Mike Montague: Use AI Like Iron Man, Not the Terminator

August 28, 2026 00:48:57
Mike Montague: Use AI Like Iron Man, Not the Terminator
Unscripted Green & Non-Profits
Mike Montague: Use AI Like Iron Man, Not the Terminator

Aug 28 2026 | 00:48:57

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Show Notes

Mike Montague of Avenue9 draws a line between two ways to point AI at a problem. The Terminator approach builds an agent and sends it out alone. The Iron Man approach wraps a person in the technology and sends the person. His whole practice is built on the second one.

He has also done the work in a nonprofit context that most agencies never touch: teaching questioning skills to border-crossing agents for an anti-trafficking charity in Africa. It is a short passage, and it is the clearest example in the episode of the method surviving outside a sales floor.

What he covers

Why we are running it here. Nonprofits are being sold AI harder than almost anyone right now, usually as a staff replacement. This is the counter-argument, from someone who sells AI services for a living.

Originally aired on The Unscripted SEO Interview Podcast. Cross-posted here for the nonprofit audience.

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