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Your Lean Team Can Punch Above Its Budget With AI

Podcast: AI Breakdown ยท Varun Sirohi

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ% ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ. ๐Ÿ‘€ This week Kree and Varun sit down in studio with Mehnaz Tabassum, social entrepreneur and one of the founders of CogniCo AI Consulting, which exists to help nonprofits, lean teams and changemakers adopt AI on tight budgets. This week on ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ˆ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง: ๐’๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐ข๐  ๐€๐ฆ๐›๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐‹๐ž๐š๐ง ๐›๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ž๐ญ. Named Atlantic Canada's most inspiring immigrant, she has built four purpose driven ventures from the ground up, and was once one of the youngest senior IT project managers in the Government of Canada. She knows the technology, the mission, and the reality of doing a great deal with very little. Inside the conversation: ๐Ÿ”ด The adoption gap between small and large businesses shrank from 1.8x in 2024 to about 1.2x in 2025, and 91% of small businesses using AI say it lifted revenue ๐Ÿ”ด One assistant working with AI handles 3 to 5 times the task volume of one without it, at the same cost ๐Ÿ”ด 6...