Lead With AI

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...