
AI After Dark is a podcast hosted by Alex Gras, venture capitalist at Mercury, focused on how real companies are built once the hype fades and the hard decisions begin. Through candid conversations with founders, CTOs, and operators, the show cuts through buzzwords to talk about people, systems, risk, and the trade-offs that actually matter. Alex brings a background as an operator, founder, and re... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 11 | Founded | 4 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyBusiness | |||

From a food startup that accidentally became a catering company, to a fitness business he sold, to a real estate tool launching now, Nathaniel McNamara has surfed every tech wave since the first web browser. Building Dealyo, he gets into why focus be... more
What happens when the models keep doubling and you have to bet your whole company on where they land? Daniel Vitiello of Cooklist Inc. gets into building AI native from day one, why his rule is to never delegate understanding, and how the right harne... more
Ashley Vaughan spent years inside the CIA running cyber ops before realizing the tools meant to keep clandestine work invisible were leaving fingerprints all over the blockchain. Now she is building Numan, a stealth startup using AI and crypto rails ... more
Seven years trading at JP Morgan, a Fulbright scholarship to the US, and one circled line in a careers book at Warwick. Anekha Sokhal, Founder and Machine Learning Engineer at Moshi, walks through how she's building an AI-native analyst platform for ... more
Going from designer to CTO sounds like an impossible career pivot, but Kyle Ledbetter, Co-Founder and CTO of Dreambase, walks through how AI handed him the permission slip he didn't know he needed. We get into building a Dream Team of data agents on ... more
Hunter Honnessy, CTO and Co-Founder at Unlimited.ai, gets into what defensibility actually looks like when anyone can vibe code a SaaS over a weekend. Conversation runs through building moats with data plus intelligence layers, why finance software d... more
Alex Gras sits down with Gustavo Herrera, Founder and CTO of Knowme Global, to talk through why recruiting still sucks and how AI might actually fix it by doing the one thing everyone avoids, sitting down and talking to people for two hours. Gustavo ... more
Bowden Kelly from Nutiliti joins Alex on AI After Dark to explain why being a fast follower beats bleeding-edge adoption, particularly when your customers just want accurate utility bills paid on time and don't care about your tech stack. He breaks d... more









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AI After Dark provides candid conversations with founders, CTOs, and operators about how real companies scale beyond hype. Episodes center on building durable products, navigating talent and organizational design, and balancing human judgment with AI-enabled workflows across industries like energy trading, HVAC, recruiting, and fintech. The show tends to emphasize pragmatic product strategy, risk management, and the trade-offs involved in moving from dashboards to AI-native capabilities, with a builder-centric perspective that's useful for leaders shaping technology-driven teams.
A notable throughline is the focus on practical implementation over buzzwords: creating defensible tech with data, aligning architecture with business goals, and ... more
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Recent guests on AI After Dark include:
1. Kyle Ledbetter
2. Hunter Honnessy
3. Gustavo Herrera
4. Bowden Kelly
5. Matt Robillard
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