For podcast hosts and producers
AI that is not boring.
Chris Thomas runs YNDR, an AI operations company in Atlanta. This summer the highest office in the land offered him the Chief AI Officer seat, and he has spent the last two summers explaining AI to tens of thousands of people, from enterprise teams to the top of government. His first real job was playing harmonica in arenas, so all of this is a surprise to him too.
Your audience gets stories, receipts, and jokes that land, and they walk away actually understanding AI agents. No deck. He is 40 percent creative, 40 percent strategic, and 20 percent BBQ.
CHRIS THOMAS / FOUNDER, YNDR / ATLANTA
The highest office in the land offered it to him this summer. The timing was not right, so he kept building.
Teaches AI in the same plain English to everyone from Fortune 100 enterprise teams to the top of government.
That is who he has spoken to about AI over the last two summers. Voted a top-three speaker at his last conference, with three separate sessions.
Builds operational agents where AI has to actually work on Monday. The average build saves a client about $500,000 a year.
Episode angles
Pick a lane, he brings the stories
The expensive intern
Most companies bolt a chatbot onto the side of a process and call it AI. That is a very expensive intern with a great vocabulary. What an operational agent actually is, told through real builds.
The auditor question
A room full of federal auditors asked how you run non-deterministic agents in a business that accounts for every dollar. The answer changes how your listeners think about AI at work.
Three years searching, three weeks building
A team processing 6,000 purchase orders a month shopped three years for software that worked. Agents were in beta in three weeks. What that says about buying software now.
Harmonica player to Claude partner
Arenas, a 15,000-member church, EY boardrooms, one bulldozer he almost bought, and why AI is not magic, it is method. The career episode, funny on purpose.
Hear him first
On other shows
On stage
Recent rooms
- Mastering Claude and Claude Code, AI Ready Ohio (JobsOhio + Enterprise Technology Association), Aug 2026
- JumpStart VC Fest 2026, Cleveland, keynote on agentic AI, Sep 29 to 30
- Atlanta AI Week, the Claude session that turned into a 12-week resource rollout
"If your agent cannot show its work, you do not have an agent. You have a liability with a chat window."
THE LINE HE WILL SAY ON YOUR SHOW, PROBABLY
Remote, video ready, shows up prepped
He records from a quiet studio in Atlanta, has listened to your show before the call, and brings segments your editor will not have to rescue.