#227: How Good Karma Brands Got Serious About AI and Made It Stick

Good Karma Brands gave every teammate ChatGPT Enterprise on Labor Day. Less than a year later, 65% of the company uses AI daily. In the first episode of our AI Transformations series, presented by Google Cloud, Senior Director of Innovation Ty Bauschek tells Mike Kaput how they did it: the pilot, the training cadence, and the automations already saving teammates 10 to 15 hours a week.

It's a candid look at what real, fast, company-wide AI adoption takes: top-down urgency, a culture that rewards experimentation, and a new innovation team turning three-hour tasks into ten-minute ones.

Show Notes: Access the show notes and show links here (podcast.smarterx.ai/shownotes/227?utm_source=p…)

Timestamps:

— Introducing the AI Transformations Series

— Meet Ty Bauschek and Good Karma Brands

— Why AI became an urgent, top-down priority

— The rollout: a 50-person pilot and seven Tuesdays

— The tools: ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Codex

— How adoption evolved

— Use-case spotlight

— Driving real adoption, not shallow use

— Hitting 65% daily usage: training & the newsletter

— Building an innovation department & the "Cam" breakthrough

— How the innovation specialist role works day to day

— Deciding where to focus & freeing up partner time

— What's next & Ty's advice for other companies

This episode is presented by Google Cloud:

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.

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