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The AI Hat Podcast
Mike Allton
AI Belongs on Your Org Chart, Not Your Tech Stack
JUL 12, 202612 MIN
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Description
Your best people are losing most of the week to work they were never hired to do - and the fix isn't another tool.
In this solo episode, Mike Allton opens with a confession: there was a stretch of his career when a guest canceling on his own podcast felt like relief. Two of his shows died at exactly twelve episodes each, and between those funerals he changed everything - the tools, the format, the frequency, the topic - except the one variable that killed them both.
That story turns out not to be a podcasting story at all. It's the same reason 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail: companies make a software purchase when the situation calls for a staffing decision. Nobody writes the role. Nobody defines what the AI is responsible for, who it reports to, or how anyone would know it's doing a good job.
So Mike makes the argument he's building his entire business around: AI belongs on your org chart, not your tech stack. Not to replace the people you have - to finally staff the work no one was ever hired to do.
You'll hear:
- Why every business runs on two org charts - the official one, and the real one hiding in your team's calendars
- The job description that took interview prep from two-plus hours to twenty minutes, and took the show past 120 episodes
- The Apollo answer to "this is how the replacement starts"
- Why an off-the-shelf AI employee is still a software purchase wearing a name tag
- A ten-minute homework assignment: find the seat that's been empty the longest
Read the full manifesto at theaihat.com: https://theaihat.com/ai-belongs-on-your-org-chart-not-your-tech-stack/
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