Your Company Is Sitting on a Data Goldmine (Here’s How to Unlock It)

Most organizations are sitting on mountains of documents, PDFs, emails, and images they still cannot fully search, organize, or understand. In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Tim McIntire, CTO of Hyland, to unpack why unstructured data is still one of the biggest blockers between AI hype and real results. Tim breaks down why so many companies struggle to access the content they already have and what it really takes to make that information usable, trustworthy, and valuable. From building content that is ready for AI to unlocking new context-aware agents and improving governance and transparency, Tim explains how leading organizations are finally turning everyday content into real business impact and why the future of enterprise AI starts with cleaning up what is already in the basement. Key Moments: 02:36 - What Hyland Actually Does 04:18 - Why 80% of Enterprise Data Is Unusable 06:46 - From 30,000 Manual Indexes to Automation 07:47 - Vectorization: Making Documents AI-Ready 09:45 - The ROI of Eliminating Mundane Work 10:55 - AI vs RPA: Why Intelligence Changes Everything 13:23 - Federate Don't Migrate: Meeting Customers Where They Are 16:29 - Governance Can't Be an Afterthought 18:11 - The Explainability Breakthrough 20:10 - Day 1 to Day 90: Faster Time to Value 22:56 - Enterprise Agent Mesh Explained 24:06 - Context Engineering: The New AI Superpower 26:36 - Confidence Scores: When Humans Step In 28:12 - Right Model for the Right Job 31:00 - The 18-Month Prediction: Agents Everywhere -- This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to. That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo. --- IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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This episode was published on Jan 8, 2026.

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