In this episode, Jonathan Blaber and returning guest Eric Schwartz recap Schwartz’s 2025 AI Predictions and discuss how accurate they were. They cover the rapid rise of agentic AI, enterprise AI adoption (including major investments and ROI), model specialization and personalities, and how jobs and skills are evolving. They also explore emerging trends for 2026 like autonomy, vibe coding (AI-driven development), improved memory and personalization in models, robotics, and the environmental and economic impacts of AI.

Eric shares real-world examples and use cases, from AI voice agents and enterprise bots to rapid prototype building and potential space-based data centres, highlighting both opportunities and challenges for businesses and workers.

In this episode Jonathan Blaber and Sarah Schlobohm discuss what leaders should do when given an AI mandate, focusing on practical first steps: identify real business problems, start with internal pilots that eliminate tedious tasks, and avoid using AI just for the sake of it.

They cover common failure causes - poor data and unprepared people - how to set realistic ROI expectations, and the importance of governance and legal risk awareness.

The conversation closes with a view that AI is moving from incremental improvements to a transformational "iPhone moment."

In this episode of AI Horizons, host Jonathan Blaber sits down with Sandy Boxall, CEO of Contract Finder Pro, to explore how AI is transforming the painful world of public sector bid writing. Sandy shares his journey from decades of selling into government at large corporates to spotting a critical gap in how tenders are found, managed, and written - an idea that first took shape over a few pints in the pub with his co-founder, Dave.

Sandy lifts the lid on why traditional bidding is so broken: scattered case studies, inconsistent tone of voice, frantic last-minute edits, and risky “creative” claims that can even jeopardise contracts under new procurement rules. He then explains how Contract Finder Pro uses multiple LLMs working together with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to storyboard, draft, and evaluate bids - without inventing facts.

Jonathan and Sandy dig into ROI, time savings of 30–50%, and how AI tools can both boost win rates and finally give SMEs a fair shot against big players. They wrap up by looking ahead to a future where smarter bidding doesn’t just help suppliers - but also delivers better value for taxpayers.