Artificial Insights: Conversations About AI

What would you do if you had to start an AI consultancy from scratch today? In this bonus clip, Daniel asks Pat Belliveau of Gambit Co exactly that. And Pat does what he does so well: he shares practical advice without...

AI feels easy right up until a team tries to ship it. Patrick Belliveau of Gambit Co joins Daniel to talk about the messy middle between a promising prototype and something a business can actually trust. In this candid...

AI can automate matching and readiness checks in lending. It cannot automate trust. In this bonus clip, Daniel asks Sharmeen Aqeel how Lyyvora will scale as borrower volume grows. Sharmeen’s answer is simple: at an...

Clinics get stuck in lending for a frustratingly simple reason: the process is hard to navigate. The information exists, lenders are willing, and qualified borrowers do get funded. But the path is not accessible...

AI licensing can sound like a moral argument until you look at the product constraints. If the best material is behind paywalls and contracts, “just scrape it” stops working. In this bonus clip, Daniel pressures the...

AI has been trained on the world’s writing. Now, we have to figure out how creators prove ownership, set permissions, and get paid when their work is used. Julie Trelstad has spent 30 years inside publishing’s biggest...

When AI threatens your job, the real risk is clinging to the parts of work that are already predictable. In this bonus short, Daniel Manary and Dave Boyce (Winning by Design, author of Freemium ) talk about the fear...

"Run experiments" is easy advice. Measuring them inside a real customer journey is the hard part. Dave Boyce has lived through multiple SaaS eras, from $1.2M ACV enterprise deals to $1,200 self-serve motions. Now, as...

An AI-written encyclopedia can sound coherent and still be wrong and that gap matters more than it first appears. In this bonus short, Daniel Manary and William Beutler of Beutler Ink and The Notability Company look at...

Wikipedia has become one of the quiet foundations of modern AI. In this episode, Daniel explores why large language models rely so heavily on Wikipedia, both as training data and as a real-time citation source. Its...

This season, we’re not talking about models, benchmarks, or demos. We’re talking about how AI is reshaping how humans work, coordinate, and judge as tools get better at remembering, acting, and contextualizing. With...

Artificial Insights is a podcast about how AI is changing economics and work, and what happens once the technology moves beyond demos and into real organizations. The podcast features conversations with founders...

This special Christmas and New Year bonus episode is a pause. We're looking back at 2025 and thinking about what surfaced across a year of conversations with builders, executives, philosophers, and operators working...

Across healthcare, nonprofits, construction, and creative tools, the same shift kept appearing. AI is moving work from impossible to practical. This special wrap up episode closes out Season 4 by revisiting a handful of...

Regulation and innovation rarely move at the same speed. In this bonus clip, Daniel Manary and David Proulx talk about who should shape the future of AI. David argues that the people building modern systems understand...