Vol.050 — My Most Engaging Webinar Ever. Co-Hosted by AI.
Date: 2026-06-24 | Newsletter
Key Summary
In Vol.050, Zenta calls his latest webinar the best he has ever run — precisely because it broke. He was introducing Joanne, Functional AI Partners’ AI webinar MC, live for the first time; minutes before the 11am Singapore start she appeared on screen and froze, staying down until 11:28am while he opened the session alone. The moment he keeps replaying came after she returned: as he fumbled a clumsy screen-share, Joanne stepped in unprompted, smoothed the dead air for the audience, and covered the host’s stumble exactly as a seasoned human MC would. That, Zenta argues, is judgment rather than execution — the line that separates a script from a colleague. True to the firm’s “show what breaks” style, he also reports her real limit (she couldn’t read numbers off a slide) and the reason AIRI was renamed Joanne: her old trigger word collided with Japanese fillers like “yahari.” With webinars now a top B2B channel and nearly every team adding AI, he says the question is no longer whether but what kind. Do it simple. The value of an AI staff member is not in the perfect demo. It is in the unscripted moment when it shows judgment.