# Breaking Free from AI Overwhelm in Banking and Financial Services - with Art Shectman of Elephant Ventures

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Podcast: [The AI in Business Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ai-in-business-podcast-168928)
Published: 2026-05-25T06:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

The pressure on financial services AI leaders to show board-level results has intensified — yet the pace of vendor pitches, shifting tooling stacks, and stalled pilots has made action feel riskier than waiting. In this episode, Art Shectman, CEO and Founder at Elephant Ventures, breaks down why the instinct to evaluate everything before building anything is the primary obstacle to production, and what a realistic first step actually looks like inside a regulated enterprise. The conversation covers how to identify the right initial workflow, how to structure a time-boxed sprint toward a minimum viable production deployment, and how to present early AI wins to boards that have stopped trusting strategy decks. This episode is sponsored by Elephant Ventures . Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at go.emerj.com/partner

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