The 4 AI Team Members Execs Should Hire Right Now
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
NLW is joined by Nufar Gaspar for an Operators Bonus episode on the practical AI systems leaders should build for themselves right now. They discuss why executive AI usage is often the strongest signal for broader organizational adoption, then walk through four “digital employees” every leader can start using today: a research analyst, a strategic thought partner, a communication expert, and an operational powerhouse.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, four AI employees that you should set up right now. |
| 0:07.4 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:26.4 | All right, friends, happy Memorial Day for U.S. listeners. |
| 0:29.3 | And happy Operators bonus episode for everyone else. |
| 0:33.1 | I am once again joined on this episode by Newfar Gaspar. |
| 0:35.0 | You've probably seen her on the show before. |
| 0:38.7 | She's back currently with a new AI executive catch-up program. |
| 0:42.7 | That week is a four-week sprint to get up to speed and to get current with AI. |
| 0:48.5 | And today she's walking through some specific recommendations about where she thinks leaders specifically should start. |
| 0:55.6 | All right, Newfar, welcome back to another AI Operators bonus episode of the AI Daily Brief. |
| 0:56.1 | How you doing? |
| 0:57.4 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:58.2 | Good. |
| 1:04.1 | You know, I think we don't set these up as meant to be in some sort of sequence or continuous with one another, but they do end up having the effect of sort of mirroring the pattern that we're going through |
| 1:09.7 | as we learn more about what the market |
| 1:11.9 | needs relative to education and upskilling. This episode specifically, I think, comes out of |
| 1:17.7 | both an experience that, you know, you and I have had both separately and together an observation, |
| 1:23.1 | as well as sort of some things that have fallen from it. You know, we've been running these |
| 1:26.6 | agent operating system builder programs called Enterprise Claw, moving maybe to a name Agent Boss. And as |
| 1:33.7 | everyone across the enterprise has started to recognize the need to move into this agentic way |
| 1:39.8 | of working, getting people who are ready for it into agentic system building, There are a lot of people who are just racing to catch up and are just a few steps behind that, which led to the creation of the executive catch-up program that we're now offering and also just this framework that you're going to share with us today. So I'd love to hear a little bit more about the context for this and your experience that led you to it. And then I'm going to turn it over and let you teach us some interesting ways |
| 2:02.8 | of looking at the world. Right. So, yeah, I fully agree that there is a gap in the market, |
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