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Built This Week
by Jordan Metzner, Samuel Nadler
Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.
Episodes
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He Built Siri at Apple. Now His Private AI Runs Inside the FBI, Google, and Netflix.
This week we sat down with Ivan Lee, co-founder and CEO of Datasaur, to dig into why the most regulated companies on earth are running AI on their own servers. Ivan worked on AI products at Yahoo and then on Siri at Apple before founding Datasaur eight years ago. The FBI, Google, Netflix, Zoom,...
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Every Client Is Fortune 500. What Do They Know About AI That You Don’t?
This week we sat down with Jim Olsen, co-founder and CTO of ModelOp, to explore what it takes to get AI into production inside Fortune 500 companies. Building a model is only part of the job. Knowing where it runs, what it costs, who owns it, and whether it meets company policies is where things...
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Nobody Takes Notes Anymore. 5 Million People Let AI Do It Instead.
This week we sat down with Rob Williams, co-founder and CTO of Read AI, to dig into what 5 million monthly active users actually looks like at the product and infrastructure level. Most people know Read AI as a meeting note taker. Rob winces every time he hears that. What it really does is…
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He Ran a Rocket Launch Company. Now He Is Building Autocomplete for Hardware Design.
He Ran a Rocket Launch Company. Now He Is Building Autocomplete for Hardware Design. This week we sat down with Sohrab Haghighat, CEO and co-founder of Hestus, to demo the AI layer that sits on top of your existing CAD software and autocompletes your next design move. Rob spent years as an...
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She Sold Her First AI Company to Google in 2009. Now She Is Fixing How Teams Work.
This week we sat down with Jennifer Dulski, CEO and founder of Rising Team, to demo the AI leadership platform that acts as a personal trainer for your effectiveness at work. Jen spent 10 years at Yahoo, then Google, then Facebook, ran Change.org for five years, and sold her first AI company to...
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It Ships While You Sleep. The AI Agent OS a Former Google Engineer Built After Leaving Google.
This week we sat down with David Petrou, CEO of Continua, to demo Wheely — an agent development operating system built for developers running multiple AI coding agents who are hitting the wall of mental overhead. David spent 18 years at Google, was on the founding teams of Google Glass and Google...
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Physics Simulation for Chip Design Used to Take Days. This AI Does It in Seconds.
This week we sat down with Hardik Kabaria, co-founder and CEO of Vinci, to demo the AI platform making physics simulation accessible to any engineer building hardware. A chip tape-out used to cost millions of dollars and take months. Thermal analysis that should take seconds was waiting days for…
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A Ten Minute Phone Video Replaces Hours of Home Inspections. We Demo the AI Doing It.
This week we sit down with Zach Rattner, CTO and co-founder of Yembo, to demo the computer vision platform that turns a ten minute phone walkthrough into a full home inventory, 3D model, and floor plan. Deployed in 35 countries, running thousands of inspections every day for moving companies and...
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The Code Running Your Plane Was Written Decades Ago. This Startup Proves It Still Works.
This week we sit down with Ryan Aytay, President and COO of Code Metal, to dig into one of the most underestimated problems in tech — the legacy code running mission critical infrastructure across aerospace, defense, automotive, and medical devices. Code Metal translates that code to any hardware...
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AI Agents Doing Commercial Real Estate Due Diligence in Minutes. We Demo It Live.
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Jackson, co-founder of Realm AI, to demo the platform replacing months of manual due diligence with AI agents that find, compile, and cite every piece of data on any commercial property in the US in minutes. We also go deep on the SpaceX IPO, what the...
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We Tested Claude 4 Fable and Deployed Enterprise Agents Without a Single Data Migration
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Emanuele Melis, who leads Field Engineering at AI One, to demo how enterprises are deploying AI agents right now without needing a massive data transformation first. We also go deep on Claude 4 Fable — first impressions, token spend chaos, the '100x…
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Your Pipeline Is Lying to You. This AI Fixes It After Every Sales Call
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Anis Bennaceur, co-founder and CEO of Attention, to demo the AI-native Revenue Operating System that automates CRM updates, sales coaching, and pipeline forecasting after every call. Sam also demos a Monte Carlo forecast dashboard he built on top of...
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This AI Platform Lets Anyone in Your Company Manage Operations Without a Single Engineer
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Wiley Jones, CEO and co-founder of Doss, to demo an AI-native operations platform built for mid-market companies managing the flow of goods, dollars, and data. He incorporated the company a month before ChatGPT existed. We cover: What Doss is and why…
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The AI Product Team Replacement? Inside Autonomy AI’s Live Demo
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Adir, CEO and co-founder of Autonomy AI, to demo the platform helping enterprise teams build, update, and ship product changes directly on top of their existing codebase. No slides. Just a live walkthrough of the real product. We cover: What Autonomy…
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The Voice AI Platform Built for Enterprises That Actually Need to Scale
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Karim, founder and CEO of Breeze (heybreez.ai), to demo the enterprise voice agent platform built for companies that actually need to run AI at scale. No slides. No prep. Just a live walkthrough of the real product. We cover: What Breeze is and how it...
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This Headset Reads Your Brain in Real Time. We Demo It Live.
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Ramses Alcaide, founder of Neural, to demo a noninvasive brain computer interface that tracks your focus in real time through a pair of headphones. No surgery. No implants. Just data. We cover: What a brain computer interface actually is and how it...
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Claude 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,...
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This AI Tool Turns Meetings Into Jira Tickets Instantly
This 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...
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We Built an AI Tool That Replaced a Week of Work
This 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 •…
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Why AI Inference Is So Expensive (And How Positron Is Solving It)
Training gets the headlines. Inference is where the money is. In Episode 37 of Built This Week, we sit down with Mitesh, CEO of Positron AI, to break down one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI today: inference infrastructure. While the world focuses on trillion-parameter models and frontier labs,...
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How 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....
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AI Agents Are Replacing Entire Marketing Teams
Marketing 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…
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AI Is Rebuilding Clinical Trials
Clinical 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...
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AI Is Transforming Construction — We’re Entering a Golden Era
Construction 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…
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From DNA to Drugs: How AI Is Rewriting Human Biology
DNA 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...
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How 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...
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Claude Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the Rise of Multi-Agent AI
The 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...
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We 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...
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Why You Can't Pen Test an Airplane — AI Cybersecurity for Aviation
Can 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...
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We Let AI Control Our Data Warehouse — The Results Were SHOCKING
Can 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…
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We Built an AI Trading Bot for Prediction Markets — Here’s What Actually Happened
Can 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...
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Car Dealers Are Losing Inventory — AI Is the Only Fix
Car 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...
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This AI Fills Healthcare Shifts in Minutes
Home 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…
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OpenAI 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…
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Let'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,...
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Not your STANDARD Market
Built This Week – Episode #21 Not your STANDARD Market Sam 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...
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Compliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the Robots
Built This Week – Episode #20 Episode 20: Compliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the Robots Sam 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...
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Mirror, 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...
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TrickOrTreat!
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,...
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Sora API, AI Automations, and Apple’s M5 Chip
Episode 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...
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AI Agents Reinvent Construction
Episode 16: AI Agents Reinvent Construction This 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...
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Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data Tool
Episode 15: Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data Tool This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler debut Tix LAX, a new platform that visualizes parking tickets across Los Angeles using city APIs, from officer leaderboards to the surprising car colors that rarely get...
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Inside the $1.4 Trillion Solopreneur Market + the Tools We Built (ft. Hooman, Collective CEO)
This week on Built This Week, we team up with Hooman (CEO, Collective) to build—and ship—new tools for solopreneurs. Jordan demos a cash-flow forecaster, insurance compliance checks, lending readiness, and AI business insights…plus a just-for-fun “Make It Rain” mode and mini-game. Then we go deep...
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AI Built My Liver + We 3D Printed Our Podcast (Reddit x Google, Lyft x Waymo News)
This week on Built This Week, we go full builder mode. Jordan uses Claude to create a live 3D simulation of a liver, showing exactly how statins like Crestor crush cholesterol inside your body. Then Sam takes the mic — and the printer — and 3D prints Built This Week keychains, proving you can...
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Recipes from Receipts: AI Cooking, Kidpreneur E-Com & Replit’s $250M Raise
This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler bring a mix of practical, playful, and breaking AI news. First, Jordan demos Ryz Chef, a tool that turns your grocery receipts (Amazon, Instacart, even fridge photos) into 11 Mediterranean-inspired recipes — complete with breakfast…
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Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play
Episode 11: Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into the intersection of AI, music, and enterprise tools. Jordan shows off a new project built on Strudel, a live-coding JavaScript music library, turning…
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Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech
Episode 10: Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI image platform they’ve been building from scratch at Ryz Labs, powered by Gemini’s new “nano-banana” update and other AI models. Designed to deliver faster, cleaner, and more...
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Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch
Episode 9: Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch This week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil Ryz ATS, a fully functioning applicant tracking system built in-house using Claude AI. From job templates and smart matching to drag-and-drop pipelines and sourcing CRM, this tool streamlines the entire...
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Can Public Make You a Better Investor?
Episode 8: Can Public Make You a Better Investor? This week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler go deep on Public.com, the modern investing platform opening its trading infrastructure to developers. They demo a new tool built live on Public’s API, explore the real potential of programmable investing,...
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How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work
Episode 7: How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler share a simple but powerful internal tool: a Slack-integrated daily check-in system that’s helped their remote team stay accountable, async, and aligned. It’s lightweight, fast, and has changed how their team shares...
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Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.
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