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She Built an AI Brain So Her Company Runs Without Her (with Alisha Esmail) Guest info: Alisha Esmail
Queens, what would it take for your business to keep running without you in the room?
Alisha Esmail spent seven years in international development before she founded Rode Coffee, a Canadian coffee company with fully female supply chains in Costa Rica, Kenya, and Peru. Along the way, she built an AI business brain in Claude Code that holds 11 years of company knowledge. That brain gave her the freedom to step back from Rode and launch her second company, Latch AI, a client retention engine for service-based businesses.
Alisha and Erika talk about why AI only works when your systems already…
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