AI to ROI
by Ray Rike
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About this podcast
AI to ROI is a podcast that shares how enterprises translate AI investments into measurable business value. Hosted by Ray Rike, Founder and CEO of Benchmarkit, the show features senior enterprise leaders and AI software executives who share how AI initiatives move from pilots to production, and how ROI is actually measured and achieved. In addition, each week, we publish a bonus episode with AI to ROI Newsletter co-author, Peter Buchanan to discuss the Big Story of the Week.
The AI to ROI podcast is the evolution of the original "Metrics to Measure Up" podcast.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 272 episodes
- AI & Organization Design - a Return on Intelligence Conversation with Brian Solis, Head of Innovation ServiceNow · 32 minBrian Solis, Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow, joins Ray Rike to explain why AI strategy is an organizational design challenge, not simply a technology deployment.
- The Quest to Create an Auditable, Trackable, and Accurate AI Budget · 36 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan look at why 98% of companies track AI spend but only 11% can forecast it within 10%, and lay out a six-step framework CFOs can use to build an…
- Morally Binding AI Governance Isn’t Legally Binding AI Regulation: AI Safety, Muse, and Data Center Financing · 37 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan break down the White House AI safety pact, OpenAI’s ongoing safety and disclosure issues, Meta’s Muse for Small Business, and growing risk in AI data…
- Rogue Agents Are the Big New AI Risk · 30 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan break down how frontier models from three major labs hacked real companies during safety testing, and lay out the vendor questions, contract terms…
- The CEO and Employee Role in Delivering AI ROI - with Jeff McMillan, CEO of McMillan AI & Former Head of AI, Morgan Stanley · 33 minJeff McMillan, former Head of AI at Morgan Stanley, explains how benchmarking current state processes, redeploying the capacity AI creates, and giving the CFO ownership of the…
- AI Pacing Is So Yesterday: We Need to Treat AI as Critical U.S. Infrastructure · 37 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan argue that voluntary "pacing" by the frontier AI labs protects the labs more than anyone else, and make the case for designating frontier AI as U.S…
- Six Challenges to Scaling Agentic AI in the Enterprise · 39 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan break down the six challenges keeping 95% of enterprise agentic AI initiatives from delivering production ROI, and what Amazon, FedEx, Cisco, and…
- Building an AI-First organization with Francis Brero, VP AI and Strategy HG Insights · 34 minFrancis Brero, VP of AI at HG Insights explains how designing for agent consumers, decomposing work by outsourced task value, and centralizing accountability for leading…
- Where Are the Killer AI-Native Application Companies? · 36 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan examine why AI native application companies are losing the narrative to model companies and incumbents, what three front competitive pressure is doing…
- Why every AI conversation should be an ROI conversation - with Ketan Karkhanis, CEO ThoughtSpot · 32 minKetan Karkhanis, CEO of ThoughtSpot, joins Ray Rike to make the case that enterprise AI value starts with the KPI you intend to move, not the model you intend to deploy, and that…
- The OpenAI vs Anthropic Battle for the Enterprise · 38 minAnthropic passed OpenAI on quarterly revenue and posted its first operating profit, but Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan make the case that the enterprise AI winner will be decided by…
- Enterprises Can See Their AI Bill, But They Can't Predict It · 37 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan break down a new 396-company research report showing why enterprises can see their AI bill but still can't predict it, and what CFOs, CIOs, and…
- Stripe and OpenRouter Combination Wants to be #1 in Routing your AI Workloads · 35 minRay Rike and Peter Buchanan unpack Stripe's $7.5 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, a 6x markup in 85 days, and what it signals about model routing becoming the control point for…
- AI Cost Governance to AI Cost Optimization with Sundeep Goel, CEO, Mavvrik · 32 minMavvrik CEO Sundeep Goel and Ray Rike unpack why AI cost forecasting is getting worse even as spend accelerates, and what it will take for finance and technology teams to govern…
- Microsoft is Running an AI Marathon · 26 minMicrosoft added $450 billion in market capitalization in a single day, the largest one day gain in stock market history, and Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan break down the price…
- Can U.S. Frontier AI Labs Survive a Price War with Open-Weight Models? · 32 minKimi K3 set off an investor panic that Chinese open-weight models had caught the American frontier labs on price, and Ray and Peter walk through the business math showing why a…
- Will the AI Data Center Backlash Really Make a Difference? · 34 minLocal opposition has blocked or delayed up to $170 billion in US data center projects, Ray and Peter unpack why that friction now shows up as a financing variable, a schedule…
- Web Presence Intelligence with Stephan Bajaio, Co-Founder & CEO, VibeLogic · 35 minStephan Bajaio, co-founder and CEO of VibeLogic and co-founder of Conductor, makes the case that most companies are budgeting for AI visibility before they have established a…
- Forward-Deployed Engineers (FDEs) - AI's New ROI Battleground · 37 minFive AI labs and hyperscalers are pouring more than $10 billion into forward deployed engineer ventures to fix the enterprise AI ROI gap, and Ray and Peter break down who is best…
- Chinese Open Weight Models Overtake US Frontier AI: What Every Enterprise Executive Needs to Know · 36 minChinese open weight models now command up to 61 percent of top tier AI token traffic, and Ray Rike and Peter Buchanan break down the pricing math, security fallout, and three…
