🎙️ EP73 - AI Won’t Fix Us. It Amplifies Us!

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The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni

Michele Brissoni

72 episodes

6 days ago

Welcome to The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns — the podcast where digital evolution meets elite performance. 🚀

I’m Michele Brissoni (Mike) — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.

Over the past two decades, I’ve invented models and frameworks that have reshaped how organizations evolve in the software era:

BOKaRy 📈 — our latest innovation, a Behavioral-OKR governance framework bridging vision, behavior, and delivery to generate exceptional ROI for boards, CEOs, and investors.
SW Craftsmanship Dojo® 🥋 — born in the elite world of engineering excellence at Ferrari Formula 1 during the glorious Michael Schumacher era, evolved into a behavior-engineered continuous active learning system for elite software craftsmanship.
Unicorns’ Ecosystem 🦄 — a predictable, holistic model born to fight the de-facto standard of mediocracy in IT, which kills more organizations than anything else. By fusing behavioral science, neuroscience, and organizational psychology, it combats the hidden killers while igniting elite IT performance.

Born from decades of research and experimentation, these models guarantee zero disruption and measurable outcomes. They have already guided thousands of developers, C-level leaders, and Fortune 500 organizations in industries ranging from finance and healthcare to transport and telecom.

Each episode of The Forge of Unicorns delivers:

🎙️ Bold conversations with CEOs, investors, and technical leaders.
🧭 Actionable strategies to escape failed transformations and achieve real evolution.
🤖 AI mastery without the hype — practical frameworks to harness AI for measurable outcomes, not inflated promises.
🧠 Behavioral insights rooted in 20+ years of research and practice.
💡 Survival toolkits for boards, managers, developers, and agilists facing burnout, disengagement, and stalled revenues.

In today’s volatile digital landscape, transformation alone is not enough. To survive, thrive, and secure the future, organizations need systems engineered for resilience, clarity, and exponential performance. That’s what this podcast is about.

👉 Want more?

Subscribe to The Forge of Unicorns Newsletter 📰 for deep dives, case studies, and more: go.brix.consulting/ForgeOfUnicorns.

Stop merely following the herd of transformations by the book!

Start true evolution of your organization towards elite 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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Welcome to The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns — the podcast where digital evolution meets elite performance. 🚀

I’m Michele Brissoni (Mike) — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.

Over the past two decades, I’ve invented models and frameworks that have reshaped how organizations evolve in the software era:

BOKaRy 📈 — our latest innovation, a Behavioral-OKR governance framework bridging vision, behavior, and delivery to generate exceptional ROI for boards, CEOs, and investors.
SW Craftsmanship Dojo® 🥋 — born in the elite world of engineering excellence at Ferrari Formula 1 during the glorious Michael Schumacher era, evolved into a behavior-engineered continuous active learning system for elite software craftsmanship.
Unicorns’ Ecosystem 🦄 — a predictable, holistic model born to fight the de-facto standard of mediocracy in IT, which kills more organizations than anything else. By fusing behavioral science, neuroscience, and organizational psychology, it combats the hidden killers while igniting elite IT performance.

Each episode of The Forge of Unicorns delivers:

🎙️ Bold conversations with CEOs, investors, and technical leaders.
🧭 Actionable strategies to escape failed transformations and achieve real evolution.
🤖 AI mastery without the hype — practical frameworks to harness AI for measurable outcomes, not inflated promises.
🧠 Behavioral insights rooted in 20+ years of research and practice.
💡 Survival toolkits for boards, managers, developers, and agilists facing burnout, disengagement, and stalled revenues.

👉 Want more?

Subscribe to The Forge of Unicorns Newsletter 📰 for deep dives, case studies, and more: go.brix.consulting/ForgeOfUnicorns.

Stop merely following the herd of transformations by the book!

Start true evolution of your organization towards elite 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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🎙️ EP73 - AI Won’t Fix Us. It Amplifies Us!

The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni

56 minutes 41 seconds

6 days ago

🎙️ EP73 - AI Won’t Fix Us. It Amplifies Us!

In this episode of Forge of Unicorns – In the Head of a CEO, the host Michele Brissoni sits down with Stéphan Donzé, Founder & CEO of AODocs, to unpack one of the most uncomfortable truths of our time: AI doesn’t save you. It multiplies what you already are.

Stéphan’s journey is unique — a brilliant software engineer who became a CEO, leading a SaaS company trusted in the most critical environments (data centers, aviation, energy). He knows both sides: writing production code and scaling enterprise software under unforgiving standards.

🚨 And together, we confronted the ugly reality of the software industry:

• Bugs are not an exception — they’re written into contracts.

• Mediocrity has become the cultural baseline.

• And now, AI isn’t solving it… it’s amplifying it.

Just one week ago, IT Revolution’s 2025 DORA “State of AI-assisted Software Development” report confirmed it:

👉 AI is a mirror. An amplifier.

🏆 For elite teams with technical excellence, AI accelerates them to the Olympus of performance.

🔥 For mediocre teams, AI turns dysfunction into total chaos — faster outages, higher costs, more burnout.

This is the paradox: in a world where software engineering is often regulated by tools, frameworks, and blind hope, AI has exposed just how fragile this industry really is.

In this conversation you’ll discover:

⚡ Why software remains the “black sheep” of engineering — no standards, no predictability.

⚡ Why technical excellence is no longer optional — it’s survival.

⚡ How purpose, craftsmanship, and socio-technical practices transform AI into an ally.

⚡ What investors should look for: the difference between teams AI can elevate, and those it will annihilate.

Stéphan puts it bluntly: without engineering discipline, AI is not your friend — it’s your downfall. And as Paul O’Brien said in last week’s episode:

“AI is the greatest discovery since the internet itself.”

But only if we evolve beyond mediocrity.

📌 Whether you’re a CEO, CTO, or investor, this episode is a wake-up call.

AI is not the savior. It’s the amplifier of who we are.

And whether humanity evolves or decays depends on the standards we embrace.

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⏱️ Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:19 Welcome to the Froge 🔥

02:15 Stephan Donze: The Journey of a Technical CEO

05:30 The Importance of Document Management Systems

09:50 The Need for Standards in Software Engineering

12:50 The Challenges of Software Quality and Reliability

18:00 AI’s Role in Software Development

22:01 Pragmatic AI Applications in Document Management

28:30 The Evolution of Automation in Business

30:24 Cybersecurity Challenges in AI

31:49 The Importance of Technical Expertise in Leadership

34:21 Mediocrity in the Software Industry

39:01 The Talent Crisis in Software Development

41:58 Tech Disruption and the blind jump on it

46:15 Investment Trends in Software vs. AI

53:07 Suggestions from Stephan for other leaders

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🎥 Watch more Forge of Unicorns:

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🔗 Deep dive articles on LinkedIn: https://go.brix.consulting/ForgeOfUnicorns

🔗 Learn more about the Unicorns’ Ecosystem: https://brix.consulting

#AI #SaaS #SoftwareEngineering #Leadership #DORA #AODocs

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The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns - by Michele Brissoni

Welcome to The Forge 🔥 of Unicorns — the podcast where digital evolution meets elite performance. 🚀

I’m Michele Brissoni (Mike) — Tech Advisor, Fractional CTO, and Board-Level Strategist.

Over the past two decades, I’ve invented models and frameworks that have reshaped how organizations evolve in the software era:

BOKaRy 📈 — our latest innovation, a Behavioral-OKR governance framework bridging vision, behavior, and delivery to generate exceptional ROI for boards, CEOs, and investors.
SW Craftsmanship Dojo® 🥋 — born in the elite world of engineering excellence at Ferrari Formula 1 during the glorious Michael Schumacher era, evolved into a behavior-engineered continuous active learning system for elite software craftsmanship.
Unicorns’ Ecosystem 🦄 — a predictable, holistic model born to fight the de-facto standard of mediocracy in IT, which kills more organizations than anything else. By fusing behavioral science, neuroscience, and organizational psychology, it combats the hidden killers while igniting elite IT performance.

Each episode of The Forge of Unicorns delivers:

🎙️ Bold conversations with CEOs, investors, and technical leaders.
🧭 Actionable strategies to escape failed transformations and achieve real evolution.
🤖 AI mastery without the hype — practical frameworks to harness AI for measurable outcomes, not inflated promises.
🧠 Behavioral insights rooted in 20+ years of research and practice.
💡 Survival toolkits for boards, managers, developers, and agilists facing burnout, disengagement, and stalled revenues.

👉 Want more?

Subscribe to The Forge of Unicorns Newsletter 📰 for deep dives, case studies, and more: go.brix.consulting/ForgeOfUnicorns.

Stop merely following the herd of transformations by the book!

Start true evolution of your organization towards elite 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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