The Practical AI Showwith Olga Pechnenko and Chris Pearson

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September 2026

  1. Episode 58

    What's In Your AI Stack?

    Beginners collect AI tools. The AI-native connect them. Which tools, and how the stack changes with the job.

    AI Fluency
  2. Episode 57

    What AI Agents Actually Cost You

    Salesforce and HubSpot held their conferences the same week, agreed on where software is going, and priced it in opposite ways. Salesforce bills the effort: $195 per user per month for Core, then 10 cents per agent action, with 500,000 included credits per company per year that do not grow when you

    AI Employees & Agents
  3. Episode 56

    Your First AI Employee Is A File You Haven't Written Yet

    An AI employee is not a product you buy. It is a few files you write. A small data file says who the employee is, what it owns and how it is measured. Markdown files spell out each procedure step by step. Together they are the job. The slides walk through all three layers.

    AI Employees & Agents
  4. Episode 55

    How AI Native Are You, Really?

    Olga built a seven-level scale for AI fluency and used it on real people, and the gap between what they said and what they scored is the whole story. Nobody puts themselves in the bottom half. When somebody else does the assessing, most people land there. The outside confirmation: 54% of tested know

    AI Fluency

August 2026

  1. Episode 54

    What To Do When Nobody Wants What You Built

    Olga spent a year building a product, launched it to a hundred people she had personally placed, and nobody bought it. Four took the quiz. Zero paid at $25 a month. She did not rebuild the product. She repackaged it: the same material went from a self-serve gym you work through on your own time to a

    Build It Yourself
  2. Episode 53

    How To Get A Team When You Can’t Afford One

    Olga hired a six-agent executive team for her recruiting firm in one week, for roles that would cost $60,000 to $80,000 each on the open market. An integrator at the top, then sales, talent, cash, growth, and an auditor whose only job is checking the other five. Every seat has a written charter, a s

    AI Employees & Agents
  3. Episode 52

    Your AI Can Act Without Asking Now. Here's What To Check First.

    A man asked his AI agent to book a gym class. It cancelled a stranger's reservation to make room. ABC News reported that Andrew Bird's agent, the open-source OpenClaw harness running Claude Opus 4.6, found the booking platform's API had no authorization check on cancelling somebody else's spot. When

    AI Employees & AgentsAI Fluency
  4. Episode 51

    Everyone Demos Building A Site. Today We Demo Running One.

    Chris turned last week's built site into this week's proof of the real problem. On a live domain, getflowerstoyou.com , he changed a phone number everywhere at once, swapped a hero image, and wrote, styled and published an entire wedding-flowers page from one sentence, all by talking to the site in

    Talk To Your Business
  5. Episode 50

    Stop Texting A Guy Every Time Your Website Needs A Change

    A website can now be built from a conversation, and changed the same way. Chris revealed Discovery AI live on the show. You answer a short interview about your business and it designs, writes and publishes an entire multi-page site: copy, contact form, ordering page, FAQ, logo, working email from yo

    Talk To Your Business

July 2026

  1. Episode 49

    Turn Your Most Boring Task Into Software In An Afternoon

    The task that eats 15 minutes and repeats 40 times a week can be working software by tonight. Olga described a boring problem out loud to Claude, and in one evening her recruiting site (revenuehire.com, running on PageMotor) had a Candidate Scorer on it. Upload a resume and an interview transcript,

    Build It Yourself
  2. Episode 48

    Your Contact Form Sorts Every Lead and Drafts the Reply. You Still Hit Send.

    Turn a passive contact form into a system that sorts every lead and drafts the reply, with nothing sent until you say so. Olga built a real-time "lead operator" on her recruiting site (revenuehire.com, running on PageMotor). It sorts each submission into prospect, candidate, or spam, drafts a reply,

    Talk To Your BusinessAI Employees & Agents

June 2026

  1. Episode 47

    How To Launch An AI Product Without Building An App (Use Slack)

    Skip building a web app and launch where customers already work. Slack is becoming the launch surface for AI products. Instead of onboarding users to yet another login, you drop your agent into Slack and they interact with it where they already spend their day. Boring Marketer's new agent ( boringma

    Build It Yourself
  2. Episode 46

    Why AI All Day Fries Your Brain (And The Fix)

    Stop prompting, start building loops. A loop is a task you set up once so the AI does the work, scores its own passes against your rule, and only comes back to you for the decision. Olga (a non-developer) ran two live: one to reawaken cold sales leads, one to name this very show.

    AI Fluency
  3. Episode 45

    Put Any HTML File On Your Own Site Just By Talking To AI

    Web design changed again. Anthropic released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 9 — but only Fable 5 is public. The hosts showed a Fable-designed yoga site that shifts its lighting from dawn to dusk as you scroll, the kind of creative design that used to need the best designer you ever met.

    Talk To Your BusinessGet Found By AI
  4. Episode 44

    Google Became The Website. What Happens To Yours?

    Google became the website. AI Overviews now answer the question right on the results page, and the hosts flagged a figure nobody is saying out loud: roughly 93% of Google searches now end in zero clicks to any site. The click is gone.

    Get Found By AI

May 2026

  1. Episode 43

    What If You Could Just Talk To Your Website?

    A non-developer edited a live website by talking to it. Olga connected Claude to her real business site (running on PageMotor), and just by describing what she wanted, it built a new on-brand page and added a navigation menu linking to it — no code, no page builder.

    Talk To Your Business
  2. Episode 42

    What Can You Do With Your QuickBooks When You Can Just Talk To It?

    Daddy's home. The free AI era ended in one week. Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget by the end of April. Microsoft cancelled its own Claude Code licenses because the bill got too big. GitHub Copilot dropped flat-rate plans starting June 1. Three signals, one message.

    Talk To Your Business
  3. Episode 41

    The One Tweak That Unlocks Data You Already Have

    An AI found a 27-year-old bug with a three-word prompt. Anthropic's Mythos, running inside Project Glasswing, was told "go find bugs" and surfaced a flaw that sat invisible in foundational internet code for nearly three decades. The hunt is just getting started.

    Talk To Your Business
  4. Episode 40

    I Vibe-Coded A Site On Lovable. Then I Moved It Somewhere I Can Actually Use It.

    Lovable has $400M ARR, 8 million users, and no native CMS. Their migration path to WordPress is duct tape. Olga built a sales site in Lovable, moved it to PageMotor live on the show, then edited it three ways without re-prompting any chatbot.

    Build It YourselfTalk To Your Business
  5. Episode 39

    I Gave Claude One API Key. My CRM Built Its Own Dashboard.

    The Musk-OpenAI trial opened Monday. Sam, Brockman, and Nadella are all on the witness list. The headline $134 billion is not a payday for Musk—he is asking for it to be redirected to OpenAI's charitable arm. Reuters coverage .

    Talk To Your Business

April 2026

  1. Episode 38

    Every Big AI Company Moved On Agents This Week

    Musk did not buy Cursor. SpaceX did. SpaceX (the rocket company, not xAI) secured an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion by end of 2026, or pay $10 billion to walk away. Microsoft passed first. Cursor founder Michael Truell is 25 years old. Valuation went from $2.5B to $60B in under 18 months.

    AI Employees & Agents
  2. Episode 36

    OpenClaw vs Claude Managed Agents. Real Comparison

    Anthropic made four moves in seven days. Gated Mythos (their most capable model) to about 40 companies for defensive cybersecurity use. Signed a multi-gigawatt Google TPU and Broadcom compute deal. Shut down the $100 OpenClaw loophole. Shipped Claude Managed Agents.

    AI Employees & Agents
  3. Episode 35

    AI Built 3 Websites. Only One Looked Like an Agency Made It.

    OpenAI closed the biggest funding round in tech history. $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation . Still not profitable. $2 billion/month revenue, 900 million weekly users. The market is betting on AGI, not products.

    Build It Yourself

March 2026

  1. Episode 34

    How Two AI Agents Work Together Without Code (Non-Developer Setup)

    OpenAI had its worst week ever. Sora is dead, the $1 billion Disney deal evaporated , and Apple is opening Siri to all AI models . Then they raised $10 billion anyway.

    AI Employees & Agents
  2. Episode 33

    One AI Hire That Doubles Your Team's Output (Without Adding Headcount)

    Understand why 90% of companies are cutting jobs for AI with zero proof and what the "anticipation economy" means for your business decisions. Lauren Goldstein breaks down why headcount growth became a vanity metric and how smart operators are auditing before slashing.

    AI Employees & Agents
  3. Episode 32

    Vibe Marketing: How to Market Your AI Product Without a Marketing Team

    Understand the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff and why being labeled a "supply chain risk" threatens billions in enterprise revenue. The designation forces defense contractors to certify they don't use Claude, creating ripple effects across Fortune 500 companies that do government work.

    Build It Yourself
  4. Episode 31

    Real AI Agents vs. Fake Ones (The 30-Second Test)

    Understand the Anthropic-Pentagon fallout and why being labeled a "supply chain risk" could crater enterprise sales for any AI company, plus how OpenAI capitalized on the chaos with a government deal just hours later.

    AI Employees & Agents

February 2026

  1. Episode 30

    Block Fires 4,000 Citing AI, and the new AI Readiness Website Score

    Understand what Block's AI-driven layoffs mean for the job market Jack Dorsey cut 40% of Block's workforce and the stock jumped 24%. Learn why this signals a new era of market-rewarded efficiency and why Chris predicts "dominoes will fall next week."

    Get Found By AI
  2. Episode 29

    AI Agents Can't Find Your Business (Here's the Fix)

    Understand Anthropic's ethical crossroads as their $200M Palantir contract collides with their safety-first principles after Claude was used in a military operation. This case study reveals the impossible tradeoffs AI companies face when government contracts meet founding values.

    Get Found By AI
  3. Episode 28

    AI That Replaces You vs AI That Works For You (Live Demo)

    Understand the productivity paradox revealed by Harvard researchers tracking 200 employees for eight months—AI tools expand workloads rather than reducing them, creating burnout acceleration that contradicts vendor promises.

    AI Employees & Agents
  4. Episode 27

    How to Turn AI-Generated Designs into Live, Editable Websites

    Understand how OpenClaw works through a real user's experience. Shanee Moret walks through her setup process, integration with Notion and Gmail, and how her AI agent "Ash" now handles sales follow-ups, video clip creation, and task automation autonomously.

    Build It Yourself

January 2026

  1. Episode 26

    Perplexity Playbook: The Answer Engine Taking on Google Search

    Learn Perplexity's exact playbook for building a $20 billion company by creating an "answer engine" instead of competing directly with Google's search monopoly—including how their routing layer slashed inference costs from 5-10 cents to under 1 cent per query.

    Get Found By AI
  2. Episode 25

    The Selfware Era Explained: Claude Code's Impact on SaaS

    Understand the "Selfware Era" and why Morgan Stanley's SaaS index dropped 15% after Claude Code's release—plus the contrarian argument for why smart SaaS companies are actually in the best position to pivot and dominate.

    Build It Yourself
  3. Episode 24

    The AI Predictions Nobody Will Make (And Why They'll Matter Most)

    Learn why the 2025 AI hype cycle collapsed and what actually happened: DeepSeek's $6M model knocked $600B off Nvidia's valuation, agents became supervised interns instead of autonomous colleagues, and 95% of enterprise AI projects delivered zero ROI. These failures reveal what will actually work in

    AI Fluency
  4. Episode 23

    The Voice AI War Explained: OpenAI's Device vs Amazon's Browser Bet

    Understand the AI consolidation landscape with xAI's $20 billion raise solidifying a three-way race between OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI—and why Meta's position may be weaker than it appears after Yann LeCun's revealing exit interview.

    Get Found By AI

December 2025

  1. Episode 20

    How to Use AI to Replace $1K–$10K Monthly Workflows

    Discover why top AI users are 17 times more productive and understand how this creates a permanent talent sorting mechanism reshaping workforce dynamics over 18 months. The gap between power users and observers is becoming career-defining.

    AI Employees & Agents

November 2025

  1. Episode 18

    AI You Can Actually Use: Real Examples from a $300M Voice Company

    Learn how ElevenLabs built a $6.6 billion voice AI company by owning their own LLM—keeping 77 cents of every dollar while competitors hemorrhage 60-70% of revenue to API costs. Discover why their 75-80% gross margins make them the "purest model" in the AI middleman economy.

    AI Employees & Agents
  2. Episode 17

    AI That Ships: Live Gemini 3 Builds & What to Do After the Demo

    Learn how Gemini 3's breakthrough capabilities transform napkin sketches into production-ready applications in minutes, with benchmark improvements showing 60% to 76% on coding tasks and 5% to 31% on visual reasoning. Understand why this represents a fundamental shift from college-level AI to PhD-le

    Build It Yourself
  3. Episode 15

    The $400M Bet on Gen Z and the Creative OS Revolution

    Understand why distribution now trumps model size in the AI race, as Perplexity's $400M Snapchat deal reveals how access to 477 million daily Gen Z users matters more than building superior technology. This strategic shift explains why every major platform will soon embed AI agents directly into you

    Get Found By AI
  4. Episode 14

    AI Middlemen or Master Builders?

    Learn how to transform long-form video content into viral social media clips in under five minutes using AI-powered tools that analyze engagement potential and automatically edit for maximum impact.

    Build It Yourself

October 2025

  1. Episode 13

    The $0 Barrier: When Anyone Can Build, Who Wins?

    Understand how AI browsers like Atlas and Comet will redefine the web, design, and daily workflows.

    Get Found By AIBuild It Yourself
  2. Episode 12

    Embed or Extinct: Why Your AI Stack Is Already Obsolete

    Learn how AI-native tools like Figma and OneDrive eliminate context switching and redefine workflow speed.

    AI Fluency
  3. Episode 10

    The Great AI Shakeout: OpenAI’s Quiet Monetization Play + Vibe Coding’s Winter

    Understand how OpenAI’s subtle monetization strategy is reshaping online commerce and advertising.

    Build It Yourself

September 2025

  1. Episode 8

    What Smart AI Builders Are Doing Differently

    Build It Yourself
  2. Episode 7

    AI Has a Product Problem, and the Future of Work Depends on It

    AI Fluency