Chris Blackburn

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Eye On A.I. · Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So it turns a software and building digital products into a team sport rather than an individual sport.

It brought culture and process into the thinking a lot more and really just had this hyper focus of looking at the end to end of everything that's being built.

We believe that because things are moving so quickly right now and how hard it is in change management for these large complex organizations to truly operate in a new way is what we try to do is strangle away a part of the organization.

transformation cost to transform an organization into modern ways of working with AI is you are likely going to spend the equivalent of everyone's salary over a two-year period.

So if the average employee is $150,000 a person, take that and divide that over two years, everybody inside the organization.

So, Chris, why don't you start by introducing yourself?

So I'm Chris Blackburn, founder and CEO of Liatrio.

Started Liatrio a little over 10 years ago after having a long history in contracting and consulting in the technology space.

But really, everything goes way back further than that.

My father ran a software consulting company.

Nothing like what we do at all today, old digital VAX VMS systems and all that.

But I really got to see what it was like to run a small business, be an entrepreneur and all of that.

And I just knew that that was going to be the future for me.

I have a degree in computer science, so I come from a technology background.

And part of my early kind of transition was I found out that I do not have a huge passion for writing code.

I am not the person that can be put in a corner.

The old days with when I started, it was like give them a pizza and a two liter of Mountain Dew type of thing.

And that just wasn't for me.

I'm a systems thinker.

I'm a huge efficiency freak.

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