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What's your vision?

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So with Alchemist specifically, it's so easy to be passionate

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working for an organization like this because we have such an important mission.

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So my vision is making the sharing of this information

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as seamless and frictionless as possible,

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because if you think about contractors that come on site to work,

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suppliers that are trying to be responsible,

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they don't want to have to be audited 27 different times to work with 27 different companies, right?

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The more we can standardize the information that they submit,

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their accreditation so that they just do that once,

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the more they can focus with just getting on with the day job and doing a better job at the day job.

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So my vision is this becomes so frictionless and straightforward

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that both the contractors and the suppliers that are being assessed

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and the organizations that want to buy their services and products

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see this as a seamless network where they can source and select contractors and suppliers

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based on how those contractors and suppliers match their values.

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So I'm looking for a contractor that's safe, I'm looking for a supplier that's responsible,

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and that's easy to find.

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My vision for how we as software and data professionals build and deliver software

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is that we understand the core driving factors and constraints of the companies within which we work.

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So if you're a lean startup, you want to be working in one way.

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You want to have small software teams that are wildly innovating, trying to find new markets.

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If you're a mature business with an existing product stack

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and a lot of existing information that you hold about your customers,

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you want to be focused on predictably delivering to their workflows

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and modernizing your technology as you go.

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So making sure that what you deliver to customers stays modern

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and continues to solve their business problems in more innovative ways.

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Yes, yes. And that makes a lot of sense.

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And I can understand that vision for Alchemist and your vision within that vision.

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But tell me what keeps you going in this field?

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I'm very interested in what keeps you going in this field and the passion you have behind it.

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Alchemist is a company you chose to work with, but you have a, there's something bigger in you that I see.

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Like, I just feel that there's so much more.

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And you would not have written this book if you didn't have this bigger vision.

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Where is it? What is it? What is it about? Tell me.

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Well, I'd say, you know, somebody once said to me, a colleague that I really adore,

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he said, if we're going to make mistakes, let's make new mistakes.

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Because making old mistakes is frustrating.

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And so the passion to write the book was to hopefully help other software professionals

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make new mistakes and not have to go through the pain of making the mistakes that I've made,

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you know, throughout my career, building all these software platforms.

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But the passion for that comes from a deep desire to just deliver on the promise of technology.

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And it's so exciting because it is so dynamic.

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I mean, we are finding new ways to solve problems every single day.

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And what drives me as a person is this desire to make the world,

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the working world and our own personal world a better place.

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And if people are safer, if organizations can be more sustainable

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through a better application of technology, then that for me is really exciting.

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You know, it's what you get up for every day.

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It's it's what I want my kids to work in a world that's safer and more sustainable than I do.

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And if we can apply technology to accelerate that path, that for me is well worth it.

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And really exciting.

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There it goes, Katie.

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I love it. I love it because I'm like there, you know,

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and I know that when people have take on positions in the corporate world or wherever,

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entrepreneurship, there's a passion behind it.

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And you you don't show any thought of like, OK, I'm just going to go create my own software

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and I'm going to do this. You still have passion to help within an organization to make them better.

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But I don't think you could have done it without still having that passion inside of you with that big,

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big, big vision that you have not only for yourself, but you speak of your children.

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And to be honest, I think technology is growing for me.

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Scary like it's like this this whole new world where back in what was it?

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And I hate to say, you know, Prince 1999, you know, and then 2000,

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2K was going to be this world of change and 2K really wasn't.

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It's it's now, you know, it's way past the 2K.

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What were 24 years thereafter where we thought the lights was going to change and everything was going to happen then.

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And I think that as it continues to grow and the more that you're sharing with me, it's like what next?

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You know what I mean? What next? And like you said, you're solving new problems,

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but that's only because technology is becoming is growing more and more and more.

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So as you come to these new problems, how easy or does it make it to to actually utilize this technology?

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Well, I think A.I. is just transforming what we do and how we do it every day.

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So it's totally different from, you know, how it was even two years ago, you know, alone five years ago.

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And it's just I don't think it's it's A.I. itself, but it's also how accessible it's become.

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Yes. So you think about everyday engineers can now go into chat, GPT or other A.I.

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applications and ask the application to write software code for them.

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Yes. That just infinitely speeds up so they can spend their time on how to take an existing,

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you know, set of code and make it better.

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Product people, you know, we can we can we can get a baseline using A.I.

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We can improve our predictive analytics using A.I.

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So I think for us, it's just the opportunities have opened up.

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And now it's about focusing on where this new technology can have its biggest impact,

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you know, for our specific workflows.

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How can it change what we do, how to challenge ourselves, how we think about our day to day jobs.

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And and I see it, you know, some people, of course, will naturally see it as a threat to what they do.

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But I see it as a tool that makes me more efficient.

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You know, I always when you have to write something, think about writing like something, a marketing piece,

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sometimes writing the first line is the hardest.

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And so I feel like when I interact in my daily job with A.I., if I can just it gives me a baseline to start from.

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You know, and it's still my thoughts and my, you know, my interaction with that is still me coming through in that.

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But it just accelerates how quickly and how productive I can be in doing that.

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So I think that holds an incredible amount of promise for all of us.

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It's really exciting. Thank you for being here today.

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward.

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This is going to get more and more fun.

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We'll have more and more engagement as well when by people to participate in the show.

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And thank you for giving us your time and attention.

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.