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Chris Luecke interviews Angelo Stracquatanio about purpose-built AI for manufacturing and its impact on workflows.

General-purpose AI can answer almost anything, but that flexibility becomes a liability on the factory floor. In this bonus episode, Chris sits down with Angelo Stracquatanio, CEO of Apprentice, a purpose-built AI company for manufacturers and the creator of A1: The AI Agent for Manufacturing Teams. Angelo has spent 12 years building software for the people on the shop floor, starting in the pharma manufacturing suites where a 200-page paper binder sparked the idea for the company. The conversation covers the origin story of Apprentice, the ‘Predict and Prepare’ framework behind its biggest pivots (including the COVID response that helped produce 300 million vaccine doses), and what it looks like to become AI-native as a business. Angelo also tells the story behind A1, the AI Agent for Manufacturing Teams. This episode's for any manufacturer trying to separate AI hype from AI that can be trusted in production. In this episode, find out: Why Angelo named the company ‘Apprentice’ 12 years ago and why the meaning has only become more relevant in the AI era How the product evolved from AR headsets and Google Glass into a full ISA 95 manufacturing stack Why stacking AI inside a single…

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