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Step Zero: What Comes Before Every AI Rollout in B2B

The B2B eCommerce Podcast

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Episode Highlights:

00:07 – Introduction: Meet Kulmohan Makhija & Azilen's AI Practice

02:13 – Interfaces vs. Systems: What Buyers Are Actually Willing to Pay For

08:04 – Why No Manufacturer Wants AI Writing to Their ERP (Yet)

08:45 – MCP Explained: From API Guesswork to Governed Orchestration

12:58 – Low-Risk vs. High-Risk: Where the Human Stays in the Loop

17:14 – The High-Speed Garbage Cannon: Data Quality as Step Zero

19:14 – Digital Product Passport: When Compliance Forces a Data Reckoning

26:04 – How an SI Sells "We'll Do Less of What You Pay Us For"

28:43 – What Happens to My Team? Reading the Room on AI Adoption

31:20 – 12 Months From Now: What We'll Stop Arguing About

Resources Mentioned 

Everyday Creativity by Pavan Soni

Kulmohan Makhija’s email: [email protected] 

Full Transcript

Aaron Sheehan: Welcome back to the B2B Uncut podcast, sponsored by OroCommerce. I am still your host, Aaron Sheehan, and with me today is Kulmohan Makhija, I may not be saying that correctly, from Azilen, a company headquartered… where are you headquartered?

Kulmohan Makhija: So we are headquartered in the US, and we operate globally.

Aaron Sheehan: Fantastic. So, we've been talking for… gosh, I think we first met probably about eight or nine months ago. And of course, we've been talking about AI for a lot of the conversations that we've had, because the company that you work for does quite a lot in the AI space, as well as commerce software for manufacturers, and general IT.

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