Built This Week
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.
Episodes
Your Pipeline Is Lying to You. This AI Fixes It After Every Sales Call
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Anis Bennaceur, co-founder and CEO of Attention, to demo the AI-native Revenue Operating System that automates CRM updates, sales coaching, and pipeline forecasting after every call. Sam also demos a Monte Carlo forecast dashboard he built on top of Attention's open source coaching stack.We cover:What Attention is and how it automates sales op
This AI Platform Lets Anyone in Your Company Manage Operations Without a Single Engineer
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Wiley Jones, CEO and co-founder of Doss, to demo an AI-native operations platform built for mid-market companies managing the flow of goods, dollars, and data. He incorporated the company a month before ChatGPT existed.We cover:What Doss is and why he calls it an Adaptive Resource Platform not an ERPA live demo of the platform including invent
The AI Product Team Replacement? Inside Autonomy AI’s Live Demo
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Adir, CEO and co-founder of Autonomy AI, to demo the platform helping enterprise teams build, update, and ship product changes directly on top of their existing codebase.No slides. Just a live walkthrough of the real product.We cover:What Autonomy AI is buildingHow non-technical teams can work directly with existing codebasesWhy the handoff be
The Voice AI Platform Built for Enterprises That Actually Need to Scale
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Karim, founder and CEO of Breeze (heybreez.ai), to demo the enterprise voice agent platform built for companies that actually need to run AI at scale. No slides. No prep. Just a live walkthrough of the real product.We cover:What Breeze is and how it differs from other voice AI platformsA live demo of the platform built from a blank screenWhy m
This Headset Reads Your Brain in Real Time. We Demo It Live.
This week on Built This Week we sit down with Ramses Alcaide, founder of Neural, to demo a noninvasive brain computer interface that tracks your focus in real time through a pair of headphones. No surgery. No implants. Just data.We cover:What a brain computer interface actually is and how it worksA live demo of focus tracking during the episodeA browser plugin that adjusts podcast speed b
Claude Design Changes Everything (Figma in Trouble?)
This week on Built This Week, we break down one of the most interesting new AI product launches in recent memory: Claude Design.No demos. No fluff. Just what happens when AI starts replacing traditional design workflows.We cover: • What Claude Design is and how it works • Creating ad campaigns, decks, and full product redesigns with simple prompts • Why it could become a serious competito
This AI Tool Turns Meetings Into Jira Tickets Instantly
This week on Built This Week, we break down how AI helped a non-technical teammate build a real internal product that now helps teams move faster across the company.No buzzwords. No fake use cases. Just real AI in production.We cover: • The AI tool that automates meeting follow-up work • How transcripts become tickets, reports, and dashboards • Why internal AI products are becoming a huge
We Built an AI Tool That Replaced a Week of Work
This week on Built This Week, we break down a real AI tool we built that’s already saving days of work in production.No demos. No fluff. Just how AI is actually being used inside a real business.We cover: • The internal tool that replaced complex spreadsheets and cut turnaround time in half • How we generate client-ready presentations instantly with AI • Why tool selection matters more th
Why AI Inference Is So Expensive (And How Positron Is Solving It)
Training gets the headlines.Inference is where the money is.In Episode 37 of Built This Week, we sit down with Mitesh, CEO of Positron AI, to break down one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI today: inference infrastructure.While the world focuses on trillion-parameter models and frontier labs, the real constraint isn’t intelligence — it’s memory, bandwidth, energy, and cost.We cover:• Why
How We Built an AI Video Editor for Recruiters (Remotion + Claude + Codex)
Our recruiters are not video editors.But now they can cut highlight reels in minutes.In Episode 36 of Built This Week, we break down a tool we built internally at Ryz Labs that lets our recruiting team generate polished candidate highlight videos without touching Premiere, Final Cut, or CapCut.The problem:When presenting candidates to clients, resumes are standard. But seeing a candidate
AI Agents Are Replacing Entire Marketing Teams
Marketing teams are about to change forever.Instead of hiring designers, copywriters, analysts, SEO specialists, and performance marketers… companies are starting to run AI marketing agents that handle everything.From planning campaigns to creating content, analyzing performance data, generating ads, and optimizing strategy automatically.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and
AI Is Rebuilding Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are one of the slowest and most expensive processes in modern medicine.It can take 10–15 years and up to $3 billion to bring a new drug to market — and many trials fail simply because they can’t enroll enough patients.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Dr. Chadi Nabhan, Chief Medical Officer at RyghtAI, to explore how AI-powered
AI Is Transforming Construction — We’re Entering a Golden Era
Construction has lagged behind every major industry in technology adoption.Manual data entry. Spreadsheets. Email-based procurement. Slow invoice approvals. Paper delivery tickets.That’s finally changing.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Eldar (Field Materials AI) to break down how AI is automating procurement for commercial and civil contract
From DNA to Drugs: How AI Is Rewriting Human Biology
DNA is just another language.In Episode 32 of Built This Week, we sit down with Dov Gertz, founder of Converge Bio, to explore how generative AI is transforming drug discovery.Every human can be represented as 3.2 billion nucleotides built from four letters: A, C, G, and T. If computers run on zeros and ones, we run on biological code.Converge Bio is training frontier foundation models on
How AI Is Replacing 100-Hour Due Diligence (Claude 4.6, Private Equity, and Emblem)
Private equity due diligence used to take hundreds of hours. Now it takes seconds.In Episode 31 of Built This Week, we sit down with August Kiles, Head of Product at Emblem, to break down how AI is transforming investment funds — from venture capital to growth equity to private equity.Emblem is building what they call the “last platform investors will ever need” — a system that ingests en
Claude Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the Rise of Multi-Agent AI
The biggest shift in AI isn’t a new model. It’s agents managing other agents.In Episode 30 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner break down how they’re actually using the latest AI releases — including Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Codex 5.3 — to build real software inside their own workflows.Jordan walks through a private, fully local AI system built with Claude Code that turns
We Built an AI Recruiter Coach in 6 Hours (Plus Claude Cowork in Real Time)
Can you really build serious internal AI tools in a few hours — and should everyone on your team be doing it?In Episode 29 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner break down an internal AI product they built at Ryz Labs called ScreenEval — a recruiter screen analysis and coaching tool built in under six hours using Claude Code, Supabase, and AWS.We start with a live demo. Sam wa
Why You Can't Pen Test an Airplane — AI Cybersecurity for Aviation
Can you really hack an airplane? And if so, how do you test for it without grounding the fleet for a year?In Episode 28 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Eero Salih, CTO of Syberian, to explore how AI is transforming cybersecurity for commercial aviation.We start with a live demo — a flight ops cyber radar Sam built to surface real-time security risks across
We Let AI Control Our Data Warehouse — The Results Were SHOCKING
Can AI actually reduce cloud costs — or does it just create better dashboards?In Episode 27 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are joined by Ben, CEO of Espresso AI, to break down a real production system that uses machine learning to actively optimize data warehouse compute in real time.We walk through a live demo built specifically to expose hidden inefficiencies inside S
We Built an AI Trading Bot for Prediction Markets — Here’s What Actually Happened
Can AI actually beat prediction markets — or does the house always win?In Episode 26 of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner kick off 2026 by breaking down a real AI trading bot Jordan built for prediction markets like Kalshi, using live market data, whale detection, coordination signals, and confidence scoring.Jordan walks through the full system — backend, frontend, live alert
Car Dealers Are Losing Inventory — AI Is the Only Fix
Car dealerships are losing inventory — and most don’t realize why.Consumers now expect instant pricing, zero friction, and immediate engagement, yet most dealers still rely on slow callbacks, manual workflows, and outdated acquisition models. The result? Cars go straight to Carvana or CarMax.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Anthony Monteiro,
This AI Fills Healthcare Shifts in Minutes
Home healthcare is breaking.Staffing shortages, last-minute cancellations, credential checks, compliance requirements, and manual scheduling are overwhelming care teams and putting patient outcomes at risk.In this episode of Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner sit down with Arya Health leadership to see how AI is already replacing hours of manual healthcare operations with real
OpenAI Code Red? The New AI Reviewer Changing Everything
(Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are back — and this week they’re joined by Amar Goel, CEO of BITO, the AI-powered code review agent transforming how engineering teams ship software.Jordan kicks things off by unveiling a surprise build: a fully custom BITO Slack Bot that can run PR reviews, generate stats, crack developer jokes, write haikus, and even drop into Biddo Disco Mode. Amar reacts
Let's do the Math!
Episode 22: Let's do the Math!—Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner return with one of the most mind-bending episodes yet. Joined by Carina, founder & CEO of Axiom Math, the startup is building a self-improving, formal-reasoning AI mathematician. The trio breaks down why math is the next AI frontier, how Lean formalization works, and why proving theorems is a completely different challenge t
Not your STANDARD Market
Built This Week – Episode #21Not your STANDARD MarketSam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are back! And this week, they’re joined by a special guest: Angie Westbrook, CEO of Standard AI. Together, they explore one of the most creative builds yet: an AI-powered retail DJ that uses computer vision and custom AI-generated music to adjust a store’s soundtrack based on real-time foot traffic. Think:
Compliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the Robots
Built This Week – Episode #20Episode 20: Compliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the RobotsSam Nadler and Jordan Metzner are back for a landmark 20th episode of Built This Week! This time, the duo breaks down how Ryz Labs used AI to build a full compliance and education platform, complete with video-based lessons, automated tests, and certificates: all powered by Video 3.1, React, and Supab
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All?
Episode 19: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall… Who Built the Smartest AI of All?It’s a spooky special! Sam Nadler (a.k.a. Bad Bunny) and Jordan Metzner (the resident vampire) celebrate Halloween with a pair of AI-powered builds that bring equal parts fun and fright. First, they unveil Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, a poetic, Gemini-powered “talking mirror” built in Google’s new AI Studio. Then, the
TrickOrTreat!
Episode 18: TrickOrTreat!Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner get into the Halloween spirit with a playful AI build — TrickOrTreat, an interactive web app that lets users snap a photo and instantly generate custom AI costumes and “Happy Halloween” videos. Built in Replit using NanoBanana and Video 3.1, it’s a perfect mix of fun, speed, and creativity. The hosts discuss how quick AI builds can bo
Sora API, AI Automations, and Apple’s M5 Chip
Episode 18: TrickorTreat!This week on Built This Week, Sam Nadler and Jordan Metzner get into the Halloween spirit with a playful AI build, TrickOrTreat, an interactive web app that lets users snap a photo and instantly generate custom AI costumes and “Happy Halloween” videos. Built in Replit using NanoBanana and Video 3.1, it’s a perfect mix of fun, speed, and creativity. The hosts discu
AI Agents Reinvent Construction
Episode 16: AI Agents Reinvent ConstructionThis week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler sit down with Tristan Wilson, CEO of Edgevanta, an AI startup that brings automation to one of the world’s most traditional industries: construction. From parsing 1,200-page bid packages to predicting pricing with AI agents, Edgevanta is helping estimators work faster, smarter, and more
Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data Tool
Episode 15: Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data ToolThis week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler debut Tix LAX, a new platform that visualizes parking tickets across Los Angeles using city APIs, from officer leaderboards to the surprising car colors that rarely get ticketed. Then, they dive into Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video model that lets you insert yourself
Inside the $1.4 Trillion Solopreneur Market + the Tools We Built (ft. Hooman, Collective CEO)
This week on Built This Week, we team up with Hooman (CEO, Collective) to build—and ship—new tools for solopreneurs. Jordan demos a cash-flow forecaster, insurance compliance checks, lending readiness, and AI business insights…plus a just-for-fun “Make It Rain” mode and mini-game. Then we go deep on Collective’s roadmap and the future of the one-person business.What we built-Cash-Flow For
AI Built My Liver + We 3D Printed Our Podcast (Reddit x Google, Lyft x Waymo News)
This week on Built This Week, we go full builder mode.Jordan uses Claude to create a live 3D simulation of a liver, showing exactly how statins like Crestor crush cholesterol inside your body. Then Sam takes the mic — and the printer — and 3D prints Built This Week keychains, proving you can literally print your podcast at home.Finally, we break down the biggest AI + tech headlines:Reddit
Recipes from Receipts: AI Cooking, Kidpreneur E-Com & Replit’s $250M Raise
This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler bring a mix of practical, playful, and breaking AI news.First, Jordan demos Ryz Chef, a tool that turns your grocery receipts (Amazon, Instacart, even fridge photos) into 11 Mediterranean-inspired recipes — complete with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert options. Then Sam shares how he and his daughter are using AI-generated
Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play
Episode 11: Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B PlayThis week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into the intersection of AI, music, and enterprise tools. Jordan shows off a new project built on Strudel, a live-coding JavaScript music library, turning it into an AI-powered DJ + Ableton-style mixer that generates new beats on the fly. Then, th
Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech
Episode 10: Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big TechThis week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI image platform they’ve been building from scratch at Ryz Labs, powered by Gemini’s new “nano-banana” update and other AI models. Designed to deliver faster, cleaner, and more customizable visuals, it pushes image generation beyond today’s mainstream tools. Then, th
Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch
Episode 9: Hiring Tools, Built from ScratchThis week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil Ryz ATS, a fully functioning applicant tracking system built in-house using Claude AI. From job templates and smart matching to drag-and-drop pipelines and sourcing CRM, this tool streamlines the entire hiring process with AI as a co-pilot. Then, they explore Envato’s new AI image generation feature
Can Public Make You a Better Investor?
Episode 8: Can Public Make You a Better Investor?This week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler go deep on Public.com, the modern investing platform opening its trading infrastructure to developers. They demo a new tool built live on Public’s API, explore the real potential of programmable investing, and sit down with Emily Kurtz (Head of Product at Public) and Jake Trefethen (Director of AI) t
How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work
Episode 7: How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote WorkJordan Metzner and Sam Nadler share a simple but powerful internal tool: a Slack-integrated daily check-in system that’s helped their remote team stay accountable, async, and aligned. It’s lightweight, fast, and has changed how their team shares progress. Then they revisit Clay, a thoughtfully designed relationship management tool that helps f
From Avatar to AI Hire: Building NTRVSTA
Episode 6: From Avatar to AI Hire: Building NTRVSTAJordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into NTRVSTA, a new AI-powered interview automation platform Jordan built to help teams move faster and smarter in the hiring process. The tool uses avatars to conduct adaptive, friendly interviews 24/7 across technical and non-technical roles. They break down how it works, why it saves time, and what th
Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate
Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in CodeJordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Mate: a custom-built social platform designed to bring remote teams closer through clubs, shared interests, and personality-rich profiles. Then they spotlight Clay, a sleek relationship management tool that helps founders and teams stay in touch with the people who matter, minus the CRM bloat. Finally, in
Why Our Recruiters Stopped Reading Resumes And Let AI Take Over Everything
Episode 4: Hiring in Half the Time: Meet Ryz Score Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Ryz Score, an internal tool they built to help recruiters stop wasting hours on bad resumes. It uses AI to rank candidates and streamline hiring decisions. For the Tool of the Week, they explore surprising ways people are using ChatGPT: from health tracking and meal planning to full-on life automation.
Built This Week Ep3: Auto-Marketing for Podcasts? Let’s Build It!
Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil a tool Jordan secretly built — a mini CRM that scrapes podcast emails via RSS and auto-generates personalized, AI-written outreach using Gmail. Then they demo their favorite AI tool for creative expression: Suno, the text-to-song app that powers everything from Built This Week’s theme music to cookie-sale jingles and classical-to-trap remixes. Finally,
Built This Week Ep2: We Built an AI SEO Machine That Writes and Publishes Itself
This week on Built This Week Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI engine they built to write and publish SEO content across 15 Webflow sites with zero human effortThey break down how they trained each site to sound like a real brand, how the tool runs daily without lifting a finger, and why it's already driving global traffic and leads from search engines and LLMs like Perplexity.
Built This Week Ep1: How We Built an AI Video Studio in 3 Days
In the debut episode of Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler walk through how they built Ryz Labs Video Studio — a new internal tool for generating marketing-ready videos using top AI models like Veo 3 and Seed Dance.They explain how they shipped the first version in just three days using Replit, Replicate, and GPT-4, and how their team used it to produce two full commercials in
Built This Week – The Official Trailer
Welcome to Built This Week — the podcast where we dive into the startups, tools, and wild ideas built in the past 7 days.Hosted by founders Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler, each episode features three fast-paced segments:A brand new project we actually built this weekThe coolest new AI tools hitting the marketA breakdown of the top tech stories everyone’s talking aboutThis show is fast, fun
