Voices
AI-Powered Factories
with Radu Spineanu, CEO, Humble Ops
June 24, 2026
In this episode we speak with Radu Spineanu, CEO of Humble Ops, about applying AI to improve manufacturing operations. Spineanu shares his background as a multi-time startup founder and how frustrations with legacy ERP systems and visits to factories led him to build Humble Ops. He explains that Humble aims to bridge the gap between executives and the shop floor by integrating across plant systems, building context, and giving each role a prioritized “what to do next” list to enable faster, better decisions. The conversation covers adapting to varied factory edge cases, working with dirty data while surfacing cleanup needs, keeping humans in the loop for sensitive workflows like scheduling, and a deployment approach that starts with a low-effort wedge and expands via continuous monitoring and insights. Spineanu’s near-term vision is an “earbud” AI that sees the whole operation and explains recommendations while humans make final decisions.
Autonomous Organizations and the Bottom-Up Economy
with Frode Odegard, CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
April 28, 2026
We speak with Frode Odegard, CEO of the Post-Industrial Institute, about the rise of Autonomous Organizations and why AI agents represent more than just smarter automation. Frode argues that major advances in technology have usually enabled greater centralization, but that the post-industrial transition is different: it combines rapid technological acceleration with decentralization. AI agents do not merely improve productivity; they are taking on coordination, planning, and eventually strategic functions inside organizations. We explore what makes this shift qualitatively new, why slower firms risk falling behind, how barriers to entry are eroding, and why the biggest opportunity may lie in designing entirely new kinds of organizations.
About
We are in a post-industrial revolution, accelerated by AI and the Internet. New thinking is needed for designing organizations and transforming industries.
Post-Industrial Voices is a podcast series where we speak with leaders building the industries of the future. They are transforming enterprises, creating new firms, and developing technologies that will reshape how we work and live.
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Host: Blaine Mathieu
Blaine Mathieu’s career in Silicon Valley spans Gartner, Adobe, Corel, and GoodData as CEO, CMO, and CPO. He built and ran the Startup Advisory Practice at Momenta VC. Most recently, Blaine served as co-founder and CEO of Pratexo, an energy and asset intelligence startups.
Blaine combines deep product, go-to-market, and operational expertise across startups and public companies to accelerate revenue and market adoption. He is known for building partnerships that translate cutting-edge technology (AI, ML, IoT, edge, cloud) into real-world impact in energy, industrial, and enterprise software markets around the world.
Blaine was the host of the 2026 Post-Industrial Summit.
Host: Blaine Mathieu
Blaine Mathieu’s career in Silicon Valley spans Gartner, Adobe, Corel, and GoodData as CEO, CMO, and CPO. He built and ran the Startup Advisory Practice at Momenta VC. Most recently, Blaine served as co-founder and CEO of Pratexo, an energy and asset intelligence startups.
Blaine combines deep product, go-to-market, and operational expertise across startups and public companies to accelerate revenue and market adoption. He is known for building partnerships that translate cutting-edge technology (AI, ML, IoT, edge, cloud) into real-world impact in energy, industrial, and enterprise software markets around the world.
Blaine was the host of the 2026 Post-Industrial Summit.