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Wade Wyant

Wade Wyant

Founder of REDEGADES.AI and Red Wagon Advisors, AI strategy advisor and author based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Oct 12, 2026

13:21
When did you realize that giving executives access to increasingly powerful, generic AI wasn't enough and that the real problem was the architecture surrounding the intelligence?
13:33
Yeah, so I did build companies.
13:35
I was in cybersecurity for quite a few years.
13:37
And that had AI all embedded in it.
13:41
We were using our artificial intelligence inside cybersecurity for years.
13:44
A different form of it, of course.
13:46
It wasn't the LLMs.

16 MINS LATER

29:22
Walk me through the difference between asking a powerful AI model a question and building an intelligent system that actually understands an organization.
2:23
you end up doing what you're doing, like this private AI or building these company-specific AI for CEOs and leadership teams.
2:36
Well, I can think you got to go all the way back.
2:38
Came from a very technical family.
2:39
My dad was an engineer.
2:41
And so I grew up around computers and engineering, even in the 70s and 80s, when that was very abnormal to be around computers.
2:48
My dad, even in the late 70s, built his own TV from a kit.
2:51
Now, you could buy one, of course, but he chose to build his own TV.

12 MINS LATER

14:47
Well, let's

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