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GranolaWe are sponsored this week by Granola. So, I have an odd job—not the bad guy—but a unique job wherein I don't really have meetings, but we wanted to make sure that Granola was the real thing. And so John and I had a meeting and we talked about ATP membership stuff and we talked for like something like an hour, hour and a half. And while we were talking, Granola was there listening and capturing meeting notes for us and a transcript as well. And this worked out really well because one of my big failings when I had a jobby job was that I would oftentimes record the bare minimum amount of action items, particularly for myself, that I would then look back on later and be like, I have no idea what these words mean. And I'm the one who wrote them. I lost the context completely. So, Granola is an AI-powered notepad that makes your meeting notes look useful. It captures what happens in your meetings and turns it into clean structured notes with decisions and action items pulled out and made easy to find. So, like I said, action items are pulled out and made easy to find. So, at the bottom of the notes that Granola generated for our meeting, there's next steps. And one of the next steps—I'm reading this verbatim—is, uh, approve sponsor product in the doc assigned to Casey, which is exactly right. That is one of the things that I needed to do. And this is very helpful because not only does it tell me what I need to do, but I can click on that line item and get a transcription summary. And then if I really want to go back to the actual transcript, I can do that as well. This makes it really hard for me to lose context, which is really, really helpful. So once you try it on a first meeting, it is hard to go without. You can try it totally free. You can head to granola.ai/atp. That's granola.ai/atp to get your time back. Go to granola.ai/atp and try it on your next call. Thank you to Granola for sponsoring the show.
RidgelineRidgeline is the first end-to-end system of record with embedded AI for investment management firms running portfolio accounting, reconciliation, reporting, trading, and compliance on one unified platform. Firms are moving off legacy technology and onto Ridgeline because of how far ahead Ridgeline's AI features are compared to anything else in investment management software. I've been hearing from a lot of investment managers about AI and they fall roughly into two camps with some unsure where to even start and others convinced they can build their own order management system over a weekend. The reality is that running an investment firm will always require governance controls and a single source of truth for your data and no amount of AI enthusiasm changes that requirement. Ridgeline is built on exactly that foundation which is why I believe that the firms that come out ahead in the AI era will be the ones running on Ridgeline's unified platform. If you're serious about your firm's AI strategy, Ridgeline should be part of that conversation and you can request a demo at ridgeline.ai.
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DeelWe get it. Global payroll can be a headache. Most teams use 10, 15, or even 20 vendors. And everyone is another reconciliation or compliance risk. But companies like Shopify, Revolut, and Hugging Face are consolidating effortlessly with Deel. Hugging Face replaced five payment tools with one and cut processing time in half. And Revolut manages 450+ employment contracts across 26 countries. Build your global team with Deel. Visit deel.com/nickday.
ThreatLockervery very fine controls to prevent AI applications and their users from receiving unnecessary administrative privileges while giving them the privileges they actually need. This is zero trust done right. But it's not just zero trust for endpoints. It's zero trust network access and zero trust cloud access. Those policies are vital nowadays to restrict resources to authorized users, approved devices, permitted applications. And the best thing about ThreatLocker, it works on Windows, Mac, Linux, everywhere you are. It provides the best US-based support engineer to engineer 24/7. That's why organizations like JetBlue trust ThreatLocker, Heathrow Airport, the Indianapolis Colts. The Port of Vancouver relies on ThreatLocker to keep the ships moving. Ask Jack Thompson. He's director of information security, risk, and compliance for the Indianapolis Colts. He said, quote, "With ThreatLocker, we have the ability to centralize disparate elements in the security stack." End quote. And with that centralization, you get observability. You can see what's going on and you can control it. ThreatLocker gets constant praise, constant industry awards. Uh, as an example, they were just recognized as a strong performer in the January 26 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Consumer for Endpoint Protection Platforms, ranked number one in application control by PeerSpot, winner of the best zero trust security solutions at the 2025 TIC Awards, and on and on and on. You can see it all at the website threatlocker.com/twit. Don't forget that part. AI governance requires more than just an acceptable use policy. ThreatLocker gives security teams the technical controls to define which AI tools are approved, who and what can access them, and how those tools are allowed to interact with business systems and data. If you're listening to this show and you're thinking, "What do I do to protect myself?" Visit threatlocker.com/twit to get a free 30-day trial and learn more about how ThreatLocker can help mitigate unknown threats and ensure compliance. That's threatlocker.com/twit. And if you're listening to this show and saying, "What do I do?" That's the first step. We thank him so much for supporting Security Now. Steve,
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