The A.I. Growth Blueprint

Are you a B2B founder or leader navigating the complex journey from $1M to $10M ARR? Welcome to The A.I. Growth Blueprint, the podcast dedicated to unlocking predictable, scalable growth for your business.In each episode, we dive deep into how high-end AI systems are revolutionizing core business functions.Subscribe now and start building your AI-powered growth engine!

The A.I. Growth Blueprint is a business podcast hosted by Yacine Hacene, with 29 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Yacine Hacene hosts The A.I. Growth Blueprint, a business show with 29 episodes published.

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  The Cost Nobody Calculates: Bad Hires, Failed Onboarding, and the Half-Million Dollar Mistake

  May 27, 202634 minS0

  <p>In this episode of The AI Growth Blueprint, I sit down with Mike Dixon, President and COO at Hoops, an HR tech and consulting firm on a singular mission: build winning teams for their clients.</p><p>We go deep on what's actually broken in the recruiting process, how Hoops uses agentic AI to eliminate guesswork from the hiring funnel, and why the first 90 days post-hire are more important than the entire interview process combined.</p><p>We cover:</p>The 3 client profiles Hoops serves and the membership model that makes enterprise-grade recruiting accessible to SMBsHow Hoops uses AI...

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  The Cost Nobody Calculates: Bad Hires, Failed Onboarding, and the Half-Million Dollar Mistake

  May 27, 202634 min

  In this episode of The AI Growth Blueprint, I sit down with Mike Dixon , President and COO at Hoops , an HR tech and consulting firm on a singular mission: build winning teams for their clients. We go deep on what's actually broken in the recruiting process, how Hoops uses agentic AI to eliminate guesswork from the hiring funnel, and why the first 90 days post-hire are more important than the entire interview process combined. We cover: The 3 client profiles Hoops serves and the membership model that makes enterprise-grade recruiting accessible to SMBs How Hoops uses AI to benchmark compensation, score job market difficulty, and screen candidates before they ever hit a hiring manager's calendar Why concentrated turnover in the first 90 days is a five-alarm fire (and what it's actually telling you) The AI arms race between employers and candidates and how Hoops navigates it without disqualifying people based on AI-generated resumes The radiologist case study: why the roles we thought AI would kill are actually expanding Workflow replacement vs. role replacement: the Hormozi framework applied to HR The baby bells analogy: what legacy copper wire telephone companies teach us about the pace of disruption Mike's 6-year vision for Hoops and the one problem he'd solve with a magic wand If you're a founder, operator, or HR leader trying to figure out how AI fits into your people strategy without making expensive mistakes, this one's for you.

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  The Future of High-Ticket Sales: Commission-Only Closers, AI Setters, and Risk-Free Growth

  May 13, 202634 minS0

  <p>In this episode of AI Growth Blueprint, Yacine Hacene sits down with Owen Healey, co-founder of First Stop Closers, to unpack a new model for scaling high-ticket offers without the heavy upfront retainers that often come with traditional sales agencies.</p><p>Owen shares how First Stop Closers partners with founders on a commission-only basis, helping them refine their offer, build sales systems, create scripts and frameworks, close deals, and eventually hire and train their long-term sales team. </p><p>The conversation explores why trust, alignment, and genuine belief in the offer are essential in high-ticket sales, especially as...

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  The Neuroscience of Sales: Why You Have 1/10th of a Second to Make an Impression with Matt Dentino

  May 8, 202629 minS0

  <p>Matt Dentino is Director of Velocity Coaching at BrainTrust, a firm that has spent 15 years training sales teams and leaders in the art and science of world-class communication. Matt brings 35 years in industrial automation and a deeply personal origin story rooted in family, service, and intentionality.</p><p>In this episode, we get into why the real problem in sales and leadership is not a skills gap but a communication gap. Matt breaks down the neuroscience behind first impressions (your brain decides in under a tenth of a second), why hitting people with facts and features before building emotional...

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  Stop Optimizing Your Tech Stack and Fix This Instead | Bill Lennan, Founder of 40% Better

  May 4, 202622 minS0

  <p>Bill Lennan spent 25 years leading software teams in Silicon Valley, and he built a repeatable system that most executives completely overlook: optimizing your people stack. </p><p>In this episode, Bill breaks down the three pillars behind his 40% Better framework, intrinsic motivation, psychological safety, and high-leverage communication, and how they compound into measurable business outcomes. </p><p>We talk through a real case study where he took the worst-performing software team in a company and turned them into the best in six months, a 40% jump in coding throughput.</p><p> We also get into the true cost of employee...

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