Cority has been quietly building environmental, health, and safety software for forty years, and Amanda Smith runs the strategy keeping up with AI that changes every six months. She and Chuck get into why a system of record beats raw AI on life or death calls, how a 600 page permit went from months to minutes, the stat that 95 percent of employees are already using shadow AI, and the PDF problem that has every energy company stuck.

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0:00 The Cority story and 40 years in EHS software
2:30 How the software shows up on a rig and in the office
5:45 The SaaS apocalypse question and why context beats raw AI
9:30 Amanda's family mining history and why this work is personal
11:00 Recruiting AI talent to Houston and the six month change cycle
15:00 Shiny objects versus solving real problems
18:00 Auditability, HIPAA, and the black box problem
19:30 Where Collide is heading as an operating system
23:00 Employee resistance and the friction point playbook
27:30 Six hundred page permits, 3000 filings, zero mistakes
30:00 Agentic workflows as the new source of record
34:30 Correlation, causation, and the shale revolution lesson
37:30 The PDF problem and using 2 percent of energy data
41:30 Learning to drive as the AI adoption analogy
43:00 What we are not talking about today that we will be in five years
48:30 Ninety-five percent of employees are using shadow AI

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