The Human Touch on AI: Diagnosing Company Health with Polly Watt

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we meet Polly Watt, the founder of WattNext. Polly shares her journey from a long career in Learning & Development to launching a cutting-edge consultancy that uses AI to diagnose organizational health. She explains how her proprietary tool, Vivo Pulse, conducts confidential, agentic AI-powered interviews to identify alignment issues, hidden heroes, and systemic blockers within a company's structure, delivering actionable insights in just 2-3 weeks instead of the traditional 9 months.Polly delves into the practical applications of her technology, from serving HR departments and consultants to unexpected use cases in mergers & acquisitions and exit planning. She discusses the challenges of bootstrapping a deep-tech startup, her strategy for niching down to achieve scalable growth, and her vision of building a massive dataset that could change organizational development forever, all while maintaining a deeply human-centric approach to artificial intelligence.