THE NEW NORMAL
A VIDEO PODCAST BY OUTRIVAL

The New Normal

The show about how enterprises are deploying AI agents and generating real ROI.

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A VIDEO PODCAST BY OUTRIVAL

How the world is being rebuilt by AI

Deep, candid conversations with the operators, founders, and leaders reinventing how their companies work in the age of artificial intelligence.

Hosted by Timur Meyster & Ruben
DISCOVER

Recent episodes

NEW EPISODEEP 12
Season 1  •  June 10, 2026

Rebuilding the enterprise around AI agents

What happens when a 5,000-person company hands its busiest workflows to AI? We sit down with a Chief Operating Officer who rebuilt their support, sales, and back-office operations around digital workers, and unpack what actually moved the numbers, what broke, and what they would do differently.

EP 11
Season 1 • May 26, 2026
The new unit economics of AI-first companies
How margins, headcount, and speed change when software does the work.
EP 10
Season 1 • May 12, 2026
From pilot to production: scaling AI that sticks
Why most AI pilots stall, and the playbook teams use to get to real deployment.
EP 09
Season 1 • Apr 28, 2026
Rethinking the org chart for human + AI teams
What leadership, hiring, and culture look like when agents join the team.
ABOUT THE SHOW

Every company is being rewritten by AI. We tell those stories.

The New Normal goes inside the companies adapting to a world where intelligence is abundant. Each episode is a long-form, no-hype conversation about what's really changing on the ground: the decisions, the trade-offs, the wins, and the hard lessons. No buzzwords. Just the people doing the work.

YOUR HOSTS

The people behind the mic

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Timur Meyster

Co-host • OutRival

Builder and operator focused on how AI is reshaping go-to-market and the modern enterprise. Timur brings the operator's lens, digging into what teams actually ship and the numbers behind it.

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Ruben

Co-host • OutRival

Strategist and storyteller fascinated by how technology rewrites the rules of business. Ruben pushes every conversation toward the why, surfacing the human side of the AI transition.

FROM OUR LISTENERS

Built for people building the future

“The rare AI show that skips the hype and actually explains what changed inside the business. I send every episode to my leadership team.”

A. Rivera
VP Operations, Series C SaaS

“Finally a podcast that treats AI adoption like the operational problem it actually is. Practical, honest, and genuinely useful.”

J. Patel
Founder & CEO, Fintech

“Timur and Ruben ask the questions I actually want answered. It's become required listening for our whole team.”

M. Chen
Chief Product Officer