The AI Space Podcast
Welcome to The AI Space Podcast with Sanjay Kalluvilayil! Winner of Two Telly Awards 2026! 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
Decoding the real risks and ROI of enterprise AI: Russ Fradin, Founder and CEO of Larridin, and Michael Levine, insurance coverage attorney at Hunton Andrews Kurth, join host Sanjay Kalluvilayil to show why most companies cannot prove AI ROI, and why their insurance may not cover AI liability when something goes wrong. They unpack D&O insurance, AI washing lawsuits, AI exclusions, and token spend versus headcount. Winner of 2 T...
Streamline and scale operations with AI, not inefficiency and slop. AI agents do not fix a broken process, they just make the slop go faster. Map the customer journey and fix the process first.
💠 Key Insights1. Why Map the Customer Journey Before You Deploy AI?
AI deployed without a mapped customer experience leaves customers stuck in loops yelling "representative!" Map the journey first .
2. Why Does AI Make Inefficiency Worse?
AI ...
Dashboards are dead, and your AI tech stack is not your moat. If nobody pays for what you built on a repeated basis, you have a science fair project, not a company.In this Creator's Cut of The AI Space Podcast, recorded live at the Founders and Builders Forum in Dallas, TX, host Sanjay Kalluvilayil explores how a panel of CIOs and CTOs actually stack AI in 2026: multi-model APIs, Claude Code, autonomous agents like OpenClaw, and th...
In this Creator's Cut of the Live Edition of The AI Space Podcast, recorded at the Founders & Builders Forum in Dallas, TX, host Sanjay Kalluvilayil moderates "Sales & Marketing: Lead Gen to Loyalty," a panel of founders and builders rewriting the sales and marketing playbook for the AI era, across marketing, agentic AI, CRM operations, and fractional sales leadership. No hype, just real founders and builders sharing action...
In this episode, the Creator & Host, Sanjay Kalluvilayil, sits down with Aytekin Tank, Founder and CEO of Jotform, to explore how this Founder is transitioning this 20 year old company into the age of AI agents. Jotform now handles 80 percent of customer support with AI without laying off a single employee. Aytekin is the author of "Automate Your Busywork: Do Less, Achieve More, and Save Your Brain for the Big Stuff" and he als...
In this Creator's Cut of the Live Edition of The AI Space Podcast. host, Sanjay Kalluvilayi,l moderates a panel of women leaders building at the frontier of AI across motorsports, tech staffing, AI Design Studios, and MedTech. Winner of Two Telly Awards 2026! - Human First!, AI Native. 💠 Key Insights1. Why "Fits the Workflow" Beats "Best Model"2. Why Your Own Voice Is the Moat AI Cannot Copy3. Why Process, Not Talent, Is What Actu...
In this episode, the Host, Sanjay Kalluvilayil, sits down with Sandeep Kondury, Founder and CEO of feat., to explore why the marketing world is broken, how AI is rewriting the rules of distribution, and why "featured marketing" is replacing SEO as the new growth playbook for founders and creators. 💠 Key Insights1. Why Featured Marketing Is Replacing SEO in the AI Era2. Why You Now Market to Two Layers: Humans First, AI Always3. Wh...
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 2026....
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, ingesting, e...
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 "high-tou...
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 s...
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.
She also...
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.
He also discusses ho...
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