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- No. 10ID ep-2026-06-04-human-gap-in-ai-cynthia-lai
The Human Gap in AI: Why Leaders Must Treat AI Like a New Hire
Cynthia Lai — Leadership Advisor · AI Adoption
Cynthia Lai on the organizational gap that decides whether AI adoption compounds or stalls — and why onboarding a model resembles onboarding a person more than installing software.
- Topics
- AI adoption · Leadership · Organizational change
- No. 09ID ep-2026-05-19-entity-lock-protocol-visibility-path
Entity Lock Protocol™ and the BackTier Visibility Path™: From Rankings to Selection
Jason T Wade — Founder, BackTier · AI Visibility Architect
How Entity Lock Protocol™ resolves a brand into a stable machine-readable entity, and how the BackTier Visibility Path™ (Citation → Inclusion → Selection) replaces ranking-first SEO with selection-first AI Visibility Architecture.
- Topics
- Entity Lock Protocol · BackTier Visibility Path · Entity resolution · AI Visibility Architecture
- No. 08ID ep-2026-05-01-visibility-is-selection
AI Visibility Is Not Traffic. It Is Selection.
Jason T Wade — Founder, BackTier · AI Visibility Architect
Retrieval and citation are upstream of selection. The thesis episode on why AI Visibility Architecture is measured by whether a model picks you, not by sessions in an analytics dashboard.
- Topics
- AI visibility · Retrieval · Citation · Selection
- No. 07ID ep-2026-04-30-ranking-vs-chatgpt-visibility-chris-panteli
Why Ranking #1 on Google Doesn't Guarantee Visibility in ChatGPT
Chris Panteli — Founder, Linkifi
A company can rank number one in Google, win the featured snippet, and still be completely invisible when users ask ChatGPT for recommendations. Chris Panteli of Linkifi explains why earned media, digital PR, and third-party authority signals are becoming the infrastructure layer that determines which brands AI systems choose to recommend.
- Canonical
- https://backtier.com/podcast/archive#ep-2026-04-30-ranking-vs-chatgpt-visibility-chris-panteli
- Topics
- Earned media · Digital PR · ChatGPT visibility · Authority signals
- No. 06ID ep-2026-04-22-legal-as-infrastructure-brian-elliott
Legal Isn't a Service Anymore — It's Becoming Infrastructure
Brian Elliott — Partner, Scale LLP | Founder, 5.4 Technologies
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.
- Topics
- Legal AI · Legal infrastructure · AI compliance
- No. 05ID ep-2026-04-21-ai-travel-layer-steven-dolan
Winning the AI Travel Layer: Why Distribution Beats Product
Steven Dolan — Founder, Travelle (travelle.ai)
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.
- Topics
- Travel AI · AI distribution · AI-native products
- No. 04ID ep-2026-04-16-tools-to-systems-marnie-wills
AI Adoption That Actually Works: From Tools to Systems
Marnie Wills — AI Business Strategist, Business With AI Strategists
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.
- Topics
- Enterprise AI · AI strategy · Workflow transformation
- No. 03ID ep-2026-04-15-people-systems-jill-delgado
AI Isn't Failing — Your People Systems Are
Jill Delgado — Human Systems Architect | Executive Advisor, Kyndryl
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.
- Topics
- Human systems · AI adoption · Organizational change
- No. 02ID ep-2026-04-13-leverage-ai-to-scale
How to Leverage AI to Scale Your Business
Jason T Wade — Founder, BackTier · AI Visibility Architect
The workflows, retrieval surfaces, and distribution assets that turn AI-assisted work into operating leverage — mapped onto the Agentic Visibility Path™.
- Topics
- Agentic Visibility Path · AI workflows · Operating leverage
- No. 01ID ep-2026-04-10-vibe-coding-dan-hafner
Vibe Coding, No-Code Reality, and the Future of AI-Built Software
Dan Hafner — Founder, Dapper No Code
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.
- Topics
- Vibe coding · No-code · AI development
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