{"podcast":{"title":"AI for Revenue Leaders: The AI Hat Podcast","slug":"ai-for-revenue-leaders-the-ai-hat-podcast-6920918","podcast_index_feed_id":6920918,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/aiinmarketing","website_url":"https://theaihat.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/034a8d4e-160c-11ef-acaa-db1d976effe6/image/eb7b0597549bbb896f9563e6dd795fb5.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Mike Allton","episode_count":122,"summary":"Your revenue team is brilliant, but they are trapped in quicksand. Research shows that high-performing sales and marketing professionals waste nearly 70% of their time on \"Admin Drag\" - the non-revenue generating tasks like data entry and meeting prep that kill momentum. You are paying for top-tier talent, but you are getting expensive data entry. Meanwhile, you are facing a \"Year of Reckoning.\" You know you need to adopt AI, but you are stuck in \"Pilot Purgatory,\" worried about the \"Shadow AI\" risks your team is already creating in the background. \"AI for Revenue Leaders\" is your operational blueprint for the Agentic Era. Hosted by Mike Allton - a Revenue Architect and Director of Partner-led Growth - this show moves beyond futuristic hype to focus on the practical reality of leading high-performance teams. We don't just talk about tools; we help you build the \"Digital Crews\" that work alongside your humans. In each episode, we break down: The Agentic Shift: Moving from simple chatbots to autonomous AI agents. Sanctioning the Shadow: Turning security risks into competitive advantages through governance. The Human+AI Hybrid: Automating the \"robot work\" so your team can double down…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-for-revenue-leaders-the-ai-hat-podcast-6920918"},"episode":{"title":"Are you training your AI, or is your AI training you?","slug":"are-you-training-your-ai-or-is-your-ai-training-you","published_at":"2025-11-01T13:03:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-for-revenue-leaders-the-ai-hat-podcast-6920918/are-you-training-your-ai-or-is-your-ai-training-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-for-revenue-leaders-the-ai-hat-podcast-6920918","url":"https://theaihat.com/are-you-training-your-ai-or-is-your-ai-training-you/","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/op3.dev/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/MPNL9027863574.mp3","summary":"Ever feel like you're spending more time teaching your AI tools how to work than actually getting work done? You're not alone. In this week's AI Hat Dispatch, I share the brutal moment I realized I'd become an unpaid trainer for yet another \"revolutionary\" AI video tool - and the eye-opening lesson that changed everything about how I approach AI in my business. If you've ever found yourself jumping between a dozen different AI platforms, each demanding you learn their language and work around their limitations, this episode is for you. We'll explore why the most successful solopreneurs don't actually use more AI tools - they use fewer, better, and smarter ones. More importantly, I'll show you the difference between being your AI's assistant versus being its boss, and why that shift is the key to finally building systems that work FOR you instead of against you. This isn't about adding another tool to your stack. It's about becoming the architect of your own AI-powered business. Join the AI Solopreneur OS community at https://theaihat.com/aisos CHAPTERS 00:00 The Harsh Reality for Solopreneurs 03:08 The AI Paradox: Tools or Chains? 03:23 The Early Railroad Analogy 03:31 Designing Systems Around Human Expertise 03:38 The Secret to Successful Solopreneurship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Ever feel like you're spending more time teaching your AI tools how to work than actually getting work done? You're not alone. In this week's AI Hat Dispa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":394,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ai-for-revenue-leaders-the-ai-hat-podcast-6920918/episodes/are-you-training-your-ai-or-is-your-ai-training-you/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-for-revenue-leaders-the-ai-hat-podcast-6920918/are-you-training-your-ai-or-is-your-ai-training-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}