A weekly live show for founders, operators, small-business owners, and the AI-curious. Olga Pechnenko and Chris Pearson cover the week’s AI news, then show you what you can actually implement by Monday morning, often built live on air.
Live every Friday, 11am CT. 60 episodes so far.
Latest episode
No. 60, October 9, 2026
Olga changed a website in 17 places from the Claude app on her phone, at dinner. Chris built practicalaishow.com so any AI that connects reads the site’s own instructions first. Nobody had to be trained on the new site.
Most episodes land in one of these sections. Start with the one that matches your problem.
Hiring AI, building agent teams, and what agents actually cost.13 episodes
Conversational access to your CRM, your books, your website and your data.10 episodes
Search turned into answers. How to stay findable when agents do the looking.8 episodes
Selfware, vibe coding, and turning a task you repeat into software.15 episodes
Staying sharp and sane: brain fry, how AI-native you are, and your AI stack.7 episodes
Every week the show tracks who raised money to build with AI, and what they are building. 45 weeks tracked so far.
| Company | What they build | Raised |
|---|---|---|
| SignSplit | SignSplit lets people license their data, work and likeness to AI companies and get paid. The $400M is a commitment from one investor.New York | $400M |
| Biohub | Biohub is a nonprofit building AI models that predict how a human cell behaves, backed by Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta.Redwood City, California | $300M |
| Armadin | Armadin sells AI that attacks a company’s own systems to find the weak spots before real attackers do.Palo Alto | $255.5M |
| Vinci | Vinci makes software that predicts how a chip or machine behaves physically before anyone builds it.Palo Alto | $250M |
| PaleBlueDot AI | PaleBlueDot rents out AI computing power: its own GPU clusters and a marketplace of other providers’ capacity.Palo Alto | $200M |
| All AI rounds that week, 72 companies | $3.02B | |
Runs multiple businesses using AI every day, and spent thirteen years recruiting salespeople.
Salesforce sells you employees. HubSpot sells you the outcome and hides the robots.
Building PageMotor, the tool AI needs to publish content, create software, and run businesses.
If you’re not getting AI to do things, you’re not really using it yet.
Episode recaps with the takeaways, timestamps and links, plus the Weekly AI Funding Report.
