Ai Today #Podcast: The AI Visibility Strategy You Need Right Now

How Critical Propulsion Uses AI Agents to Replace Offshore Teams, Accelerate Sprints & Help SMBs Build FasterLou interviews Matt Davis (co-founder) and Jerry Duff (VP of Technology) from Critical Propulsion about their “anti-consulting” model that replaces traditional offshore delivery with agentic frameworks, distilling 7–12 person teams into 2–3 humans plus agents to improve speed and quality. They discuss vibe coding as a useful way for SMBs to prototype quickly, then harden into enterprise apps with security and scalability. They explain how they use agents internally to automate marketing, ICP/TAM work, expense reports, and even build their own CMS and CRM, with a rule to justify any non-billable hire that an agent can’t do. They contrast static automation with AI that handles exceptions and self-adjusts, address adoption hurdles and change management for non-technical users, share common use cases like transcript summarization, month-end close, and legal review, and describe their tech-agnostic, plugin-based framework that shortens two-week sprints into one-week agentic loops.00:00 Welcome and Introductions00:25 Critical Propulsion Overview00:49 Vibe Coding for SMBs02:16 Scaling with AI Internally03:58 Automation vs True AI05:01 Biggest SMB Adoption Hurdles06:42 Tools and Builders to Use08:16 High Value Agent Use Cases10:30 Industry Reach and Job Fears11:57 Helping Non Technical Teams13:38 Custom AI vs SaaS Direction14:59 Their Framework and Who They Help16:29 Closing Thoughts and Future of Work17:44 Where to Find Them Outro