<![CDATA[AI Deployment Diaries]]>Real stories from the front lines of enterprise AI deployment.

Host Parth Mehta interviews the business operators and AI practitioners who deploy AI in their businesses and live with the results. He asks for specifics: what they built, what broke, and what the business got back.

]]>https://www.youtube.com/@Mr_ParthMehtaRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:19:42 GMTThu, 20 Aug 2026 21:18:55 GMT60Parth Mehta<p>Real stories from the front lines of enterprise AI deployment.</p><p>Host Parth Mehta interviews the business operators and AI practitioners who deploy AI in their businesses and live with the results. He asks for specifics: what they built, what broke, and what the business got back.</p>episodicParth Mehtaparthmehta209@gmail.comno<![CDATA[How To Get Your AI Agent To Do Real Work (3 Steps) | Nikita Sirohi (ex-Augment Code)]]>AI Deployment Diaries brings you stories from the front lines of enterprise AI deployment. Host Parth Mehta sits down with the operators and practitioners deploying AI inside real companies on what works and what doesn't.

We talk about the gap between a flashy demo and a product people rely on day to day, why an AI coding company needs a fraud team at all, how to actually get real work out of an agent (pick the right tool, give it a real job, decide where you sit in the loop), what evals look like in practice including one she built for mental health, and what changes when we stop putting AI on top of our old primitives and start building AI-native ones.

Nikita Sirohi has spent a decade shipping AI in production, from self-driving cars to large-scale storage to AI coding agents. Most recently she was an engineering leader at Augment Code, where she launched the self-serve product and stood up the growth, billing and fraud teams from scratch. She has now left to start her own company.

How to get in touch with Nikita:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-sirohi-8690b979/
X: https://x.com/NikitaS341308

How to get in touch with Parth:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthcmehta/
X: https://x.com/mr_parthmehta

#ai #aiagents #evals #enterpriseai

]]>9e9c7f86-3a18-4fc1-92ba-949826b35f94Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:24:47 GMT<p>AI Deployment Diaries brings you stories from the front lines of enterprise AI deployment. Host Parth Mehta sits down with the operators and practitioners deploying AI inside real companies on what works and what doesn't.<br /><br />We talk about the gap between a flashy demo and a product people rely on day to day, why an AI coding company needs a fraud team at all, how to actually get real work out of an agent (pick the right tool, give it a real job, decide where you sit in the loop), what evals look like in practice including one she built for mental health, and what changes when we stop putting AI on top of our old primitives and start building AI-native ones.<br /><br />Nikita Sirohi has spent a decade shipping AI in production, from self-driving cars to large-scale storage to AI coding agents. Most recently she was an engineering leader at Augment Code, where she launched the self-serve product and stood up the growth, billing and fraud teams from scratch. She has now left to start her own company.<br /><br />How to get in touch with Nikita:<br /><br />LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-sirohi-8690b979/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikita-sirohi-8690b979/</a><br />X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/NikitaS341308" target="_blank">https://x.com/NikitaS341308</a><br /><br />How to get in touch with Parth:<br /><br />LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthcmehta/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthcmehta/</a><br />X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/mr_parthmehta" target="_blank">https://x.com/mr_parthmehta</a><br /><br />#ai #aiagents #evals #enterpriseai</p>no00:29:2012How To Get Your AI Agent To Do Real Work (3 Steps) | Nikita Sirohi (ex-Augment Code)full<![CDATA[45 AI Ideas. Only 1 Was Worth Building | Doug Qian (Strata)]]>Introductory episode of AI Deployment Diaries. Real stories from the front lines of enterprise AI deployment. Host Parth Mehta sits down with the oprators and practitioners deploying AI inside real companies.

Most AI deployment advice comes from people who have never left Silicon Valley. Doug Qian sold his startup, walked into companies with no software engineers, and found operators still asking the questions the Valley asked in 2023. Enterprise AI deployment on the ground: dollar-valuing 45 hackathon ideas down to 1, building skills before agents, and turning the employee most threatened by AI into its biggest champion.

Doug Qian is the Founder & Managing Partner @ Strata (stratahq.ai), where he embeds inside mid-market companies to deploy AI end to end: strategy, custom MCP connectors, skills, agents, and training.

How to get in touch with Doug:

Email: doug@stratahq.ai

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-qian/

How to get in touch with Parth:

Email:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthcmehta/

X: https://x.com/mr_parthmehta

]]>2a67382d-a886-4575-8b64-8925c7179d34Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:55:41 GMT<p>Introductory episode of AI Deployment Diaries. Real stories from the front lines of enterprise AI deployment. Host Parth Mehta sits down with the oprators and practitioners deploying AI inside real companies.</p><p>Most AI deployment advice comes from people who have never left Silicon Valley. Doug Qian sold his startup, walked into companies with no software engineers, and found operators still asking the questions the Valley asked in 2023. Enterprise AI deployment on the ground: dollar-valuing 45 hackathon ideas down to 1, building skills before agents, and turning the employee most threatened by AI into its biggest champion.</p><p>Doug Qian is the Founder &amp; Managing Partner @ Strata (<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://stratahq.ai" target="_blank">stratahq.ai</a>), where he embeds inside mid-market companies to deploy AI end to end: strategy, custom MCP connectors, skills, agents, and training.</p><p>How to get in touch with Doug:</p><p>Email: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:doug@stratahq.ai" target="_blank">doug@stratahq.ai</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-qian/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglas-qian/</a></p><p>How to get in touch with Parth:</p><p>Email:</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthcmehta/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthcmehta/</a></p><p>X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/mr_parthmehta" target="_blank">https://x.com/mr_parthmehta</a></p>no00:37:0545 AI Ideas. Only 1 Was Worth Building | Doug Qian (Strata)full