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Lead With AI

Join Dr. Tamara Nall for coffee-shop-style conversations that explore how AI is transforming our world today. With 25 years in data analytics and a doctorate in AI and machine learning, Dr. Nall creates a welcoming space where the doers, the builders, and the innovators share their stories. Each episode cuts through technical jargon to showcase AI-powered solutions that are solving real problems across industries. You"ll hear from the people who are actually creating these technologies—no fluff,

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49:08

Viome Reads Your RNA to Tell You Exactly What to Eat...

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2026/09/29

Most health advice is generic, built for a body that does not exist. Guruduth Banavar built Viome to fix that, using RNA sequencing and AI to map what is happening in a person's gut and biology, then turning that picture into recommendations built for their own chemistry. One customer followed those recommendations through a serious illness and saw his biological age reportedly drop 12 years in nine months.In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Guruduth Banavar about how

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44:48

Chomp: Using AI to Map What People Really Think (with...

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2026/09/22

Most people scroll past an opinion they disagree with instead of saying so. Kiko Zang, CEO and Co-Founder of Chomp, built a daily question game to capture what people think. Players answer honestly, guess how everyone else answered, and then compare results. One early question asked players to rate "I love you" in month one of dating as a green flag or a red flag. 92.7% privately picked a green flag, while most guessed only half the room would agree.In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara

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32:21

How Bob.AI Speeds Up Housing Assistance to Help...

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2026/09/15

A family finds rats in their apartment and needs a new unit fast. A school district changes, and a household has to relocate. These requests used to sit in a queue for weeks or months while a housing authority worked through the math by hand. Bejoy Narayana built Bob.AI to close that gap, helping families get a voucher issued and matched to a new home in hours and days instead.In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Bejoy Narayana, Founder, CEO, and Product Architect of

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23:14

Herd AI, Inc Reads Your Emails, Meetings, and...

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2026/09/08

Executives are buried in email, meetings, and messages that pile up faster than anyone can sort them, and most teams cannot tell which ones actually matter. CEO & Co-Founder, Matt Francis built Herd AI, Inc to fix that, an AI platform that reads all of it and ranks it against a company's real objectives. One executive stopped working past seven at night and started finishing his most important work by early afternoon.In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Matt Francis

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26:07

He Is Building a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) Empire...

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2026/09/01

Understaffed teams end up cleaning floors, answering phones, and covering shifts built for two people. Albert Saunders Jr. saw it at a gas station with one exhausted employee doing four jobs at once, and built Neil AI Global Solutions to fix it. The company now runs 38 robots: cleaning machines, delivery robots that move up to 1,200 pounds, and AI voice agents answering phones around the clock. One warehouse needed 300,000 square feet swept daily. One robot has handled it ever since.In this

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34:41

NextSense Earbuds Try to Change Your Sleep While...

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2026/08/25

Most sleep trackers count hours. Jonathan "JB" Berent set out to measure something else: slow waves, the deep brain activity that actually restores the body overnight. He built NextSense, a pair of EEG-sensing earbuds that read brainwaves and use targeted sound to help extend that restorative stage of sleep. One early user, a menopausal investor who could barely sleep two hours at a stretch, became one of NextSense's first backers after weeks of real relief. Another user liked the earbuds

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32:07

How Luventix Is Using AI to Find Signs of Disease in...

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2026/08/18

Can an AI "dog nose" sniff out cancer from a single urine sample?In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Dejan Nenov, Co-Founder of Luventix, to explore a mind-blowing breakthrough in medical tech. By pairing 70-year-old gas chromatography science with modern machine learning classifiers, Luventix is training AI to mirror the biological superpower of a cancer-sniffing dog. Instead of searching for a single biomarker over decades of research, their technology turns on

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37:10

How AI Is Revolutionizing Award-Winning Filmmaking...

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2026/08/11

Making a feature film has always started with someone else's permission. A writer spends months on a script, then spends a year asking studios for five or ten million dollars, and most of those conversations end in nothing. Eric Hamilton went around it. He prompts, keeps whatever the AI hands back, and lets the story bend around what the technology renders well, a method he calls machine perspective cinema. His first feature began as twenty short episodes he made to outdo viral cat videos. Strung

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31:02

The Question Every AI Team Forgets to Ask About Their...

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2026/08/04

Every company that ships an AI agent wants to know if it is actually working. Dashboards report session counts and completion rates, but they cannot show if a user left satisfied or walked away frustrated. Moritz Sudhof built Bigspin AI to close that gap, reading every conversation between a company's users and its AI agent and delivering a daily report on what broke down and why. One Bigspin customer rolled out the same AI product, the same model, and the same prompts to two different companies

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30:33

How Artificial Agency Is Building Game AIs That...

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2026/07/28

Most video game characters follow rigid scripts and never adjust to how you actually play. Brian Tanner, former DeepMind research engineer and now CEO & Co-Founder of Artificial Agency, is building a behavior engine so game AIs can think, decide, and adapt to each player in real time. Instead of fixed logic, game characters and invisible game directors make their own choices, including an AI companion that organized a player’s supplies and unexpectedly named a lonely storage chest the “Berry

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25:07

How Rubi Is Building the AI Brain Behind Private...

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2026/07/21

Buy-side deal teams live in a flood of PDFs and spreadsheets. A single deal means hours of reading teasers and memos, pulling numbers by hand, and typing it all into a CRM nobody enjoys touching. The analysts hired to make sharp calls end up spending their days on data entry. TJ Richardson built Rubi to change that. Rubi is a deal intelligence platform for private equity funds, family offices, and other buy-side firms. It reads a deal, runs the analysis, and loads everything into the firm's

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22:41

SportAI Turns Your Phone into a Pro-Level Sports...

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2026/07/14

For most of tennis history, technique feedback came down to a coach's trained eye and a hunch. Elite pros travel with analysts and data teams. The other 99 percent of players get a guess. Lauren Pedersen built SportAI to close that gap. The platform uses computer vision to analyze video off a mobile phone or a court-mounted camera, treats nearly every pixel like a sensor on the player's body, and returns instant feedback on technique, tactics, and pro-style match stats. When Oivind Sorvald, Casper

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34:31

Ash, The Mental Health AI Helping People Reconnect...

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2026/07/07

Talking to an AI was supposed to make people lonelier. Daniel Cahn set out to build something that could do the opposite. Most people who need mental health support never get it. By Daniel's own figures, the average therapist charged about 174 dollars an hour last year, and in many areas there are roughly 10,000 people for every available one. Ash, built by Slingshot AI, is a free app designed to put personalized mental health support within reach. It runs on a model trained specifically on

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26:35

He Built an AI That Lets Anyone Design Their Own...

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2026/06/30

Solar panels and home batteries get sold as the future of energy. Building a working system is where most people stall. Joe Glass spent more than 20 hours wiring his own van and still got it wrong, so he built Microgrid Me, a free AI tool that designs solar and battery systems in about 20 minutes. One user even planned a 131-unit apartment complex with it.In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Joe Glass about why distributed energy is becoming essential infrastructure, how

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26:40

Most People Never Make a Will. This AI Makes Yours a...

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2026/06/23

You know you need a will. You have also found a dozen reasons not to deal with it, which is why seven in ten adults have none. The cost does not land on you. It lands on the people you love, left to untangle frozen accounts and fight over what you never wrote down. Succession Wills was built to end that standoff. It puts an AI in the chair a lawyer would normally sit in, asking the questions you did not know to ask until your will is done. And this is the part where the free AI will tools get

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27:41

Stop Babysitting Your AI Agents and Start Managing...

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2026/06/16

Most developers running AI agents today are stuck babysitting them. The agent works in a terminal; the human watches every step, approves every change, and the promised productivity never shows up. Austin Born built Shinzo Labs to break that loop. The platform gives teams secure remote workspaces where agents run in the cloud, take on tasks that last half an hour or more, and message back the results on Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord when the work is done. Austin runs six agents in parallel

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30:00

Illumix and the Spatial AI Bringing Real and Virtual...

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2026/06/09

Most technology asks people to adapt to it. We hunch over screens and learn the rules of each new device. In the physical world, humans do the reverse. A person walks into a room and instantly knows where the furniture sits, what moved since yesterday, and who has been there. Computers still cannot read a space that way. Kirin Sinha built Illumix to change that. The spatial AI platform lets software understand 3D environments the way people do, localizing a space in under a second at centimeter

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24:11

Inside Nexus Synapse, the AI That Reads Intent Before...

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2026/06/02

A logistics analyst sends a quick prompt and gets a generic answer back. A founder asks his own AI the same worry twice in different words, and the platform answers both as if they were new questions. The gap is not in the language model. It is in everything that happens before the prompt reaches it. What if every AI tool weighed a user's intent, focus, and emotional state before generating a single word?In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Chris Campbell, AI Architect and

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24:21

Incredible Health and the AI Agents Reimagining...

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2026/05/26

A nurse applies to ten jobs and gets silence. A hospital posts an opening and interviews dry up. The hiring gap isn't about talent. It's about access. Healthcare recruiters have been using the same playbook for 20 years, and meanwhile, a million nurses are projected to be short by 2027. What if every healthcare worker had a partner available at 5 a.m., conducting interviews while they're awake, and every employer could instantly see which candidates fit which roles?In this episode of Lead with AI,

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29:30

How MIM Fertility Is Building AI for Healthcare...

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2026/05/19

An embryologist looks at an embryo under a microscope and makes a call. Transfer it. Discard it. Try again. The grading is subjective, the stakes are physical, emotional, and financial, and even a full team can miss what the camera sees. What if every clinic had a second set of eyes that never gets tired?In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Ula Sankowska, CEO and Co-Founder of MIM Fertility, about the AI behind smarter embryo assessment and the global expansion that

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