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Built This WeekClaude Design Changes Everything (Figma in Trouble?)This week on Built This Week, we break down one of the most interesting new AI product launches in recent memory: Claude Design.No demos. No fluff. Just what happens when AI starts replacing traditional design workflows.We cover: • What Claude Design is and how it works • Creating ad campaigns, decks, and full product redesigns with simple prompts • Why it could become a serious competitor to tools like Figma • How teams are exporting AI designs directly into production code • The rumored xAI / Cursor deal and what it means for the coding race • ChatGPT I...
2026-04-2520 minBuilt This WeekThis AI Tool Turns Meetings Into Jira Tickets InstantlyThis week on Built This Week, we break down how AI helped a non-technical teammate build a real internal product that now helps teams move faster across the company.No buzzwords. No fake use cases. Just real AI in production.We cover: • The AI tool that automates meeting follow-up work • How transcripts become tickets, reports, and dashboards • Why internal AI products are becoming a huge advantage • How companies can train non-technical teams to build • What happens when everyone can create software • Why the next wave of AI is about empowermentIf...
2026-04-1719 minBuilt This WeekWe Built an AI Tool That Replaced a Week of WorkThis week on Built This Week, we break down a real AI tool we built that’s already saving days of work in production.No demos. No fluff. Just how AI is actually being used inside a real business.We cover: • The internal tool that replaced complex spreadsheets and cut turnaround time in half • How we generate client-ready presentations instantly with AI • Why tool selection matters more than ever in the agentic era • Google AI Studio and how we use it to prototype fast • Anthropic’s unreleased model and what it means for AI saf...
2026-04-1023 minBuilt This WeekHow We Built an AI Video Editor for Recruiters (Remotion + Claude + Codex)Our recruiters are not video editors.But now they can cut highlight reels in minutes.In Episode 36 of Built This Week, we break down a tool we built internally at Ryz Labs that lets our recruiting team generate polished candidate highlight videos without touching Premiere, Final Cut, or CapCut.The problem:When presenting candidates to clients, resumes are standard. But seeing a candidate speak for 60 seconds changes everything.The issue was speed. Editing sizzle reels required our video team, added delays, and was not scalable.So...
2026-03-2218 minBuilt This WeekAI Agents Are Replacing Entire Marketing TeamsMarketing teams are about to change forever.Instead of hiring designers, copywriters, analysts, SEO specialists, and performance marketers… companies are starting to run AI marketing agents that handle everything.From planning campaigns to creating content, analyzing performance data, generating ads, and optimizing strategy automatically.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Iliya Valchanov, CEO of Juma, to explore how AI agents are transforming modern marketing workflows.Juma is building an AI marketing super-agent that can autonomously plan, execute, and optimize marketing campaigns across ch...
2026-03-1529 minBuilt This WeekAI Is Rebuilding Clinical TrialsClinical trials are one of the slowest and most expensive processes in modern medicine.It can take 10–15 years and up to $3 billion to bring a new drug to market — and many trials fail simply because they can’t enroll enough patients.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Dr. Chadi Nabhan, Chief Medical Officer at RyghtAI, to explore how AI-powered digital twins of clinical trial sites can dramatically improve the speed and success of clinical trials.RyghtAI has built a platform that creates digital twins of tho...
2026-03-0726 min
Reader's ForecastVariety OMG (Wk 2 Mar 2026)Variety, genres, and authors — oh my! This week’s episode features 8 must-read books ranging from fantasy to history, from established to debut authors. Stay tuned for an exploration of books taking us where no one has read before.This podcast was not sponsored nor elicited . All books were selected by the host. URLs for the books in this episode will be included on www.readersforecast.com (soon).Publishing Week: 2 March 2026Major Retailers:Barnes & Noble (all formats)Rakuten Kobo (ebook & audiobook)eBooks.com (ebooks only)Amazon.com (all...
2026-03-0727 minBuilt This WeekAI Is Transforming Construction — We’re Entering a Golden EraConstruction has lagged behind every major industry in technology adoption.Manual data entry. Spreadsheets. Email-based procurement. Slow invoice approvals. Paper delivery tickets.That’s finally changing.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Eldar (Field Materials AI) to break down how AI is automating procurement for commercial and civil contractors — from reading quotes and invoices to verifying pricing, matching delivery tickets, and integrating directly with ERPs.Field Materials builds AI agents that eliminate manual data entry across the procure-to-pay cycle for electrical, mechanical, conc...
2026-02-2827 min
Delta: HealthTech InnovatorsHow OpenEvidence Became a $12 Billion AI Healthcare Giant | Full BreakdownOpenEvidence just hit a $12 billion valuation — here's the full story of how it happened. Daniel Nadler sold his first company, Kensho, to S&P Global for $550 million. Then he turned his attention to one of the most broken systems in the world — medical information.Hosts Roupen Odabashian, MD and Osama Hyder break down the full story of OpenEvidence — the AI-powered clinical decision support platform now used by 40% of US physicians, handling 358,000 queries per day.We cover Daniel's origin story from Toronto to Harvard PhD, the Federal Reserve, and the founding of Kensho in 2013. We explore the $5...
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Delta: HealthTech InnovatorsHow OpenEvidence Became a $12 Billion AI Healthcare Giant | Full BreakdownOpenEvidence just hit a $12 billion valuation — here's the full story of how it happened. Daniel Nadler sold his first company, Kensho, to S&P Global for $550 million. Then he turned his attention to one of the most broken systems in the world — medical information.Hosts Roupen Odabashian, MD and Osama Hyder break down the full story of OpenEvidence — the AI-powered clinical decision support platform now used by 40% of US physicians, handling 358,000 queries per day.We cover Daniel's origin story from Toronto to Harvard PhD, the Federal Reserve, and the founding of Kensho in 2013. We explore the $5...
2026-02-233h 57
Delta: HealthTech InnovatorsHow OpenEvidence Became a $12 Billion AI Healthcare Giant | Full BreakdownOpenEvidence just hit a $12 billion valuation — here's the full story of how it happened. Daniel Nadler sold his first company, Kensho, to S&P Global for $550 million. Then he turned his attention to one of the most broken systems in the world — medical information.Hosts Roupen Odabashian, MD and Osama Hyder break down the full story of OpenEvidence — the AI-powered clinical decision support platform now used by 40% of US physicians, handling 358,000 queries per day.We cover Daniel's origin story from Toronto to Harvard PhD, the Federal Reserve, and the founding of Kensho in 2013. We explore the $5...
2026-02-233h 58Built This WeekFrom DNA to Drugs: How AI Is Rewriting Human BiologyDNA is just another language.In Episode 32 of Built This Week, we sit down with Dov Gertz, founder of Converge Bio, to explore how generative AI is transforming drug discovery.Every human can be represented as 3.2 billion nucleotides built from four letters: A, C, G, and T. If computers run on zeros and ones, we run on biological code.Converge Bio is training frontier foundation models on DNA, RNA, proteins, and small molecules — helping biotech and pharma companies design better drugs, faster and cheaper.We also demo a retro-inspired “Cell Defense Aren...
2026-02-2130 minBuilt This WeekHow AI Is Replacing 100-Hour Due Diligence (Claude 4.6, Private Equity, and Emblem)Private equity due diligence used to take hundreds of hours. Now it takes seconds.In Episode 31 of Built This Week, we sit down with August Kiles, Head of Product at Emblem, to break down how AI is transforming investment funds — from venture capital to growth equity to private equity.Emblem is building what they call the “last platform investors will ever need” — a system that ingests entire data rooms, extracts financials, compares deals, generates reports in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and helps funds get to a “no” faster.We also demo a portfolio scenario sim...
2026-02-1425 minBuilt This WeekClaude Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the Rise of Multi-Agent AIThe biggest shift in AI isn’t a new model. It’s agents managing other agents.In Episode 30 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner break down how they’re actually using the latest AI releases — including Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Codex 5.3 — to build real software inside their own workflows.Jordan walks through a private, fully local AI system built with Claude Code that turns raw 23andMe data, blood work, medications, and personal health inputs into a unified health dashboard. The goal isn’t diagnostics — it’s creating a long-term, living record that surfaces ins...
2026-02-0718 minBuilt This WeekWe Built an AI Recruiter Coach in 6 Hours (Plus Claude Cowork in Real Time)Can you really build serious internal AI tools in a few hours — and should everyone on your team be doing it?In Episode 29 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner break down an internal AI product they built at Ryz Labs called ScreenEval — a recruiter screen analysis and coaching tool built in under six hours using Claude Code, Supabase, and AWS.We start with a live demo. Sam walks through how ScreenEval ingests recruiter screen transcripts, evaluates candidates, scores recruiter performance, and provides concrete coaching feedback — all without overriding human judgment. The real unlock...
2026-02-0120 minBuilt This WeekWhy You Can't Pen Test an Airplane — AI Cybersecurity for AviationCan you really hack an airplane? And if so, how do you test for it without grounding the fleet for a year?In Episode 28 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Eero Salih, CTO of Syberian, to explore how AI is transforming cybersecurity for commercial aviation.We start with a live demo — a flight ops cyber radar Sam built to surface real-time security risks across airline operations. Then Eero breaks down what Syberian actually does: building digital twins of aircraft systems to run risk assessments without ever touching the physical pl...
2026-01-2420 minBuilt This WeekWe Let AI Control Our Data Warehouse — The Results Were SHOCKINGCan AI actually reduce cloud costs — or does it just create better dashboards?In Episode 27 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are joined by Ben, CEO of Espresso AI, to break down a real production system that uses machine learning to actively optimize data warehouse compute in real time.We walk through a live demo built specifically to expose hidden inefficiencies inside Snowflake and Databricks environments — from over-refreshing dashboards to duplicated queries and underutilized clusters. Then we go deep on how Espresso AI works under the hood: proxy-based routing, workload-aware ML models, and...
2026-01-1625 minBuilt This WeekWe Built an AI Trading Bot for Prediction Markets — Here’s What Actually HappenedCan AI actually beat prediction markets — or does the house always win?In Episode 26 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner kick off 2026 by breaking down a real AI trading bot Jordan built for prediction markets like Kalshi, using live market data, whale detection, coordination signals, and confidence scoring.Jordan walks through the full system — backend, frontend, live alerts, and execution logic — and shares the honest results: a 66 percent win rate that still lost money once fees and market dynamics were factored in.The takeaway is not hype. It is reality.T...
2026-01-0929 min
Built This WeekCar Dealers Are Losing Inventory — AI Is the Only FixCar dealerships are losing inventory — and most don’t realize why.Consumers now expect instant pricing, zero friction, and immediate engagement, yet most dealers still rely on slow callbacks, manual workflows, and outdated acquisition models. The result? Cars go straight to Carvana or CarMax.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Anthony Monteiro, CEO & Founder of Auto Acquire AI, to break down how AI is fundamentally changing how dealerships acquire vehicles directly from consumers.Auto Acquire AI gives everyday car dealers — small, medium, and large — the same...
2025-12-1927 min
Built This WeekThis AI Fills Healthcare Shifts in MinutesHome healthcare is breaking.Staffing shortages, last-minute cancellations, credential checks, compliance requirements, and manual scheduling are overwhelming care teams and putting patient outcomes at risk.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Arya Health leadership to see how AI is already replacing hours of manual healthcare operations with real production systems.Arya Health uses AI to instantly match patients with the right caregivers based on credentials, availability, location, eligibility scoring, and compliance rules all while remaining fully HIPAA compliant.In the episode, we...
2025-12-1240 minBuilt This WeekOpenAI Code Red? The New AI Reviewer Changing Everything(Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are back — and this week they’re joined by Amar Goel, CEO of BITO, the AI-powered code review agent transforming how engineering teams ship software.Jordan kicks things off by unveiling a surprise build: a fully custom BITO Slack Bot that can run PR reviews, generate stats, crack developer jokes, write haikus, and even drop into Biddo Disco Mode. Amar reacts live and pulls back the curtain on how BITO’s deep codebase analysis works — revealing how enterprise teams are merging PRs 10× faster, reducing revert rates, and catching issues that “vibe coding” tools simply...
2025-12-0533 min
The Sounds in My HeadS22,E10: 12/01/25 (XMAS! Fran Alexandre, Marissa Nadler, Hidden Cameras, Remington Super 60, Bleachers, Pelts, Yearning, Daniel Zott, Freedom Fry, Dean & Britta, Holly Macve, Sy Mann, Trapp Family Singers, Gabrielle Aplin)SPECIAL "CHRISTMAS MUSIC 2025" EPISODE! Season 22 Episode 10 Christmas Everywhere - Fran Alexandre All Love Must Die - Marissa Nadler The Most Wonderful Time of the Year - The Hidden Cameras A Folksy Christmas Song - Remington Super 60 Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call - Bleachers Merry Christmas from North California - Pelts I Just Wanna Hold Your Hand (On Christmas Day) - The Yearning When the River Meets the Sea - Daniel Zott My Evergreen - Freedom Fry Snow - Dean & Britta Blue Moon - Holly Macve My Favorite Things - Sy Mann What Child Is This...
2025-12-0154 min
Built This WeekLet's do the Math!Episode 22: Let's do the Math!—Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner return with one of the most mind-bending episodes yet. Joined by Carina, founder & CEO of Axiom Math, the startup is building a self-improving, formal-reasoning AI mathematician. The trio breaks down why math is the next AI frontier, how Lean formalization works, and why proving theorems is a completely different challenge than solving them.Jordan also unveils his newest build: the LLM Math Roaster, a tool that scores, compares, and even roasts large models on proofs, with a full leaderboard, custom problem submissions, and an API...
2025-11-2126 min
Built This WeekNot your STANDARD MarketBuilt This Week – Episode #21Not your STANDARD MarketSam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are back! And this week, they’re joined by a special guest: Angie Westbrook, CEO of Standard AI. Together, they explore one of the most creative builds yet: an AI-powered retail DJ that uses computer vision and custom AI-generated music to adjust a store’s soundtrack based on real-time foot traffic. Think: mood lighting meets AI beats, but for shopping.Angie then pulls back the curtain on Standard AI’s computer-vision platform, describing how their “Google Analytics for physical s...
2025-11-1431 min
Built This WeekCompliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the RobotsBuilt This Week – Episode #20Episode 20: Compliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the RobotsSam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are back for a landmark 20th episode of Built This Week! This time, the duo breaks down how Ryz Labs used AI to build a full compliance and education platform, complete with video-based lessons, automated tests, and certificates: all powered by Video 3.1, React, and Supabase. They also explore Google’s new AI-powered marketing tool, which auto-generates on-brand social campaigns in seconds (seriously, it’s like having a creative team in your browser). In AI News, the hos...
2025-11-0726 min
Built This WeekMirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All?Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All?It’s a spooky special! Sam Nadler (a.k.a. Bad Bunny) and Jordan Metzner (the resident vampire) celebrate Halloween with a pair of AI-powered builds that bring equal parts fun and fright. First, they unveil Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, a poetic, Gemini-powered “talking mirror” built in Google’s new AI Studio. Then, they conjure up a “Trick-or-Treat Route Optimizer,” a playful demo that uses Maps and AI to find the best candy streets in your city.In Tool of the Week, they...
2025-10-3123 min
Built This WeekTrickOrTreat!Episode 18: TrickOrTreat!Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner get into the Halloween spirit with a playful AI build — TrickOrTreat, an interactive web app that lets users snap a photo and instantly generate custom AI costumes and “Happy Halloween” videos. Built in Replit using NanoBanana and Video 3.1, it’s a perfect mix of fun, speed, and creativity. The hosts discuss how quick AI builds can boost team culture, inspire side projects, and push generative video forward.Then they spotlight Publer, the social media syndication tool that keeps their content engine running across platforms, and how it helps...
2025-10-2430 minBuilt This WeekSora API, AI Automations, and Apple’s M5 ChipEpisode 18: TrickorTreat!This week on Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner get into the Halloween spirit with a playful AI build, TrickOrTreat, an interactive web app that lets users snap a photo and instantly generate custom AI costumes and “Happy Halloween” videos. Built in Replit using NanoBanana and Video 3.1, it’s a perfect mix of fun, speed, and creativity. The hosts discuss how quick AI builds can boost team culture, inspire side projects, and push generative video forward. Then they spotlight Publer, the social media syndication tool that keeps their content engine running across platfo...
2025-10-1729 minBuilt This WeekAI Agents Reinvent ConstructionEpisode 16: AI Agents Reinvent ConstructionThis week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler sit down with Tristan Wilson, CEO of Edgevanta, an AI startup that brings automation to one of the world’s most traditional industries: construction. From parsing 1,200-page bid packages to predicting pricing with AI agents, Edgevanta is helping estimators work faster, smarter, and more profitably. Then, the hosts dive into the week’s biggest AI news: Nvidia’s $2B investment into Elon Musk’s xAI, OpenAI’s projected $1 trillion infrastructure spend, and how AI adoption is accelerating across industries, from consulting...
2025-10-1027 min