
Someone on your team is already using an AI tool nobody approved. And the next vendor demo you sit through will look great whether or not the product holds up on your data. Stella Liu, Head of AI Applied Science and...


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AI conversations for people doing the work.Your best people are brilliant, but they're buried. Research shows high-performing teams lose nearly 70% of the week to Admin Drag, the data entry, re-keying, and status updates that were never the actual job. You're paying for expert judgment and getting expensive busywork.The AI Hat Podcast is where practitioners, not futurists, talk about fixing that. Host Mike Allton, Director of Partner-Led Growth at Agorapulse and founder of The AI Hat, sits down with operators, revenue leaders, marketers, and industry specialists, from insurance agencies to sales floors, to name the drag and show how a governed Digital Crew of AI agents takes it back. The thread through every episode: redesign the work first, then deploy the AI. It's why most pilots fail, and what to do instead.In each episode, we break down:• The Agentic Shift — moving from AI that talks to AI that does the work.• Sanctioning the Shadow — turning ungoverned AI risk into governed a
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The AI Hat Podcast is hosted by Mike Allton. The show has published 127 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The AI Demo Looked Great. Then Real Users Showed Up." (21 October 2026, 24 minutes), "Why AI Automation Fails (And What To Fix First) with Ty Givens" (13 September 2026, 29 minutes), and "You Bought the AI. Why Is the Day Longer?" (10 August 2026, 26 minutes).
The AI Hat Podcast publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 127 episodes.
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Mike Allton hosts The AI Hat Podcast, a technology podcast with 127 episodes published.
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