The AI Space Podcast
Welcome to The AI Space Podcast with Sanjay Kalluvilayil! We bring top AI leaders to break down complex topics into clear, actionable insights for founders, innovators, and business leaders. Each episode explores AI’s rapid evolution with real-world strategies in sales, marketing, technology, operations, and value creation. Stonehaas Advisors helps AI founders scale with strategic go-to-market consulting and fractional executive services, delivering 2-10x results. Join us to navigate, innovate, and lead in the AI revolution!
Episodes
In this special Creator & Founder's cut of the live edition of The AI Space Podcast, recorded at the Physical AI Builders Forum UTD in Richardson, TX, Sanjay Kalluvilayil, was invited by David Cao and F50 to co-host, curate, and moderate a panel of AI founders and operators building at the frontier of physical AI, computer vision, robotics, and multimodal conversational AI. This is real builders sharing real playbooks for 2...
In this episode, the Host, Sanjay Kalluvilayil, sits down with Shirish Nimgaonkar, Founder and CEO of eBlissAI, to explore how founders and enterprises are architecting autonomous, real-time AI and IT platforms that move beyond static automation into predictive, self-healing intelligence. T💠 Key Insights1. Why Less Than 5% of Enterprise Issues Are Solved by Static Automation2. Why Outcomes, Ease of Adoption, and Safety Are the New...
In this episode, the Host, Sanjay Kalluvilayil, sits down with Hamid Djam, CTO of Vertical Data and GPU Financing, to explore how founders and enterprises are redefining and financing the future of AI through GPUs, data centers, and the infrastructure stack powering the next wave of AI businesses.
💠 Key Insights from the Episode1. Why 70% of AI Deployments FailMost companies underestimate cost, human resources, and longevity. Hami...
Sanjay Kalluvilayil hosts a live panel of three practitioners who are actively building with AI right now: Victor Perry, Founder and CEO of Longhorn International Motorsports Corporation; Emily Bell-Wootten, Founder and CEO of EBW Consulting; and Stefan Boehmer, Managing Director and Fractional CFO at Texas Advisory Services. They deliver an unfiltered AI go-to-market playbook built from real execution, not theory to help you craft...
In this episode, host Sanjay Kalluvilayil sits down with Abdel Filali, Founder & CEO, of Rel8 AI to explore why most professionals leave events with a stack of business cards they never follow up on and why the 48-hour window after every handshake is where deals are won or lost.
They explore how Rel8 AI, a Relationship Intelligence Platform. rescues these connections from the 'Business Card Graveyard' by capturing, ...
How to Accelerate Revenue with AI GTM Playbooks | Hao Sheng | Founder & CEO | Expertise AI | 4K
In this episode Host, Sanjay Kalluvilayil sits down with Hao Sheng, Founder & CEO of Expertise AI, to explore how AI agents are transforming B2B go-to-market strategy and why the gap between marketing qualified leads and sales qualified leads is costing companies millions in lost pipeline. 💠 Key Insights from the Episode1. Small ...
Protecting Healthcare Data w/ AI Cybersecurity | Siyethaba Nxumalo | Founder & COO | CipherGenix | 4K - In this episode of The AI Space Podcast, host Sanjay Kalluvilayil sits down with Siyethaba Nxumalo, Founder & COO, of CipherGenix to explore how this 22-year-old founder from Johannesburg, South Africa is building AI-specific cybersecurity for the healthcare industry , protecting not just data, but patient lives.💠 Key In...
In this episode of The AI Space Podcast, host Sanjay Kalluvilayil sits down with workforce AI expert Mohamed Yousuf, Founder & CEO, of Smart Workforce AI, to explore how AI workforce forecasting, scheduling, and automation are helping organizations reduce burnout, improve work stress and employee well-being, and scale operations responsibly. 💠 Key Insights from the Episode1. Burnout Is a Systems Failure, Not a Staffing Shortag...
Curating Immersive Luxury Experiences with Multi-Modal AI | 4K. In this episode of The AI Space Podcast, host Sanjay Kalluvilayil sits down with Steve Deeb, Founder and CEO of Lone Star Ascent AI, to explore the evolution of conversational AI. The discussion highlights how the "future of conversation is visible," moving beyond simple audio and chatbots to a seamless blend of responsive voice and rich visuals that create a...
Akshay Mittal, Software Engineer, PayPal and Sanjay Kalluvilayil explore the future of Enterprise AI and AI-augmented DevSecOps. Askshay explains why security must shift from reactive to predictive, how to make agentic workflows production-ready, and what it really takes to use AI to solve real-world problems.Based in Austin, TX, Akshay Mittal is completing his PhD in AI/ML-Driven Security and Automation Strategies for Cloud-Native...
Modernizing Manufacturing: AI + Robots + Humans | Daren Fields | Founder & CEO | Virtual Select | 4K
Daren Fields , Co-Founder & CEO, of Virtual Select and Sanjay Kalluvilayil explore the future of manufacturing. Augmenting humans with AI, robots, and specialized systems to improve quality and costs.
Daren explains why the hype cycle is fading, why manufacturers want autonomy without turning into AI agent builders, and why “AI touches everything, but it doesn’t fix anything” without humans in the loop.
From shop floor ...
Kellye Kamp, Founder & CEO of SourceKamp Labs joins Sanjay Kalluvilayil to explain why Gen X solopreneurs have a real edge in the AI shift and how to reinvent your career without getting overwhelmed.
Kellye breaks down why learning generative AI is no longer optional, why the traditional 9 to 5 is weakening for many, and why the smartest move is to start small, stay curious, and build practical workflows that compound.
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Julian Goldie, Founder & CEO, Goldie Agency, joins Sanjay Kalluvilayil to unpack the real AI impact on SEO, what’s changing, what’s breaking, and what still wins. Julian shares how he adapted his agency as AI accelerated faster than most teams expected, why “SEO is dead” is the wrong framing, and how to evolve into AI-first search and content systems as SEO changes heading into 2026.
Sumeet Jeswani, AI/Cloud Specialist, Google and Sanjay Kalluvilayil, explore the rapid rise of autonomous AI Agents orchestrating security attacks and how to combat this with AI security and trust layers.
3 Key insights
1. Autonomous Agent Security Threats
- We are moving from AI powered attacks to AI orchestrated
attacks by autonomous AI agents.
2. Build in AI Security & Trust Layers
- Ensure you are...
In this episode, Dan Sinawat, CEO & Founder of AI Connex and VC Arena and Sanjay Kalluvilayil, Host, The AI Space Podcast explore the Future of AI in 2026 and how to accelerate AI start-up and VC Funding.
3 Key Insights
1. Key Trends in 2026: Vertical + Private + Physical AIFounders must shift from generic tools to specialized AI built on domain expertise, private data, and real-world robotics/computer vision.
2. Product-...
This conversation discusses the future of AI in recruiting and hiring and its impact on humanity. Can AI be used to improve the recruiting and hiring experience? Can AI teach humans to be more human in the process?The AI Space Podcast — S1 | E26
🎙️ Guest: Michael Kainatsky | Morpheus of Hiring | Alinea Sales Group
🎙️Host: Sanjay Kalluvilayil | Founder & CEO | Stonehaas AdvisorsKey Links: 🌐 https://theaispacepodcast.ai🌐 https:...
Victor Fang, Ph.D. of AnChain.AI explains to Sanjay Kalluvilayil of Stonehaas Advisors how this cybersecurity company fights financial crime, crypto scams, and money laundering with Blockchain & AI technologies.
This episode explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in the context of blockchain and crypto technology. This discussion highlights how AI-ML can be used to combat money laundering and...
Eric Siegel, Founder and CEO, of Gooder AI explains to Sanjay Kalluvilayil, Founder and CEO, of Stonehaas Advisors the difference between Predictive AI and Generative AI and how the two really need to work to solve one another's great limitations in a hybridized fashion. How we can start realizing at least a good portion of what's generally audacious promise of autonomy of generative AI with a new kind of reliability layer ...
In this episode, Jesse Anglen, Co-Founder and CEO, of Ruh.ai and Sanjay Kalluvilayil explore the future of work, human labor, and value creation in the Age of AI and AI Agents.Ruh.ai is an operating system for "digital labor" that leverages agentic AI to automate and augment business workflows. Ruh.ai is not just a chatbot—it is a scalable platform where users can build teams of intercommunicating AI agents for tasks like...
Human Neurons are 1M x Energy Efficient than Digital AI Processors | Dr. Ewelina Kurtys | FinalSpark
In the 22nd episode, Dr. Ewelina Kurtys, Strategic Advisor, FinalSpark @finalspark6341 explains why living human neurons are more energy efficient that existing digital chips for AI processing. She discusses her journey as a neuroscientist to an AI entrepreneur. Sanjay Kalluvilayil, Founder & CEO, Stonehaas Advisors explores the Dystopian and Utopian scenarios of this technology. FinalSpark has developed a Butterfly 'con...
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