● Launching May 2026

Enterprise AI Insiders.

A weekly conversation between Dhaval Kapadia and Venkatesh Sankaran on what's actually shipping in enterprise AI, what works, what doesn't, and what's worth paying attention to.

Blue Skies Podcast
Enterprise
AI Insiders
DHAVAL KAPADIA · VENKATESH SANKARAN
The Show

Two operators · No guests · The truth about enterprise AI

Most AI podcasts are interviews. We do something different. Every week, two people who build and invest in enterprise AI for a living sit down and talk through what just happened, what it means, and what to do about it on Monday morning.

No demo theater. No hype cycle. No vendors selling their roadmap. Just a working conversation between people who've shipped enterprise software, raised capital, sat across from the CIO, and have strong opinions about what's actually moving the needle.

Cadence
Weekly
Format
Two‑host discussion
Episode length
30–45 min
The Hosts

Built it · Bought it · Sold it · Funded it

Dhaval Kapadia

Dhaval Kapadia

Co‑host · Capital perspective

Twenty‑plus years across private equity, consulting, and finance, most recently at Apollo Global Management and earlier at Citi. Dhaval brings the capital‑markets lens: what's getting funded, what enterprises are willing to pay for, and how the economics of AI actually pencil.

Apollo·Citi
Venkatesh Sankaran

Venkatesh Sankaran

Co‑host · Builder perspective

Twenty‑five years in enterprise software, building SaaS platforms and consulting to the people who buy them. Previously at IBM and Saguna. Venkatesh brings the builder lens: what's technically real, what's vapor, and what it actually takes to ship agents inside a Fortune 500.

IBM·Saguna
What We Cover

The signal in the noise

TOPIC

What just shipped

The week's most important product launches from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, IBM, ServiceNow, and the rest, and whether they actually matter for the enterprise.

TOPIC

Pilot to production

Why most enterprise AI dies in pilot, and the specific moves, FDE programs, eval harnesses, change management, that get it across the line.

TOPIC

Agents on top of systems

CRM, ERP, ITSM. How agentic platforms layer on top of the systems of record enterprises already run, without ripping them out.

TOPIC

Where the money flows

Deal flow, vertical AI, M&A, who's getting funded at what stage, and which categories are about to consolidate.

TOPIC

The buying side

CIOs and ops leaders are sitting on a wave of vendor pitches. What they're actually buying, what they're killing, and how procurement is changing.

TOPIC

Inside the studio

Occasional behind‑the‑scenes on what we're seeing as we build Project Zoey and the next companies in the Blue Skies studio.

Where to Listen

Find us on every major platform

Episode 1 drops in May 2026. Subscribe on your platform of choice, or get an email the moment it goes live.

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Episode Guide

What's coming up

EP 001 · MAY 23

The agentic operating model is here

IBM Think 2026, Watsonx Orchestrate, and what an "AI operating model" actually means for a CIO with a P&L to defend.
Recording
EP 002 · MAY 30

Anthropic's bank push and the vertical AI playbook

Claude Opus 4.7 for finance, the Moody's data deal, and why vertical AI just stopped being a thesis.
Planned
EP 003 · JUN 6

From pilot to production, the FDE moment

Forward‑deployed engineering as the new GTM. ServiceNow + Accenture, Cognizant Secure AI Services, and what's actually working inside the customer.
Planned
EP 004 · JUN 13

The CRM is a graph · The agent reads it

Why systems of record were always relationship databases, and what agentic platforms on top of them can do that the underlying tool can't.
Planned