AI Outcomes

About AI Outcomes

AI Outcomes—the podcast that brings you real-world customer stories and data points on how companies are using artificial intelligence to drive business outcomes. If you’re in B2B sales, consulting, or any role that involves talking to clients about AI—at a business rather than a technical level—then this podcast is for you.

Publisher

Ben Drakes

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Nov 2024

Latest episode

7 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Jul 2026

   KPMG's Withdrawn AI Report: What UBS, the NHS and TfL Disputed | with Ben Pickett Ep48

   KPMG withdrew its flagship agentic AI report after UBS, NHS Greater Manchester, Swiss Federal Railways and Transport for London disputed case studies about them, and researchers found only 5 of its 45 citations matched their sources. Not an AI problem. Not a people problem. A process problem. Ben Pickett is Co-Founder and COO of Swa, a former Global Director of Site Reliability Engineering at Nike, and writer of Enterprise Field Notes, the newsletter on why most companies are bad at buying a...

2. 

   25 Jun 2026

   Can SaaS Survive AI? Inside SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow & NVIDIA | Thomas Odenwald | Ep47

   The biggest SaaS giants are scrambling to survive the AI era. Ben Drakes sits down with Thomas Odenwald, ex-SAP and ex-HPE, to ask the question every enterprise leader is quietly asking: can SaaS survive AI? They unpack how SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow and NVIDIA are each making their move, who really owns the new "control plane" for enterprise AI, why business AI still lives or dies on determinism, and what the Mythos and Fable 5 shutdown reveals about the risk of relying on US frontier mode...

3. 

   26 May 2026

   Ep46 Two AI Extinction Moments Coming for Enterprise Sales | EQ You × AI

   92% of companies are increasing AI investment. 1% of their leaders think they're ready to deploy it. That's the AI readiness gap. And it's about to claim two casualties in enterprise sales. In this solo episode, Ben breaks down the two extinction moments coming for sales teams in 2026. The CRO who buys an AI tool but never embeds the workflow. And the seller who refuses to use the AI to bring real value to the customer. Both extinctions are avoidable. Both are already happening. He also intro...

Who has been a guest on AI Outcomes

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rob LoCascio
• Thomas Odenwald
• Nathan Hulcoop
• Rickard Hansson
• Philip Johnston

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

277,384

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

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