A Podcast for Enterprise AI Leaders

The AI
Chasm

Bridging the Gap from Innovation to Enterprise Adoption

Everyone is building AI. Few are getting it adopted.
No hype. No demos. Just honest conversations about trust, risk, governance, and ROI.

From Pilot to
Production

AI pilots are everywhere. Enterprise production deployments are not. The AI Chasm is the podcast that asks why — and more importantly, how to cross it.

Each episode brings together Enterprise CIOs, AI Product Leaders & AI founders for frank conversations about the real barriers between demos and deployed systems.

We cover the friction no one talks about on stage: change management, legal exposure, hallucination risk, procurement cycles, and the politics of enterprise AI.

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Pilot to Production
Perspectives Per Episode
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No Hype. No Demos.
Real-World Insight
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Vik Kasturi

AI Automation Advisor & AI Startup Founder

Vik Kasturi sits at the intersection of AI innovation and enterprise pragmatism. As an AI automation advisor and startup founder, he has navigated the exact chasm this podcast explores — from promising demos to complex, politics-laden enterprise deployments.

Vik brings both the founder's urgency and the enterprise operator's realism to every conversation — cutting through the hype to surface what actually works.

AI Strategy Enterprise Adoption Automation Change Management AI Governance

The Real Barriers

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Trust & Risk

How enterprises evaluate AI vendors, manage hallucination risk, and build internal trust in automated decision-making.

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Governance

Legal, compliance, and policy frameworks that shape what AI can and can't do inside large organizations.

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ROI & Budgets

Cutting through vanity metrics — what value creation actually looks like and how to justify AI investment to the CFO.

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Architecture

Integration patterns, data infrastructure, and the technical decisions that determine whether AI scales or stalls.

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Change Management

The human side of AI deployment — resistance, retraining, and building cultures where AI tools actually get used.

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Founder × CIO

Unfiltered dialogue between the builders and the buyers — the two perspectives that rarely share a candid stage.

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