Cut to Context is a podcast about AI, banking, and reinvention in real time mixed with a bit of pop culture, music, art, and literature. It explores the ideas, decisions, and tensions shaping the future of financial services, from innovation and product design to partnerships, leadership, and the evolving role of AI. Thoughtful, candid, and grounded in real-world change, Cut to Context helps listeners make sense of what AI is and what it isn't. For banking leaders, fintech thinkers, and anyone interested in where AI meets strategy, Cut to Context offers a thoughtful, grounded perspective.
Cut to Context
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Cut to Context is a podcast about AI, banking, and reinvention in real time mixed with a bit of pop culture, music, art, and literature. It explores the ideas, decisions, and tensions shaping the future of financial services, from innovation and product design to partnerships, leadership, and the evolving role of AI. Thoughtful, candid, and grounded in real-world change, Cut to Context helps listeners make sense of what AI is and what it isn't. For banking leaders, fintech thinkers, and anyone interested in where AI meets strategy, Cut to Context offers a thoughtful, grounded perspective.
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4/9/2026
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June 18, 2026
Ask to See the Bad Demo
<p>Build it, buy it, or find a partner? That's the decision facing financial institutions when it comes to AI capabilities. Abeer Thomson, Q2 senior director of Partner Engineering and Operations, joins CTO Adam Blue to work through what that decision looks like in practice and what separates the AI partners worth trusting from the ones who just demo well.</p> <p>Related Links</p> <p><a title="AI for Everyone" href= "https://www.q2.com/ai-for-everyone" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">AI for Everyone</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.q2.com/products/digital-banking/innovation-studio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Q2 Innovation Studio</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.sullcrom.com/insights/memo/2026/April/OCC-Fed-FDIC-Issue-Revised-Guidance-Model-Risk-Management" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Federal Banking Agencies Issue Revised Guidance on Model Risk Management</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CBurning+Chrome%E2%80%9D+by+William+Gibson&rlz=1C5FPAB_enUS1217US1217&oq=%E2%80%9CBurning+Chrome%E2%80%9D+by+William+Gibson&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjINCAYQABiGAxiABBiKBdIBCDE3MzBqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Burning Chrome" by William Gibson</a></p>
June 11, 2026
The Boring Work Behind the Shiny Promise
<p>The AI announcements keep coming, and the language keeps getting bigger—agentic operating systems, intelligent orchestration layers, the future of commercial banking—all in one tidy package. But pull back the curtain and there's usually a lot of unglamorous engineering work holding the whole thing up. In this episode, Adam Blue sits down with Anthony Ianniciello, Q2 VP of Product Management, to talk about where AI is actually earning its keep in commercial banking, from treasury fulfillment and payment observability to small business education, and what banks should really be asking before they buy into the next big promise.</p> <h4>Related Links</h4> <p><a href="ai-for-everyone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI for Everyone, Q2</a></p> <p><a href="blog/equip-teams-to-fulfill-treasury-requests-faster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Q2 Treasury Fulfillment</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118866/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clockwatchers</a></p>
June 2, 2026
What AI Actually Looks Like at a Community Bank
<p>What does AI adoption actually look like inside a community bank? Michael Purifoy, chief treasury and digital banking officer at VeraBank, joins Adam Blue at Q2's CONNECT 26 conference for a candid, on-the-floor conversation about where the technology is earning its keep and where the real work is still ahead. From an 18-month process mapping exercise that surfaced two years of workflow debt, to the harder challenge of helping employees see change as an opportunity rather than a threat, Michael shares what disciplined, customer-first AI deployment looks like in practice.</p> <p><strong>Related Links</strong></p> <p><a href= "https://www.q2.com/blog/ai-that-fits-the-way-banking-works" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introducing Q2 Assistant</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.q2.com/ai-for-everyone">AI for Everyone</a></p> <p><a href= "https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/174156218-headshot" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">"Headshot" by Rita Bullwinkel</a></p>
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