{"podcast":{"title":"Scouting for Growth","slug":"scouting-for-growth-4686831","podcast_index_feed_id":4686831,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/sabinega/feed.xml","website_url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/21959862/c84aea4ad531642db775e0d7782c8f77.jpg","author":"Sabine VanderLinden","episode_count":233,"summary":"There are over 180,000 FinTech ventures out there today. My team tracks 7.3 million of them across markets every single week. But the number that matters isn’t the one that’s growing. It’s the one that isn’t. Only 25% of these ventures have secured funding and meaningful backing. The other 75% aren’t just looking for capital. They’re looking for access, credibility, and partnerships with the institutions that can turn a great product into real-world impact. This is Scouting for Growth. I’m Sabine VanderLinden. I lead Alchemy Crew Ventures, and I built the Venture-Client Model for regulated industries... the model where a growth venture earns a corporation as its customer before a VC writes the cheque. When that sequence works, it changes the equation for everyone: founders, corporates, and the investors watching from both sides of the table. Each episode, I bring a founder, an operator, or an institutional leader to the table for the conversation that usually happens behind closed doors: about how corporates really think, how capital really flows, and what it actually takes to build, grow, and scale in a world where the boundaries between FinTech, InsurTech, HealthTech, and AI are…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T16:17:45.012213+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831"},"episode":{"title":"Marinela Profi: Building the Trust Frontier or How Agentic AI Is Redefining Enterprise Decision-Making","slug":"marinela-profi-building-the-trust-frontier-or-how-agentic-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-decision-making","published_at":"2025-12-18T00:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/marinela-profi-building-the-trust-frontier-or-how-agentic-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-decision-making","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831","url":"https://sabinega.podbean.com/e/marinela-profi-building-the-trust-frontier-or-how-agentic-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-decision-making/","audio_url":"https://cohst.app/pdcst/6K4Q1I/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/f8dbtl9qospaj3uy/pdcst_6K4Q1I_traffic_megaphone_fm_USVL8314268428.mp3","summary":"On this episode of Scouting For Growth, Sabine VdL welcomes Marinela Profi, Global Market Strategy Lead for AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI at SAS, for a sharp, grounded conversation on what’s actually happening in enterprise AI right now—and what leaders need to prepare for next. Together, they cut through the noise surrounding generative AI and focus on what comes after the chatbot era: agentic AI. If generative AI is the talented communicator in the room, agentic AI is the one who not only speaks—but takes action, executes workflows, and delivers outcomes. Marinela puts it simply: Generative AI talks. Agentic AI does. The episode begins by reframing a major misconception: LLMs alone don’t solve business problems. While generative AI chatbots are excellent at answering questions, summarizing content, and producing text, they typically stop at conversation. Business transformation, however, requires systems that can reason, make decisions, interact with data, follow rules, coordinate across tools, and carry tasks through to completion. That’s where agentic AI steps in—combining large language models with analytics, policies, data pipelines, governance frameworks, and real operational logic. Marinela explains that AI agents aren’t a futuristic fantasy—they’re a practical evolution of automation, made smarter through contextual understanding and orchestrated decision-making. To help business leaders and technical teams understand what “agent behavior” looks like in real life, she shares her 5-step lifecycle framework—a clear model for how agents operate end-to-end: Perception – sensing signals from users, systems, or environments Cognition – reasoning, interpreting context, and forming intent Decisioning – selecting the best course of action based on goals and constraints Act…","meta_description":"On this episode of Scouting For Growth, Sabine VdL welcomes Marinela Profi, Global Market Strategy Lead for AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI at SAS, for a sharp,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2741,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scouting-for-growth-4686831/episodes/marinela-profi-building-the-trust-frontier-or-how-agentic-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-decision-making/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scouting-for-growth-4686831/marinela-profi-building-the-trust-frontier-or-how-agentic-ai-is-redefining-enterprise-decision-making.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}