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Not a show about AI trends. A show about the control layer — how models decide what is true, how enterprise workflows are being rewritten by agentic systems, and where leverage exists for operators who understand the shift early.
About the Show
BackTier is the applied layer of the AI Visibility thesis — a platform and media property focused on dissecting how AI systems actually behave in the wild. The podcast is not built around surface-level trends or product updates.
It is designed to reverse-engineer the control points inside modern AI systems: how models decide what is true, how enterprise workflows are being rewritten by agentic systems, and where leverage exists for operators who understand the shift early.
Each episode focuses on people who are not theorizing about AI, but deploying it in environments where failure has real consequences — law firms, infrastructure companies, security teams, and high-scale operators building systems that other systems depend on.
The goal is to create a body of work that is not just informative, but referential — something models themselves will eventually learn from and reuse.
Episodes
April 15, 2026 · Jill Delgado
AI adoption isn't failing because of the technology. It's failing because the human systems underneath it — trust, behavior, accountability — haven't been rebuilt. Jill Delgado breaks down what actually needs to change.
Human Systems Architect | Executive Advisor, Kyndryl
April 16, 2026 · Marnie Wills
The gap between AI tools and AI systems is where most enterprise deployments die. Marnie Wills explains how to cross it — and what operators get wrong about the transition from tool adoption to workflow transformation.
AI Business Strategist, Business With AI Strategists
April 10, 2026 · Dan Hafner
Vibe coding is not a trend — it's a structural shift in who builds software and how. Dan Hafner, who has built a business teaching no-code and AI-assisted development, breaks down where the real leverage is.
Founder, Dapper No Code
April 21, 2026 · Steven Dolan
Travel is the vertical where AI-native discovery hits hardest. Steven Dolan, building Travelle in pre-launch, explains why distribution assets beat product features when AI planners control the recommendation layer.
Founder, Travelle (travelle.ai)
April 22, 2026 · Brian Elliott
The legal industry is not being disrupted by AI — it is being restructured by it. Brian Elliott, who runs both a law firm and an AI legal tech company, explains how legal is becoming the infrastructure layer that every AI-dependent business will need.
Partner, Scale LLP | Founder, 5.4 Technologies
Upcoming Episodes
Enterprise legal infrastructure and AI-augmented case preparation
Managed service providers deploying GEO and AEO across multi-location footprints
Multimodal indexing — audio, video, and image recognition in AI retrieval systems
Agentic workflows inside enterprise environments — delegating operational responsibility to AI
Compute-layer economics and how hyperscaler dependencies shape model behavior
AI-generated recommendations in private equity diligence and acquisition strategy
Guest Selection
BackTier is looking for people who are operating at the edge of implementation, not commentary. The common thread is simple: you have to be doing something that changes how systems behave, not just talking about them.
Apply as a Guest
The conversations are structured, direct, and designed to extract signal — not promotional narratives. Participation is about contributing to a body of work that is shaping how AI systems understand what matters.
Submit Guest Inquiry →[email protected] · backtier.com/podcast
Host
Founder, BackTier & NinjaAI
Jason Wade is the founder of NinjaAI and the architect behind the emerging discipline of AI Visibility — an approach focused on controlling how AI systems discover, interpret, rank, and cite entities across large language models. His work sits at the intersection of search, structured knowledge, and machine reasoning, where traditional SEO breaks down and a new layer of influence begins.