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09/02/2026

Episode 3 of AppTalk Season 2 is live!

Nigel Maskery, Director at Smart Investments Limited, joins Ali Hassan to talk about what happens when AI moves faster than the organization running it.

They cover why AI often shifts a bottleneck rather than removing it, what happens when human sign-off quietly becomes ceremonial, who owns the failure when an AI-assisted decision goes wrong, and why governance committees that meet quarterly cannot keep pace with tools that update weekly.

Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXI3sNDgFYY

AI scales output. It does not scale the human systems around that o...

09/01/2026

Right now, someone at your company is asking this.

08/31/2026

AI capability has advanced faster than most organisations have restructured to govern it. That gap is where the risk accumulates.

Nigel Maskery, Director at Smart Investments Limited, joins Ali Hassan on the next episode of AppTalk to examine what happens when the technology moves ahead of the people accountable for it.

Full episode releasing this Wednesday.

08/28/2026

A moment from the AppTalk set. Our Chief Strategy Officer, Zain Muhammad, on why a pipeline that depends on one high performer is a structural risk rather than a strength.

The full episode lands soon. Stay Tuned!

08/27/2026

Automation usually gets framed as a cost decision. Cut the work, cut the headcount, bank the savings.

IKEA reached a different conclusion. When its chatbot took over half the incoming questions, the company looked at what was left over and found an entirely new line of business sitting in it.

08/25/2026

In his Forbes feature, our CEO, Kazim Qazi, talks about how leaders can find the signal in all the data coming at them.

His point is that having more information rarely leads to better decisions. What helps is focusing on the few numbers that actually connect to your goals, and questioning your assumptions before you act on them.

🔗 Read the full piece: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2026/04/17/data-driven-decisions-how-to-separate-signal-from-noise/

08/20/2026

"The AI future you're afraid of."

Zain Muhammad asked. Radu Apostoae did not talk about job losses or runaway capability. He talked about who holds the keys.

His view is that open source is what keeps this from going wrong. There are enough powerful models out in the open that no one group controls the technology. The risk starts if that stops being true.

08/19/2026

AI may have made building an app far easier, but building the right thing is where the real effort still sits.

Prompting an app into existence takes very little now. Getting one that people actually use takes the same thinking it always did. Who it is for, what it has to do well, what belongs in version one and what does not.

Swipe through to understand how to approach it the right way.

08/18/2026

Every property deal passes through half a dozen places before it closes. A listing site, an inbox, a WhatsApp thread, a spreadsheet somebody built years ago.

None of it is broken exactly. It just does not join up, so someone ends up carrying the details between them by hand.

Here is what actually fixes that, and what we built for a client running it at scale.

08/17/2026

Your team ships code faster with AI, and the release date has not moved. There is a reason for that.

Drafting got faster. Verifying it did not. So the hours AI saves in planning and coding land in review, the one stage that never sped up.

We mapped it for every stage and built a model you can run against your own roadmap before committing to a date.

🔗 Read Detailed Blog: https://www.appverticals.com/blog/use-ai-in-software-development/?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=AV_SM