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Cut to Context
Cut to Context is a podcast about AI, banking, and reinvention in real time mixed with a bit of pop culture, music, art, and literature. It explores the ideas, decisions, and tensions shaping the future of financial services, from innovation and product design to partnerships, leadership, and the evolving role of AI. Thoughtful, candid, and grounded in real-world change, Cut to Context helps listeners make sense of what AI is and what it isn't. For banking leaders, fintech thinkers, and anyone…
Episodes
Cut to ContextWhen Meta's Muse Knocks on Your Bank's Door
Is it OK to block AI agents at your digital banking front door? For now, yes, says Alain Meier, founder of Foil and former head of fraud at Plaid. He tells…
Cut to ContextFour Field Conversations on AI
At Q2 Dev Days 2026, Adam Blue talked with four technology, digital, and product leaders from West Coast Community Bank, Forbright Bank, Citizens Business…
Cut to ContextThe Harness Problem: Governing AI That Starts Over Every Time
Every time an AI agent runs, it starts fresh, with no memory of what it did last. Presidio CTO Rob Kim joins Adam Blue to explain what that means for keeping…
Cut to ContextMaybe the AI Comes Last
Bank and credit union leaders exploring AI in banking will recognize this story. Before Q2 added AI to its own customer support organization, it rebuilt the…
Cut to ContextTrust Is the Attack Surface
AI has made deepfakes cheap and convincing enough to fool an entire video call—voices, faces, and all. In this episode, CTO Adam Blue talks with Jeff Scott…
Cut to ContextThe Bill Nobody Budgeted For
AI pricing doesn't behave like the software pricing banks are used to. Q2 CFO Jonathan Price joins CTO Adam Blue to talk through why token costs are…
Cut to ContextEarning the Right to Use AI
Orion Severhill, VP of Digital Channels & Strategy at Mission Fed Credit Union, has a rule: Junior engineers don't get access to AI coding tools until they can…
Cut to ContextThe Paycheck Motel: Silent Attrition and the AI Fix
Your best customers have accounts everywhere, and your dashboard probably doesn't show it. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and host of the…
Cut to ContextBuild More, Experiment Wilder, Be More Wrong
Nearly half of all banks and credit unions have deployed generative AI. So why isn't anyone measuring it? Adam Blue sits down with Ron Shevlin, chief research…
Cut to ContextGoverning the Machine You Can't See
When an AI agent replaces a human at the keyboard, who's accountable for what it touches? Adam Blue and Chris Struttmann of ALTR explore why identity—not just…
Cut to ContextAsk to See the Bad Demo
Build it, buy it, or find a partner? That's the decision facing financial institutions when it comes to AI capabilities. Abeer Thomson, Q2 senior director of…
Cut to ContextThe Boring Work Behind the Shiny Promise
The AI announcements keep coming, and the language keeps getting bigger—agentic operating systems, intelligent orchestration layers, the future of commercial…
Cut to ContextWhat AI Actually Looks Like at a Community Bank
What does AI adoption actually look like inside a community bank? Michael Purifoy, chief treasury and digital banking officer at VeraBank, joins Adam Blue at…
Cut to ContextGrow the Pie: AI, Lending, and the Credit Gap
Adam Blue talks with Bill Gravette, GM of Symphonix at Q2, about what happens to the loan process when AI enters the picture. From document processing and…
Cut to ContextWhen the Robot Gets the Keys
AI is moving fast, but banking has to move with care. In this episode, Adam Blue talks with Q2 Chief Information Security Officer Beth Anne Bygum about the…
Cut to ContextBeyond the Chatbot: AI and the Future of Digital Banking
In the past couple of years, AI conversations at financial institutions have changed from "should we?" to "where should we next?" Adam Blue and Corey Gross…
Cut to ContextThe Human Side of AI Transformation
AI is changing how work gets done, but the most important question may be what it allows people to do better. In this episode of Cut to Context, Q2 CTO Adam…
Cut to ContextMythos, Banking, and the End of Slow Patching
Claude Mythos has pushed AI cyber risk from an abstract future problem into a live banking issue. In this episode, Adam Blue talks with Beth Anne Bygum and…
Cut to ContextFast Laps, Tight Guardrails
In this episode of the podcast, CTO Adam Blue talks with Q2 COO Hima Mukkamala about how to move quickly with AI without getting swept up in the market's hype…
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Welcome to Cut to Context
In the first episode of Cut to Context, a new podcast focused on AI, Q2 CTO Adam Blue sets the table for the conversations ahead about how Q2 is thinking about…