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Enterprise AI lessons from a billion-dollar food business | The AI Corner Ep: 48 Sean Narayan

Join host Mike Bayly and guest Sean Narayan, AI and BI Lead at Bidfood New Zealand, to explore how a background in statistics and data led him to become one of the most hands-on AI builders in New Zealand enterprise. You'll hear how Sean secured exec buy-in at a billion-dollar food business using a concrete roadmap, why he chose to build custom AI over rolling out copilot, and the real-world pilots across sales, procurement, and cash flow that delivered measurable ROI. Plus his framework for build vs buy decisions, governing AI access across 2000 staff, and his honest advice on retooling your career before AI does it for you. In this episode we discuss: • 00:00 – Intro & guest bio • 01:15 – From statistics and Stats NZ to enterprise AI • 03:30 – Getting exec buy-in at Bidfood • 07:45 – Early pilots: sales menus, procurement forecasting, cash flow • 13:00 – Why data insights beat process automation for ROI • 15:30 – Dealing with legacy systems and siloed data • 19:30 – Why Sean skipped copilot and built custom instead • 24:15 – Change management and why humans are the hardest part • 29:00 – Governing AI access across a large organisation • 32:15 – Build vs buy: Sean's decision framework • 35:30 – How to retool your career for the AI era • 40:45 – Intuition, asking good questions, and Jensen Huang's hiring lens • 45:45 – NZ vs Asia: what we're not seeing • 49:30 – Outro & next steps SEAN'S LINKEDIN:   / sean-narayan-691546140   SUBSCRIBE TO NZ'S AI NEWS: https://theaicorner.co.nz/subscribe