ZERO SHOT - AI & Business. Anti-Hype.
by Glass Box
ZERO SHOT gives leaders clarity on AI without the hype. Hosts James (The Technical Realist) and Llew (The Boardroom Proxy) unpack what truly matters at the intersection of AI, business and strategy in Australia. From sovereign capability to agentic workflows, we break down the decisions shaping the country’s technological future and why they matter for Boards and executives. No noise, no jargon, just grounded insight. James: Chief AI Officer at Cadent | AI Governance & Strategy Executive (Ethical AI)Llew: Managing Director at Advancer | AI Strategy & DigitalProduced by Yennia La Rotta.
Episodes
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EP 41: AI & Junior Jobs | How Is AI Rewriting the Career Ladder?
What happens to the career ladder when AI starts doing the work people used to learn from? AI is increasingly handling research, first drafts, analysis, reporting and other tasks traditionally given to junior employees. In Episode 41, James Gauci and...
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EP 40: AI Strategy - Where AI Actually Fits with Jeroen De Flander
You don’t need an AI strategy. You need a business strategy that knows where AI actually fits. In Episode 40 of Zero Shot, James Gauci and Llew Jury are joined by global strategy and execution expert Jeroen De Flander to explore how leaders...
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EP 39: Shadow AI | Your Team Is Using AI You Can’t See. Should You Stop Them?
What happens when your team is already using AI you cannot see? Shadow AI is spreading faster than many organisations realise. Employees are using personal ChatGPT accounts, free AI tools, meeting assistants and other platforms to work faster and produce better results, often before company...
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EP 38: AI Consulting | How Do You Spot the Real Experts?
Shape the show There are more AI consultants on LinkedIn right now than there are businesses that have actually put an agent into production. So how do you tell the real ones apart? In Episode 38 of Zero Shot , James Gauci…
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EP 37: AI Sovereignty | Are You Locked In and Don’t Know It?
Shape the showTwo businesses run the exact same AI with the exact same results. The difference only shows up the day one of them tries to leave. Which one are you? In Episode 37 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and...
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EP 36: AI vs Brokers - What Still Makes a Middleman Worth Choosing?
Shape the showWhen AI can search, compare, and negotiate for you, which of the businesses built to do that for you still deserve to exist? In Episode 36 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury turn...
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EP35: What Happens When AI Becomes the Customer?
Shape the show For decades you competed for human attention. So what happens when an AI is the one searching, comparing, and choosing on your customer's behalf? In Episode 35 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and...
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EP 34: The SaaSpocalypse - What Happens When AI Becomes the User?
For twenty years, being good at your job meant learning how to navigate software. So what happens when AI is the one clicking the buttons? In Episode 34 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury unpack one of…
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EP 33 Data First - Is Your Business Actually AI-Ready?
What if the biggest obstacle to AI isn’t the model, but the data underneath it? In Episode 33 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury go beneath the AI interface to explore the data foundations that determine...
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EP 32: Is AI Making Us Smarter or More Dependent? | Human Agency, Trust & AI
What happens when AI gives us more capability, but less human agency? Recorded live from the Green Room at Something Digital in Brisbane, James Gauci and Llew Jury explore three growing tensions in AI and business: automation versus human agency, bigger systems versus fragile trust, and greater...
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EP 31: AI Anxiety at Work: Will AI Take Your Job? What Leaders Need to Know
Standing with ColombiaWhat happens when AI uncertainty becomes a business risk? In Episode 31 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury discuss how AI anxiety is becoming part of the conversation around AI…
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EP 30: AI as a Decision Partner - Sharpen Your Judgment, Don’t Outsource It
Every business is thousands of decisions stacked on top of each other. So what actually changes when AI pulls up a seat at the table? In Episode 30 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury move past productivity and…
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EP 29: AI Agents for Business - What They Are and When to Deploy One
You have probably nodded along in a meeting about autonomous AI agents without being totally sure what one actually is. You are not alone. In Episode 29 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury cut through the most…
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EP 28: Mid-Year AI Tier List 2026 - Who’s Winning, Who’s Falling Behind?
Six months ago the AI leaderboard looked completely different. So who climbed, who slipped, and who fell off the board entirely? In Episode 28 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury rebuild their AI tier list from…
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EP 27: Inside Fable 5 - How to Actually Use the Most Powerful AI Model Yet
Most people with access to the most powerful AI model available are using it at about two percent of what it can do. What would you do with the rest? In Episode 27 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury demystify Fable 5,...
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EP 26: Prompt Engineering - How to Actually Prompt AI and Stop Getting Average Answers
Why does AI give some people sharp, useful output and everyone else a generic, average answer? In Episode 26 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury go deep on prompt engineering, the skill that separates people getting…
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EP 25: What AI Should Actually Be Doing in Your Business
How do you tell the difference between a task worth handing to AI and one that should stay human? In Episode 25 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury tackle the decision most businesses get wrong: choosing what to actually…
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EP 24: Process Automation with AI Agents - How to Think Before You Build
What actually changed between the automations businesses built ten years ago and the AI agents being built today? In Episode 24 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury go back to first principles on process automation. They trace…
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EP 23: Beyond Automation: AI and the Future of Creative Work with Ben Cooper, R/GA
What if the way most people are using AI is actually the lowest value thing it can do? In Episode 23 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury sit down with their second-ever guest, Ben Cooper, Global Executive Director of AI Products at...
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EP 22: Frameworks for Using AI Right - The Questions to Ask Before You Start
What are the questions worth asking before you trust AI with anything important in your business? In Episode 22 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury lay out the practical frameworks they wish someone had handed them when they started…
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EP 21: AI in Your Day - The Unglamorous Workflows That Actually Save Hours
How many times did you actually use AI yesterday, and did any of it save you real time? In Episode 21 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury pull back the curtain on their own daily AI workflows: the boring, unglamorous, hour-saving habits...
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EP 20: How AI Memory Actually Works - Context, Data Sovereignty, and What Your AI Is Remembering
What is your AI actually storing about you, and where does that information live? In Episode 20 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury go under the hood of one of the most misunderstood features in AI today: memory. From why AI systems seem to...
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EP 19: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok? The Honest Answer for Business
Which AI model is actually worth your time and money in 2026, and how do you decide? In Episode 19 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury do the episode the audience has been asking for: a real, no-benchmarks, no-lab-scores breakdown of the four…
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EP 18: AI Inaction - The Real Cost to Your Business and How to Recover
What is it actually costing an organisation to keep having conversations about AI without acting on them? In Episode 18 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury go after one of the most uncomfortable topics in business right now: the anatomy of AI inaction....
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EP 17: Who's Behind Zero Shot - The Founders, the Failures & the AI Journey
What does it actually look like to build an AI business from the inside out? In Episode 17 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury do something they have never done before on this show: they turn the lens on themselves. After 16 episodes covering the tools…
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EP 16: Synthetic Media - What Image and Video AI Can and Cannot Do for Your Business
What happens when the tools that generate synthetic media become available to anyone with an internet connection? In Episode 16 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury cut through the noise around AI image and video generation to deliver an honest, grounded...
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EP 15: AGI vs Agentic AI — What Actually Matters for Business in 2026
AGI is the most talked about idea in AI. Agentic AI is the one actually changing businesses right now. What is the difference, and why does it matter for where you invest, what you build, and how you lead? In Episode 15 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew...
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EP 14: AI Governance & Risk Management — Protecting Your Business in the Age of AI
What does AI governance actually look like when it is not just a document filed somewhere? In Episode 14 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury get into the pointy end of AI risk. From deepfake boardroom scams to prompt injection attacks, from...
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EP 13: The Human Shift — People-First AI Adoption in Business
If your AI strategy is failing, it has nothing to do with the technology. In Episode 13 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury tackle the conversation that most AI consultants avoid — the human side of AI adoption. While everyone's debating which model to...
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EP 12: The Culture Gap — AI, Talent & Why Most Companies Fail | ft. Brett Wiskar
Stop Hiring for the Job. Start Hiring for the Redesign. In Episode 12 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury welcome their very first guest — Brett Wiskar, National Manager of Digital Innovation and Change at Australian Catholic University and one of Australia's...
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EP 11: The GEO Shift — Beyond SEO Into AI-Powered Search
Is Your Business Invisible to AI? The Search Revolution Nobody Told You About The way customers find your business has fundamentally changed, and most organisations haven't caught up. In Episode 11 of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury break down the seismic shift from...
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EP 10: Physical AI — Robotics, Digital Twins, and the Future of Work
Robots Among Us: From Innovation Theatre to Business Reality In this milestone 10th episode of Zero Shot , James Gauci and Llew Jury cut through the "innovation theatre" of viral robot dances to explore the genuine integration of Spatial AI and Physical AI in 2026. As the worlds…
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EP 9: Beyond the Keyboard: Is Vibe Coding the End of Programming?
This episode of Zero Shot tackles one of the most provocative shifts in the modern workforce: the rise of Vibe Coding. Hosts James Gauci and Llew Jury dive deep into whether we are witnessing the "end of programming" as we know it or simply the ultimate evolution of software...
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EP 8: The Hands of AI: Agents, n8n, and the Power of Execution
In this episode of Zero Shot, James Gauci and Llew Jury explore the next frontier of digital autonomy: the transition from AI that simply "chats" to AI that "acts." If Large Language Models (LLMs) are the brain, then agents are the hands—enabling businesses to automate complex,...
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EP 7: Beyond Chatbots: The Voice AI Revolution
We’ve moved past the era of simply typing into a chat box. AI now has a voice, and it’s becoming almost imperceptible from human interaction. In this episode, James Gauci and Llew Jury dive deep into the "Holy Trinity" of Voice AI: Cloning, Orchestration, and Connectivity.From the...
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EP 6: The Hyperscale Cloud War: AWS, Azure &. Google
Stop building on borrowed ground. In Episode 6 of Zero Shot, James Gauci and Llew Jury pull back the curtain on the "Big Three" (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) to reveal how your choice of infrastructure defines your company’s future in the AI era. Is your cloud provider a partner or just a...
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EP 5: The 2026 Business AI Toolstack: Productivity vs. Hype
Is your AI strategy driving real ROI or just draining your budget? 💸 In this episode of Zero Shot, James Gauci (CEO, Cadence) and Llew Jury (MD, Advancer) cut through the noise of 2026’s crowded software market. We move past the "dabbling" phase and reveal the exact toolstack that is…
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EP 4: Sovereignty & Data: Protecting Your Edge in 2026
In 2026, trust is currency." 🎙️ In this episode of Zero Shot, James Gauci and Llew Jury move beyond the theory to explain the tangible business impact of data sovereignty. From the shifting world order discussed at Davos to the strategic importance of building a "data moat," we explore how to...
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EP 3: The AI Tier List — Who’s Winning, Who’s Falling Behind?
Is OpenAI still the king of AI, or have they lost their technical vision? In this episode of Zero Shot, James Gauci and Llew Jury pull no punches as they rank the world’s leading AI studios into a definitive Tier List—from the elite S Tier to the failing F Tier. Whether you are a CEO looking for...
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EP 2: Did AI Work for businesses in 2025?
In this episode of ZERO SHOT, James Gauci and Llew Jury take a hard look at a question many leaders are quietly asking: Did AI actually work for businesses in 2025? After a year of experimentation, hype, and heavy spending, the hosts reflect on where AI genuinely delivered value, and where it...
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EP 1: Welcome to ZERO SHOT: AI for Business Leaders
ZERO SHOT is an Australian podcast about AI and business — without the hype. Hosted by James Gauci (Chief AI Officer at Cadent) and Llew Jury (Managing Director at Advancer), ZERO SHOT cuts through the noise to explore how AI is actually impacting businesses, boards and decision-makers across...
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ZERO SHOT gives leaders clarity on AI without the hype. Hosts James (The Technical Realist) and Llew (The Boardroom Proxy) unpack what truly matters at the intersection of AI, business and strategy in Australia. From sovereign capability to agentic workflows, we break down the decisions shaping the country’s technological future and why they matter for Boards and executives. No noise, no jargon, just grounded insight. James: Chief AI Officer at Cadent | AI Governance & Strategy Executive (Ethical AI)Llew: Managing Director at Advancer | AI Strategy & DigitalProduced by Yennia La Rotta.
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