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The episode discusses practical applications of AI and the dynamics of business partnerships.

Host: Jonathan Jay Format: Live panel Q&A — Riverside Studios, Hammersmith Guests: Seven Inner Circle members Overview Two big topics dominate this episode. First, the Inner Circle share exactly how they're deploying AI — not in theory, but in practice, right now. Then the conversation shifts to business partnerships: what makes them work, what makes them fail, and two cautionary tales from panellists who learned the hard way. AI in Practice The panel go well beyond buzzwords. One member is building private internal large language models to train salespeople rather than replace them — capturing every call to create an expert system. Another has automated six hours of compliance work per client into seconds: call recorded, transcript uploaded, CRM populated, recommendation letters generated, all without human input. A third used Claude to sift 200 job applications down to a ranked shortlist and hired the top candidate. Practical tools mentioned include Otter, Fireflies, and Crisp (for analysing discovery calls). The panel's warning: AI will tell you what you want to hear — always interrogate the output. Business Partnerships — the Honest Version The panel are candid…

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Host: Jonathan Jay

Guest: Seven Inner Circle members

Topics covered

• AI deployment
• business partnerships
• live panel Q&A
• compliance automation
• partnership failures

Keywords

• AI
• business partnerships
• compliance automation
• Inner Circle
• shareholders' agreement

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Otter, Fireflies, Crisp

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