{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Portfolio Perspective: Managing Risk & Seizing Opportunity","title":"AI in Equipment Finance: Separating Real Value From the Hype","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3773,"description":"In this episode of Portfolio Perspective: Managing Risk & Seizing Opportunity, Andrew Pace sits down with Dan Levin, Co-Founder and CEO at Liventus, to explore how equipment finance leaders can cut through AI and technology hype to find what actually drives operational improvement.\n\nEvery lender and lessor today is hearing the same pitch: AI will transform your business, automation  will fix your workflows, digital transformation is no longer optional. Dan Levin has spent 25 years watching technology waves rise and fall, and he has a simple test for cutting through the noise: start with the problem, not the technology.\n\nAs Co-Founder and CEO of Liventus, a technology modernization and automation company with more than 150 employees across the United States and India, Levin has built his career helping organizations separate meaningful innovation from technology hype. His company is known in equipment finance for CreditMind, an AI-powered credit decision platform, and for its acquisition of Tamarack Technology earlier this year.\n\nLevin and Andrew Pace dig into the discipline behind good technology decisions: why teams chase features instead of solving workflow problems, why automating a broken process only creates automated chaos, and why \"custom\" has shifted from a red flag to a competitive advantage in the AI era. Levin also walks through the guardrails he puts around AI adoption, from keeping humans in the loop to avoiding what he calls \"AI theater,\" tools that look impressive in a demo but never move the needle.\n\nThe conversation also turns personal, as Levin talks about leading through rapid technology change, balancing entrepreneurship with family, and his work with the EB Research Partnership, a venture philanthropy model funding research into a rare and painful genetic disease. It's a conversation for anyone trying to figure out which technology investments are worth making, and which ones are just noise.\n\nKey Topics Discussed:\nSeparating real technology...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/YAp1sD8605iAhnj8hdb-ZqxhPWIeBVU1K5D-1nxaW4Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNWJj/NzczNGQxNzczMmFi/MmY2MjYwYTY4NDRl/MWUwNC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}