2026 Mid-Year Pulse Check

In this episode of the Insighter's Club Podcast, Ross is joined by Thor Olof Philogène, Founder & CEO at Stravito.

When intelligence is available to everyone, what actually sets you apart? Increasingly, it's not who can find the answer — it's who can stand behind it.

In this mid-year pulse check, Thor Olof Philogène, Founder & CEO of Stravito, rejoins Ross to look back at a fast-moving H1 and discuss what it signals for the months ahead. Fresh off Cannes and VivaTech, they trace a shift the whole industry is feeling: the hard part is no longer finding information, it's trusting it enough to act. And when the decision is high-stakes, that trust comes from one thing — being able to see how the AI reached its answer, not just what it concluded. As AI takes over the repeatable work, the differentiator becomes human judgment you can actually trace.

We also cover:

• Why success is shifting from getting a seat at the table to getting the knowledge your team holds into the hands of everyone making decisions
• How to make uncertainty explicit rather than papering over it, so you can make reasonable calls without waiting for perfect clarity
• Why a confident-sounding answer built on thin evidence is worse than no answer at all — and what separates black box AI from Glass Box AI when the stakes are high

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