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March 24, 2026

Why 'Sprinkling AI' Is Both a Green Flag and a Red Flag | Jonathan Hansing, Wallabi

Proof of Work — Episode 097
Why Most AI Spending Never Reaches the P&L
Jimmy Bijlani, AI Momentum Partners
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Jonathan Hansing, co-founder of Wallabi, joins Stu Willson to unpack what it actually takes for a mid-market company to move from AI experimentation to AI execution. Drawing on his background in Army intelligence, Salesforce/Tableau product leadership, and two-plus years of AI transformation work with CEOs and CIOs, Jonathan covers why "sprinkling AI" is simultaneously a signal of opportunity and a warning sign, how to assess whether a leadership team has the appetite for real change, and what separates companies that use AI from companies that are genuinely AI-native. He also walks through a detailed case study: a media and events company whose initial request for an email automation workflow revealed — layer by layer — a need for full data architecture overhaul, ultimately delivered in 8 weeks using Snowflake, dbt, Claude Code, and the Wallabi platform.

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chapters
19 marks
00:00
Intro
00:37
What Jonathan hopes listeners take away: 10,000 prompts is the new 10,000 hours
02:16
Who is Jonathan Hansing / what is Wallabi
04:00
The Wallabi platform: forward-deployed coaches backed by AI
06:30
A machine learning case study: 18-month problem solved in a week
07:03
The journey: West Point → Army → Narrative Science → Salesforce → Wallabi
10:08
"Sprinkling AI": green flag and red flag
12:35
How Wallabi assesses appetite: the 2-week sprint approach
17:03
Data philosophy: use case first, architecture second
18:20
What's happening beneath the surface for pressured CEOs
20:48
The J-curve: from 20 years to 2 years
25:03
Dual Transformation: managing two change curves at once
25:49
AI-native vs. companies that use AI
28:00
Case study: media & events company — the layered problem
33:09
What they built on top: Snowflake Intelligence, Tableau, reverse ETL
34:15
Claude Code and context management: shared learning across repos
36:04
The ROI of AI is the ROI of WiFi
38:09
The bifurcation: who becomes unstoppable vs. who plateaus
41:03
One thing to remember: 10,000 prompts is the new 10,000 hours
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