AI Furnace
Technical literacy isn't replacing the MBA. It's revealing what the MBA was actually selling: access. What's left now is operational execution.
Five minutes on Ignite’s stage at Bitly’s NYC HQ: why she stopped hiring coders and started hiring systems thinkers.
Why AI is already furniture, not a differentiator. What's actually left to own when everyone rents the same models. And how the best leaders decide what not to build, and see what's coming before their competitors do.
A fireside chat with Jason Feinberg of KOSIGN on what it actually takes to scale music tech: trust, rights, and the messy middle between idea and impact.
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Masterclass
A sold-out masterclass on a Manhattan rooftop, oversubscribed 8x. Founders pressure-testing what's actually worth building before they build it.
Read the recap ↗We build the AI-native products, workflows and operating systems organizations need, then build the capability inside the organization to use, operate and scale them.
AI-native products, workflow redesign, automation, prototypes, pilots and operating systems that solve real problems and create real value.
Teams, leaders and organizations that can confidently use, operate and scale AI to drive ongoing impact.
Move from AI experimentation to practical AI that changes how the business works.
We identify high-value opportunities, redesign workflows around human + AI strengths, and build the products, automations and operating systems to make them real.
Senior product and technology leadership for consequential decisions and moments of change.
Work directly with an experienced CTO/CPO on product strategy, technology direction, organizational design, commercialization and emerging-technology investments.
Build the capability to turn ideas into shipped, measurable AI products.
A practical AI-native product-building system for founders, operators, executives and organizations, delivered through cohorts, institutional programs and custom implementations.
Turn AI conversation into practical action.
Keynotes, executive workshops, working sessions and partner programs built around real decisions, real workflows and real implementation.
Strategy meets code.
Creativity meets scale.
Alisha Outridge is the founder of Byte&Chord, where she builds AI-native products, workflows and operating systems and helps organizations turn emerging technology into measurable business results.
Her operating career spans the social web, recommendation systems, personalization at 500M+ daily-user scale, computer vision and spatial computing, creator platforms and enterprise digital transformation. She has led startups through acquisition, run global product and technology organizations, and co-invented patented personalization technology.
Today, she brings that experience directly into organizations: identifying high-value AI opportunities, redesigning workflows around human and machine strengths, prototyping and shipping AI-native products, and building the operating systems required to scale adoption.
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Byte&Chord / AI Founder Playbook
Built and scaled AI-native products, workflows and operating systems for organizations. Trained 300+/month operators, executives, founders and professionals while helping teams move from experimentation to measurable impact.
WHIM / Videri → Howard Hughes → TuneCore
Built creator marketplaces and connected-home experiences at WHIM/Videri, then led digital commerce and customer-experience transformation for Howard Hughes’ Pier 17 / Tin Building. Went on to run global product and technology for TuneCore, leading the platform across the creator lifecycle while scaling operations, product, data and engineering.
FlyBy / WHIM / Videri
Led product for FlyBy’s computer-vision and spatial-AI platform, combining real-time object recognition, 3D mapping and ML dataset strategy through joint development with Google’s Project Tango; FlyBy was acquired by Apple and its technology contributed to ARKit. Later built and led a 50+ person WHIM/Videri organization across NYC, Montreal and Prague to launch personalized Visual IoT hardware, mobile apps and an extensible developer platform, bringing computer vision and connected experiences into physical environments, including the OUTFRONT x MTA smart-screen ecosystem.
Facebook / Reuters TV
Led search, identity and personalization products at Facebook (pre-Meta) across 500M+ daily users, improving relevance through behavioral signals, ranking quality and identity resolution. Co-invented privacy-smart personalization technology that became U.S. Patent 10,467,282 B2, with search improvements driving 10%+ engagement lift. Then brought that operating model to Reuters TV, scaling personalized streaming to 1M+ MAU and 3.5M+ weekly viewers while increasing retention and session duration.
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iHeartMedia / iHeartRadio
Served as iHeartMedia’s social and engagement product lead, defining personalization across Android, iOS, web, Xbox, auto and other connected platforms. Led the launch of iHeartRadio’s music and news recommendation engine using listening history, behavioral and mood-based signals across a 100M+ user ecosystem, while improving onboarding, discovery and growth through partnerships with Facebook, Twitter and Google.
KickApps → KIT digital
Led product strategy for social platforms and Facebook integrations for major media and consumer brands including NFL, NBC, BET/Viacom and MIT. Launched KickApps’ deep Facebook integration, creating a new revenue stream. Post-acquisition, defined social and ad-synced personalization across KIT digital’s global portfolio, including the CSI award-winning Social TV Program Guide with AT&T, while scaling the platform across Europe and Brazil.
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One conversation, a plan, then we get to work.
We talk through what you're trying to achieve, where the gap is, and how I can help.
Strategize · Build · Promote · Partner
You get a proposal scoped to the gap we found, with clear deliverables and a fit that matches the commitment.
We schedule a kick-off session and launch the initiative. From plan to in-progress, fast.
Most engagements start with a 30-minute call about where the gap is.
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