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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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A Bot Emailed a Sold Out Hotel for Me. 15 Minutes Later I Got 33% Off.

This week there was no guest. Sam and Jordan spent the episode on bots: what they are, why they are different from chatbots and coding assistants, and how we are using them every... more

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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 eig... more

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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 whe... more

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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 ti... more

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Recent Guests

Ivan Lee
Co-founder and CEO of Datasaur; previously built AI products at Yahoo and Apple
Datasaur
Episode: He Built Siri at Apple. Now His Private AI Runs Inside the FBI, Google, and Netflix.
Jim Olsen
Co-founder and CTO of ModelOp
ModelOp
Episode: Every Client Is Fortune 500. What Do They Know About AI That You Don’t?
Rob Williams
Co-founder and CTO at Read AI
Read AI
Episode: Nobody Takes Notes Anymore. 5 Million People Let AI Do It Instead.
Jen Dulski
Founder and CEO of Rising Team
Rising Team
Episode: She Sold Her First AI Company to Google in 2009. Now She Is Fixing How Teams Work.
David Petrou
CEO of Continua, developer of Wheely
Continua
Episode: It Ships While You Sleep. The AI Agent OS a Former Google Engineer Built After Leaving Google.
Zach Rattner
Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Yembo AI
Yembo AI
Episode: A Ten Minute Phone Video Replaces Hours of Home Inspections. We Demo the AI Doing It.
Jackson Reiter
Co-founder of Realm AI
Realm AI
Episode: AI Agents Doing Commercial Real Estate Due Diligence in Minutes. We Demo It Live.
Emanuele Melis
Leads Field Engineering at AI One
AI One
Episode: We Tested Claude 4 Fable and Deployed Enterprise Agents Without a Single Data Migration
Wiley Jones
CEO and co-founder of Doss
Doss
Episode: This AI Platform Lets Anyone in Your Company Manage Operations Without a Single Engineer

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Sam Nadler
Host of Built This Week; co-host focusing on practical insights from builders and product teams
Jordan Metzner
Co-host and engineering leader, co-host of the show, focused on hands-on engineering discussions and product demos

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He Built Siri at Apple. Now His Private AI Runs Inside the FBI, Google, and Netflix.
Q: What is your typical client engagement look like?
Lee says Datasaur first maps the client's workflow, recommends an appropriate model and estimates the work involved. Its internal model factory then uses requirements, benchmarks and historical data to configure and fine-tune a private solution.
He Built Siri at Apple. Now His Private AI Runs Inside the FBI, Google, and Netflix.
Q: Is there a performance gap between open-weights models and proprietary models, or are you seeing that performance gap close?
Lee says the gap has narrowed considerably. Open-weights models are now good enough for many enterprise tasks such as summarizing email and meeting notes, though more demanding work may still call for leading proprietary models.
Every Client Is Fortune 500. What Do They Know About AI That You Don’t?
Q: How does ModelOp help with security and compliance?
Olsen demonstrates discovering unregistered enterprise AI, adding it to an inventory, using agents to complete documentation, and checking submissions against policies such as the EU AI Act.
Every Client Is Fortune 500. What Do They Know About AI That You Don’t?
Q: What is the core use case for ModelOp?
Olsen says ModelOp helps enterprises assess AI risks, monitor model performance and costs, and automate governance processes so AI solutions can reach the market safely and faster.
She Sold Her First AI Company to Google in 2009. Now She Is Fixing How Teams Work.
Q: Jen, what kinds of companies are finding success with Rising Team, in terms of size or industry?
Jen notes that the coaching framework and the need for psychological safety apply across industries and company sizes, with success seen in large enterprises, startups, non-profits, and even education sectors, all benefiting from personalized coaching and real-time insights.

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This show spotlights builders shipping real products in the AI era, with a focus on practical implementations, demos, and the evolving toolset used to move from concept to manufacturing and scale. Episodes frequently feature tight, hands-on conversations around enterprise AI, developer tooling, and real-world workflows—ranging from AI-assisted design and multi-agent systems to code translation for safety-critical environments and AI-enabled operations. Guests are typically technologists, founders, or engineers who illuminate product roadmaps, deployment challenges, and the tradeoffs of adopting new AI capabilities in organizations. A standout throughline is practical experimentation: live demos, governance and security considerations, and c... more

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