AI articles for people who have to decide.

Does It Increase Revenue or Decrease Costs? If not, it's noise.

With Brad Granger, Managing Director Podium.

Why testing fails. Why investment wins.

Andrew McCarthy (GM, Notion) on saving 260 hours a month, the "Context Gap," and why AI projects fail.

What $285 billion in stock losses, a $30/month subscription, and five copy-paste tests tell you about your workforce strategy.

Australia, We Have 6 Months - Maybe less.

Why your customer journey will not last 2026.

Believer, Driver, Builder - which executive are you?

In practice with, Chief Commercial Officer and MD at Domain, John Foong.

Executive Leverage in 2025: Building Zero-FTE Capability.

The Infrastructure Divide That Will Define the Next 20 Years.

The context file that saved my client 12 hours per week on strategic decisions. | Institutionalise Your Executive Judgment Inside AI.

80% of Australian AI investments are currently failing, costing enterprises north of $28M. It’s not a technology problem: it’s a leadership failure.

CEOs spend 28% of their week on strategic priorities, down from 40% pre-pandemic.

Moving From Leading People to People and AGENTS

Execution velocity just became measurable, repeatable, and scalable.

Smart Australian Executives, Expensive Decisions (this could be the most costly move you make)

OpenAI dropped Atlas-their new agentic browser. Within hours, executives across Australia were asking: “Should we use this?”

The leaders rushing to use this without testing it first? They’re going to learn expensive lessons.

Agentic Browsers - the biggest advantage comes with risk

Five AI Tests That Tell You Exactly Where You Stand.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Buying software rarely fixes operational problems on day one. How Fisher & Paykel CDO Rudi Khoury tests AI vendors, exposes hidden internal costs and holds suppliers accountable.

A practical guide for $50M-$100M leadership teams on eliminating cross-system friction, protecting margins, and freeing senior capacity

Why your current governance framework is underestimating your true regulatory exposure.

A five-minute CFO test to turn AI hours saved into a defensible business benefit.

In conversation with Emma Fawcett, CEO Compare Club

The full conversation with Leandro Perez, SVP & CMO, ANZ Salesforce - is now live, listen to it now on your preferred streaming platform - HERE.

Five disciplines that turn good AI into high-value executive work.

APP 1.7 - $50m for serious breaches | Season 3 - Episode 1 | Watch now

One supplier can control your model cost, your continuity risk, and your ability to capture better price-performance.

The 5 questions every executive should run before approving more AI investment.

Why the best leaders are replacing reactive management with systems that drive continuous improvement. Here's how you start.

The five walls I built before trusting an AI worker with anything that sends, spends, or speaks as me.

The full conversation with Katja Forbes, Executive Director at Standard Chartered's corporate and investment bank and author of The Machine Customers - is.

The Verification Standard for AI-Assisted advisory

The audit costs $50k done in-house. The penalty costs $50m if you miss a serious breach.

The average Australian data breach costs $4.26 million. Ask your CISO this before the next board meeting.

Your employee left. Their API keys didn't | Applied AI Australia Season 2, Episode 9.

74% of AI pilots haven't hit the P&L. Here's the four-gate filter that separates the 26% that did.

$30 million in open quotes, an AI pilot that looked like it was working, but no movement on the P&L. The model produced the work. The business never changed around it.

233 days to APP 1.7. OAIC's already sweeping. Your vendor list isn't the map.

The vacancy playbook your CFO needs before signing the next req. This is the HOW.

VentureCrowd cut their team by 60%. The reason isn't what you think. (they are also AFSL regulated)

Two financial services licences. $440M raised. 60% fewer people. If VentureCrowd can do it under ASIC regulation, your excuse just got smaller.

Your enterprise tier doesn't protect against lawyers.

I built a full performance triage in four minutes. From my couch.

Australia we are behind our peers, and five questions your leadership team can't answer.

1,600 people lost their jobs at Atlassian this week.

The AI Execution Playbook: Turning AI into Measurable Business ResultsIn this episode of Applied AI Australia, Ramon Rodriguez highlights the critical importance of AI adoption for businesses to stay competitive.

In this episode of Applied AI Australia, Ramon Rodriguez highlights the critical importance of AI adoption for businesses to stay competitive.

Most enterprise AI experiments fail, billions wasted, results missing. The outliers who win focus on execution discipline, not raw tech.

I want to share something that completely rewired how I think about customer behaviour. And if you run a business, it should force you to rethink yours too.

In this episode of Applied AI Australia, Ramon Rodriguez highlights the transformative impact of AI on the customer journey.

Unlocking Strategic Decision-Making with AI: The Power of Structured Prompting

Applied AI Australia: Everything Executives Need to Know This Week

The article "The Second Wave" is about how the speed of adaptation to AI, changing how we think, learn, and act-matters more than simply adopting new technology.

In the launch of Applied AI Australia, Ramon Rodriguez unpacks the rapid rise of AI and what it means for business leaders who don't come from a technical background.