TIS The Innovation Show Prototype directions for Aidan McCullen
Stage 3 · intelligence

The archive becomes searchable by meaning, not just by keyword.

This direction assumes transcripts, extracted topics, and eventually embeddings. The site starts behaving like a relevance engine for strategy, change, and innovation.

Ask the archive a question about strategy, disruption, or leadership
Show me episodes about incumbents missing disruption signals
Find clips on organisational fear and truth telling
What has Aidan said about AI and autonomous decision making?
Semantic discovery

Find adjacent ideas even when the wording changes.

Visitors can search for a business problem and retrieve relevant episodes, essay links, and transcript passages that share meaning rather than exact phrasing.

Commercial leverage

Turn the archive into trust-building proof for consulting, workshops, and keynotes.

The more quickly a visitor finds insight, the more likely the site becomes a direct source of high-intent inbound demand.

Retrieval example

Query: “Why do large organisations ignore the future?”

Instead of a flat archive or a tag page, the site can return a blended answer surface: episode matches, transcript moments, and connected themes.

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Jeff & Staney DeGraff — The Art of Change

Published 27 Apr 2026

Jeff & Staney DeGraff — The Art of Change opens with a practical framing of why organisations punish their innovators and why it matters to leaders.

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Creativity Is a Skill: Jeff & Staney DeGraff on the C.R.E.A.T.E. Method

Published 22 Apr 2026

Creativity Is a Skill: Jeff & Staney DeGraff on the C.R.E.A.T.E. Method opens with a practical framing of creativity is a method, not a mood and why it matters to leaders.

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Innovation Isn't Harmony—It's Conflict

Published 15 Apr 2026

Innovation Isn't Harmony—It's Conflict opens with a practical framing of comfort is the danger signal and why it matters to leaders.

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AI and the Octopus Organization

Published 08 Apr 2026

AI and the Octopus Organization opens with a practical framing of distributed intelligence inside firms and why it matters to leaders.

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Split the Pie: Barry Nalebuff on Fair Negotiation, Game Theory, and Better Deals

Published 01 Apr 2026

Split the Pie: Barry Nalebuff on Fair Negotiation, Game Theory, and Better Deals opens with a practical framing of negotiation beyond zero-sum thinking and why it matters to leaders.

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Nokia Saw iPhone Coming — So What Went Wrong?

Published 24 Mar 2026

Nokia Saw iPhone Coming — So What Went Wrong? opens with a practical framing of warnings that never became action and why it matters to leaders.

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AI-ready content model

The groundwork is mostly editorial discipline.

Transcripts

Clean transcript ingestion from Descript with stable chunking and timestamps.

Structured metadata

Topics, entities, guest names, summaries, highlights, and source information.

Search layer

Hybrid search mixing keyword precision with semantic recall.

Emergent themes

Let the archive reveal patterns back to the audience.

DisruptionStrategyOrganisational changeInnovation cultureLeadershipAI and autonomyBusiness model designLearning systems

Persistent player

Select an episode and keep listening while you browse.

Use any “Play in site player” control on the site.

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