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Paylocity is a unified workforce platform that brings HR, payroll, finance, and IT together in one modern system. Its automation, AI, analytics, and integrated workflows help organizations simplify operations, improve the employee experience, and make smarter workforce decisions.

In this episode, we speak with Aaron Kneiss of Paylocity about the company’s evolution from a payroll provider into a broader platform spanning HR, finance, and IT. Aaron explains how Paylocity’s Ignite AI brings purpose-built intelligence into everyday workforce operations, including payroll, recruiting, time tracking, reporting, and employee workflows.

The conversation focuses on the three core pillars of Ignite AI: an assistant that answers questions across the platform, AI-powered workflows that reduce repetitive tasks, and intelligent insights that help HR leaders understand their data. Aaron explains how users can ask questions in plain language and get analysis, charts, trends, and potential root causes without exporting data into spreadsheets or manually combining reports.

A major section of the episode explores how Paylocity is approaching AI in sensitive areas such as hiring, compensation, benefits, and employee information. Aaron describes the company’s governance process, protections for personally identifiable information, third-party bias audits, and granular controls that allow organizations to turn specific AI use cases on or off. The goal is to automate routine, high-volume work while keeping humans responsible for decisions that affect people’s livelihoods.
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Nexcess Managed Cloud delivers high-performance, scalable cloud hosting built for demanding websites, ecommerce stores, and business-critical applications. With fully managed infrastructure, built-in security and performance optimization, and expert 24/7 support, Nexcess helps businesses stay fast, reliable, and ready to scale without the burden of managing servers themselves.

In this episode, we speak with Michael Ohayon of Nexcess Managed Cloud about the fallout from Broadcom’s VMware acquisition and the sharp rise in renewal costs for many customers. They explain that the biggest hit is landing on SMB and mid-market companies, where licensing changes can turn a routine renewal into a major budget crisis.

The conversation also zooms out to broader infrastructure trends. Michael says many IT leaders are becoming more cautious about relying too heavily on AWS, Azure, or any single platform, especially after outages expose hidden dependencies across their tech stacks. The takeaway: more teams are looking for hybrid, diversified setups with more predictable costs.

Nexcess Managed Cloud’s pitch is that it can absorb a lot of the operational burden for these companies. Michael describes how they provide managed infrastructure, compliance-focused hosting, migration support, backup and disaster recovery, and 24/7 monitoring so internal IT teams can focus on higher-value work instead of constant firefighting.

A big section of the episode focuses on what it actually costs to leave VMware. It’s not just the licensing bill — it can also mean new hardware, migration services, new tooling, new staffing needs, and even paying VMware during a transition period. Michael says that’s why many customers feel trapped and why a phased, low-risk migration strategy is often the best first step.
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FastField Forms helps businesses replace paper forms with customizable mobile forms that make field data collection faster, easier, and more accurate—even offline. With automated reporting, real-time dashboards, AI-powered form conversion and submission analysis, FastField turns collected data into actionable insights while streamlining workflows from the field to the back office.

In this episode, we speak with Ross Martial, Senior Director of Growth Operations and Finance at Quickbase, about why collecting data is only half the battle—and why the real value comes from turning that data into decisions while it still matters. The conversation covers how field data often gets buried in forms, inboxes, or spreadsheets, why that creates costly delays, and how FastField helps teams route information instantly to the right people and systems.

Ross explains that FastField sits between the field and the back office, acting as the “connective tissue” that keeps workflows moving. He also highlights one of the platform’s biggest advantages: offline access. Even in places with no signal, like oil rigs, basements, or substations, workers can keep collecting and submitting data, then sync everything once connectivity returns. That capability, he says, can save teams significant time and eliminate the need to fall back on paper. The episode also dives into FastField’s AI capabilities, especially photo insights. Ross describes how the system can analyze images and video from inspections to identify defects, hazards, and missing information, then generate structured findings such as severity ratings and confidence scores. He emphasizes that human judgment stays in the loop, but AI makes inspections faster, more consistent, and more proactive.

Finally, the discussion covers FastField’s low-barrier approach to adoption, including its upcoming AI builder that lets users create forms and workflows from simple prompts. Ross frames the company’s strategy as helping teams start with their biggest pain point first, then expand from there—making digital transformation feel practical instead of overwhelming.
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Servers.com delivers hybrid bare metal cloud infrastructure that combines scalable servers, customizable enterprise hosting, GPU-powered AI compute, and managed Kubernetes under one global network. Built for demanding workloads across industries like SaaS, fintech, gaming, streaming, and Web3, it helps businesses scale quickly, reduce latency, and maintain reliable performance without sacrificing control.

In this episode, we speak with Isaac Douglas, General Manager at Servers.com by Nexcess, about why many engineering and IT teams are rethinking the public cloud and moving toward a more mixed infrastructure strategy. The conversation covers how hyperscale cloud promised simplicity and lower costs but has often become more complex and expensive in practice, why no single provider should be treated as the answer for every workload, and how companies are increasingly choosing the right environment based on the specific needs of each application.
Isaac explains that bare metal cloud can offer the control, performance, and security of dedicated hardware while still preserving scalability and operational flexibility. He also discusses how managed Kubernetes on bare metal helps teams offload infrastructure complexity, letting them focus more on application scaling than on day-to-day operations. The episode further explores how AI workloads are accelerating demand for raw compute, low-latency infrastructure, and faster capacity access, making multi-vendor and hybrid approaches even more important.

The conversation also digs into migration pain points, including outages, support issues, and rising cloud bills, and why businesses should evaluate the true cost and ROI before moving. Isaac shares a real-world example of an ad tech company that improved growth, performance, and cost control by moving only the parts of its stack that made sense, while keeping other services where they already worked well. Overall, the episode argues that the future of infrastructure is not cloud versus not cloud—it’s deciding which workload belongs where and partnering with a provider that gives honest guidance.
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Flipsnack transforms static PDFs into interactive, shareable flipbooks that help businesses engage audiences, capture leads, and track what drives action. With built-in design tools, analytics, collaboration, integrations, and enterprise-grade security, it gives teams one platform to create polished digital catalogs, brochures, magazines, reports, and more.

In this episode, we speak with Janina Moza, Chief Marketing Officer at Flipsnack, about how businesses can turn static PDFs into interactive, trackable flipbooks that are far more engaging for sales, marketing, and internal communication. The conversation covers why interactive content outperforms traditional PDFs, how sales teams use branded templates and editable workspaces to create proposals quickly, and why strong branding and consistency matter when dozens of reps are sharing materials.

Janina explains that Flipsnack helps teams go beyond just “making a flipbook” by offering an all-in-one publishing platform with analytics, privacy controls, and integrations that give sales teams visibility into how prospects actually engage with content. She highlights how tracking opens, page views, clicks, heat maps, and timing can help sellers follow up more intelligently and tailor conversations to what buyers care about most.

The episode also explores how marketing and sales collaborate on the platform, with marketing creating core assets and sales personalizing them for specific prospects. Janina shares that customers are often more creative than the product team expects, and that many valuable use cases emerge from watching how people actually use the tool. She also discusses how the future of sales enablement will be shaped by AI, automation, and deeper CRM integrations that make content creation and follow-up faster and more seamless.
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