PodcastApril 15, 2026
In-Production Podcast: AI, leadership, and the work that travels.
An honest conversation about leading AI transformation inside a legal media and data company — the decisions that move the P&L, the ones that don't, and the operating-model shifts behind the headlines.
By Jimi Li
Watch the full episode on YouTube via the link above.
What we cover
- Where AI value actually lives. Why most enterprise AI initiatives stall between "we deployed it" and "it shows up on the P&L" — and the operating-model moves that close that gap.
- Build vs. buy in the age of frontier models. A practical rule for when to build your own model and when to lean on a vendor: "If the majority of data sits in your enterprise, you build. If you're buying a package, you're sending the data to that package." The decision is downstream of where the data actually lives.
- The CTO/CIO role, re-scoped. From systems operator to outcome orchestrator — what changes in the daily work, where the new failure modes are, and what stays the same.
- Fusion teams. Why cross-functional teams that collapse the loop between engineering and the business outperform the traditional org chart, especially in an AI-augmented environment.
- The next twelve months. Where the operating model of enterprise software companies is heading, and what the smart leaders are already doing about it.