The A.I. Growth Blueprint
The Cost Nobody Calculates: Bad Hires, Failed Onboarding, and the Half-Million Dollar Mistake
In this episode of The AI Growth Blueprint, I sit down with Mike Dixon , President and COO at Hoops , an HR tech and consulting firm on a singular mission: build winning teams for their clients. We go deep on what's actually broken in the recruiting process, how Hoops uses agentic AI to eliminate guesswork from the hiring funnel, and why the first 90 days post-hire are more important than the entire interview process combined. We cover: The 3 client profiles Hoops serves and the membership model that makes enterprise-grade recruiting accessible to SMBs How Hoops uses AI to benchmark compensation, score job market difficulty, and screen candidates before they ever hit a hiring manager's calendar Why concentrated turnover in the first 90 days is a five-alarm fire (and what it's actually telling you) The AI arms race between employers and candidates and how Hoops navigates it without disqualifying people based on AI-generated resumes The radiologist case study: why the roles we thought AI would kill are actually expanding Workflow replacement vs. role replacement: the Hormozi framework applied to HR The baby bells analogy: what legacy copper wire telephone companies teach us about the pace of disruption Mike's 6-year vision for Hoops and the one problem he'd solve with a magic wand If you're a founder, operator, or HR leader trying to figure out how AI fits into your people strategy without making expensive mistakes, this one's for you.
