E156: The Operators Playbook for Getting Every Employee to Use AI

Are you running your ecommerce brand on gut instinct while your competitors build AI-powered data machines?

Sean Frank (CEO of Ridge) and Jason Panzer (President of HexClad) sit down with Krishna Poda, the CEO of Saras Analytics, to unpack why a clean data foundation isn’t optional. And what you can build on top of it with AI right now.

They cover the rise of agentic workflows and what it means to replace repetitive human tasks with agents that work around the clock, why every stakeholder in a business should be able to query their own data without waiting on an analyst, how Saras IQ is built as a vertically specialized layer on top of Claude to deliver consistent and governed answers, and what the near future looks like when your brand’s central agent is negotiating with Meta’s agent, Northbeam’s agent, and every other platform fighting for your budget.

Chapters
00:00:00 The $15M Data Wake-Up Call
00:04:23 Who Are the AI Non-Believers
00:09:24 What Agents Are Already Doing
00:13:58 Clean Data Is the Foundation
00:20:42 The Agentic Future of Saras
00:23:04 Data Warehouses Explained
00:29:13 Saras IQ: Talk to Your Data
00:34:10 Why Not Just Use Claude?
00:39:55 Agents Fighting Other Agents
00:43:30 Summarizing the Saras Stack
00:50:28 Agent First, Human Second
00:54:42 Get Your Team to Embrace AI
00:58:35 Gamifying AI Adoption at Ridge
01:00:15 The Future of AI and Data

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