Intro

Most enterprise AI talk sounds great in theory—until you try to make it work across 40 disconnected systems. Jason Cottrell says that’s exactly where the real wins are hiding.

As CEO of Orium (and the new president of the MACH Alliance), Jason has seen what happens when companies stop chasing one big AI solution and start stacking small, composable ones. The result? For one retailer, a 9-month transformation that led to 5x digital growth—and a repeatable roadmap any enterprise can follow.

In this episode, Jason and Wade unpack why “many agents, many jobs” beats the mythical all-knowing AI, how interoperability is quietly rewriting retail, and the cultural shifts that make automation actually stick.