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Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIAre You Holding Onto a Job AI Should Have? w/ Dave Boyce, Executive Chair @ Winning By DesignWhen AI threatens your job, the real risk is clinging to the parts of work that are already predictable.In this bonus short, Daniel Manary and Dave Boyce (Winning by Design, author of Freemium) talk about the fear many people feel right now: AI is coming for my job. Dave argues that AI doesn't replace you as a human unless you keep trying to do work AI should handle. The path forward is to automate what is routine, and double down on the human work: alignment, confidence, strategy, and helping people navigate uncertainty.đ§ Want the big...
2026-01-3002 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIFrom Experiments to ROI: Measuring AI Inside Real Go-To-Market Systems w/ Dave Boyce, Executive Chair @ Winning By Design"Run experiments" is easy advice. Measuring them inside a real customer journey is the hard part.Dave Boyce has lived through multiple SaaS eras, from $1.2M ACV enterprise deals to $1,200 self-serve motions. Now, as Product lead and Executive Chair at Winning by Design, he works with growth-stage companies to rebuild their revenue systems for an AI-shaped market.In this conversation, Daniel and Dave get concrete about what âAI-forward GTMâ actually requires: a clear theory of the case, a real data model for the whole customer lifecycle (the bow tie), and an operating model that can surv...
2026-01-2335 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIWikipedia's First Real Competitor Is an AI: What is Grokipedia? w/ Bill Beutler, Founder @ Beutler Ink & TheNotability.coAn AI-written encyclopedia can sound coherent and still be wrong and that gap matters more than it first appears.In this bonus short, Daniel Manary and William Beutler of Beutler Ink and The Notability Company look at the first real challenger to Wikipedia's long-standing dominance. They discuss Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia: why its entries can feel clearer and more complete than Wikipedia, and how that polish can mask weak or missing sources.đ§ Want the bigger picture?In the full episode, Bill explains why Wikipedia remains the shared reference point for major AI sys...
2026-01-1608 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIWho Decides What AI Knows? Wikipedia, Sources, and Trust w/ Bill Beutler, Founder @ Beutler Ink & TheNotability.coWikipedia has become one of the quiet foundations of modern AI.In this episode, Daniel explores why large language models rely so heavily on Wikipedia, both as training data and as a real-time citation source. Its concise structure, dense linking, and topic-first writing make it ideal for machines, even as fewer humans read it directly.Daniel is joined by Bill Beutler, founder of Beutler Ink, who works inside Wikipediaâs rules to help organizations correct inaccuracies and navigate notability standards. Bill explains how Wikipediaâs volunteer model, conflict-of-interest policies, and reliance on independent journalism shape what...
2026-01-0951 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIArtificial Insights Season 5: How AI is Changing Economics and Work, and How We Are Changing With ItThis season, weâre not talking about models, benchmarks, or demos. Weâre talking about how AI is reshaping how humans work, coordinate, and judge as tools get better at remembering, acting, and contextualizing. With context increasingly automated, wisdom and judgment matter more, not less.Weâll hear from builders, operators, researchers, and leaders wrestling with how experience, trust, value, and incentives shift as AI becomes part of the fabric of work.đ What to expect this season:Conversations about augmentation and friction, not replacement.How work changes shape when systems handle memory and routine execution...
2026-01-0201 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIWelcome to Artificial Insights: How AI is Changing Economics and WorkArtificial Insights is a podcast about how AI is changing economics and work, and what happens once the technology moves beyond demos and into real organizations.The podcast features conversations with founders, operators, and thinkers who are close to the work. People building AI products. People deploying them inside teams. And people who have already learned where AI helps and where it quietly creates problems.Daniel started Artificial Insights to stand at the gate of businesses using AI, separating hype from lasting impact.If you are new here, the most recent season trailer...
2025-12-2601 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AISeason 4 Wrap Up: How AI Is Making Impossible Work PracticalAcross healthcare, nonprofits, construction, and creative tools, the same shift kept appearing. AI is moving work from impossible to practical.This special wrap up episode closes out Season 4 by revisiting a handful of moments that captured that shift most clearly. Rather than focusing on replacement or marginal efficiency gains, AI is removing constraints around memory, time, coordination, and execution. When those constraints fall, entirely new kinds of work become feasible.Daniel reflects on examples from across the season, including systems that surface organizational context no one person could retain, workflows that compress months...
2025-12-2311 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIThe Great Flip: How AI Changed the Shape of Work in 2025This special Christmas and New Year bonus episode is a pause. We're looking back at 2025 and thinking about what surfaced across a year of conversations with builders, executives, philosophers, and operators working close to AI.Across industries and roles, the same shift kept appearing. Work isn't disappearing per se... but it is changing. Flipping.Humans are moving upstream. Away from direct execution and toward enabling, guiding, and judging systems that now do the work itself. Execution is cheaper than it has ever been. Direction, responsibility, and wisdom are not.This bonus episode weaves...
2025-12-1918 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AISeason 4 Wrap Up: How AI Is Making Impossible Work PracticalAcross healthcare, nonprofits, construction, and creative tools, the same shift kept appearing. AI is moving work from impossible to practical.This special wrap up episode closes out Season 4 by revisiting a handful of moments that captured that shift most clearly. Rather than focusing on replacement or marginal efficiency gains, AI is removing constraints around memory, time, coordination, and execution.When those constraints fall, entirely new kinds of work become feasible.Daniel reflects on examples from across the season, including systems that surface organizational context no one person could retain, workflows that compress months...
2025-12-1211 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIShort: Who Should Be Writing the Rules for AI? w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMDRegulation and innovation rarely move at the same speed. In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and David Proulx talk about who should shape the future of AI. David argues that the people building modern systems understand both the risks and the capabilities far better than policymakers who lack technical grounding.He contrasts Europeâs tendency to regulate early with the United Statesâ focus on innovation, liability, and builder responsibility. He points to the âWinning the AI Raceâ framework as an example of policy written by people who clearly understand the field, from guardrails to energy use to how a sy...
2025-12-0506 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBuilding AI That Doesn't Hallucinate w/ David Proulx, CAIO & Co-Founder @ HoloMDOne of the things David Proulx is most proud of is building an AI agent that has handled more than 100,000 mental health conversations without a single hallucination.David is the Chief AI Officer at HoloMD, where an AI agent becomes a third party in the Therapeutic Alliance. The patient wants to feel better. The psychiatrist guides their care. HoloMD adds a daily point of contact that checks in, gathers context, tracks medication adherence, and offers support between visits. Psychiatrists stay fully in charge while gaining a clearer picture of a patient's life than a single appointment can...
2025-11-2837 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIShort: What is Personalization in an Agentic AI World? w/ Alex Maier, President @ onWaterMost AI conversations describe personalization as if it were new. In this bonus clip, Alex Maier explains why the real shift is not personalization itself, but how agentic systems read context and respond to a person's actual state the moment they ask a question.Alex describes how onWater uses prompts, sentiment, language patterns, and user actions to understand experience level and intent. He compares it to the way great salespeople have always read a person's posture, tone, and energy to meet them where they are. The technology is new. The underlying posture toward users is not.
2025-11-2103 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBuilding AI Native Products for the Outdoors w/ Alex Maier, President @ onWaterMost companies stop at âask the bot a questionâ. onWater wants to go further, building an app that can answer âShould I go today?â and then quietly handle everything that comes after yes.In this episode of Artificial Insights, Daniel talks with Alex Maier, now President of onWater. His team has been working on a simple idea with complicated stakes: help people decide where to fish or paddle, understand the real conditions on the water, and act on that information without forcing users to dig through dozens of screens or data sources.Alex explains how they app...
2025-11-1438 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIShort: Is AI A New Medium? w/ Ahmad Iqbal, AI Product & Head of MENAP @ CanvaAI is currently in a transitional moment: a new tool being used to make old kinds of content. But, what if AI can do more than just help us create the same old things faster and better?In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and Ahmad Iqbal step back from product and design to explore how AI is a new creative medium that could change how people make, share, and experience ideas.Drawing on the work of Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media theorist who coined "the medium is the message", Ahmad explains how each technological leap...
2025-11-0704 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIDesigning for Accessibility: How AI Lowers the Skill Floor w/ Ahmad Iqbal, AI Product & Head of MENAP @ CanvaWhat if "designing well" no longer requires years of training, and the real work becomes choosing the story to tell?In this episode of Artificial Insights, host Daniel Manary interviews Ahmad Iqbal, product lead and Head of MENAP at Canva, about what it really means to design for accessibility in the age of AI. Ahmad helped launch Canvaâs first generative AI features and shares how the company's guiding principle, making creativity accessible to everyone, drives its product, culture, and internal AI adoption.The conversation traces how a 48-hour hackathon project became Magic Write, how Ah...
2025-10-3133 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIShort: What Does It Mean to Steward Data Faithfully with AI? w/ Josh MĂźller, Director @ WahaMost people talk about "data privacy" like itâs a legal checkbox. For Josh MĂźller, itâs part of faithful stewardship.In this bonus episode, Josh and Daniel pick up on a single idea from their main conversation: data management as Kingdom stewardship. Josh shares how his once âoff-the-cloud-at-all-costsâ mindset softened as AI made it possible to do genuinely good things with data.The hard part now isnât the tech. Itâs building the habits and structures that keep data private, local, and used for good.đĄ Want the full conversation?This clip come...
2025-10-2403 min
OTSS PodcastHow AI is Reshaping Business with Seema Alexander, Alex Maier and Daniel Manary (Recorded LIVE)On this special episode of the âOnly the Strong Surviveâ podcast, host Dan Kahn is joined by three experts in artificial intelligence. Seema Alexander is the CEO of Disruptive AI. Believing that the rise of AI is more impactful than the advent of the internet, she guides CEOs on how to integrate AI into their companies successfully. Daniel Manary is the co-founder of Manary.haus, a high-touch AI consultancy that collaborates with executives and product teams to design and deliver AI solutions that address real-world needs. Alex Maier is a 15-year seasoned marketing and product leader who has worked at i...
2025-10-2357 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIHow AI Turned Six Months of Work into 16 Minutes w/ Josh MĂźller, Director @ WahaWhat if a six-month production bottleneck became a 16-minute job?Josh MĂźller, director at tech nonprofit Waha, tells Daniel how forced alignment and smart automation turned a tedious audio-editing gauntlet into a repeatable pipeline that ships Bible study content across dozens of languages. The result is more time for actual disciple-making and less time in Audacity. They dig into privacy-first analytics in risky contexts, when to choose local models over cloud tools, and why data management is Kingdom stewardship.đ What Youâll Learn in This Episodeâ
How timestamping with forced alignment collapse...
2025-10-1738 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIShort: When is the right time to start a company in AI? w/ Adeel Zaman, Founder in Stealth out of HF0, previously CTO & Co-Founder of DOZRWhen is the right time to start a company in AI? Adeel Zaman argues it comes down to breakthroughs.In this bonus clip, Adeel explains why "why now" matters more than ever in AI. Without a recent step forward, most ideas have already been tried and blocked by the same old limits. He points to Jeff Bezos in 1995, who spotted the internetâs growth curve and built Amazon around books, an application that fit the technologyâs strengths at the time.đ§ Curious where Adeel takes this next?In the full conversation, he and Daniel...
2025-10-1001 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIEmbodied AGI: Reimagining AI Through Robotics w/ Adeel Zaman, Founder in Stealth out of HF0, previously CTO & Co-Founder of DOZRWhat happens when AI doesnât just live in text and screens, but begins to reason and act in the physical world?Adeel Zaman, CTO and Co-Founder of DOZR, has spent his career moving from deep learning research to startups, scaling companies and tackling cold-start problems with machine learning. Now, backed by the HF0 residency, his focus is on "Embodied Intelligence" and how foundation models can learn physical tasks, adapt through feedback, and interact with humans in real time.In this conversation, Daniel and Adeel explore why embodied AGI may be a prerequisite for true ge...
2025-10-0337 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIShort: What's the biggest bottleneck to AI adoption? w/ Aydin Mirzaee, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fellow.aiMost people arenât natural tinkerers. That simple fact shapes how AI adoption actually plays out inside companies. Itâs not enough to drop a new tool into the workflow. Deadlines and old habits keep teams from trying new approaches.In this bonus episode, Daniel and Aydin Mirzaee, CEO of Fellow, talk about why adoption stalls when people stick to the âold way,â how organizations can carve out space to experiment, and why patience is needed to push through the frustration curve.Itâs a candid look at what it really takes for teams to shift from...
2025-09-2602 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIFrom Tinkerers to Teams: Adopting AI with Aydin Mirzaee, Co-Founder & CEO @ Fellow.aiAdopting AI inside an organization is rarely smooth. Most people are not natural tinkerers, and it takes more than enthusiasm to change how teams prepare, run, and follow up on meetings.For Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and co-founder of Fellow, the turning point was realizing that AI could take the work only the most organized people were willing to do and make it accessible to everyone. He calls this an AI âchief of staffâ, a system that prepares meaningful follow-ups, captures decisions and actions, and threads context across meetings so teams can focus on higher-value work.In t...
2025-09-1942 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AISeason 4 of Artificial Insights: The Big Questions Behind Doing AI RightWelcome to Artificial Insights where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about how to do AI right. On this podcast, we sit down every other Friday with people who build things with, and write things about, AI, and talk to them about what they do and why they do it.We've been doing this for just over a year now, and a core pattern has emerged:Why you build with AI matters as much as how you build with AI.Join Daniel this season as he meets with and learn from...
2025-09-1208 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIAI Ethics Conversations That Shape How We Build: Artificial Insights Season 3 RecapFrom ethics to student builders, this past summer season of Artificial Insights dug into how AI shapes what it means to be human and how the next generation is already learning to use it. Guests shared warnings about convenience, reflections on human worth, and hands-on lessons from shipping early projects.In this recap episode, Daniel looks back at highlights from every conversation:1ď¸âŁ Sheldon Fernandez on the âinstantaneous friend,â useful friction, and raising wise humans. Listen to the full episode: https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2157598/2ď¸âŁ Dr. Christopher Watkin on efficiency, meaning, and why friction still matters. Lis...
2025-09-0515 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBack to School Special: When Schools Ban AI but the Job Market Demands It w/ Aasha Khan, Grade 12 Student at Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute, Founder of Youth Tech LabsWhat happens when students are told not to use AI, but also told theyâll need it for their careers?For Aasha Khan, a Grade 12 student at Cameron Heights and founder of Youth Tech Labs, that tension defined her first encounters with AI. At school, the message was clear: avoid AI or risk suspension. At home, her father, a Chief AI Officer, encouraged her to explore the technology. The mixed signals left her, like many of her peers, caught between fear and curiosity.Aasha decided to create a safe space where high schoolers could learn AI...
2025-08-2932 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBack to School Special: Why the Next Generation Is Asking What AI Should Do w/ Aleks Santari, Student @ Johns Hopkins University, Founder, & PhilosopherThe next generation of builders isnât just asking what AI can do, but what it should do.For Johns Hopkins student Aleks Santari, the most striking change AI brings is the commoditisation of intelligence. When capabilities once reserved for experts become widely available, it reshapes education, work, and even how people see themselves. Aleks is exploring that reality firsthand through three projects: Flow, a health app that adapts to each personâs context; a snake-like surgical robot for eye surgery in a lab at Johns Hopkins; and an autonomous rover so he can get firs...
2025-08-2729 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBack to School Special: From Quantum Physics to Personalized AI w/ Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum, Physics Undergrad @ University of WaterlooHow do you bridge worlds as different as quantum research and AI product building?For Dvir Zagury-Grynbaum, the answer lies in curiosity. Still an undergraduate in physics at the University of Waterloo, Dvir has already worked at the Perimeter Institute, led AI design teams, and built tools that personalize decision making.His project thersona.com learns from its users to help with everything from remembering birthdays to suggesting the right restaurant. Heâs also applying causal inference and AI to diabetes management, helping people run âwhat ifâ simulations of their blood glucose hours into the future...
2025-08-2517 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIThe Tyranny of Convenience and the Wisdom Gap in AI w/ Dr. K, Bioethicist, AI Theologian @ FaithTech, & Former U.S. Intelligence OfficerWhat happens when the technology you rely on gets better every day while your own capacity remains the same? For Dr. K, theologian, bioethicist, and former U.S. intelligence officer, this is a deeply human question. With two decades in applied ethics, 14 books, and a career spanning hospital ethics, ministry, and service in the intelligence community, she brings a rare perspective on AIâs impact on human worth and agency. In this conversation, Daniel and Dr. K explore the âwisdom gap,â the widening distance between human limits and accelerating AI capacity. They discuss the âtyranny of conve...
2025-08-2243 min
What Would Jesus TechLearning and Building AI, with Daniel ManaryDoing AI Right?Daniel Manary has held various roles in AI, including CTO of PlaySpace, CTO at Kenesense.AI, Machine Learning Engineer at ProNavigator, and CTO at SimulFit Technologies, among others. He is also the host of Artificial Insights, a podcast where he interviews AI Product Leaders to seperate hype from impact.In this episode, Andrew Noble sits down with Daniel Manary, host of Artificial Insights, for a conversation that blends faith, technology, and the future. Together, they explore the hidden motivations driving AI, the ethical questions we canât afford to ignore, and the su...
2025-08-2032 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIInfinite Efficiency and Human Value w/ Dr. Christopher Watkin, ARC Future Fellow & Associate Professor @ Monash UniversityWhat happens when the work youâve built your identity around can be done faster, and sometimes better, by AI?For Dr. Christopher Watkin, philosopher, theologian, and associate professor at Monash University, AIâs greatest impact may be the questions it forces us to ask: What is work for? Where do we find value when productivity is no longer scarce? And what does this moment reveal about what it means to be human?In this episode, Daniel and Dr. Watkin discuss âhumanity of the gaps,â the risk of defining ourselves only by what AI canât yet do...
2025-08-1549 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBefore and After ChatGPT: Using AI Without Losing Ourselves w/ Sheldon Fernandez, Former CEO @ DarwinAIBefore ChatGPT, Sheldon Fernandez knew what it was to wrestle with a sentence until it worked. As an AI ethics speaker, former AI CEO, and theologian, heâs seen whatâs gained, and whatâs lost, when the work of critical thinking is just a click away.Now, as his children grow up in a world where AI can answer every question and affirm every feeling, heâs asking what that means for how we learn, relate, and make decisions. Sheldon brings a rare mix of technical expertise and philosophical insight to questions at the heart of AI and h...
2025-08-0840 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIArtificial Insights Trailer: How To Do AI Right w/ Daniel ManaryThis is Artificial Insights, where we talk to leaders and thinkers in AI about what it means to do AI right. Welcome to Season 3.This season is a special âsummer breakâ for the month of August. Weâre moving from our usual focus on AI products to explore AI ethics. Weâll be examining the questions of purpose, trust, and responsibility that shape, whether consciously or not, every decision about AI.AI brings up big, existential questions like no other technology ever has. Weâre not just wondering whether weâll find our next job, weâre wonder...
2025-08-0607 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIDoing AI Right: Lessons from 11 Leaders Whoâve Seen What Works (and What Doesnât) w/ Daniel ManaryAI is everywhere but not every implementation works.In this Season 2 recap of Artificial Insights, Daniel revisits the most powerful moments from conversations with eleven leaders building AI in the real world. These guests have seen what happens when AI is rushed, misused, or built without purpose, as well as what it takes to create AI that lasts.Across three themes, their voices reveal patterns worth paying attention to:1ď¸âŁ The risks of rushing into AI and what happens when pressure overrides purposeđ§ Jennifer Moss, author of "Why are we here?", speaking on the fal...
2025-08-0113 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: What Happens to Jobs When AI Scales Output 35x? w/ Nicolas Tobis, VP Data & Generative AI @ ReliasAI is reshaping work in ways that are more complex than the headlines suggest. Nicolas Tobis has seen both sides: some roles shrink, others expand, and entirely new ones appear. At one education company, AI cut the content team by 80% while output soared to 35 times its previous level.In this bonus episode, Daniel and Nico dig into what these shifts mean for workers and companies alike. They talk about when efficiency gains help teams grow, when they lead to cuts, and how roles in healthcare education are moving from creating content to validating it.Itâs...
2025-07-2505 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIUsing AI to Train Doctors, Build Empathy, and Rethink SaaS w/ Nicolas Tobis, VP Data & Generative AI @ ReliasAI is now being used to teach and measure something most people think of as deeply human: empathy.In healthcare, where conversations can be as critical as treatments, Nicolas Tobis, VP of Data and AI at Relias, and his team have been building AI training simulations for nurses and doctors. These tools let clinicians practice difficult conversations with AI-powered virtual patients and get feedback on how empathetic they were.Itâs not just roleplay. The AI reacts naturally, evaluates empathy, and even gives feedback. As one nurse said, âI really wanted to hold the AIâs hand...
2025-07-1830 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: The Best AI Users Are Always Women w/ Jonathan Green, AI Digital Transformation ExpertSome people try to engineer perfect prompts. Others just talk and get better results.Jonathan Green has seen how a conversational, almost playful approach to AI changes the results you get. The people he calls master prompters name their AI, treat it like a collaborator, and, often without realizing it, unlock responses others struggle to reach.In this bonus episode, Jonathan shares why these habits are hard to teach but powerful to watch in action, and why the best results often come from those who think theyâre ânot very goodâ at AI.đ§ Curious w...
2025-07-1103 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AILet the AI Ask the Questions w/ Jonathan Green, AI Digital Transformation ExpertâThe best AI users are always women, and theyâre always super high creative types.âJonathan Green has seen what many AI builders overlook: the most effective AI users arenât technical experts: theyâre creative communicators who treat AI like a teammate. They name their agents, talk to them conversationally, and rarely get frustrated when something doesnât work.After being fired from his university job in a snowstorm, Jonathan built a business around real-world AI use. From a tropical island, he now consults on AI automation and business workflows, helping teams solve problems without over...
2025-07-0450 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: How Can an AI Business Build a Moat? w/ Carlos Almeida, Founder & CEO @ OptaveInvestors often ask Carlos Almeida the same question: if your AI is built on someone elseâs model, whatâs your moat?For him, the answer starts with building what the model canât: controls that keep AI aligned with a companyâs goals, interfaces that let humans guide its decisions, and ways to manage and expand its usable data.In this conversation, Daniel and Carlos explore the risks of relying on a modelâs default behavior, the challenge of separating fact from fabrication, and why adding trust and control might be just as valuable as improvi...
2025-07-0105 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIEarning the Right to Automate w/ Carlos Almeida, Founder & CEO @ OptaveAI customer support can improve service without replacing people, and Carlos Almeida believes that starting with automation is the wrong approach.At Optave, the company he co-founded, the focus is on AI copilots that help enterprise customer support agents work more effectively, with automation only when the conditions are right. That means mapping every step of a support journey, building AI quality controls so responses meet standards, and giving companies the ability to guide what the AI is doing as part of a broader enterprise automation strategy.Carlos has worked in customer support long enough...
2025-06-2035 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: Why the AI Revolution Feels Different w/ Mike Kirkup, Founder of Arlo, CTO @ EnPoweredAI hype cycles come and go, but the difference with this AI wave is how widely it touches every corner of business and work.Mike Kirkup has seen big shifts before, from the rise of smartphones at BlackBerry to the explosion of web apps, but he says AI feels different because âeverybodyâs working on it,â even if not everyone realises it yet. That ubiquity creates both urgency and overwhelm: whole functions like customer success may need to be rethought, while companies like Klarna are already reversing course on automation-first strategies.In this bonus clip, Daniel...
2025-06-1604 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBuilding Goal-Oriented AI w/ Mike Kirkup, Founder of Arlo, CTO @ EnPoweredAI is changing the way lenders and brokers process deals, and itâs not by replacing people, but by rethinking how the work gets done.Mike Kirkup didnât set out to build a product for the finance industry. As CTO at EnPowered, he spent too much time on the repetitive work of gathering and verifying loan documents. Solving that problem led to building what would become Arlo, an AI-powered loan processing platform for commercial lending and document automation.Today, Arlo is used by lenders and brokers across North America to streamline loan document collection and...
2025-06-0641 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: What Electricity Can Teach Us About The Future of AI w/ Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, Co-Founder & CEO @ KodifElectricity didnât just replace coal, it also created television, film, and entire industries no one predicted. What surprising roles might AI play in our lives?In this bonus episode, Daniel and Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov explore the future of humanâAI connection. They talk about AI as coach, companion, and collaborator, and even share a provocative hot take: in the next decade, humanâAI marriages might not seem so impossible.They also reflect on historyâs surprises, from electricity leading to television to new industries no one predicted, and ask what unexpected opportunities AI might open next.
2025-05-3004 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIEmpowering Non-Technical Support Teams to Manage AI w/ Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, Co-Founder & CEO @ KodifCustomer support has always been built around humans doing the work. At Kodif, Co-Founder and CEO Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov is rethinking that âatomic unit of workâ with AI customer support agents that can resolve complex tickets, spot patterns in incoming cases, and recommend process improvements, all while keeping human oversight in place.Kodifâs AI automation platform empowers non-technical teams to design, test, and run their own support workflows. The result: faster resolutions, better insights, and new roles like âAI Managerâ appearing inside customer experience teams.In this episode, Daniel talks with Chyngyz about why the first wave...
2025-05-2341 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: Why You Need Brand and Product to Work Together w/ Tair Asim, Head of Product @ Sync, formerly buildspaceFor builders, community is more than just an audience, itâs the foundation of the product. After all, those early users shape the product.For Tair Asim, Sage worked at buildspace because the community already trusted the brand. That trust meant people filled out profiles, gave feedback, and kept showing up, even when the product was rough around the edges.In this bonus episode, Daniel and Tair explore the connection between brand and product, why community buy-in matters for marketplace-style tools, and how focusing on a specific niche can make growth faster and more meaningful. ...
2025-05-1603 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIHow to Build Defensible AI Products w/ Tair Asim, Head of Product @ Sync, formerly buildspaceAI isnât just changing how we work. Itâs also reshaping how we meet the people we work with.For Tair Asim, that started with Sage, where he learned AI matchmaking isnât just for dating apps, it can connect builders, spark new companies, and even launch unexpected collaborations. Instead of filling out forms, Sage asked questions in natural conversation, learned what people cared about, and connected them with others who shared their goals. The result was unexpected collaborations: from a footballer in Milan launching an AI project with a neighbor heâd never met, to communit...
2025-05-1238 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: After 0->1: I built a product, now what? w/ Alexander Millar, Co-Founder @ GovAI, formerly BonfireStartups rarely fail because the product doesnât work. More often, they fail because no one knows the product exists.Alex Millar, co-founder and CTO of GovAI, has seen how technical founders can undervalue sales and marketing. Building something that resonates is only half the challenge. Getting it into peopleâs hands, and knowing when to invest in sales talent, is what keeps companies alive.In this bonus clip, Alex talks about why âif a tree falls in the forestâ is a dangerous mindset for founders, why timing matters when bringing on sales and marketing, and why...
2025-04-1804 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBringing AI to Government w/ Alexander Millar, Co-Founder @ GovAI, formerly BonfireAI is making its way into one of the hardest customer segments to break into: government.AI adoption in government is notoriously difficult. Strict compliance rules, complex procurement, and slow adoption cycles can stall even the best ideas. Alex Millar, co-founder and CTO of GovAI, has navigated these challenges twice: first with Bonfire, a public sector procurement platform acquired for $108 million, and now with GovAI, which brings safe, contextual AI to public sector organizations.In this episode, Daniel and Alex talk about what it takes to sell AI into regulated industries, why pricing models can...
2025-03-2842 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: How Do You Decide What to Build w/ Bijan Vaez, CEO @ MerchkitBig markets mean room to pivot, but also room to get lost. Where do you start? For Bijan Vaez, that meant starting in product photography and ending up deep in retail data. Along the way, he discovered why AI often fails when itâs layered on top of messy information, and how fixing the source of data can unlock far more value than chasing features. In this bonus episode, Daniel and Bijan talk about pivots, finding the right market, and how to listen for what customers actually need. đ§ Curious where the full story leads...
2025-03-2107 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIThe AI Strategy That Makes Business More Human w/ Bijan Vaez, CEO @ MerchkitMost retail AI tools promise to help you sell more. Bijan Vaez started by asking a simpler question: what if the problem is the data itself?That question pulled him from early AI experiments in product photography into the unglamorous but critical work of AI-powered product catalog management. As CEO of Merch Kit (and a three-time founder and former CTO who has scaled SaaS products to millions of users), he helps large brands, marketplaces, and enterprise retailers clean, enrich, and structure their product information. The goal: make it usable across multiple channels without weeks of manual effort.
2025-03-1539 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: How is AI Anxiety changing the world? w/ Jennifer Moss, International Speaker and Author of "Why are we here?"AI is rising quickly on executive agendas. In 2019, technology wasnât even in the top six disruptors CEOs worried about. By 2022, it was number one. Jennifer Moss has seen how this shift is creating pressure at the top and anxiety throughout the workforce. Many leaders feel pushed to adopt AI without a clear plan, while employees see change coming without knowing what it means for their future. The result: disengagement at levels not seen in a decade. In this bonus episode, Daniel and Jennifer talk about the gap between the promise of AI and the wa...
2025-03-0705 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AINavigating AI Anxiety and FOBO w/ Jennifer Moss, International Speaker and Author of "Why are we here?""We're in the multiverse of work. We're not in the future of work. We're in a whole different timeline."For executives, HR leaders, and founders, that means leading teams in a workplace reshaped by the pandemic, accelerated by AI adoption, and filled with employees asking new questions about their careers. Jennifer Moss, Harvard Business Review columnist and workplace culture expert, has seen how AI anxiety and the fear of becoming obsolete are driving disengagement, turnover, and missed opportunities for growth.In this special conversation, Daniel and Jennifer talk about leadership strategies for AI adoption, how...
2025-02-2848 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: Touching the AI Elephant w/ Atif Khan, Chief AI Officer @ MessagepointAI often feels different depending on where you stand. For Atif Khan, itâs like the story of the blind men and the elephant, except this time the animal might be a dinosaur. The scale of AI means each personâs experience is partial, and the only way to make sense of it is to keep learning, testing, and coming back to see more of the whole.In this bonus episode, Daniel and Atif talk about why the journey with AI has to be hands-on, how quickly tools like ChatGPT have shifted from curiosity to âcognit...
2025-02-2107 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBecoming an AI First Company w/ Atif Khan, Chief AI Officer @ MessagepointWhen Atif Khan hears âAI first,â he isnât thinking about adding a single feature. Heâs thinking about how a company sees its problems and whether teams can imagine solutions they couldnât have built before.As Chief AI Officer at Messagepoint, heâs leading a shift that touches everything from how teams work with data to how they design customer communication workflows.In this episode, Daniel and Atif talk about what it takes to make AI first thinking real inside a business, why every team (not just engineering) needs to work with AI tools, and h...
2025-02-1543 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBonus Short: How Education is Failing our Children w/ Patrick Belliveau, Managing Partner @ Gambit TechnologiesWhat happens when schools punish students for using the very tools they will need in the workplace?In this bonus episode, Patrick Belliveau shares a candid view on how education is mishandling AI adoption. From unreliable AI checkers that wrongly accuse students of plagiarism to graduates entering the job market without ever learning how to use the tools employers expect, he argues that putting children âon trialâ for using AI is both harmful and shortsighted.Patrick and Daniel talk about what education is really for, why measuring intelligence by information retention no longer makes sense, and...
2025-02-0806 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIAccidentally Founding an AI Business w/ Patrick Belliveau, Managing Partner @ Gambit TechnologiesWhat happens when you build AI without chasing the hype?For Patrick Belliveau, Managing Partner at Gambit Technologies, staying bootstrapped was more than a financial choice. It kept his team focused on building features people truly needed and would pay for, rather than chasing short-lived opportunities. That discipline allowed them to adapt quickly as new models emerged and avoid the trap of investing in features that disappeared overnight.Patrickâs story began with AskEllyn, an AI companion designed to support breast cancer patients and their families. Starting with a single manuscript and launched for free, As...
2025-01-311h 01
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIArtificial Insights: How AI is Changing the Future of Work and Business w/ Daniel ManaryWhat makes an AI product more than just hype? In Season Two of Artificial Insights, host Daniel Manary returns with new voices, bigger questions, and a sharper focus on building AI that lasts. Joined by âNot Daniel,â his AI voice double, Daniel shares whatâs ahead: conversations every Friday, a companion newsletter, and guests who are pushing AI beyond the buzz. The podcast is still grounded in the same mission: to stand at the âgateâ of businesses building with AI, to listen closely, and to ask what separates temporary noise from long-term impact. Whether yo...
2025-01-2102 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIArtificial Insights: How is AI Changing the Future of Work and Business?What happens when AI moves from theory to practice? Season one explored the messy, human answers.From launching startups to reshaping industries, the first season of Artificial Insights dug into AI in practice, not just in theory. Guests shared hard-won lessons about why simplicity often beats sophistication, how to lead responsibly through uncertainty, and why AIâs real value lies in solving the right problems.Daniel looks back at highlights from every conversation: Anwar Jeffrey on why âsmart enoughâ beats over-engineered. Listen to the full episode: https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/1635320/ Jake Walker on starti...
2024-12-2716 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIAI Insights vs. Human Judgment w/ Kris Braun, Founding CTO @ RunQL, formerly Google, Bonfire, & Repeat FounderWhat does it mean to keep human judgment at the center when AI can handle more of the work?For Kris Braun, co-founder and CTO of RunQL, the answer lies in augmentation rather than abdication. With experience launching serverless products at Google and founding multiple ventures, Kris has seen how tools can help or hinder depending on how theyâre used. At RunQL, his team is building AI-powered workflows that support data professionals while keeping their expertise in the loop.In this episode, Daniel and Kris explore why access to data alone isnât en...
2024-12-0639 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIFrom DOS Servers to Generative AI: Lessons on Enterprise Automation w/ Chris Wynder, PhD & Director @ OpenTextIs AI a threat to jobs, or is the real risk failing to learn how to use it? Chris Wynder thinks the second. With a PhD in developmental neurobiology and a career thatâs spanned biotech, consulting, and enterprise software, Chris has seen how each wave of technology shifts work. Now as Director of the Developer Program and Product Marketing at OpenText, he helps thousands of developers and partners navigate automation and AI. In this episode, Chris and Daniel discuss why hospitals still rely on DOS servers for life-critical machines, what distinguishes personal productivity tools fr...
2024-11-2246 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBootstrapping and Scaling Wellness and Therapy Using AI w/ Addy Bhatia, Founder @ Suno WellnessAI can make mental health and wellness apps scalable⌠but should it?Founder Addy Bhatia argues the point isnât to mimic a therapist or build a âfriend.â Itâs to listen well, respect boundaries, and integrate care. In this episode, Addy shares why Suno avoids avatars and pronouns, why the logo is an ear, and how the product sits alongside real relationships rather than replacing them. He walks through the pivot from consumer app to working with therapists and clinics, and why âget to wow fasterâ matters in a crowded market. Daniel and Addy also dig into...
2024-11-0848 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIWhy Most Tech Projects Fail (And How to Fix It) w/ Peter Carr, PhD & Associate Professor @ University of WaterlooMost technology pilots never make it past the trial stage. What separates the few that succeed from the many that stall?Peter Carr, associate professor at the University of Waterloo, has spent years helping leaders navigate that shift. His work spans the Faculty of Engineering and the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, where he teaches and researches how organizations can adopt technology responsibly. He has advised dozens of companies on digital transformation, AI adoption, and the cultural and process changes needed to make it real.In this conversation, Daniel and Peter talk about why 70...
2024-10-2542 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIMethodical AI Intrapreneurship w/ Prerna Kaul, PM @ Amazon, Walmart, Moderna, Panasonic WellWhereâs the line between empowering workers with AI and replacing them?Prerna Kaul has faced that question firsthand. While launching Walmartâs first Canadian mobile app, she met customers worried that automation might erase human jobs. Years later at Moderna, she led the build of an internal generative AI platform that supported 750 custom GPTs to help the company pursue an ambitious goal of 15 vaccines in five years. Today sheâs applying those lessons at Panasonic Well, shaping AI for family wellness.In this conversation, Daniel and Prerna talk through her journey from engineer to produc...
2024-10-1145 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIWhen AI Goes Wrong: $20K Bills, Bad Data, and What Leaders Should Know w/ Mandip Kanjiya, Founder @ Vite HR & HeyFlyerAI can save money and time. Or it can generate a $20,000 bill overnight. What makes the difference?Mandip Kanjiya has shipped AI-powered products in HR, insurance, and identity verification. Some worked. Some didnât. Each one taught clear lessons for leaders who want AI to help, not hurt. In this conversation, Mandip shows why an âadvisory layerâ helps teams avoid leaking sensitive data, how on-device processing cuts costs and compliance exposure, and where using proven models beats trying to build your own.Daniel and Mandip get specific: claims triage that moved faster once the workflow was re...
2024-09-2743 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIThe Hardest Part of AI Is Knowing When Not to Use It w/ Jake Walker, Product Leader, formerly Toyota, DarwinAIThe hardest part of AI isnât the technology. Itâs knowing when not to use it. Jake Walker has led products at Toyota, Otto Motors, DarwinAI, and Sportsnet. Across each role, he has seen that success does not come from using AI everywhere, it comes from matching the right technology to the problem. Sometimes that means deep learning, but often the solution is much simpler. In this episode, Daniel and Jake explore the difference between capability, feature, and technology. Jake explains why voice and vision need AI, but why many manufacturing and streaming challenges can...
2024-09-1337 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIWhy âDumb AIâ Gets to Production Faster w/ Anwar Jeffrey, CTO @ Glowstick, formerly BonfireWhat if the smartest move in AI isnât chasing the shiniest model, but keeping things simple enough to work in production?Anwar Jeffrey has lived that lesson. As co-founder and CTO of Glowstick, he built a revenue operations assistant that helps post-sales teams detect expansion opportunities, churn risks, and customer needs hidden in everyday conversations. But instead of leaning on expensive neural nets or large language models, his team focused on what he calls âdumb AIâ: intent detection, sentiment, and similarity signals combined in pragmatic ways that delivered real value.In this conversation, Daniel and An...
2024-08-3053 min
Artificial Insights: Conversations About AIBuilding AI That People Need with Daniel ManaryHost Daniel Manary delves into the essential aspects of creating AI products that meets people's needs. Daniel explores the motivation behind building impactful AI solutions, then questions one of the most groundbreaking technologies in our lifetime about what makes it so impactful.
2024-07-0306 min