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ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast

ChaiNet is a podcast where we talk about the future of AI and ecommerce with the founders, builders, experts and brands to understand how do agentic commerce services improve the shopping experience of tomorrow. chainet.substack.com

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26:47

The Engineer Who Realized Ecom Is Optimizing the...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/12/29

In this episode of ChaiNet, we sat down with Noel Mathew, founder of Skie Labs and creator of Shopscan. After years of witnessing performance issues destroy stores at scale at Fynd, Noel built an AI tool to identify hidden conversion killers that cause stores to quietly bleed revenue due to slow loads and broken experiences.We discussed the reality check of how many potential sales are lost to poor infrastructure, and why store owners often focus on the wrong things.Key topics covered included: ✅

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27:56

What Managing 166+ Stores Tells Us About Shopify AI

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/12/26

In this episode of ChaiNet, we speak with Hitesh Matlani, who oversees the performance of over 166 Shopify stores. We explore the urgent question for every merchant and agency: what happens when AI tools become standard inside every e-commerce platform, and does this make human expertise obsolete?Hitesh explains that the value of an agency is shifting from technical implementation to strategic curation and emotional intelligence. He breaks down which AI features actually drive sales, which often

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43:00

How a real estate broker built a $60K MRR AI company...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/12/20

On our latest ChaiNet episode, Chris Baxter, co-founder of Aeva AI, shares how he built an AI receptionist for health clinics to significant monthly revenue without a technical background.Chris spent years in real estate, making thousands of calls and seeing firsthand how missed calls lose business. He later discovered clinics faced the same problem. So, with no coding experience, he and his co-founder created Aeva, an AI phone assistant that books appointments and supports receptionists, not

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38:44

How will we sell online when AI does the shopping?

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/12/17

🎙️ On our latest ChaiNet episode, Dhruv Kantak, Business Head of SEO at Hovers, explores what happens when AI becomes the world’s biggest shopping engine.Dhruv has driven millions in organic traffic for e-commerce and D2C brands. But now, as AI rewrites search and consumers ask chatbots for buying advice, traditional product pages and SEO tactics face obsolescence.We discuss:✅ The urgent shift from SEO to Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)✅ How D2C brands survive when AI curates products directly✅

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36:38

Why India's Next Retail Revolution is Being Built...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/12/13

Our latest guest on ChaiNet is Nikhil Sehwag, the founder and CEO of Yett. He’s building an AI-driven discovery platform for offline retail, drawing lessons from 16 years of building distribution networks across UP, Bihar, and other tier-two cities.We explore: ✅ His journey from mechanical engineering and manufacturing to recognizing the gap in offline retail discovery. ✅ How Yet helps shoppers find malls, hubs, and stores with a chatbot that answers local retail questions. ✅ The challenges and

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41:17

This YC Founder Left Meta To Build an AI For...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/12/11

Our next guest on ChaiNet is Anmol Sood, co-founder of Alai (YC W24). Anmol made a significant leap from a prestigious career at Meta to build an AI-native presentation tool that transforms how ideas are communicated.We’ll talk about his bold decision to leave one of tech’s most coveted roles for the high-stakes world of AI entrepreneurship. We’ll also dive into what truly sets Alai apart in the crowded presentation software landscape.Things like:✅ The profound motivation behind leaving Meta as a

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41:28

Why Not Leaving McKinsey Was Scarier Than Starting an...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/11/29

Our next guest on ChaiNet is Yuliya Fomina, co-founder of Tailo. Yuliya made a significant leap from a prestigious consulting career to build an AI agent platform that transforms website visitors into customers through dynamic demos and conversations.We’ll talk about her bold decision to leave corporate stability for the high-stakes world of AI entrepreneurship. We’ll also dive into what truly sets Tailo apart in the crowded sales automation market.Things like: ✅ The profound motivation behind

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36:58

Are AI Agents on the blockchain the next internet?

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/11/24

Welcome back to ChaiNet, where we learn from builders shaping our future with Gautam Dhameja, founder of BlockDeep Labs and a Web3 veteran. We dive into the revolutionary concept of autonomous AI agents living on the blockchain, discussing how software will soon make its own decisions, hold money, and transact independently, enabled by blockchain’s power to provide identity and trust.In this fascinating episode, we explore:✅ How AI agents differ from current AI tools and why they need blockchain✅

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38:46

Deepfake Costs $30 on the Darkweb, This 20-Year-Old...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/11/22

Our recent LinkedIn Live on ChaiNet featured a critical discussion with Tarini Padmanabhuni, the 20-year-old Founder and CEO of Axory AI. The session focused on the escalating threat of deepfakes and the urgent need for an “trust layer.”Here are the key takeaways from the conversation:✅Alarming Costs: Tarini highlighted a $25 million corporate fraud executed via deepfake video and revealed that a personal deepfake can cost as little as $30.✅Detection Failure: We addressed the Detection Paradox, why

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45:34

He Built Hardware for 15 Years, Now He's Changing It...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/11/19

🎙️ Our latest ChaiNet episode features Serge Kadjo, founder of ProductFlo, who reveals why brilliant hardware designs often fail to reach production, and how AI can bridge this physical gap.We explore:✅ Automating engineering documentation and compliance✅ Manufacturing realities from Shenzhen to Morocco✅ Why paperwork consumes 40% of development time✅ Building hardware that actually ships✅ AI trained on 680,000 engineering filesFor engineers and builders tired of seeing prototypes stall, this

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32:45

The hidden challenge of industrial AI is not the AI

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2025/11/11

Our next guest on ChaiNet is Archit Naraniwal, the co-founder of Faclon Labs, an IIT Bombay civil engineer who has spent nine years building an Industrial IoT and AI platform. He’s tackling the unspoken challenges of bringing AI to factories filled with decades-old machinery.We’ll talk about the dirty secret of industrial AI that nobody wants to admit. We’ll also dive into the practical realities of implementing AI where it truly matters.Things like: ✅ The vast difference between data plumbing and

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29:36

From Perfecting Piano to Perfecting AI Agents

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/11/07

Our latest guest on ChaiNet is Vivian Cai, the 22-year-old Founder and CEO of Streaml. She’s building AI agents to eliminate sales busywork, drawing lessons from an unconventional journey spanning classical piano and high finance.We explore: ✅ Her unique pivot from intense piano and investment banking to AI entrepreneurship. ✅ How Streaml’s AI agents transform sales by cutting busywork. ✅ The challenges and triumphs of building a tech company at 22.✅ Vivian’s vision for AI’s impact on future sales

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45:51

When AI Agents Become Your Sales Team

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/11/04

This podcast episode features Parminder, the founder of Redscope AI and former “Mobile Guy” at Flipkart, as he shares his journey of leveraging AI to achieve unprecedented efficiency. The discussion moves beyond typical startup stories to examine how a 3-person team competes with funded companies by deploying AI agents that close deals autonomously.Listeners will gain a deep understanding of practical, high-impact AI applications. Parminder shares the exact playbook he used to successfully break

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46:41

Building AI That Fixes AI

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/10/21

🎙️ Our latest guest on ChaiNet is José Manuel Ramírez R., co-founder of Handit.AI, who’s tackling one of AI’s most persistent challenges - why sophisticated agents work perfectly in demos but fail dramatically in real-world production environments.We explore:✅ The reality of AI’s production-to-demo gap✅ How self-correcting AI systems operate✅ Building competitive AI technology from Colombia✅ Navigating resource constraints in the AI space✅ The future trajectory of self-improving AI✅ Essential focus

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34:40

How to build an AI SaaS Application in 2025 ?

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/10/18

Ever wondered what it really takes to transform an AI concept into a working product? Vincent Josse, founder of BlogSEO and former engineering lead at Joko, reveals the behind-the-scenes reality of building AI services that actually scale.Get ready to learn:* How to choose the right AI infrastructure without overspending* The truth about scaling from zero to millions of users* Smart ways to validate your AI idea before building* Common pitfalls that sink AI startups* Practical strategies for both

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42:37

Beyond the Hype: What works in AI Right Now (And...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/10/14

This podcast episode features Shawn David, an Offline AI Engineer and founder of Automate To Win, as he moves beyond the AI hype to examine what truly works in business automation. The discussion focuses on practical applications that deliver real results, separating genuine value from common industry exaggerations. Listeners will learn to distinguish between productive AI tools and empty promises, understand the key differences between local and cloud-based systems, and discover why human-first

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51:15

SEO Tactics That Will Survive the AI Revolution

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/10/11

In this episode of ChaiNet, we sit down with Benjamin Thornton, who is tracking how search visibility is changing across AI platforms. We tackle the pressing questions for anyone who depends on being found online, exploring why a #1 Google ranking no longer guarantees visibility on ChatGPT and whether traditional keyword research is becoming obsolete.Benjamin explains that the game is changing from chasing keywords to building “entity authority” and ensuring consistent business listings across the

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36:26

Your AI Is Spying on You and You're Paying for It

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/10/07

Mikul Saravanan is the 20-year-old founder & CEO of Wagoo.ai and an Egleston Scholar at Columbia University. He’s building a completely offline, privacy-first AI assistant, challenging the core business models of the industry’s biggest players.In this urgent episode of ChaiNet, we sit down with Mikul to expose the hidden cost of “free” AI tools. We dive into the surveillance economy, how your data is used the moment you hit enter, and explore the practical world of AI that doesn’t require an

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34:00

From Inefficiency to Accuracy, an Insider's AI...

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/10/04

What if the most complex financial processes, long considered impossible to automate, are now achieving near-perfect accuracy?In our latest ChaiNet Live episode, we speak with Ankur Patel, a Princeton graduate and former J.P. Morgan strategist who now leads Multimodal.We explore how his background in traditional finance revealed deep operational inefficiencies, inspiring the creation of AI systems that deliver exceptional results. The discussion covers the strategic choice to specialize in

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42:24

How to build a business that runs without you

ChaiNet: The Agentic Commerce Podcast ·

2025/07/31

What if you could stop trading time for money and start building systems that scale without you?In our latest ChaiNet Live episode, Erik Fiala explains how he went from a six-figure fractional design leader to the founder of Contentbase, an AI-driven content automation platform. We delve into his own development from bringing visual ideas to life to guiding product direction, the art of subtle trust with automated solutions, and reframing pricing in terms of delivered impact, not effort. He also

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