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Raw Data with Rob Collie

AI & Data Impact for Modern Business Minds

Aug 4, 2026

There have always been people who can't help themselves. Give them a clunky process, a messy spreadsheet, or a problem nobody owns, and they're already halfway to building something better. Rob calls them crafters. They were valuable before AI. They're becoming indispensable because AI rewards exactly the way they've...


Jul 14, 2026

AI headlines have already moved on to the deep end. Most businesses haven't.

Every week brings another headline about what's next for AI. Build your own model. Train your own LLM. Customize everything. It's exciting, unless you're one of the thousands of companies still trying to answer a much simpler question: where...


Jun 30, 2026

For about two years, we've all been reaching for the biggest hammer on the wall because someone else was paying for the nails. If you were on a subscription, you grabbed the biggest, baddest model on the menu and used the crap out of it. Two hundred dollars a month for work that would have cost thousands on the meter....


Jun 23, 2026

For years, Rob had a pretty good system.

When a new technology showed up, he didn't immediately declare it the next big thing. He wanted to understand why it mattered first. Sometimes that meant jumping in early, like he did with Power BI. Other times, it meant waiting until the signal was stronger than the hype.

 

AI...


Jun 16, 2026

Microsoft just unveiled a monster of a machine built for local AI. More memory. More horsepower. More everything.

Which led Rob and Justin to a question that has almost nothing to do with the hardware.

Are we already using more AI than the job actually requires?

This conversation starts with Microsoft's latest...