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From Tools to Transformation: How a CPA Rebuilt His Practice with AIMost conversations about AI in professional services stay at the surface. Peter McCarroll goes deeper. As a practicing CA and CPA running Fuel Accountants, Peter spent two years deploying AI across real client workflows before building The AI Accountant — the only training and implementation platform built exclusively for CAS…

From Crisis to Comeback: The Fixer Who Became the Patient Some guests on the Localization Fireside Chat sit a little apart from the regular catalog. Trè Anne Bartlett is one of them. She spent years as the expert. Clinical social worker, crisis interventionist, the person other people called when their own systems were collapsing. Then her own system collapsed. When the Expert Becomes the…

I want to be honest with you. When I booked this conversation, I thought it was going to be a health tech episode. A founder story. Interesting, but niche. I was wrong. What Kirsten Karchmer delivered in this conversation is one of the most important wake-up calls we have had on this channel in 224 episodes. And I say that having recorded five episodes on the same day this one went down. Let me…

Will CLIA Dissolve or Evolve? The 24-Year Story of Canada’s Language Industry Association Nobody builds an association expecting it to last 24 years on pure volunteer power. No salaries. No government safety net. Just a group of language industry professionals who believed the industry needed a unified voice badly enough to give up their evenings, their weekends, and in some cases their own money…

Most people who use Google Translate have never thought about what it took to build it. Macduff Hughes spent 12 years thinking about almost nothing else. In Episode 223 of the Localization Fireside Chat, I sat down with Macduff Hughes, former Director of Engineering at Google Translate, to talk about one of the most consequential journeys in the history of language technology. Macduff joined the…

AI is moving fast. Leaders are not. That was the subject line in the email that landed in my inbox from today’s guest — and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.In Episode 222 of the Localization Fireside Chat, I sat down with Dr. Kelly Monahan, co-author of the national bestseller Essential (Wiley, 2025), founder of Beyond the Desk, and one of the most serious researchers working…

Why Your AI Tools Keep Failing — And the Fix Is Simpler Than You Think Most business owners who invest in AI tools do not see the results they expected. It is not because the tools are bad. It is because the tools are sitting on top of broken processes — and no AI can fix a process it has not been asked to understand. That is the core argument Marvin Martinez brings to Episode 221 of the…

AI in Sales: Why You’re Measuring the Wrong Things | Jack Siney | Ep. 221 Leadership, Podcast, Personal Development AI in sales, sales leadership, revenue operations, FrontRace, Jack Siney, CRM data, data normalization, sales KPIs, AI ROI, sales forecasting, pipeline management, sales team performance, AI implementation, GTM strategy, sales productivity, process documentation, AI tools 2026,…

Building the Infrastructure for ASI | Ganesh Krishnan | Ep. 219 What does it actually take to build AI that never hallucinates? In Episode 219 of the Localization Fireside Chat, Robin Ayoub sits down with Ganesh Krishnan, Founder of AiHello.com and HalZero.ai, for a conversation that goes far beyond the usual AI hype. Ganesh is building something most founders are not even thinking about yet: the…

He Ran City IT. Now He Builds the Software That Runs Cities.Most software vendors who sell to government have never worked inside government. They pitch their solutions from the outside looking in, without ever having sat in front of an elected board fighting for a project budget, or answered a call from a frustrated constituent, or been stopped at a grocery store by someone who recognized them…

The Future of Business Is Localization. Why AI Alone Won’t Save Your Global Content.The localization industry has been through disruption before. Dial-up became broadband. Box software became cloud. Every time, the incumbents who moved strategically survived and the ones who panicked or ignored it did not. AI hitting localization right now is the same gear change, same stakes, same window of…

Your AI Pilot Worked. Now What? Why Enterprise AI Dies Before ProductionMost organizations have done an AI pilot. Many have done ten. And yet remarkably few have something running in production that actually changes how work gets done. That gap between what AI can do and what it actually does inside a real organization is one of the defining challenges in enterprise right now.In Episode 216 of…

AI Won’t Rank You. It Will Retrieve You. Or Ignore You.What if everything you know about SEO is already obsolete? Not dying, not declining, but fundamentally transformed into something most marketers have not caught up with yet? That is the opening premise of this conversation with Gaetano Romeo, Head of Global Digital Marketing at EasyVista and OTRS Group, and one of the most forward-thinking…

Why 85% of Your Customers Won’t Buy From Your WebsiteOver 50% of online content is in English, yet only about 20% of the world actually speaks it. That gap is not just a linguistic curiosity. It is a revenue problem that most businesses are choosing to ignore. In Episode 214 of the Localization Fireside Chat, Robin Ayoub sits down with Christina Spaulding, founder of Manzanita Marketing in Las…

The Pitch Deck Is Dead. An 18-Year-Old Has the Proof.What does it take to reimagine one of the most gatekept systems in the world? If you ask Elie Bouzaglou, the answer is a rejection letter, an Instagram video, and the audacity to build the alternative yourself. At 18 years old, Elie left school, scaled an AI-powered web agency, got shut out by every crowdfunding platform he approached, and…

81% of Buyers Already Chose Before Your First CallWhat if the most powerful salesperson in your company is not on your payroll? What if they are already a customer?That is the premise behind SlashExperts, the peer conversation platform built by Braydan Young, co-founder of Sendoso, the corporate gifting company that raised over $152 million, scaled to 20,000 customers, and became a…

Your Cloud Vendor Might Be Your Biggest Risk — Murphy John, StorX Network What if the biggest threat to your business data is not a hacker breaking in from the outside, but the vendor you are already paying to hold it? That is the question Murphy John, Chief Growth Officer at StorX Network, puts on the table — and it is not a hypothetical. With over 20 years at the intersection of enterprise IT…