strAIght talk: AI tips for Amazonians

Try the barbell method: Your team's AI transformation in two moves

Telling your team to "experiment with AI" without a structure usually leads to scattered pilots that fizzle out. One leader built a model that loads both ends: a dedicate

Build an agent for doc reviews: your standard, reviewed automatically.

Reviewing a document against a standard used to mean line-by-line cross-referencing — toggling between the policy and the draft, flagging deviations manually. One team bu

Scale your impact and efficiency with three AI workflows you can try today

What if the goal isn't getting through your tasks faster, but using AI to handle them more efficiently so you can focus on higher-impact work? In this episode of strAIght

Snoop Dogg as an AI judge: The 4-part framework behind Courtroom Chaos

In this episode of strAIght talk, the Amazon Luna team breaks down the four-part "harness" framework they used to turn a simple chatbot into Courtroom Chaos, a live AI-na

Understand why using one AI tool sharpens your answers

"Which AI tool should I actually use?" Leo Ohannesian, a product manager on the Amazon Quick team, comes back to strAIght talk with a candid answer: pick one, go deep, an

Try The MIXX: the tool that does your meeting prep — from OP1 to offsites

In this episode, an Amazonian shares how he got tired of watching the best offsite conversations happen by accident, so he built an Amazon Quick app that makes them happe

strAIght talk: 4 AI techniques that work

We went back through every episode of strAIght talk and pulled together the four most essential AI techniques every Amazonian should know. Each one builds on the last, gi

The one question, asked daily, changed how this VP works, eats, and leads

In this episode, a VP who leads HR for Amazon's global operations shares his personal AI journey: from basic prompts to a daily framework that changed how he runs meeting

The AI debate partner technique: One team rebuilt onboarding in 6 weeks

In this episode, Morgan shares how her talent development team used AI not just to code a new product, but to fundamentally rethink what onboarding should look like. What

AI Solution Jams: 15 minutes to teach, 30 to build. Try it with your team

One team in Global Tax Data used AI to reimagine how they work together — from automating month-end data validation that used to take days, to building an agent that tran

​AWS certifications made easy: Let AI create a custom study plan for you

​Carving out hours for exam prep feels impossible when you're juggling deliverables, launches, and meetings. On this episode, Sery Cybulski shares how she used AI to pass

A rough idea + AI became Kate Spade's concierge — here's how

One team at AWS used AI at every step to build Kate Spade’s AI "gift concierge" — a shopping assistant that asks customers what they need and narrows options through conv

Don't scrap it, ask it why: How one marketer made five AI agents reliable.

"I built an agent... now what?" Orlando O'Neill built five custom AI agents for his marketing work. On this episode, he shares how he makes them reliable: asking agents t

Cortex Kickstart asked her one question, then built four AI agents

Jackie Pizaña wanted AI to do more than summarize documents. Using an internal guided workflow called Cortex Kickstart, she built four AI agents that track commitments, f

8 weeks, no roadmap, and a 50% chance of success. Here's how Kiro helped this PM deliver.

Eight weeks, no roadmap, and a 50/50 shot. Vedran Brozovic shares how he used AI to find the right data, generate technical requirements, and build an hourly forecasting

Describe your problem, Amazon Quick builds the fix—try these skills today

Spending your mornings triaging emails and rewriting the same docs? Eric Johnson shares how he uses Quick to turn everyday pain points into automated workflows. Just desc

Not a developer? You can still build real solutions — here's how

You've got the idea. A tracker, a dashboard, a tool that would save your team hours. You just can't code it. Or can you? Two Amazonians share how to go from ideas to work

Your AI questions, answered—with a little help from Alexa

Host Alex Kalish gets a little help from a very special co-host, Alexa, who steps in to ask the questions while Alex tackles your toughest listener submissions head-on. T

You're probably using AI like a search engine—here's how to make it your work partner

Stop treating AI like a tool. Start treating it like a partner. Regional Director in Amazon Logistics shares how he transformed his relationship with AI from task assista

This PM used AI as a career coach—his tips for you to earn new opportunities

Want to think more strategically and accelerate your career growth? Program Manager with Amazon's GoAI team, shares how he uses AI as a personal career coach to prepare f