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Leveraging AI

Dive into the world of artificial intelligence with ‘Leveraging AI,’ a podcast tailored for forward-thinking business professionals. Each episode brings insightful discussions on how AI can ethically transform business practices, offering practical solutions to day-to-day business challenges.
Join our host Isar Meitis (4 time CEO), and expert guests as they turn AI’s complexities into actionable insights, and explore its ethical implications in the business world. Whether you are an AI novice or a seasoned professional, ‘Leveraging AI’ equips you with the knowledge and tools to harness AI’s power responsibly and effectively. Tune in weekly for inspiring conversations and real-world applications. Subscribe now and unlock the potential of AI in your business.

Latest Episodes:

230 | Unlocking AI’s Full Potential with MCP Connectors (Without a Line of Code) with Matt Martin Oct 07, 2025

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If you're a business leader, your time is your most expensive resource—and most of us are wasting it. Meetings without agendas, triple bookings, and calendar chaos have become the norm.
In this episode, we explore how AI can reclaim your focus and give you back hours each week—without hiring a new assistant or revamping your tech stack.
Matt Martin, CEO and Co-Founder of Clockwise, joins the show to share exactly how his AI-powered tool and the growing world of MCP connectors can transform the way you manage time. Whether you're leading a startup, scaling a team, or running an enterprise, this is your playbook for making AI your scheduling superpower.
In this session, you'll discover:
00:00 – Introduction: Why time is your only non-renewable resource
04:13 – Claude + Google Calendar: How it actually works
07:45 – What is an MCP Connector? A game-changing AI plugin
12:00 – How to automate agenda creation with Claude
17:00 – Setting up and managing MCP tools in Claude and ChatGPT
24:00 – Live example: Finding time to meet with 3 people using AI
42:00 – Future of agents and automation in time management
Matt Martin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Clockwise https://www.linkedin.com/in/voxmatt/ work without burning out.

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229 | Insane week of AI releases 🤯 ChatGPT shopping, Sora-2, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and agentic browsers. The AI disruption might be slower than we thought. A new star AI actress is born, and many more important AI news for the week ending on October 3rd Oct 04, 2025

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Is the AI disruption overhyped or just getting started?

Yale says the labor market isn’t budging. Walmart is betting $1B that employee training is the missing piece. Meanwhile, Gen Z is pivoting to trades in an AI-fearing talent shift no one saw coming.

This week’s AI headlines tell a much deeper story than flashy product drops.
From ChatGPT turning into a shopping mall to Claude going full autonomous coder, and the rise of “work slop” at the office—every release points to a strategic fork in the road: consumerization vs. enterprise agents.

Your job as a business leader? Know which wave to ride—and when.
This episode delivers the insights to help you navigate the noise, avoid the hype, and see what’s really happening under the surface.

In this session, you'll discover:

Why Yale’s new research says there’s no labor disruption yet—and what that doesn’t mean
How Walmart’s $1B upskilling initiative reflects a bigger workforce gap than most execs are ready to admit
The quiet revolution: Claude 4.5 coding autonomously for 30 hours straight
OpenAI’s wild move into consumer land with Sora 2 + an invite-only social video feed
Why Instant Checkout turns ChatGPT into an e-commerce front-end (and how it could threaten Amazon)
The rise of “work slop”—and the reputational risk it brings to your team
Agentic browsers are here: Comet, Opera Neon, and more change how we interact with the web
AI in Hollywood: The synthetic actress already replacing human stars
And a shocking stat: 58% of employees are using AI tools with no training—and leaking sensitive data

Yale Budget Lab: Early Evidence of AI’s Labor Market Impacts -

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-labor-market-current-state-affairs

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Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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228 | Is UCG Dead? Learn How To Build a Video Content Machine - 88% Higher Conversions, 97% Lower Costs with Donny Dvorin of MakeUGC Sep 30, 2025

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What if you could replace a $500k content team with AI and generate 400+ UGC videos daily with 88% higher conversions?
We're going live with, Donny Dvorin, the CRO & Partnerships lead of MakeUGC.ai - the platform helping $10M+ DTC brands create scroll-stopping UGC in under 2 minutes. No creators, no editors, no delays.
This system is delivering:
- 88% higher conversion rates
- 6.2x more engagement
- 97% cheaper than traditional UGC
- 10M+ views in 7 days
You'll see the exact process behind AI avatars that actually hold your products and look so real they fool the untrained eye. We're talking live demos of turning product URLs into viral-ready ads, real campaign examples, and the framework thousands use to test creative variations daily.
This isn't theory - it's the system replacing entire content teams while competitors wait weeks for single deliverables.

Try MakeUGC - https://www.makeugc.ai/?ref=isar

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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227 | AI is now outperforming top human experts in coding & real-world tasks 🤯 Sam Altman's favorite ChatGPT feature just dropped, $100Bs pouring into AI infra, and the economy may never be the same — key AI news for the week ending on September 26, 2025 Sep 27, 2025

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Check the self-paced AI Business Transformation course - https://multiplai.ai/self-paced-online-course/
What happens when AI not only matches but beats the best human minds?
OpenAI and Google DeepMind just entered and won the "Olympics of coding", outperforming every top university team in the world… using off-the-shelf models. Now, combine that with agents, robotics, and a trillion-dollar infrastructure arms race, and business as we know it is about to change — fast.
In this Weekend News episode of Leveraging AI, Isar Meitis breaks down the real-world implications of AI’s explosive progress on your workforce, your bottom line, and your industry’s future.
Whether you’re leading digital transformation or trying to stay ahead of disruption, this episode delivers the insights you need — minus the fluff.
In this session, you'll discover:
01:12 – AI beats elite humans at coding using public models
05:15 – OpenAI’s GDP-VAL study: AI outperforms humans in 40–49% of real-world jobs
12:56 – KPMG report: 42% of enterprises already deploy AI agents
18:02 – Allianz warns: 15–20% of companies could vanish without AI adaptation
29:22 – OpenAI + Nvidia announce $100B+ infrastructure build
33:30 – Deutsche Bank: AI spending may be masking a U.S. recession
43:15 – Sam Altman introduces “Pulse”: ChatGPT gets proactive
and more!

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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226 | How to use AI for the most important factor today - learning new knowledge and skills faster and more effectively Sep 23, 2025

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Are you still treating AI like a glorified spell-checker?

If so, you're missing out on at least 90% of its power and that power can save your team hours, boost productivity, and give your business a serious edge.

In this solo masterclass, host Isar Meitis walks through the real-world, tactical ways you should be using AI, especially ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to automate complex workflows, enhance proposal writing, improve learning, and cut down time spent on repetitive tasks.

From uploading documents the right way to building custom GPTs that can practically write your RFPs for you, this episode is packed with actionable techniques that most professionals have no idea exist — and it's all tailored for business use.

In this session, you’ll discover:

The 4-part prompt framework that stops hallucinations and delivers reliable citations
How to build and share a prompt library for your team’s efficiency
The secrets of NotebookLM, Study Mode, and Custom GPTs for business use
Real examples of interactive AI tools that go beyond text — from simulations to training games

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
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225 | Agents are trained in “AI gyms” so they can take your job, How people are using ChatGPT and Claude, Why LLMs hallucinate, and more important Ai news for the week ending September 19, 2025 Sep 20, 2025

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Is AI really ready to revolutionize the workplace—or are we all just beta testers with fancy job titles?
In this episode of The Leveraging AI Podcast, Isar Meitis dives into the latest reports, product launches, and behind-the-scenes drama shaping the future of artificial intelligence. From jaw-dropping usage stats from OpenAI and Anthropic, to Microsoft’s digital agents with KPIs, to the billion-dollar race to build gym-trained AI employees—this is the stuff the headlines aren’t telling you.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- How 700M people are using ChatGPT every week (and why 73% of it isn't even for work)
- Why Claude is powering a silent automation revolution (77% of its tasks are full-blown process automation)
- Why most employees are *still* barely scratching the surface of AI at work
- The alarming global divide in AI adoption (Spoiler: Israel and Singapore are leading by miles)
- OpenAI’s shocking take on hallucinations—and why your AI might be confidently wrong, often
- Why Salesforce’s AI agent rollout is a cautionary tale in overhype and underdelivery
- Microsoft + Workday’s plan to treat AI agents like actual employees (KPIs and all)
- Meta’s AR glasses and the “Zoom avatar” future that’s either cool or creepy
* 🛒 Why OpenAI wants ChatGPT to start shopping for you (and why that’s a data privacy nightmare)
- The billion-dollar training gyms building AI agents to take over real-world business tasks
- The inevitable tension between faster, cheaper, and... accurate AI
- What business leaders need to *urgently* understand about reinforcement learning and economic displacement
📘 OpenAI: Real-World Usage of ChatGPT
🔗 Economic Research: ChatGPT Usage - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f142e/economic-research-chatgpt-usage-paper.pdf
📘 Anthropic: Claude Usage & AI in the Economy
🔗 Anthropic Economic Index – September 2025 - https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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224 | One AI to Rule Them All? I Tested Gemini vs. ChatGPT Across Real Business Use Cases Sep 16, 2025

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Can your AI tool actually do what it promises or is it just fancy fluff?
When it comes to running your business, choosing the right AI platform isn't just about features—it's about real-world performance under pressure. In this episode, I share my experience which AI platform is actually better for things like custom workflows, client-specific automation, data dashboards, deep research, or image generation, this episode is your ultimate field guide.
In this session, you'll discover:
- Why ChatGPT crushed Gemini in memory, personalization, and multi-step automations
- How Gemini unexpectedly won in dashboard building and deep market research
- Real use cases comparing Gems vs. Custom GPTs and the key limitation that still plagues Gemini
- A real-world test of building data-rich dashboards in Gemini vs. ChatGPT (with shocking results)
- How both tools struggled to pull business travel info across emails, proposals, and calendars and why that matters
- A step-by-step visual branding test using AI image generation and who came out on top
- The one killer feature ChatGPT offers that Gemini just doesn’t match (yet)
💼 Want to work smarter with AI? Follow Isar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

223 | Money flood - insane revenue and valuation growth, AI impacting every industry, Open AI and Microsoft deal, new time compute records are changing the game, the first AI government member, and more important AI news for the week ending on Sept 12, 25 Sep 13, 2025

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Money flood - insane revenue and valuation growth, AI impacting every industry, Open AI and Microsoft deal, new time compute records are changing the game, the first AI government member, and more important AI news for the week ending on September 12 2025
Is AI on the verge of world domination… or an economic meltdown?
This week’s AI headlines weren’t about shiny new model releases and that’s a good thing. It gave us time to zoom out and examine the billion-dollar chess game shaping our future.
From OpenAI’s $115B spend-fest to the first AI government cabinet member, and from Replit’s code-writing agents to copyright lawsuits with a twist — this episode is a crash course in just how *wild* and *wide* AI's reach has become.
Here’s your witty but grounded executive summary of the week’s most impactful AI news — handpicked and broken down by your host, Isar Meitis, with direct implications for how business leaders should think, adapt, and move.
In this session, you’ll discover:
- OpenAI’s capital-intensive moonshot and why it may still not be profitable in 2030
- Microsoft’s unexpected pivot: From exclusive OpenAI integration to paying AWS for Claude
- The first AI cabinet member in Albania here’s why it might be brilliant (or backfire)
- AI-made movies & TV are no longer a fantasy, OpenAI is backing a full-length feature
- Funding frenzy decoded: Databricks, Replit, Perplexity, and others are raising billions
- "Thinking" AI that works for hours: How new models are pushing past past limitations
- 5,000 AI podcasts a week for \$1 each?! The scary-fascinating rise of mass-produced audio
- FTC probes AI’s influence on kids and what it means for regulation & trust
- AI-powered AR glasses from Amazon — coming to delivery drivers and consumers near you
- Duke gives GPT-4o to all students what this means for the future of higher education
- Why Apple is strangely silent on AI this year, and what it could cost them
Google Cloud AI Agent Handbook (PDF) - https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/ai_agents_handbook.pdf

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Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
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222 | Scrape, Analyze, Generate: Build Scalable Content Systems That Works with Nadia Privalikhina Sep 09, 2025

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What if you could reverse engineer viral content and use AI to build your own content machine without writing a single line of code?
In this session, we go beyond theory and into execution. Step by step, you'll learn how to scrape top-performing YouTube content, analyze it using Gemini and ChatGPT, extract what works, and generate AI prompts that produce high-performing visuals and copy. All built with accessible tools like Make, Airtable, and ChatGPT API.
Our guest, Nadia Privalikhina, is not just a power user, she’s a systems thinker with a bias for action. With experience leading innovation and AI at scale, she's now building cutting-edge automation systems that blend marketing intuition with serious technical chops. Her content regularly turns heads and clicks on LinkedIn. This is your chance to see exactly how she does it.
Expect live demos. Real prompts. Actual outputs. And the exact workflow behind a system that can transform how your business creates content.

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
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221 | OpenAI’s 10M-American jobs push + leader playbook, Google’s antitrust ruling, Salesforce AI vision vs. reality with 44% cuts, Apple’s Siri slips to 2026, and more AI news for the week ending on September 5, 2025 Sep 06, 2025

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Check the self-paced AI Business Transformation course - https://multiplai.ai/self-paced-online-course/

Are you ready for a future where AI decides who gets hired and who gets replaced?

This week's news drop brought no major model releases… but that quiet was deceptive. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Salesforce unleashed a wave of updates that will reshape how companies train, hire, and operate with AI at the core.

From OpenAI’s pledge to certify 10 million Americans in AI fluency, to Walmart and Microsoft arming their workforces with AI education, to Salesforce quietly replacing thousands of workers with AI agents—this episode delivers the full picture, not just the PR.

In this session, you'll discover:

What OpenAI’s new AI job platform means for future hiring and retention
Why Walmart is going all-in on AI workforce training (and what that means for your org)
The real story behind Salesforce cutting 44% of its support team
Microsoft’s bold AI education push and how it aligns with White House initiatives
OpenAI’s 5-part playbook for C-suite leaders to implement AI responsibly and effectively
Why AI literacy is quickly becoming a non-negotiable skill for hiring and promotions
A peek inside the Google antitrust ruling and how it doesn’t actually change the game
The ethics (and risks) of emotional AI and the lawsuits piling up
The rise of AI agents in business, customer support, and even sales
New hardware and AI-powered devices that are changing how we learn, listen, and live

🔗 Staying Ahead in the Age of AI (OpenAI PDF Guide) - https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/ae250928-4029-4f26-9e23-afac1fcee14c/staying-ahead-in-the-age-of-ai.pdf

About Leveraging AI

Multi-Agent Orchestration Course: https://multiplai.ai/multi-agent-orchestration-course/
YouTube Full Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Multiplai_AI/
Connect with Isar Meitis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isarmeitis/
Join our Live Sessions, AI Hangouts and newsletter: https://services.multiplai.ai/events

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