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Product Impact Podcast | Secrets to unlocking the value of AI

Product Impact Podcast | Secrets to unlocking the value of AI

Presented by PH1 68 Episodes Jun 25, 2026

No-nonsense advice and strategies from AI product leaders, designers, and researchers. Learn how to overcome adoption barriers and scale impact across teams and customer bases. The audience learns powerful insights that shift how they think about and leverage AI. At the core is improving the UX of using AI and enhancing the quality and consistency of products.

Episodes

15. Playbook for Increasing AI Adoption & Value Creation Jun 25, 2026 00:26:26 Four data reports from 2026 tell a consistent story, and none of it matches the adoption narrative. Writer surveyed 2,400 global workers and C-suite leaders: 97% of executives deployed AI agents in the past twelve months, 29% reported significant ROI. Glean's Work AI Index found a name for what most knowledge workers are actually experiencing: botsitting — spending more time supervising and correc
14: AI Adoption is the Problem Everyone is Desperate to Solve — Dr. Molly Sands, Atlassian Jun 16, 2026 00:31:39 Six months of research into the world's leading AI-powered organizations reveals a consistent split: a handful of people are seeing 10x or 20x gains, most are seeing some movement, and a significant portion of the workforce is drowning in forced change — trying to keep up with tools and mandates while watching colleagues get laid off. The organizations pulling ahead aren't pushing harder.
13. Why Managing AI Agents Is More Like Supervising Labor Than Using a Tool [Jonathan Su, Procurify] Jun 8, 2026 00:30:09 Managing an AI agent isn't using a tool — it's supervising labor. Most companies skipped that step. In Procurify's recent survey of finance leaders, 35% said trust — not model capability — is the single biggest factor in whether their organization can actually deploy agents. The teams already shipping report 63% ROI from time savings and 60% from improved data accuracy, but only after they did the
12. How Atlassian's Chief Design Officer Builds for Agents May 28, 2026 00:32:34 Every 1% increase in the context your agents receive produces a 0.38% improvement in output quality. LangChain's State of AI Agents 2026 report makes that measurable — and it makes interface design the highest-leverage investment most product teams aren't treating it as. At Atlassian Team '26 in Anaheim last week, Chief Design Officer Charlie made the case: the interface is what determines how con
11. Context Graphs Will Reshape How We Work [Jamil Valliani - VP AI, Atlassian] May 20, 2026 00:29:08 The fastest teams didn't switch to a better AI model. They gave their AI memory. At Atlassian Team 2026 they showed us the next evolution of AI capabilities: 150 billion connected objects across an organization, an agent reviewing 2 billion lines of code in 2 minutes, and 44% better answers using half the tokens. Inside teams, the change is concrete: a junior analyst gets years of knowledge in
10. Why Most AI Customer Experiences Fall Flat [Rikki Singh, Twilio] May 11, 2026 00:45:17 Most enterprise AI investments in customer experience are stuck somewhere between a demo and a disappointment. The Qualtrics 2026 Customer Experience Trends Report found that nearly one in five consumers who used AI customer service saw zero benefit from the interaction. The bar for what enterprises are calling AI innovation is shockingly low, and customers feel it every time they're routed to
9. Shipping AI Fast Without Breaking Everything [John Willis, 6x author] Apr 30, 2026 00:48:25 Most companies are running AI in production right now without any plan to govern and secure their businesses. This week Claude Code wiped out a business' entire database in 9 seconds. Anything is possible when an agent is given access to everything without governance. John Willis co-wrote The DevOps Handbook a decade ago because software teams were shipping code the same way — fast, manual, no vis
8. The Most Important Data Points in AI Right Now Apr 24, 2026 00:18:15 Stanford's 2026 AI Index just dropped. China closed a thirty-point AI performance gap to under three percent — on twenty-three times less investment. Apple picked their head of hardware as the next CEO. Anthropic's Mythos model found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox. And Vercel and Lovable both got breached this month.We break down the numbers that should be on every product leader,
7: $490 Billion in AI Spend Is Delivering Nothing — Orchestration Is the Fix Apr 17, 2026 00:29:21 A small cohort of engineers — Andrej Karpathy, Mitchell Hashimoto, Simon Willison — are producing in a week what used to take a month. Meanwhile, seventy-eight percent of enterprise AI deployments show no bottom-line impact. Ninety-five percent of pilots fail within six months. The gap between the people getting extraordinary results and the organizations getting nothing is not talent. It's ar
6. Robert Brunner Was the Secret to Beats' & Apple's Success — Now He's Redefining AI for the Physical World Apr 9, 2026 00:44:41 The Apple Industrial Design Group. The original PowerBook. Beats by Dre. The June Oven. The Polaroid Cube. Square Stand. Lyft Amp. One designer is behind all of them. Now Robert Brunner is turning his attention to something the entire AI industry is getting wrong: how intelligence should actually feel in the physical world.In this episode of the Product Impact Podcast, Robert Brunner — founder of
5. The Human Impact of AI We Need to Measure [Helen & Dave Edwards] Mar 30, 2026 00:57:24 We have benchmarks for model performance, metrics for productivity, and KPIs for everything the economy can quantify. But the impact of AI on how we think, who we become, and what we lose in the process? Nobody's measuring that — because nobody knows how.Helen and Dave Edwards have spent a decade studying what AI does TO humans, not just what it can do for us. In this episode, they challenge t
4. The AI Agent Era Will Change How We Work Mar 19, 2026 00:46:56 AI went from chatbots to assistants to agents in three years — and each era moved the failure one layer deeper. First we got wrong answers, then wrong context, now wrong actions. The tools are moving at an extraordinary pace, and almost nobody is keeping up.In this episode of the Product Impact Podcast we tackle The Agents Era Will Change How We Work:* Why vibe coding was the proof of concept for

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