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Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessš©āš» Bonus Short: The Best AI Users Are Always WomenIn this short bonus episode, Jonathan shares a surprising observation: the most effective AI users heās met arenāt engineers, theyāre highly creative women who treat AI like a friend. They give their agents names, chat with them naturally, and never get frustrated. They donāt think theyāre experts, but their approach unlocks better answers and smoother collaboration.Jonathan calls it āfriendship-style promptingā and it just might be the missing mindset for anyone struggling to get good results from AI.2025-07-1103 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessLet the AI Ask the Questions with Jonathan Green, AI Digital Transformation ConsultantāThe best AI users are always women, and theyāre always super high creative types.āJonathan Green has seen how small choices, like naming your AI or giving it a personality, change the way people work with technology. He designs agents with personalities, skill chains, and logic trees not to make them feel human, but to make them work better. Even an emoji, can warn you when an agent is about to fail.After being fired from his university job in a snowstorm, Jonathan built a business teaching what he practices: cutting through noise and using...2025-07-0450 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessš° Bonus Short: How Can an AI Business Build a Moat?When talking to investors, Carlos Almeida repeatedly heard the question, "What is the moat?". In this short, he explains why AI businesses can't succeed if they only focus on what the AI is capable of.The models are already out there. Many are open source. So how do you build something defensible?Carlos points to three layers where product builders can create lasting value:Human-in-the-loop control interfacesDisambiguation of messy or conflicting dataPlatform-level extensions that handle trust, traceability, and contextThe best part? His insights come not from theory, but from building Optave, an...2025-07-0105 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessEarning the Right to Automate with Carlos Almeida, Founder & CEO @ OptaveMany teams want AI to take over tasks, but Carlos Almeida thinks that automation comes later. Before you hand over the work, you need to understand it, control it, and measure it.Carlos is the CEO and co-founder of Optave, where theyāre building AI copilots and autopilots for customer support. In this conversation, he shares why the real work isnāt in generating responses, but in building the systems around them: the guardrails, escalation triggers, and insights that make automation trustworthy.We talk about what makes AI useful in day-to-day operations, why trust and visi...2025-06-2035 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessšŖ© Bonus Short: Why the AI Revolution Feels DifferentIn this short, Mike Kirkup shares his experiences being on the frontlines of different tech revolutions. This AI revolution? It feels different.Why?Because everyone's working on it. Everyone's using it (or it's getting there). And it's forcing business leaders to question entire business functions and how they do things.š Resources & Linksš§ Listen to the full interview with Mike: https://rss.com/podcasts/manaryhaus/2061508/š© Subscribe to the Artificial Insights newsletter for new episodes and reflections: https://manary.haus/podcast/#hausš Found this useful? Share it with someone whoās trying to think clearly...2025-06-1604 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessBuilding Goal-Oriented AI with Mike Kirkup, Founder of Arlo, CTO @ EnPoweredAt EnPowered, Mike Kirkup ended up running the financing arm, manually collecting and validating documents... until he couldnāt take it anymore. The internal tooling he built became Arlo, a product now used by lenders to automate and augment document workflows with AI. In this episode, Daniel and Mike talk about what makes using AI different from old school automation. Yes, Arlo automates mundane tasks, but it also asks follow-up questions and flags mismatches humans miss. Mike explains how Arlo became goal-oriented rather than rules-based. That shift not only made the AI smarter, it...2025-06-0641 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessā”ļø Bonus Short: What Electricity Can Teach Us About The Future of AIWhy do we keep getting AI wrong?Itās not because itās too intelligent. Itās because weāre bad at extrapolating what intelligence makes possible.In this bonus short, Daniel shares a conversation with Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, co-founder and CEO of Kodif, who draws a striking parallel: when electricity was invented, no one predicted it would lead to television, or that actors would build careers from it.People worried about job loss in coal.They missed the entertainment industry entirely.The same thing is happening with AI. Weāre focused...2025-05-3004 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessEmpowering Non-Technical Support Teams to Manage AI with Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, CEO @ Kodif, Stanford MBAWill AI make human support teams obsolete? Kodif's answer: No, but humans will be managing and teaching AI agents. Kodif is building systems where AI agents resolve tickets, write help docs, and surface insights, all under the guidance of real people.In this episode, Daniel sits down with Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov, CEO and Co-Founder of Kodif, and the first person from Kyrgyzstan to earn an MBA from Stanford. Chyngyz shares how Kodif augments instead of replaces human support, and how his non-technical perspective helped him see opportunities others overlooked.They talk about what it means to...2025-05-2341 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessš¤ Bonus Short: Why You Need Brand and Product to Work TogetherWhen Tair Asim helped build Sage, an AI-powered networking tool for builders, the team had the tech working... but building something usable is not the same as building something people will use.In this clip, Tair reflects on what made Sage successful inside the buildspace community, and what he learned about trust, traction, and what early users need.He shares how the product changed from a long onboarding process that only worked because early users believed in the brand, to something more approachable as the product matured.Itās a rare inside look at...2025-05-1603 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessHow to Build Defensible AI Products with Tair Asim, Head of Product @ Sync, formerly buildspaceWhat happens when you combine brand, community, and AI, not just to automate tasks, but to create real human connection?In this episode, Daniel sits down with Tair Asim, creator of Sage, the AI-powered networking tool that helped thousands of builders connect through natural language, and Head of Product at Sync, where heās now leading vertical integration in AI-powered video editing.Tair shares lessons from both worlds: why Sage worked because of the community behind it (not just the tech), how vertical integration creates defensibility in a fast-moving AI market, and why focusing narrowly on...2025-05-1238 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessš„ø Bonus Short: After 0->1: I built a product, now what?When's the right time to partner with sales and marketing? Alex's journey was to build and validate a prototype with a small group of customers, then bring in distribution experts. If you can build it, you can validate it! But what got you here might not get you there.2025-04-1802 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessBringing AI to Government with Alex Millar, Co-Founder @ GovAI, formerly BonfireAre you more comfortable asking your colleagues a question, or ChatGPT? GovAI found that people preferred using AI over connecting with each other to ask questions. They liked the ease, speed, and anonymity compared to asking each other.In this episode, Daniel sat down with Alex Millar, co-founder of GovAI and former co-founder of Bonfire, which he scaled and sold for $108M after working with hundreds of public sector teams. Now heās building AI tools for a sector known for strict requirements and slow adoptionāby focusing on usage first, and letting that usage show the path...2025-03-2842 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessšļø Bonus Short: How Do You Decide What to BuildWhen deciding what product to pursue and build a business around, it turns out you can't just ask ChatGPT for advice. Join Daniel and Bijan in this bonus short as they discuss how Merchkit got to where it is now, and what it really means to iterate and innovate.Key takeaways:ā
Start with a large market: the more potential customers, the more ideas you can try before running out of people to try them with.ā
Generative AI will disrupt a lot, so pick the biggest problems that excite you. You'll spend a lot of time working on t...2025-03-2107 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessThe AI Strategy That Makes Business More Human with Bijan Vaez, CEO @ MerchkitAI is moving fast. Too fast to just pick a tool and hope it works long-term. The companies that get it right arenāt just buying softwareātheyāre building relationships with the right AI partners. In this episode, Daniel sat down with Bijan Vaez, CEO of Merchkit, 3x founder, and former co-founder of EventMobi, where he helped scale event technology to millions of users. Heās seen mobile, SaaS, and AI revolutions firsthandāand now heās tackling what makes an AI business actually last.š What Youāll Learn in This Episodeš For Founders & Execu...2025-03-1539 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessš Bonus Short: How AI Anxiety is Changing the WorldJoin Jennifer and Daniel in this bonus clip as they discuss how AI anxiety is changing the world in big ways.Key takeaways about AI Anxiety:š“ļøIt makes business leaders rush into solutions without understanding consequences (and sometimes the problems they think they're solving)š©āš§ It makes professionals lose hope for their future (especially young professionals and first time job seekers)2025-03-0705 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessNavigating AI Anxiety and FOBO with Jennifer Moss, International Speaker and Author of "Why are we here?"Is AI about to replace your jobāor is it your biggest opportunity? In this special episode, Daniel sits down with Jennifer Moss, a globally recognized expert on workplace culture, leadership, and mental health, to tackle one of the biggest concerns of our time: How will AI reshape our work, and what should we do about it?Jennifer brings stories from all walks of life and insights from the largest studies that help whether you're worried about your own future in an AI-driven world or you're a leader wondering how to navigate change without losing your best em...2025-02-2848 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessš Bonus Short: Touching the AI ElephantThe magic of AI is that it no longer requires learning a new language, like how to program. AI moves computers from data machines to cognitive companions. The best part? There's never been a better time to start using it.2025-02-2107 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessBecoming an AI-First Company with Atif Khan, Chief AI Officer @ MessagepointIs AI just another tool, or is it transforming into something much bigger? In this episode, Daniel Manary sits down with Atif Khan, Chief AI Officer at MessagePoint, to explore what it really means to be an AI-first company, how AI is evolving into a cognitive companion, and why the future of AI lies in multi-agent systems rather than single-task automation.With over 25 years of experience in AI and data science, Atif has led the development of transformative AI platforms in Customer Communication Management (CCM) and Customer360 solutions. He also mentors startups at Communitech, helping them scale...2025-02-1543 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI Businessšø Bonus Short: How Education is Failing our ChildrenAre we setting students up for failure by banning AI in schools? In this bonus short, Patrick Belliveau delivers a passionate critique of the education systemās outdated approach to technology.2025-02-0806 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessAccidentally Founding an AI Business with Patrick Belliveau, Managing Partner @ Gambit TechnologiesIs it too late to get into AI? What if you have no technical skills? Patrick shares his story of coming from sales to accidentally building an AI business, starting with an emotionally supportive cancer survivor bot that he created because he wanted it to exist.Is AI only for the highly technical and venture-backed? Not according to Patrick Belliveau. In this energizing and candid conversation, Daniel sits down with Patrickāmanaging partner at Gambit Technologiesāto unpack how he went from zero coding experience to building AI tools that are changing lives around the worl...2025-01-311h 01
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessArtificial Insights: How AI is Changing the Future of Work and Business with Daniel ManaryWelcome to Artificial Insights, the podcast where we learn to build AI people need and use by interviewing product leaders who have launched AI products.2025-01-2102 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessSeason Finale! What is the real value and use of AI? Looking back at 2024!We look back on the past season and share our favorite highlights with an extra special guest! Thanks for a wonderful first season of Artificial Insights. Stay tuned for season two. We have big plans and ideas! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!2024-12-2716 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessAI Insights vs. Human Judgment with Kris Braun, Founding CTO @ RunQL, formerly Google, Bonfire, & Repeat FounderCan (and should) AI replace expert intuition? Kris Braun shares how AI transforms data workflows, the difference between delegating to AI and abdicating responsibility, and why we can now solve previously unsolvable problems.2024-12-0639 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessTransforming Business Data with AI with Chris Wynder, PhD & Director @ OpenTextAI wonāt take your jobābut someone using it will. OpenTextās Chris Wynder explores how AI reshapes work, reveals hidden use cases, and offers insights on thriving amid change. Plus, hospitals run cardiac machines on MS-DOS? š±2024-11-2246 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessBootstrapping AI Therapy with Addy Bhatia, Founder of Suno WellnessHow do you stand out when everyone's tired of "yet another chatbot?" It's not by giving it a face and pretending it's human. Instead, Suno pivoted from D2C to B2B: supporting therapists by supporting their patients. Rather than replacing humans, Suno found its niche by being a tool that fits between a journal and a therapist.2024-11-0848 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessAdapting to AI Disruption with Peter Carr, PhD & Associate Professor70 percent of technology projects fail. Why? And how do you prevent it? Peter walks us through major challenges that AI uniquely presents and frameworks to overcome them.2024-10-2542 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessMethodical AI Intrapreneurship with Prerna Kaul, PM @ Amazon, Walmart, Moderna, Panasonic WellHow do you bring 1000 ideas down to 15 that bring $MM in savings, then get hundreds of employees to use them? Methodical intrapreneurship. From Amazon Alexa to Moderna, Prerna describes what it takes to make a difference with AI. If you're leading a project at a big company, follow her lead.The views expressed in this podcast are based on Prernaās professional experiences and expertise. They do not represent the views of her employer.2024-10-1145 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessAI on the Edge with Mandip Kanjiya, Founder of Vite HR and HeyFlyerHow can you handle PHI securely and avoid a $20k cloud bill in a day when your app goes viral? Push your AI to the edge! Repeat founder Mandip walks us through lessons learned from a variety of successful businesses and how to take advantage of edge AI.2024-09-2743 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessAI Product Management with Jake Walker, Founder in Stealth ModeHow do you decide when AI is the right tool? Jake's take: "I don't." He views his job as getting to know the problem well--not the tech--then making the business case, with AI only if needed. So when does AI create new value? Tune in to find out!2024-09-1337 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessB2B SaaS AI Startups with Anwar Jeffrey, CTO of Glowstick"If they knew how we built [the AI], it wouldn't be cool."Learn from Anwar Jeffrey, founder and CTO @ Glowstick, what it takes to launch an AI startup. It isn't about being first, being the best, or having the smartest AI -- so what is it about?2024-08-3053 min
Artificial Insights: How to Build an AI BusinessBuilding 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