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 alerts, and execution logic — and shares the honest results: a 66 percent win rate that still lost money once fees and market dynamics were factored in.
The takeaway is not hype. It is reality.
The episode also dives into:
We also cover:
This is not theory.
This is what happens when you actually deploy AI systems into real markets.
Timestamps
(0:00) Why prediction markets are exploding
(1:07) Episode 26 kickoff
(2:00) Why build a trading bot at all
(4:30) Kalshi vs Polymarket APIs
(6:00) Live market signals and whale detection
(9:30) Win rate vs profitability
(12:00) Why fees destroy returns
(14:30) Bots trading against bots
(17:00) Where real alpha might exist
(18:00) NotebookLM for learning and onboarding
(21:00) Nvidia enters autonomous driving
(24:00) Tesla vs Waymo economics
(27:00) Nvidia Rubin chips explained
(28:30) Anthropic and Claude Code momentum
(29:30) Final thoughts
Links
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Jordan Metzner
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Sam Nadler
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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pricing, zero friction, and immediate engagement, yet most dealers still rely on slow callbacks, manual workflows, and outdated acquisition models.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, CEO & Founder of Auto Acquire AI, to break down how AI is fundamentally changing how dealerships acquire vehicles directly from consumers.
Auto Acquire AI gives everyday car dealers — small, medium, and large — the same capabilities as Carvana: instant offers, automated inspections, AI-driven pricing, and real-time engagement, without massive engineering teams or bloated operations.
Jordan also walks through a live AI workflow he built for Auto Acquire, showing how dealerships can automatically analyze inbound intent, score leads, and trigger the right action — SMS, email, or phone — without tying up staff.
This is not theory. This is AI running real dealership operations today.
In this episode, we cover:
• Why dealers can’t compete at auctions anymore
• How AI enables instant vehicle pricing without human intervention
• Turning web forms into real-time SMS conversations
• Using intent scoring to decide when to text, email, or call
• Why engagement speed determines who wins the trade
• How computer vision automates vehicle inspections from a phone
• Why structured automotive data is perfect for AI
• How dealers already have inventory sitting in customer driveways
• Why most “AI companies” aren’t actually using AI
• The real difference between demos and production AI systems
We also dive into autonomous vehicle news, including:
• Waymo’s $15B raise at a $110B valuation
• Tesla vs Waymo: cameras vs lidar
• Why Tesla may license Full Self-Driving to other manufacturers
• The reality behind “Full Self-Driving” marketing claims
⏱️ Timestamps
(0:00) Why car dealers are losing inventory
(0:38) Welcome to Built This Week
(1:07) Introducing Auto Acquire AI
(1:42) How Auto Acquire works
(2:24) AI workflow demo: intent → action
(3:11) Automated SMS conversations
(4:55) Why AI removes staff bottlenecks
(6:29) Dealership behavior by geography
(7:38) Why instant pricing wins
(10:34) AI-powered vehicle inspections
(12:03) The real pain point in dealer inventory
(13:31) Why dealers already own the data
(14:46) What “real AI” actually means
(17:00) Structured data and real-time pricing
(18:05) Waymo raises $15B
(19:03) Tesla vs Waymo economics
(21:44) Will Tesla license FSD?
(24:29) Is “Full Self-Driving” misleading?
(27:09) Final thoughts and wrap-up
🔗 Links
Auto Acquire AI
https://autoacquire.ai
Built This Week
New episodes every Friday
🎙️ Hosts
Jordan Metzner
https://linkedin.com/in/jordanmetzner
https://x.com/mrjmetz
Sam Nadler
https://linkedin.com/in/sam-nadler-1881b75
https://x.com/Gravino05
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 production systems.
Arya Health uses AI to instantly match patients with the right caregivers based on credentials, availability, location, eligibility scoring, and compliance rules all while remaining fully HIPAA compliant.
In the episode, we walk through:
• How AI turns messy hospital discharge summaries into actionable start of care workflows
• How caregivers are matched and notified automatically
• Why Arya reframed “shifts” as patients and how that changed everything
• How AI fills urgent care gaps in minutes instead of hours
• The real security architecture behind HIPAA compliant AI
• Why Arya forbids long term AI memory by design
• How multi cloud AI works across AWS and Google safely
• What happens when AI costs suddenly spike in production
• Why scheduling healthcare looks like the traveling salesman problem with time windows
This is not a demo.
This is what AI looks like in production healthcare today.
(0:00) This AI fills healthcare shifts in minutes
(0:38) Welcome to Built This Week
(1:07) Introducing Arya Health leadership
(1:42) What Arya Health actually does
(2:37) AI generated start of care workflows
(3:28) Turning discharge notes into care plans
(4:21) Matching patients with caregivers
(5:12) Automated outreach and workflow actions
(6:02) Leadership reacts to the AI workflow
(7:15) How non experts prototype healthcare AI
(8:50) Why demos and real healthcare are different
(9:19) HIPAA compliance and security realities
(10:19) Multi cloud AI architecture explained
(11:15) Using AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI
(12:06) Why only approved cloud models are allowed
(13:30) Secure AWS and GCP data isolation
(14:26) When AI costs unexpectedly spike
(15:12) Single shot prompting in production
(17:21) Why Arya blocks long term AI memory
(18:01) Controlling AI with typed inputs
(20:01) Real world impact and metrics
(20:26) Replacing hours of manual scheduling
(21:51) Filling urgent shifts instantly
(22:45) Improving care quality through consistency
(23:22) Reframing shifts as patients
(24:05) Building care teams not schedules
(24:32) Eligibility scoring and heuristics
(25:52) Ranking caregivers by fit
(26:13) Optimizing routes and schedules
(27:34) Industry news discussion
(39:36) Final thoughts and wrap up
🔗 LINKS
Arya Health
https://www.aryahealth.ai/
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👤 HOSTS
Jordan Metzner
https://linkedin.com/in/jordanmetzner
Sam Nadler
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(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 live and pulls back the curtain on how BITO’s deep codebase analysis works — revealing how enterprise teams are merging PRs 10× faster, reducing revert rates, and catching issues that “vibe coding” tools simply miss.
From multi-million-line monorepos to legacy systems held together by duct tape, BITO’s agents are surfacing performance bugs, security vulnerabilities, logic issues, and cross-service breakages before humans ever see them. Amar explains why code review is just the start — and why BITO’s deep code intelligence unlocks a new era of AI developer tooling.
Then the trio shifts into the biggest AI news stories of the week:
• OpenAI’s internal CODE RED and the escalating model war
• Google Gemini’s rise and the threat of distribution
• Amazon’s new AI chips and the GPU economics debate
• The global AI arms race — from TPUs to supply chains to trillion-dollar CapEx bets
It’s a lively, candid, highly technical conversation with one of the sharpest minds in AI dev tooling.
(0:00) Jordan demos the BITO Slack Bot — PR reviews, jokes, haikus, & disco
(1:02) Welcome + introducing guest Amar Goel, CEO of BITO
(1:35) Amar’s background + BITO’s mission to build deep codebase AI agents
(2:15) Why Jordan built the Slack integration prototype
(3:04) What BITO can do today: reviews, tests, explanations, stats & more
(4:18) The PR demo: catching security + maintainability vulnerabilities
(5:22) Humor in devtools — BITO Fun, BITO Surprise, & developer haikus
(6:44) Amar reacts: how customers want notifications & Slack workflows
(7:35) Why existing tools fail on large, messy, real-world codebases
(8:52) Deep code understanding explained — ASTs, symbol indexes, repo mapping
(10:26) Why “vibe coding” breaks down in enterprise environments
(11:31) How BITO integrates into Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, JetBrains & VS Code
(12:10) The explosion of code volume — and why quality gates now matter
(13:00) PRs merging 10× faster with BITO + 55% fewer reverted commits
(14:05) Training junior devs through AI feedback + customizable sensitivity modes
(15:20) What’s next for BITO (without giving away secrets)
(16:12) NEWS #1 — OpenAI declares CODE RED
(17:01) Google’s Gemini advantage: distribution, docs, slides & ad model economics
(18:33) The coming AI model war — NVIDIA, xAI, Anthropic, Google
(19:48) NEWS #2 — Amazon’s new AI chips & the GPU supply chain crunch
(21:10) NEWS #3 — Global CapEx, GPU shortages & trillion-dollar questions
(22:42) Final thoughts + Amar’s closing remarks
(23:30) Wrap-up & teaser for next week’s episode
🔗 Platforms / Tools Mentioned
• BITO – https://bito.ai
• Google AI Studio
• GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf
• OpenAI, Gemini, xAI
• AWS Tranium 3
• NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
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Episode 22: Let's do the Math!
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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 than solving them.
Jordan also unveils his newest build: the LLM Math Roaster, a tool that scores, compares, and even roasts large models on proofs, with a full leaderboard, custom problem submissions, and an API for automated evaluation. (Yes, it even benchmarked Gemini, GPT-5, Claude, and Grok head-to-head.)
In AI News, the hosts unpack Google’s massive Gemini 3 launch, Jeff Bezos stepping into the arena with Project Prometheus, and Suno’s $250M raise at a $2.45B valuation, plus what hyper-powerful AI means for creativity, coding, and even music composition.
It’s fast builds, deep math, big models, and a guest who’s literally building the future of reasoning.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + welcoming our guest Carina
(1:00) What Axiom Math is building
(3:00) Jordan’s LM Math Roaster: how it works
(5:00) Testing models on proofs (Gemini, GPT-5, Claude, Grok)
(7:00) Why formal proofs beat natural-language reasoning
(9:00) The data bottleneck: Lean scarcity & synthetic generation
(12:00) How formal systems unlock “research-level” AI math
(15:00) Comparing LLM math vs. Axiom’s approach
(18:00) AI News: Gemini 3 hits the market
(20:00) Jeff Bezos returns with Project Prometheus
(22:00) Suno raises $250M — AI-generated music explodes
(24:00) How math, code & creativity overlap
(25:30) Episode wrap-up + what’s coming next
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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Axiom Math – https://www.axiom.ai
• Gemini 3 – https://ai.google.dev
• Lean / mathlib – https://lean-lang.org
• Grok / xAI – https://x.ai
• GPT-5.x – https://openai.com
• Claude – https://www.anthropic.com
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Built This Week – Episode #21
Not your STANDARD Market
Sam 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: mood lighting meets AI beats, but for shopping.
Angie then pulls back the curtain on Standard AI’s computer-vision platform, describing how their “Google Analytics for physical stores” is unlocking brand-new metrics like visual engagement, real-time shopper behavior, and rapid in-store experimentation. Later, the trio covers major AI news, including Gamma’s massive Series B, SoftBank’s pivot from Nvidia to OpenAI, and 11 Labs’ newly launched marketplace where brands can license iconic voices (yes, even Babe Ruth and Maya Angelou).
Store-scanning AI, predictive retail analytics, dynamic music engines, and a surprisingly heated debate about Michael Bublé, Episode 21 brings energy, innovation, and a fascinating look at how AI is reinventing brick-and-mortar retail from the ground up.
Show Notes:
(0:00) AI-generated retail music demo + how the “store DJ” works
(0:55) Welcome + introducing guest Angie Westbrook, CEO of Standard AI
(1:27) Angie’s background and Standard AI’s mission
(1:49) This week’s agenda: AI DJ, Standard AI deep dive, and AI news
(2:35) Why AI never slows down + early thoughts heading into the demo
(2:55) The build: AI DJ for retail using computer vision + custom tracks
(3:38) Bringing music, mood, foot traffic, and AI together
(4:13) How stores currently choose music (spoiler: zero data)
(4:50) Five custom AI-generated tracks from 90–130 BPM
(5:42) Can music drive sales? The team’s hypothesis
(6:04) Demo: welcome music + dynamic BPM changes based on occupancy
(7:09) Angie reacts — why music + behavior data could transform retail
(8:13) Using engagement metrics to improve music and optimize store layouts
(9:14) Holiday music reinvented: AI-generated Christmas playlists
(9:58) Transition: What Standard AI actually does
(10:32) Standard AI explained: “Google Analytics for physical stores”
(11:01) Why sales data is a lagging indicator (and too slow for real insights)
(11:54) How AI enables rapid in-store experimentation
(12:51) Traditional A/B tests vs. AI-powered retail testing
(13:55) Faster experiments → faster revenue lift
(14:45) Privacy-first computer vision (26-point body labeling)
(16:04) What the system “sees” — digital stick figures, not faces
(16:43) Visual Engagement Score: a new metric for product discovery
(17:52) Why most new products fail (and how AI fixes it)
(18:47) Predictive modeling + simulating store changes with AI
(19:58) The future of AI-driven retail experiences
(20:46) Fun fact: 85–90% of retail sales still happen in-store
(21:12) AI News #1: Gamma raises $68M at a $2.1B valuation
(22:21) 70M users + 30M decks/month — Gamma’s explosive growth
(23:03) Why incumbents (Google, Microsoft) didn’t beat them
(23:56) AI News #2: SoftBank sells Nvidia stake, pivots to OpenAI
(24:52) AI News #3: 11 Labs launches the Iconic Voice Marketplace
(28:02) Historical icons, celebrity voices, and licensing in the AI era
(29:12) Consent, rights, and the new economics of synthetic voices
(30:09) Fatman Scoop as your in-store DJ? The team imagines the future
(30:25) Closing thoughts + a huge thanks to Angie
(31:05) Teaser: Next week’s guest — Axiom Math
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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Standard AI – https://standard.ai
• 11 Labs – https://elevenlabs.io
• Gamma – https://gamma.app
• Audio & music generation tools (various)
• AI DJ prototype using computer vision + custom BPM tracks
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
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Sam Nadler
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Built This Week – Episode #20
Episode 20: Compliance, Pomelli, and the Rise of the Robots
Sam 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 Supabase. They also explore Google’s new AI-powered marketing tool, which auto-generates on-brand social campaigns in seconds (seriously, it’s like having a creative team in your browser). In AI News, the hosts discuss Amazon’s robot-run Whole Foods stores, the growing home robotics market, and what a $20,000 “household robot” really means for the future of everyday automation. Fun, fast builds. Real AI demos. And a glimpse into how AI is quietly reshaping how we work, market, and even shop for groceries.
Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + hitting 15,000 subscribers
(1:00) What’s on deck this week
(3:00) The rise of AI-powered compliance training
(4:00) Demo: AI-generated videos + exam builder
(6:30) Building with Supabase + React + Video 3.1
(8:30) Why we built (not bought) our education platform
(10:00) Google’s new social marketing tool demo
(12:30) Creating full brand campaigns with AI
(15:00) Sponsor: Ryz Labs – build faster with world-class teams
(16:00) AI News: Amazon’s robotic Whole Foods
(18:00) The $20K home robot – hype or reality?
(22:00) What robots can (and can’t) do yet
(24:00) Reflections on episode 20 + what’s next
(25:30) Teaser: Next week’s guest – Angie Westbrook, CEO of Standard AI
Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Ryz Labs - https://www.ryzlabs.com/
• Supabase - https://supabase.com
• Vite + React - https://vitejs.dev
• Pika Labs Video 3.1 - https://pika.ar
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Sam Nadler
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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, they conjure up a “Trick-or-Treat Route Optimizer,” a playful demo that uses Maps and AI to find the best candy streets in your city.
In Tool of the Week, they explore Google’s Build Studio, a fresh entry into the “vibe coding” space, and explain why it’s a step-function improvement over other no-code tools. Gemini comes baked right in. Finally, in AI News, they break down Nvidia’s record-breaking $5 trillion valuation and Elon Musk’s Grok-a-pedia, a controversial AI-powered rival to Wikipedia.
Fun, fast builds. Real AI demos. And a whole lot of Halloween spirit.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + Halloween costumes
(1:00) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – the spooky AI build
(3:20) How it works – Gemini, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech
(5:00) Building with Google’s new AI Studio
(8:00) Guess the Costume app demo
(9:00) Trick-or-Treat Route Optimizer with Maps + Gemini
(13:00) Why Google’s “vibe coding” tool feels like a leap forward
(15:20) News: Nvidia hits $5T valuation
(18:00) Elon Musk launches Grok-a-pedia
(21:40) Halloween wrap-up + what’s next week
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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• Google AI Studio / Build – https://aistudio.google.com/build
• Nvidia – https://www.nvidia.com
• Grok-a-pedia – https://x.ai
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Sam Nadler
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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 boost team culture, inspire side projects, and push generative video forward.
Then they spotlight Publer, the social media syndication tool that keeps their content engine running across platforms, and how it helps teams automate posts without losing authenticity.
In the AI News Rundown, they react to Kohler’s new “smart toilet camera” (yes, really), break down OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser launch, and explore Google’s new AI Studio app builder - three stories showing how fast (and weird) the AI world is moving.
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Show Notes
(0:00) Intro
(1:20) TrickOrTreat demo — how the AI costume builder works
(3:30) Why Jordan built it + tech stack (Replit, NanoBanana, Video 3.1)
(5:30) Funny results, costumes, and team reactions
(8:40) Real use cases for generative video
(9:50) Tool of the Week – Publer for social media syndication
(12:10) How Publer helps scale content across platforms
(14:30) AI News: Kohler’s “toilet camera” and privacy questions
(20:00) AI News: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser
(25:00) AI News: Google AI Studio introduces “vibe-coding” app builder
(29:40) Wrap-up + closing thoughts
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Platforms / Tools Mentioned
• Ryz Labs
• TrickOrTreat – demo
• Publer
• NanoBanana API
• Replit
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Episode 17: Sora API, AI Automations, and Apple’s M5 Chip
This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil a brand-new internal tool built using the Sora 2 API, letting teams generate custom AI videos on demand. They compare OpenAI’s Sora to Google’s new Veo 3.1 model — with some hilarious results featuring capybaras hosting the podcast. Then, they dive into N8N, an AI automation platform now powering Ryz Labs’ outbound workflows using Perplexity and Claude for research and email generation. In the AI news rundown: Walmart partners with OpenAI to enable ChatGPT-powered shopping, Anthropic targets a staggering $9B in ARR, and Apple’s M5 chip rolls out with AI-first upgrades across the MacBook Pro and Vision Pro lineup.
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Show Notes
(0:00) Intro – welcome to episode 17 of Built This Week
(1:04) Overview: building an internal Sora 2 API video generation tool
(2:37) How Sora differs from the Sora app and why the API is more powerful
(3:15) Demo: generating videos with reference images, vertical/horizontal formats, and watermark removal
(5:16) Comparing Sora 2 vs Google Veo 3.1 Fast side-by-side
(6:11) AI-generated capybaras host the Built This Week podcast
(8:39) The race in AI video: OpenAI vs Google and the future of content creation
(10:15) Why these tools could transform video production for creators and startups
(11:42) Tool of the Week: N8N – building automated workflows with AI
(13:14) How Ryz Labs uses Claude, Perplexity, and N8N for automated outreach
(18:04) AI News #1: Walmart integrates with ChatGPT for in-app shopping
(22:04) AI News #2: Anthropic targets $9B ARR — and eyes $26B by 2026
(25:20) AI News #3: Apple M5 chip launch – faster, cheaper, and AI-ready
(28:46) Closing thoughts – nonstop AI growth, OpenAI x Broadcom deal, and what’s next
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Episode 16: AI Agents Reinvent Construction
This 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 profitably. Then, the hosts dive into the week’s biggest AI news: Nvidia’s $2B investment into Elon Musk’s xAI, OpenAI’s projected $1 trillion infrastructure spend, and how AI adoption is accelerating across industries, from consulting giants to construction firms.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro – welcome + guest intro: Tristan Wilson, CEO of Edgevanta
(1:10) What We Built: Edgevanta Tycoon, AI-powered construction sim game
(2:45) How Edgevanta helps estimators bid faster and smarter
(5:30) Breaking down the role of estimators + pain points in civil construction
(8:00) How AI agents parse 1,200-page bid packages in minutes
(11:00) Real-world impact: saving hours, reducing bid errors, and recovering millions
(13:45) Using AI to improve “go/no-go” decisions in construction projects
(16:15) How estimators are reacting to AI, from fear to full adoption
(19:50) AI News #1: Nvidia invests $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI
(22:30) AI News #2: OpenAI’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan and what it means for the future
(26:30) Closing thoughts – AI’s early days in construction + industry-wide acceleration
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Episode 15: Sora 2 Took Over AI Video + Our New Parking Data Tool
This 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 directly into AI-generated clips, whether skydiving, cooking sushi, or working on an oil rig. In the AI news rundown: OpenAI reaches a staggering $500 billion valuation, Apple shifts focus from Vision Pro to AI glasses, and a new startup builds AI-powered defense technology to shoot down drones.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro – welcome + topics for this week
(1:20) What We Built: Tix LAX – LA parking tickets mapped with city data
(2:40) Inspiration from San Francisco’s viral parking ticket tracker
(4:00) Officer leaderboards + biggest ticket writers
(5:15) Ticket patterns by car color, violation type & neighborhood
(6:10) Data quirks: future-dated tickets + 2-day delay
(10:18) Tool of the Week: Sora 2 – OpenAI’s new video model + live demo
(19:32) AI News #1: OpenAI reaches $500B valuation
(21:54) AI News #2: Apple pivots from Vision Pro to AI glasses
(24:07) AI News #3: Startup building AI-powered defense robots to shoot down drones
(25:41) Closing thoughts – AI momentum driving markets into fall
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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 Forecasting from your P&L + balance sheet (with sliders for revenue, expenses, and owner salary)
-Insurance Compliance review (flags lapses like workers’ comp and gaps like cyber)
-Lending Readiness & Risk report (eligibility + risk summary)
-AI Business Insights panel (Gemini-powered analysis)
-Bonus: “Make It Rain” theme + a quick 3D game (three.js)
Guest spotlight — the solopreneur wave
-Solopreneurs are already 38% of the U.S. workforce, generating $1.4T in revenue
-27M+ Americans run solo businesses; 5.5M make $100k+
-Why so many switch to an S-Corp with Collective: average $10k/year in tax savings; plans from $349/mo; and a “CFO-in-your-pocket” vision with AI agents
Tech stack
-Front end: Vite + React, Tailwind (UI), filtering library for snappy tables
-Models: started on Grok 120B, then moved to Gemini for larger context windows
-Fun stuff: three.js for the Make-It-Rain mini-game
Chapters (tap to jump)
0:00 Cold open + theme
0:42 Hosts + guest intro (Hooman, Collective)
2:15 Why we built these features
3:00 Build #1: Cash-flow forecasting demo
8:48 Build #2: Insurance compliance check
9:36 Build #3: Lending readiness + risk report
10:17 Build #4: AI insights dashboard
10:37 Build #5: “Make It Rain” mode + 3D game
14:15 Collective deep-dive: product, pricing, and who it’s for
22:21 AI news + mega-capex talk (NVIDIA, Oracle, OpenAI)
33:50 The margin crunch + round-tripping debate
37:50 Wrap-up & subscribe
Tools & links mentioned
Collective · Gemini · Grok · Vite · React · Tailwind · three.js (plus startup/AI news items)
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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:
If you want AI, hardware, and startup news with founder energy — this is the episode.
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(0:00) Intro + what’s coming this week
(1:11) Jordan’s Claude-powered 3D liver + cholesterol demo
(3:22) Statins, Crestor, and real-time LDL impact
(5:20) How doctors + patients could use this tool
(6:23) Beyond medicine: AI visuals in other industries
(7:23) Sam’s 3D printing showcase
(8:19) Bambu Lab X1C + MakerWorld: keychains + builds
(9:19) Printing tools, fidgets, and custom gifts
(10:27) AI + 3D printing: customizing complex models
(11:36) Favorite prints + side hustle with charms
(13:19) AI News: Reddit extends Google deal
(14:49) Groq raises $750M at $7B valuation
(16:29) Lyft + Waymo bring robotaxis to Nashville
(18:39) Closing thoughts + subscribe reminder
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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 imagery to launch a small e-commerce project selling 3D-printed hoodie charms, combining entrepreneurship, creativity, and social good. Finally, the hosts break down the biggest AI news: Replit’s $250M raise at a $3B valuation, Oracle’s AI-fueled surge, Vimeo’s acquisition, and Robinhood’s new “social trading” product.
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Episode 11: Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play
This 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, the hosts spotlight a daily use case of Claude that creates instant CFO-style dashboards from raw spreadsheets or PDFs, beating out other LLMs for speed and clarity. Finally, they break down OpenAI’s $1.1B acquisition of StatSig, what it means for Codex and the AI coding race, plus big moves in Figma’s IPO, Google’s antitrust settlement, and the rise of enterprise-focused AI like You.com.
Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + Jordan discovers Strudel for live-coding music
(2:20) Demo: remixing tracks with AI-generated beats
(5:02) Building an AI-powered two-deck DJ tool inspired by Ableton
(8:14) How LLMs are lowering barriers to music production
(10:13) Claude use case: auto-generating dashboards from Google’s 10-K
(12:59) Why Claude outperforms other LLMs for financial and ops data
(14:27) Codex gains traction; Rise Labs engineers switch from Claude Code
(15:56) OpenAI acquires StatSig for $1.1B to boost Codex + experimentation
(17:14) Anthropic predicts 90% of code will be bot-written
(18:17) Figma’s IPO rollercoaster & enterprise adoption
(19:37) Google avoids selling Chrome in antitrust ruling
(20:29) You.com raises $100M pivoting to enterprise AI search
(22:08) Why back-office ops are AI’s sleeper hit in enterprises
Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
Strudel – https://strudel.cc
Claude – https://claude.ai
Codex – https://platform.openai.com
Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
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Episode 10: Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech
This 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, they put Gamma under the spotlight, a presentation app that reimagines how decks and docs are created with AI at the core. In the AI news rundown: Google’s Gemini image model gets a “bananas” upgrade, Will Smith faces backlash over suspiciously AI-generated tour footage, and Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent embedded directly into Chrome, raising big questions about the future of browsers.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + demo of new in-house AI image editing prototype
(3:03) Building a chatbot-style AI tool for small businesses & e-commerce
(8:15) Risks of deepfake-style edits and blurred lines between real vs AI
(9:10) Google Gemini’s “bananas” model upgrade explained
(10:49) Anthropic brings Claude agents directly into Chrome
(13:29) Will Smith’s tour footage is accused of using fake AI crowds
(15:17) Tool of the Week: Gamma AI presentation builder
(16:31) Live demo: generating a 3-card “Built This Week” deck in minutes
(19:22) Why Gamma beats Google Slides/PowerPoint at AI integration (for now)
(21:24) The future of consultants, schools & pitch decks in an AI-driven world
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• Claude – https://claude.ai
• Gamma – www.gamma.app
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
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Episode 9: Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch
This 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 features, built for non-designers and creators alike. In the AI news rundown: xAI leaks Grok chats into Google search results, Meta re-orgs its AI division under Scale AI’s founder, and OpenAI brings back the ChatGPT model picker, confusing UX and all.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:10) Building an ATS from scratch with Claude Code
(3:15) Prototypes & using multiple AI agents in parallel
(5:12) Walkthrough: jobs page, candidate pipelines, offers & feedback forms
(13:43) Choosing the right prototyping tool: Bolt vs Claude Code vs Replit
(14:05) Tool of the week: Envato AI for stock content & image generation
(15:17) Testing Envato’s AI-generated podcast ads (and why text fails)
(18:22) Why stock libraries like Envato still matter
(19:01) AI News: Meta’s AI re-org & Scale AI acquisition fallout
(20:37) Cultural tensions inside Meta around AI talent pay
(21:06) AI Grok leaks chats into Google search results
(22:07) Wrap-up & subscribe call-to-action
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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Claude – https://claude.ai
• Envato AI – https://envato.com/
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• ChatGPT – https://chat.openai.com
• xAI / Grok – https://x.ai
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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) to unpack what’s coming next. Plus, in the news: Shopify now wants PMs who code, GPT-5 Pro hints at research-grade intelligence, and OpenAI’s model picker is back, and messier than ever.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro + guests from Public
(1:30) What is Public.com and how does the API work?
(3:30) Demo: Jordan’s trading bot built on Public’s API
(13:00) Comparing LLMs for financial reasoning
(17:30) Public’s broader vision + AI research features
(20:30) Generated assets and AI-assisted portfolio tools
(22:55) GPT-5 Pro release: early impressions
(24:30) The return of model picker + emotional attachment to AI UX
(26:30) Shopify now requires PMs to vibe-code
(29:00) What “vibe-coding” means and where it fits in product hiring
(31:00) Wrap-up and thanks to the Public.com team
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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Public – https://www.public.com
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• ChatGPT – https://chat.openai.com
• Shopify – https://www.shopify.com
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Episode 7: How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work
Jordan 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 founders and operators stay in touch without the CRM bloat. In the news, they break down the latest on GPT-5 Pro, OpenAI’s rumored “research-grade” AI, and what the new product tiers might mean for the future of AI.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(1:21) Why we built a daily check-in tool for remote teams
(3:22) How the system works + Slack + AI summaries
(6:44) What it’s built with and what it unlocked for us
(9:15) What teammates actually do + future features
(10:30) Real example: AI blocker spotted and solved
(11:17) Tool of the Week: Clay for personalized outreach
(16:04) AI News: OpenAI’s new open-source models + Groq demo
(21:14) GPT-5 leaks and what’s coming next
(22:34) Final thoughts + wrap-up
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• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• Clay – https://www.clay.com
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