AI Won't Save Us

What the show is about

Every episode starts from the same place: AI will not save your business, but understanding it might.

I talk with founders, executives, and the people building AI about what is actually working, what is theatre, and what leaders should do about it.

It is made for the people accountable for the outcome: CEOs, founders, boards, and technology leaders who are tired of the hype and want the honest version. No futurism, no doom, no jargon.

Just straight talk from people who have done the work.

About the host

I'm Ross Boardman. I have spent more than 25 years leading technology through the hardest kind of growth: three startups taken to IPO, including one of the UK's largest-ever tech IPOs, companies scaled from 40 people to 8,000, and hundreds of engineers and leaders hired along the way.

These days I work as a fractional CTO and lead Boardman, the fractional technology leadership firm I founded, where our CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, and Chief AI Officers help UK businesses get technology and AI right.

I started this podcast because of what I kept seeing in boardrooms: every leader being sold an AI miracle, and almost nobody giving them the honest version. That is the job of the show. I ask my guests the questions the people running businesses actually need answered, and we do not stop at the hype.

More about me, or book me to speak at your event.

Want Ross on your podcast?

I do guest appearances as well as hosting. If your audience is founders, executives, or technology leaders, I bring the same thing I bring to this show: the candid, practitioner view on AI at leadership level, scaling technology through hypergrowth and IPO, and the fractional leadership model. Real stories, straight answers, and no pitch.

Tell me about your show, your audience, and the angle you have in mind, and I will come back to you within two working days.

Prefer to talk it through first? Book a 15-minute call.