About this podcast
Real conversations with the humans making AI work. Maryrose Lyons of AI Institute, speaks to AI directors, founders, and strategists who've moved beyond pilots to real transformation. From architecture studios to construction sites, AI is changing how we design, build, and manage the places we live and work. This is the podcast for built environment where you learn from the people who've done it, not just talked about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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- The Agent-to-Agent Future · 29 min · Season 9 Episode 1Raymond Pennie has a chief of staff. It is a bot, and it has eighteen more bots running underneath it. He founded Kyloe Partners, a long-standing Bullhorn partner, and he has…
- Stop Redacting. Switch to Claude Teams. · 16 min · Season 8 Episode 9If you are on Claude Pro and you have been stripping client details out of every document before you paste it, this one is for you. Emma Marlow and Beau Warren are both on the…
- They Hired you for your Taste · 33 min · Season 8 Episode 8Everyone hired you for your taste and experience. You just forgot that, and started believing the job was knowing the software. Kevin Surace holds 95 worldwide patents and built…
- No Company Has a Chief Time Officer · 32 min · Season 8 Episode 7Every company has a CFO. Almost none has anyone whose job is time. Dr Atif Ansar has spent fifteen years at Oxford measuring what happens to the world's biggest projects between…
- Your CIO Shouldn't Own AI · 20 min · Season 8 Episode 6Handing the AI programme to the CIO is the obvious move, and Stephen Redmond thinks it is the wrong one. AI is more than a technology rollout. It changes decision rights, it…
- Shadow AI and the fine for panicking · 34 min · Season 8 Episode 5What actually happens when your team uses AI to write a blog post, a tender or a report, and does the law now care? Alan Thornton, founder of the AI governance platform Tipcan…
- 80% of Engineering Work Is About to Change · 20 min · Season 8 Episode 4Andreessen Horowitz has a thesis that every building is still designed by software from the 1990s. Niklas Lindgren agrees, and he is building the company to change it. His claim…
- The self-parking car nobody uses · 26 min · Season 8 Episode 3Karen Lewis Enright is a change management professional with over 20 years of transformation experience across global organisations including Johnson & Johnson and Wipro. She…
- RICS Says AI Literacy Isn't Optional · 30 min · Season 8 Episode 2Most of the AI conversation is a numbers game: licences bought, people "using AI", whether the firm has a strategy yet. James Garner thinks that is the wrong number to watch. The…
- The Race To Super Intelligence Has Already Started · 31 min · Season 8 Episode 1Most of the AI conversation is fixated on AGI: when machines will match human intelligence, and which lab gets there first. Dr. Craig Kaplan thinks that is the wrong thing to…
- The Web Is Being Componentised · 24 min · Season 7 Episode 8In January 2026, Google was granted a patent that lets it read your website, break it into components, and serve searchers an AI-generated page assembled from your content…
- The AI Problem Isn't the Tech — It's the Adoption · 16 min · Season 7 Episode 7Simon Hodgkins has spent a career running global marketing — Sage, CMO Club president, and now Chief Marketing Officer at Vistatec, the Dublin firm helping iconic brands scale…
- Pints, Petrol and Prices · 23 min · Season 7 Episode 6The CSO stopped tracking the price of a pint of Guinness in Ireland in 2011. The last official figure was €3.93. Nobody picked it up again until Matt Cortland and John Fleming…
- Sean Blanchfield: Don't Let Your AI Go Rogue · 20 min · Season 7 Episode 5Sean Blanchfield, Co-Founder Jentic, joins Maryrose Lyons of the AI Institute for the second part of their conversation, this time diving deep into agentic AI, what it actually…
- Sean Blanchfield Says: Don't Get This Wrong · 12 min · Season 7 Episode 4Serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Jentic, Sean Blanchfield joins our host Maryrose Lyons for a conversation about Ireland's AI opportunity, and the risks of getting it wrong…
- The Death of the "Job Count" · 21 min · Season 7 Episode 3In this episode of Chatting GPT, Maryrose Lyons speaks with DC Cahalane, a venture partner at SureValley Ventures, about the evolving landscape of AI investment and its…
- Are we in a race to the bottom? Friction can help · 37 min · Season 7 Episode 2In this episode of Chatting GPT, host Maryrose Lyons of the AI Institute speaks with Dr. Lollie Mancey about the intersection of AI and anthropology, exploring how technology…
- Making Sense of the EU AI Act with Taylor Wessing's Jo Joyce · 31 min · Season 7 Episode 1Show Notes Summary: In this episode of Chatting GPT, Maryrose Lyons speaks with Jo Joyce, a partner at Taylor Wessing, about the intersection of AI, law, and regulation. They…
- How Sisk is Scaling AI · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 6AI Implementation in Construction: A Conversation with Charlie Corcoran of SISK In this episode of Chatting GPT, host Maryrose founder of the AI Institute, sits down with…
- REPLAY: From Moleskin to Machine - An Architect's Journey to Head of AI · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 5Breffni Greene spent 10 years as a practicing architect at Henry J Lyons before spotting ChatGPT on screens across the studio—line managers had no idea their teams were using it…
