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AI to Go Podcast I Real Talk on Enterprise AI

AI to Go Podcast I Real Talk on Enterprise AI

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Let's be honest: Enterprise AI has a trust problem. Vendors overpromise. Buyers overthink. Pilots die in silence. And everyone's too polite - or too scared - to say what actually went wrong.

AI to Go is the Enterprise AI podcast that breaks the silence. Every episode is an honest, no-BS conversation between the people building AI and the people buying it inside large organizations - about what actually works, what quietly fails, and why most AI pilots never make it to production.

I'm Johannes Deubener, an AI Implementation Lead at Deutsche Telekom based out of San Francisco. As a former marketplace founder who spent years helping sellers find buyers, I've been on both sides of the table. Now I'm the person inside the enterprise evaluating which AI vendors to pilot and put into production.

That dual perspective shapes every conversation on this show.

Each week, I sit down with AI startup founders, enterprise leaders, investors, and AI ecosystem experts for real talk about:

→ Why most enterprise AI pilots fail - and the few things that make the difference between production and purgatory

→ How enterprise buying decisions actually get made (spoiler: it's not how vendors think)

→ How to navigate complex stakeholder setups across the enterprise

→ The fears and frustrations that both sides need to say out loud

→ How AI vendors can design pitches, demos, and pilots that actually survive contact with a real enterprise

AI founders and enterprise leaders are both short on time and drowning in hype. AI to Go exists because your scarcest resources - time, attention, and focus - deserve better than the FOMO-fueled AI podcasts telling you the sky is falling or rising every week.

The mission is simple: create mutual understanding between enterprise AI buyers and sellers so we can stop wasting each other's time and start building AI deployments that actually work for both sides.

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🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-to-go-podcast/

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Episodes
  • AI Pricing: No Seats, No Tokens – This Founder Charges for Results | Larissa Schneider, Unframe AI
    Mar 10 2026

    Larissa Schneider, Co-Founder & COO of Unframe AI, is building one of Europe's boldest enterprise AI platforms - and she's doing it with outcome-based pricing. No per-seat fees. No token meters. Just measurable business outcomes.

    In this episode, host Johannes Deubener sits down with Larissa to unpack why seat-based pricing is killing enterprise AI adoption, how Unframe deploys production-ready AI in under a week using a modular "Lego block" platform, and what it actually takes to tie your revenue to client results.

    Larissa shares the real story behind outcome-based pricing - from internal debates to live customer examples - including how they helped one of the world's oldest newspapers cut proofreader onboarding from 2-3 years to nearly instant. She also drops a bold prediction: citizen development and quick DIY AI will die at the enterprise level.

    Whether you're an AI founder figuring out your pricing model, an enterprise leader stuck in pilot purgatory, or a CIO evaluating build vs. buy - this episode is packed with practical frameworks you can use today.

    ⏱️ Chapters:

    00:57 - International Background & Leading Global AI Teams

    02:17 - Building Company DNA in a Remote-First Culture

    02:55 - From Farm Kid to AI Founder

    06:49 - What Technologists Miss About AI Adoption

    08:37 - The Real Root Cause of Pilot Purgatory

    10:10 - Build vs. Buy

    12:59 - The Honest AI Strategy Conversation with a CEO

    15:33 - Unframe Explained: The Lego Box Analogy

    19:29 - Customer Story: Oldest Newspaper in the World Goes AI

    21:50 - IP, Blueprints & How Custom AI Solutions Work

    23:35 - Pricing: Why Seats & Tokens Are Broken

    25:41 - Tying Revenue to Client Results

    31:14 - Pricing a Chatbot by Outcomes - A Real Example

    33:22 - Preventing Adoption Failure & the Free POC Model

    35:01 - How Outcome-Based Pricing Changes Product Development

    36:13 - Advice for Founders on Outcome-Based Pricing

    38:16 - Outcome-Based Pricing as a Competitive Moat

    40:26 - Redesigning Enterprise AI Procurement from Scratch

    41:44 - Larissa's Bold Prediction

    42:11 - Will AI Make Organizations More Human?

    43:01 - Larissa's #1 Advice for Enterprise AI Success

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    Connect with Johannes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesdeubener/

    Follow Larissa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schneiderlarissa/

    Check out Unframe AI: https://www.unframe.ai/

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    More about AI To Go: I Real Talk on Enterprise AI

    ✨ Watch more Episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiL3_cC9nmXALQiaqlYs2Kw
    ✨ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-to-go-podcast/id1866997458

    ✨ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5X9XgIv1qtCYtExziNMyXK
    ✨ Receive all Updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-to-go-podcast/

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    44 mins
  • The AI Fears Enterprise CEOs Won’t Admit Publicly | Rujuta Singh, Solved Together
    Mar 3 2026

    If you’re an enterprise AI founder, you’ve seen the same pattern: pilots everywhere, ROI nowhere, governance used as a brake, and leaders asking for “hard numbers by next quarter.”

    In this episode, Johannes Deubener sits down with Rajuta Singh, Founder & CEO of Solved Together, to unpack why transformation fails (hint: it’s rarely the tech) and how CEOs can break the “AI anxiety loop” with structured experimentation, cross-functional squads, and outcome-first execution. They unpack real boardroom fears around AI - from stalled pilots and 7-figure “science projects” to data roadmaps, legacy systems, and middle managers secretly blocking change.

    If you are an AI founder selling into enterprises or an enterprise leader trying to turn AI hype into business outcomes, this conversation gives a 90-day path you can start using immediately.

    Chapters
    • 00:04 Welcome + guest intro: Rujuta Singh
    • 00:57 Why people dynamics decide outcomes
    • 02:06 Every company has the same collaboration problem
    • 04:14 Collaboration brain hacks
    • 08:26 Neuroscience of meetings
    • 12:29 “Transformation Reality TV”
    CEO Role-Play
    • 16:11 AI as #1 priority for 2026
    • 18:43 Ruthless prioritization: which pilots to kill vs scale
    • 20:23 CFO vs AI team: ROI now vs “compounding later”
    • 23:16 Integrate AI into business strategy
    • 24:35 The Talent Dilemma
    • 27:04 Upskilling Challenge
    • 32:35 Silent sabotage: how to unblock middle managers
    • 37:22 The “AI strategy” all-hands
    • 41:06 Data governance vs speed
    • 43:20 Legacy systems
    • 46:49 First 90 days
    • 49:48 What CEOs miss
    Wrap
    • 55:45 Don’t try to keep up
    • 58:04 The Top Leadership Skill
    • 1:00:32 Where to find Rajuta

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    Connect with Johannes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesdeubener/

    Follow Rujuta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rujutasingh/

    Check out Solved Together - AI Accelerator: https://www.solvedtogether.co.uk/ai-accelerator

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    More about AI To Go: I Real Talk on Enterprise AI

    ✨ Watch more Episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiL3_cC9nmXALQiaqlYs2Kw
    ✨ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-to-go-podcast/id1866997458

    ✨ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5X9XgIv1qtCYtExziNMyXK
    ✨ Receive all Updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-to-go-podcast/

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • AI Eats Jobs: The #1 Skill You Need to Stay Relevant - with Ted Shelton, Founder Adaptability.com
    Feb 17 2026

    Ted Shelton has seen the AI wave from every angle - partner at Bain, COO at Inflection AI, now founder of adaptability.com and builder of the Personal Agent aalpi.ai. In this episode, Ted and host Johannes Deubener discuss what happens when AI compute becomes a new form of capital that no longer needs human labor.

    Ted explains why owners of compute will capture value faster than overall economic growth, how this breaks the 250-year-old relationship between capital and labor, and why “abundance” does not automatically mean broad participation. On individual level, we explore the human skills that actually compound and how you can practice adaptability in this fast-paced world.

    Chapters

    00:04 Introduction to Ted Shelton

    00:56 Public Skepticism Towards Autonomous Vehicles

    04:32 The Future of AI Interaction

    08:18 Reflections on AI's Evolution

    11:59 Transitioning from Pilot to Execution at Scale

    14:17 Rebuilding Inflection AI: Insights and Challenges

    16:39 The Importance of Data Ownership in AI

    19:31 Achieving ROI from AI Initiatives

    23:26 Turing trap - Balancing Automation and Augmentation

    25:25 AI as a Coordination Mechanism

    31:12 Building Adaptability in a Rapidly Changing World

    34:19 How to Teach Adaptability as a Meta Skill

    36:13 Navigating the Rapid Pace of Technological Change

    39:14 The Importance of Human Skills in an AI-Driven World

    40:35 Redesigning Work for the Future

    43:30 The Economic Bitter Lesson and AI Inequality

    47:15 Collective Action and the Need for Adaptability

    50:19 Compute Capital: A New Form of Value

    53:37 Winners and Losers in the AI Economy

    57:32 Rethinking Wealth Distribution in an AI World

    01:01:27 Optimism for Future Generations in a Changing World

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    Don't be shy and come say hi:

    Connect with Johannes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannesdeubener/

    Follow Ted: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tshelton/

    Subscribe to his Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/infinite-future-6980527547914534913/

    Check out his privacy-first AI Agent Aalpi: https://aalpi.ai/

    Check out his Adaptability learning platform: https://www.adaptability.com/

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    More about AI To Go:

    ✨ Watch more Episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiL3_cC9nmXALQiaqlYs2Kw
    ✨ Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-to-go-podcast/id1866997458

    ✨ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5X9XgIv1qtCYtExziNMyXK
    ✨ Receive all Updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-to-go-podcast/

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    1 hr and 8 mins
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