AGI - Advance, Grow, Innovate with AI · 2026-08-09 · 57 min
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONAdam Staples spent 25 years in revenue operations before he watched a $100 million SaaS company hand every employee an AI license and call it a strategy. It failed the way CRM rollouts have failed for decades: nobody at the top owned the result. Now he runs Chakra AI Solutions, and his pitch is the opposite of the enterprise consultants charging five figures a day. Map where your business actually spends its energy first, then let a foundation model plug in one chunk at a time.Jason and Adam get into BECA, Chakra's diagnostic for charting how work really flows through a company, and the Chakra Workbench, a Claude project that acts like an AI administrator for a 10 to 150 person business. They argue domain expertise beats another AI certification every time, why the best plumber makes a lousy company owner, and what happens to the workforce when 30 percent of people plus AI can do almost all of the work. Jason tells the story of the night Codex installed a tool on his Mac while he sat in a car 20 minutes away.
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