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Week 14, 2026: AI Revenue Ops, Live-Work-Play Growth, and the Pod Boom (with Ben Wright)
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Episode Week 14, 2026: AI Revenue Ops, Live-Work-Play Growth, and the Pod Boom (with Ben Wright)
Host Hector Kolonas welcomes returning guest co-host Ben Wright, now Managing Partner at Koho, an AI revenue operations solution based in the UK that he is helping roll out in the US.
Ben explains Koho’s focus on improving repeatable profitability by unifying operator-owned data across systems into an MCP that LLMs can reliably use, enabling automated and agentic workflows such as lead qualification and, especially, renewals, which he says can drive major revenue uplift (including a cited 15% growth).
They review data on live-work-play mixed-use developments (542 completed from 2016–2025; 129M sq ft; coworking spaces in top cities rising from 35 in 2022 to 56 in 2026) and discuss AI’s current stage as analogous to the early “brochure website” phase of internet adoption. The episode closes with a debate on pods, arguing that high utilization signals demand for private space and drives trends like bookable pods and offices by the hour.
00:00 Welcome and Introductions
00:26 Ben’s New Role at Koho
01:56 What to Expect Today
03:24 How Koho Works
04:45 Founders and Origin Story
07:52 Data Safety and MCPs
08:51 Use Cases and 15% Growth
11:34 Mixed Use Live Work Play Data
17:34 AI Adoption Lifecycle
25:12 Pods and Office Design Debate
28:09 Monetizing Pods and Hourly Offices
29:50 Wrap Up and Events
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