
Earning the Right to Use AI
Orion Severhill, VP of Digital Channels & Strategy at Mission Fed Credit Union, has a rule: Junior engineers don't get access to AI coding tools until they can think through architecture on their own. In this episode, he

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Cut to Context is a podcast about AI, banking, and reinvention in real time mixed with a bit of pop culture, music, art, and literature. It explores the ideas, decisions, and tensions shaping the future of financial services, from innovation and product design to partnerships, leadership, and the evolving role of AI. Thoughtful, candid, and grounded in real-world change, Cut to Context helps listeners make sense of what AI is and what it isn't. For banking leaders, fintech thinkers, and anyone interested in where AI meets strategy, Cut to Context offers a thoughtful, grounded perspective.
Q2 hosts Cut to Context, a business show with 14 episodes published.

Orion Severhill, VP of Digital Channels & Strategy at Mission Fed Credit Union, has a rule: Junior engineers don't get access to AI coding tools until they can think through architecture on their own. In this episode, he

Your best customers have accounts everywhere, and your dashboard probably doesn't show it. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and host of the Banking Transformed podcast, joins Adam Blue to examine silent at

Nearly half of all banks and credit unions have deployed generative AI. So why isn't anyone measuring it? Adam Blue sits down with Ron Shevlin, chief research officer at Cornerstone Advisors and author of the Fintech Sna

When an AI agent replaces a human at the keyboard, who's accountable for what it touches? Adam Blue and Chris Struttmann of ALTR explore why identity—not just policy documents—is the foundation of trustworthy AI in banki

Build it, buy it, or find a partner? That's the decision facing financial institutions when it comes to AI capabilities. Abeer Thomson, Q2 senior director of Partner Engineering and Operations, joins CTO Adam Blue to wor

The AI announcements keep coming, and the language keeps getting bigger—agentic operating systems, intelligent orchestration layers, the future of commercial banking—all in one tidy package. But pull back the curtain and

What does AI adoption actually look like inside a community bank? Michael Purifoy, chief treasury and digital banking officer at VeraBank, joins Adam Blue at Q2's CONNECT 26 conference for a candid, on-the-floor conversa

Adam Blue talks with Bill Gravette, GM of Symphonix at Q2, about what happens to the loan process when AI enters the picture. From document processing and credit memos to alternative data and fair lending, they dig into

AI is moving fast, but banking has to move with care. In this episode, Adam Blue talks with Q2 Chief Information Security Officer Beth Anne Bygum about the difference between AI that's interesting and AI that's ready for

In the past couple of years, AI conversations at financial institutions have changed from "should we?" to "where should we next?" Adam Blue and Corey Gross discuss how banks and credit unions can move from broad experime

AI is changing how work gets done, but the most important question may be what it allows people to do better. In this episode of Cut to Context, Q2 CTO Adam Blue talks with Chief People Officer Kim Rutledge about how the

Claude Mythos has pushed AI cyber risk from an abstract future problem into a live banking issue. In this episode, Adam Blue talks with Beth Anne Bygum and Ryan Hollister about what changes when AI can discover vulnerabi

In this episode of the podcast, CTO Adam Blue talks with Q2 COO Hima Mukkamala about how to move quickly with AI without getting swept up in the market's hype cycle. They explore what responsible speed looks like in bank

In the first episode of Cut to Context, a new podcast focused on AI, Q2 CTO Adam Blue sets the table for the conversations ahead about how Q2 is thinking about AI in a way that stays grounded in people, trust, and real w
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