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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCut 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.
Cut to Context is hosted by Q2. The show has published 19 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "When Meta's Muse Knocks on Your Bank's Door" (29 October 2026, 32 minutes), "The Harness Problem: Governing AI That Starts Over Every Time" (1 October 2026, 30 minutes), and "Maybe the AI Comes Last" (17 September 2026, 26 minutes).
Cut to Context publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 19 episodes.
Booking probability for Cut to Context is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cut to Context requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cut to Context's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Cut to Context are Banking & Credit Unions and Business & Management Consulting. Cut to Context has a business audience.
Q2 hosts Cut to Context, a business podcast with 19 episodes published.
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Episode #20
Is it OK to block AI agents at your digital banking front door? For now, yes, says Alain Meier, founder of Foil and former head of fraud at Plaid. He tells Adam Blue that blocking buys institutions time to set a posture...
Every time an AI agent runs, it starts fresh, with no memory of what it did last. Presidio CTO Rob Kim joins Adam Blue to explain what that means for keeping AI accountable, and why swapping one AI model for another can...
Episode #17
Bank and credit union leaders exploring AI in banking will recognize this story. Before Q2 added AI to its own customer support organization, it rebuilt the team, the workflows, and how it measured success. Adam Blue...
Episode #16
AI has made deepfakes cheap and convincing enough to fool an entire video call—voices, faces, and all. In this episode, CTO Adam Blue talks with Jeff Scott, managing director of Fraud Intelligence at Q2, about why...
Episode #15
AI pricing doesn't behave like the software pricing banks are used to. Q2 CFO Jonathan Price joins CTO Adam Blue to talk through why token costs are simultaneously falling and driving total spend up, what Q2 has learned...
Episode #14
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...
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...
Cut to Context
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...
Episode #11
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...
Episode #10
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...
Episode #9
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...
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...
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...
Episode #6
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...
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...
Episode #4
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...
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...
Episode #2
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...
Episode #1
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...
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Associate Director of Lifelong Learning, University of British Columbia
Assistant Athletic Director of Ticket Sales & Operations at Long Beach State, Section 810 communication
Financial Expert, The Faulk Center for Counseling
Chief Research Officer, What's Going On in Banking
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