The AI Hat Podcast

AI conversations for people doing the work.

Your best people are brilliant, but they're buried. Research shows high-performing teams lose nearly 70% of the week to Admin Drag, the data entry, re-keying, and status updates that were never the actual job. You're paying for expert judgment and getting expensive busywork.

The AI Hat Podcast is where practitioners, not futurists, talk about fixing that. Host Mike Allton, Director of Partner-Led Growth at Agorapulse and founder of The AI Hat, sits down with operators, revenue leaders, marketers, and industry specialists, from insurance agencies to sales floors, to name the drag and show how a governed Digital Crew of AI agents takes it back. The thread through every episode: redesign the work first, then deploy the AI. It's why most pilots fail, and what to do instead.

In each episode, we break down: • The Agentic Shift — moving from AI that talks to AI that does the work. • Sanctioning the Shadow — turning ungoverned AI risk into governed advantage. • Redesign the Work First — why 95% of pilots stall, and the fix.

Whether you sell, serve, or build, the drag is the same.

Get the guide: Download The Executive Guide to Shadow AI at TheAIHat.com/shadow-ai

Connect with Mike: linkedin.com/in/mikeallton