AI & Beyond For Business

AI in 2026: What Happens to Work, SaaS, and Developers Next?

A year after their last conversation, Arham sits down again with Zazmic’s Chief AI Officer Yurii Yakovlev — and the AI landscape looks completely different. Discover what radically changed in 2026, why companies are still burning money on the wrong AI bets, and how AI agents are actively taking over real business workflows. You’ll hear what this shift means for SaaS, for developers, and for anyone wondering if manual work is on its way out. And there’s no better person to break it down than the expert companies call to automate their toughest problems.

The #1 AI for Founders & Investors: Pixie Beats 95% Startup Failure Rate & Lifts Global Economies

Why do 95% of venture-backed startups fail — and what separates the ones that don't? In this episode, Richard McCandless, the founder of Pixie and Keith Johnston, AI leader from Zazmic, reveal the AI-driven insights and patterns that can turn startup chaos into predictable growth. From uncovering why most incubators only reach a fraction of founders to Pixie’s “scale-up DNA” approach, this conversation is packed with actionable strategies for founders, investors, and anyone curious about the future of entrepreneurship. Tune in and see how AI is rewriting the rules of startup success — it’s not luck, it’s data.

Disrupting Advertising: How Forage Makes Brands More Human With AI that Digs TikTok, Instagram, YouTube For Real-Time Consumer Insights

Short-term metrics don't define brand success anymore. What does? Join 20-year advertising expert and Founder of Forage Charles Swann and Zazmic CTO Yann Kronberg to find out. Backed by Zazmic's engineering team, Charles built the industry's most advanced Vision AI platform—a tool that decodes millions of social media images and videos for unique, relevant, real-time consumer insights. Hear how Forage helps brands make sense of the changing culture and act on it fast, giving their audiences what they want, when they want it; discover why Forage teamed up with Zazmic to develop their AI platform; and learn what GCP and Gemini can do that other models can't in our newest episode. 🔗 Connect with the speakers:  1. Yann Kronberg on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannkronberg/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannkronberg/] 2. Charles Swann on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cswann/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/cswann/] 🌐 Company websites: * Zazmic: https://zazmic.com [https://zazmic.com] * Forage: https://letsforage.com [https://letsforage.com]

The AI Takeover: Insights from a Chief AI Officer

Chief AI Officers are still basically unicorns in the tech world, but we caught one! In this new episode, meet Zazmic’s co-founder Yuri Yakovlev, the engineering and AI powerhouse behind the company's success. Hear about the 200% mindset that fuels Zazmic’s growth, why you should trust your expertise more than just client feedback, the 'six-legged horse’ problem, who's coming for your job (not AI), and how AI will soon blend into everything we know. And many more exclusive insights.

The Resilience Revolution: How Aperture is using Tech to Scale Social-Emotional Learning

How do you scale social-emotional learning for millions of students? In this new episode, we go behind the scenes at Aperture Education with JD, its People Focused Engineering Director, to talk about student resilience, Aperture’s tech-forward DESSA assessment platform, and how they’re leveraging the power of GCP, AI and ML to transform data into valuable insights that drive impact for students and educators nationwide.