The AI Cookbook Show by Malcolm Werchota – Details, episodes & analysis

In just 15 minutes, let Malcolm Werchota, from the AI Cookbook, reveals the surprisingly simple trick to finding the best AI use cases in your company.

Spoiler: It's all about what your employees hate doing. Plus: Why you should NEVER type into an AI again, and how one CFO saves 2 hours daily using this approach.

Key Takeaways: - The one question that unlocks your best AI opportunities - Why typing is killing your productivity (hint: 50 vs 150 words per minute) - How to save 165 hours per year on reports alone - The truth about data security and enterprise AI (it's already solved!)

Perfect for: CEOs, Innovation Managers, and anyone tired of doing repetitive tasks

Links mentioned: - Microsoft Copilot for Enterprise - Google Gemini Business -

Host: Malcolm Werchota from Austria

The AI Cookbook - Making AI practical, one recipe at a time.

Your ChatGPT thinks you're boring. And it's showing in every generic response you get. In this episode, Malcolm shares the workshop moment that changed everything - when an IT manager went from 'summarize document' to crafting executive-ready content in seconds. Discover why 'This is important to my career' is the magic phrase, how urgency makes AI 10x better, and why your prompts need more emotion than a Italian mother at a wedding. Based on research from Microsoft, Stanford, and MIT - but explained like you're having beers with Malcolm.

When Elon Musk's Grok AI praised Adolf Hitler last week, the business world gasped. Yet today, Swiss banks, German automotive giants, and Austrian startups are quietly deploying this controversial AI.

In this explosive episode, we reveal why Grok's real-time Twitter access and unfiltered analysis are worth the reputational risk for forward-thinking companies. Understand why Grok 4's launch TODAY could change everything. Essential listening for business leaders navigating the dangerous intersection of AI innovation and corporate responsibility. Warning: Contains direct quotes from AI-generated hate speech in historical context

Buckle up, everybody—it's time to face the brutal truth: While your exec team is still drowning in strategy meetings and PowerPoint hell, my 9-year-old is building autonomous AI bots that could run circles around your ops.

In this episode of The AI Cookbook, I dive into agentic AI, the 2025 game-changer where bots don't just chat—they act, learn, and execute on their own. From a Liechtenstein firm's supply chain save to kid-built chore bots via simple prompts in Claude or Copilot, I'll show you why ditching consultants for 6-minute builds is your ROI rocket fuel.

Drawing from listener favorites like my family hacks (shoutout to Episode 5's kid-vs-exec vibes), we'll bust myths on ethics traps and multimodal magic. No fluff—just actionable recipes: "Build an agent that monitors emails, flags delays, and auto-reroutes shipments." If your board's "strategizing" while bots eat jobs, wake up! This could save you millions—or leave you obsolete.

Is Europe regulating itself into irrelevance? While technocrats in Brussels draft 1000-page rulebooks, companies in Vietnam, China, and the US are shipping AI products that change the world.

In this episode, Malcolm Werchota dives deep into the EU AI Act—now enforced as of July 2025—and asks the uncomfortable questions: Are these regulations protecting us, or are they a death sentence for European innovation? With fines up to €35 million or 7% of global revenue, small startups are hiring lawyers instead of engineers.

Malcolm breaks down:

• What the Act actually means for your company (spoiler: it's worse than you think)
• Why Google and other tech giants are already sounding the alarm
• The philosophical trap of trying to regulate creativity
• 3 practical hacks to survive the compliance nightmare without killing your innovation

Plus: A personal reflection on what happens when we teach the next generation to fear innovation instead of embracing it.

This isn't just about regulation—it's about the future of human creativity in the age of AI.

Microsoft just axed 9,000 jobs blaming AI. Ford's CEO says half of white-collar workers are toast. College grads face 5.8% unemployment as entry-level jobs vanish. But here's the kicker—WEF says we'll NET GAIN 78 million jobs by 2030?

Malcolm rambles through his personal freakout about his daughters' future, breaks down why 77% of new AI jobs need a PhD (wtf?), and drops a Copilot hack to save your career. Warning: This episode may cause existential dread followed by unexpected hope. Beer recommended.

The AI talent war just went nuclear—and your company might already be losing.

In this high-energy episode, Malcolm breaks down the absolutely mental 2025 AI talent battles where Meta's throwing $100-200 million bonuses at individual engineers, OpenAI shut down for a week due to burnout, and entry-level AI roles start at $186K.

You'll discover:

• Why Meta's poaching 10+ researchers with $300M packages (and still losing talent)
• The shocking retention rates: Meta 64% vs Anthropic 80%
• How OpenAI's 80-hour work weeks forced a company-wide shutdown
• Why Google paid $2B just for Character.AI's team (not the product!)
• Real hacks to compete without billions: talent analyzer agents, culture fixes, and more
• Malcolm's take on why "culture beats cash" every single time

When the CEO of the world's most valuable company meets the President days before flying to China, you know something big is happening. In this episode, Malcolm breaks down Jensen Huang's July 10 White House meeting with Trump, the battle over AI chip export restrictions, and what this geopolitical chess match means for YOUR business.

Plus: Learn how to build a "supply chain radar" in Copilot that could save your company from the coming disruptions. This isn't about politics—it's about survival in the new AI economy.

Key topics:

• The real reason behind Huang's White House visit
• Why US export restrictions might be backfiring spectacularly
• How companies like Huawei are turning restrictions into advantages
• A practical Copilot automation to protect your supply chain
• What the US-China AI war means for European businesses

Time to stop watching the news and start preparing for what's coming

Universities like Columbia, Yale, and KAIST got caught hiding prompts in papers to force "positive review only" from LLM reviewers – a July 2025 scandal that's blowing up AI ethics. Malcolm deconstructs why it works (prompt injection hacks), shares his Bregenz family bot-trick stories, and drops a recipe to ethically test your own systems. Is this cheating or smart survival? Warning: This could change how you submit contracts or resumes forever. Beer recommended for the mind-bend.

Key topics:

• The hidden prompt scandal: Real examples from 17+ papers at top unis
• Deconstructing prompt injection: Why LLMs fall for white-text tricks
• Malcolm's kid-bot anecdotes: Family hacks that mirror uni tactics
• Ethical rants: Not illegal if unis do it – but what about business?
• Survival guide: Protect your contracts/jobs from AI reviewers

Imagine your most annoying accounting task - the one that usually takes 3 hours - done in 57 minutes. With 100% accuracy. For 200 euros per month.

This isn't science fiction. This happened yesterday at my company.

In this episode, I'll show you:

• How a ChatGPT Agent processed 19 invoices in 57 minutes
• Why ZIP files are the automation game changer
• The shocking math: 12,000 Euro savings per task per year
• The "Throw it in and forget" approach that changes everything
• Real use cases: Expense reports, bank reconciliation, contract analysis

Plus: The step-by-step guide to launch your first agent tomorrow morning.

Warning: After this episode, you'll wonder why you're still paying humans for reconciliation.

🎯 Perfect for: CEOs, CFOs, accountants, and anyone who spends too much time in Excel.