Human Cloud

Human Cloud

Welcome to the autonomous age - a world where AI, borderless networks, and flexible talent replace the drudgery of corporate drones. NASA, Microsoft, and yes, beloved beer brand Carlsberg get it. So will you. Each week, Tony Buffum and Matthew Mottola, leading executives and entrepreneurs behind Human Cloud, will introduce you to the exact technology, tools, and talent solutions you need to navigate this new age. Skip the fluff. Get straight to work transforming your talent strategy through today’s leading technology.

Episodes

Joaquin Titievsky, CEO at Talentum, Why AI Recruiters Are Making HR Firms 50% Faster

May 26, 2026 • 29 mins
What happens when AI stops optimizing the recruiting process and starts replacing the parts that never needed a human in the first place? That's the question Joaquin Titievsky answered by building Talentum, an AI recruiting platform born from running an 80-client talent agency in Latin America and realizing the only way to scale was to stop hiring more recruiters. Talentum automates sourcing, outreach, screening, and interview sc...
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Jeremy Lyons, Founder at RecOps Collective, Why Your AI Strategy Needs an Ethics Layer Before Anything Else

May 19, 2026 • 34 mins
Every TA leader is under pressure to show AI results yesterday. But most are skipping the step that determines whether any of it actually works: defining their AI strategy. Jeremy Lyons founded RecOps Collective to help companies build the operational foundations that make AI adoption stick. His thesis is simple but contrarian: before you touch a single AI tool, answer one question. Are you building a co-pilot or a replacement? T...
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Rich Wilson & Davie Gow, The 40-40-20 Workforce: From Theory to Reality at Arnold Clark

May 12, 2026 • 41 mins
The 80-20 workforce model is dead. Rich Wilson, CEO of Gigged.AI, says we're headed for 40-40-20: 40% full-time, 40% contingent, 20% AI agents. And Davie Gow, CTO at Arnold Clark, is actually building it inside one of the UK's largest family-run businesses. Gigged.AI built a blended workforce platform that lets enterprises tap into on-demand talent through outcome-based statements of work, not just day-rate contracts. Arnold Clar...
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Jack Spencer, Founder at Freeflexer, What It Takes to Realize the Flexible-First Future of Work

May 5, 2026 • 52 mins
The flexible-first future of work is not a theory. It is already here. But the infrastructure to support it is not. Regulation is tightening across every major European market. Buyers are still trapped in three-month vendor analysis cycles. And the word "contingent" continues to undersell what is fundamentally a growth strategy, not a contingency plan. Jack Spencer has been building that infrastructure from the ground up. He was ...
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Andrea Dottling & Parker Grant, Co-Founders at IDLance, Meet The Leading Instructional Design Talent Platform Avoiding Every Freelance Trap

April 30, 2026 • 48 mins
The freelance economy has 130,000+ staffing firms. Most fall into one of two traps: they become self-help communities with no real work, or they become faceless vendor mills that forget the people. IDLance avoided both. Andrea Dottling and Parker Grant built a 2,000-person instructional design community that accidentally became an agency when clients started asking if they could tap the network. Now they fill enterprise gigs in 2...
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Benjemen Elengovan, Founder at MyGigsters, Using AI to Build the Financial Infrastructure for the Flexible Workforce

April 28, 2026 • 46 mins
Every founder talks about doing more with less. Benjemen Elengovan is actually doing it. He built an agentic workforce of AI agents that handle his sales prospecting, operations, and engineering acceleration, and the results are rewriting the math on what a lean team can accomplish. MyGigsters is a fintech company based in Melbourne that brings financial security to the independent workforce by embedding payments, compliance, and...
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Michelle Allbon, Co-founder & CEO at Fractional Directory, The True Cloud Transformation Hiding in Plain Sight

April 21, 2026 • 49 mins
The APAC fractional talent market is growing 15x and nobody is talking about it. Michelle Allbon moved from Silicon Valley to New Zealand and discovered a $100M market opportunity hiding across four cities. She built Fractional Directory to start mapping it. What makes this story different is scale. Michelle is not just tracking individuals calling themselves fractional. She is tracking the infrastructure gap underneath them: how...
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Yurii Lazaruk, Out With Talent, In With Getting Sh** Done (And Relationships)

April 14, 2026 • 41 mins
Every company says they want to move faster. Fewer say they want to change how they hire to get there. That gap between knowing the flexible workforce works and actually adopting it is where most of the industry is stuck. The pitch is obvious. The execution is not. Yurii Lazaruk has spent the last four years building freelance communities and connecting independent talent with companies across Europe. Now, working with Freelancer...
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Joao Lucio, Founder at beecrowd, The New Rules of Tech Talent, LATAM Nearshore and Delivery

April 9, 2026 • 49 mins
In this episode, Matthew Mottola sits down with João Lucio, a veteran of global system integrators who spent more than 30 years inside firms like Accenture and Cognizant — including leading Cognizant's Latin American operation of 5,000+ people across seven countries. After decades on the inside, João reached a clear conclusion: the traditional staffing and tech consulting model is broken. The thrill of winning a deal is always fo...
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Yuri Kruman, HR Leader Turned AI Builder, The 56% AI Wage Gap Nobody Is Talking About

April 7, 2026 • 49 mins
The AI wage gap is already 56 percent. That number comes from PWC, which analyzed six billion job postings and found that workers who can build with AI earn more than half again what their peers make. And in HR, a function that has historically been last to adopt new technology and first to feel the consequences, that gap is accelerating. Yuri Kruman has lived on both sides. After a winding career through neuroscience, law, finan...
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Kim Lee, Founder of Lotic Systems, Built an AI Leadership Coach — Without Writing a Line of Code

March 31, 2026 • 42 mins
Most managers get promoted because they were great individual contributors — not because anyone taught them how to lead. The result: a management gap that drives turnover, kills team morale, and costs organizations millions. And the standard fix — a one-day leadership workshop — fades from memory before the week is out. Kim Lee saw this pattern across every industry she worked in during 20+ years in HR, from Silicon Valley tech t...
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Maggie Ruvoldt, Fractional CHRO & HR Advisor, Why Fractional Leadership Is About Impact Not Hours

March 24, 2026 • 42 mins
The fractional executive market is exploding, but most companies are still thinking about it wrong. They ask how many hours they need. They should be asking what impact they need. Maggie Ruvoldt spent over a decade scaling an EdTech company from 100 people to 5,000, from $30 million to $1 billion in revenue. When she left, she stumbled into fractional CHRO work and discovered something most full-time leaders miss: the skills you ...
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Jeff Nugent, Founder at Independently, The 900-Pound Gorilla Blocking the Future of Work

March 19, 2026 • 47 mins
Independent contractor compliance is the 900-pound gorilla blocking enterprises from scaling flexible talent. The platforms exist. The talent exists. But most companies get 10 freelancers in the door and never get to 1,000 because compliance shuts it down. Jeff Nugent has watched this play out across three decades and three companies. He started in IT staffing in the mid-90s, built one of the first MSP/VMS solutions, then founded...
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Paul Vallee, Founder & CEO of Tehama, The Trust Architecture That Unlocks the Freelance Workforce

March 17, 2026 • 43 mins
p>Security isn't just an IT problem — it's the single biggest demand limiter for freelance talent in the enterprise. Every time a company considers engaging a contractor, the first question isn't cost or quality. It's: can we trust them with our data? Paul Vallee has spent 25+ years building the infrastructure to answer that question. His company Tehama builds data enclaves — secure, cloud-hosted environments where freelancers wor...
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JJ Lammers, Founder of AllGigs, The Great Aggregation: Why Now, and How the Jobs of the Future Will Be Aggregated

March 10, 2026 • 34 mins
Work is fragmenting faster than anyone can track. While Human Cloud aggregates the solutions, JJ aggregates the work. Every role is niching down. Every platform covers a fraction of the market. And on both sides — freelancers looking for gigs and companies looking for talent solutions — nobody can see the full picture. That's the Great Aggregation: the moment the market got too fragmented to navigate without an infrastructure laye...
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Software with a Service: Tom Of Hive 25 on why the Best Workforce Tech Comes with Humans Behind It

March 3, 2026 • 53 mins
Pure SaaS had its moment. In a world where anyone can vibe code a front end over a weekend, the software is becoming commodity. What becomes scarce — and valuable — is domain expertise, real customer relationships, and knowing which problems actually matter. Tom Pammenter spent 15 years supplying freelancers in UK broadcast and production. He built Hive 25 to fix the chaotic middle that every FMS ignores — the booking engine wher...
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Jose De Cabo, Founder of Remotely, Why LATAM Engineers Are the Best Kept Secret in Tech

February 24, 2026 • 41 mins
Most companies overpay for engineering talent and underpay the engineers doing the work. Jose De Cabo built Remotely to fix that — a fully transparent model where developers set their own rates and companies cut costs by 50% while getting better talent. In this episode, Jose De Cabo shares: ...
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Tony Buffum LIVE from Nashville: Conference Season Kickoff & The AI Productivity Promise Gap

February 20, 2026 • 18 mins
SURPRISE!!!! Tony Buffum reports live from Nashville after attending the Conference Board's talent leaders event and hosting a Human Cloud executive dinner with 15+ CHROs from companies with 60,000+ employees. The conversations revealed a widening gap between AI's productivity promise and what organizations are actually experiencing. In this episode, Tony shares: - Why TA and recruiting teams are under intense pressure to ...
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Bob Pulver on Human + AI Co-Intelligence

February 17, 2026 • 44 mins
Unlock the secret to transforming AI fears into organizational superpowers. Bob Pulver, a pioneer in cognitive and human-centric AI, reveals how leading companies are turning AI into strategic growth engines—without sacrificing trust. If you're a leader or innovator feeling overwhelmed by the rapid AI shift, this episode offers concrete frameworks and insider insights to elevate your AI quotient and build trust at every level. Dis...
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Bruce Morton, From Picking Strawberries to Deconstructing Work Before AI Does It For You

February 12, 2026 • 48 mins
The way enterprises get work done is fundamentally broken—and the companies that figure out how to orchestrate talent across employees, contractors, freelancers, and AI will win. Bruce Morton just launched Growth Capital to help them do exactly that. In this episode, Bruce shares: • Why the "chief work officer" should be a board-level role—a...
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