25. From Naval Officer to AI Architect: CEO-Led Transformation, and Hiring for the Vibe-Code Era with Ian Hogg

Episode notes

"We could see the SaaS apocalypse coming five years before it came." Ian Hogg is Chairman of SolvedBy.ai and ShopWorks. He partners with SaaS leadership teams to embed practical, vertical AI engines into their products — not generic copilots, but AI built for specific operational contexts like workforce scheduling, demand forecasting, and labour efficiency. For any executive navigating software vendor decisions in an AI-first world, Ian offers one of the sharpest ground-level frameworks available.