Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan, open this AI to ROI: Big Story edition with a confession. Reviewing their own newsletter coverage over the past several months, more than half of the Friday news and analysis...
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Ketan Karkhanis, CEO of ThoughtSpot joins Ray Rike to make the case that the AI conversation has been stuck on models, tokens, and pilots when it should have started with a KPI. Drawing on his time building Einstein...
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For the first time, the two leading model companies can be compared on an apples to apples basis. In Q2 2026, Anthropic booked $11.6B against OpenAI's $6.7B, and posted roughly $300M in operating profit while OpenAI's...
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Ray Rike sits down with co-host Peter Buchanan to unpack Benchmarkit's August 11th research edition, based on a 396-company survey conducted in partnership with Mavvrik. The conversation moves past the "is AI adoption...
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Stripe agreed to pay $7.5 billion for OpenRouter, roughly six times the $1.3 billion valuation the company raised at just 85 days earlier. Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan break down why a payments company bought the...
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Ray Rike sits down with Sundeep Goel, co-founder and CEO of Mavvrik, for a deep dive into the second annual AI cost governance research report from Maverick and Benchmarkit. With 30+ years in enterprise software...
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For 24 months, the market narrative held that Microsoft was losing the AI race to the lab it had funded. Then came the July 30th earnings call, and the stock added roughly $450 billion in market capitalization the...
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When Kimi K3 landed, the headlines said Chinese open-weight models had caught the American labs, and the AI trade sold off from chipmakers to the labs themselves. Nobody stopped to ask whether cheaper and more...
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For three years, the AI infrastructure story has been about chips, power, and capital. In 2026, a fourth variable arrived that the hyperscalers were not prepared for: organized, well-funded, and increasingly successful...
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On this week's AI to ROI podcast, Ray Rike is joined by Stephan Bajaio, co-founder and CEO of VibeLogic and a former co-founder of Conductor, the enterprise SEO platform he helped build over 14 years, culminating in a...
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AI spending continues to accelerate, but the ROI story has not kept pace. This week, Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan dig into the proposed fix that has the market talking: turning frontier AI labs into professional services...
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Twelve months ago, US frontier models controlled roughly 70 percent of AI traffic. Today, Chinese open-weight providers, led by DeepSeek, Z.ai, Moonshot, and Minimax, account for 45 to 61 percent of top-tier model...
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On June 12th, the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, its most powerful frontier models, with no advance warning and criminal penalties attached. In this week's...
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Most companies treat AI as a layer they add on top of how work already gets done. Dan Zhang, Chief Business Officer and CFO at ClickUp, argues that it is exactly backward. In this episode, Ray sits down with Dan to...
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