Just Now Possible

Teresa Torres

How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.

  1. Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design

    2 DAYS AGO

    Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design

    What if the future of product design isn't about replacing designers — it's about giving every team access to one? For solo founders, stretched design teams, and early-stage startups, great UX has always been out of reach. Banani is trying to change that by building an AI product designer that doesn't just generate code — it generates design. In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Vlad Solomakha (CEO & Co-founder), Vova Parkhomchuk (CTO & Co-founder), and Vlad Ostapovats (Founding Growth) about how they built Banani from a Figma plugin proof-of-concept into a canvas-first AI design tool generating hundreds of thousands of designs per week. Vlad Solomakha brings a decade of design experience to the product — and a very specific vision of what it means for AI to produce beautiful, tasteful design rather than average, undifferentiated UI. You'll hear how they engineered their agent to handle parallel screen edits, manage per-screen context across canvases with hundreds of frames, and make surgical edits without regenerating entire screens. They dig into the "gulf of specification" — the mismatch between how designers think visually and how agents understand text — and what they're building to close it. It's a detailed look at what it takes to build an AI-native design tool that puts the designer in the driver's seat while letting the agent handle the production work.

    1hr 10min
  2. Building Agent Studio: How Medable Is Using Agentic AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials

    19 MAR

    Building Agent Studio: How Medable Is Using Agentic AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials

    What if AI could help reduce the 10-plus years it takes to get a new drug to market? That's the driving ambition behind Medable's agentic platform—and the bet that led them to build Agent Studio. In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with four members of the Medable team: Luke Bates (Product Leader, Agent Studio), Jen Brown (Product Manager), Matt Schoolfield (Product Designer), and Fiachra Matthews (Principal Architect). Together they share how Medable—a clinical trial platform used by global pharmaceutical companies—built Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform for configuring and deploying agents across the clinical trial lifecycle. You'll hear about the two agents they've built on top of it: an ETMF agent that automates document classification across 80,000-plus documents per year, and a CRA agent that monitors patient safety and data quality across 13 different clinical systems. The conversation goes deep on the architecture behind it all—how they handle RAG and context management at scale, why they built custom MCPs with an authentication layer, how they designed evals for a regulated GXP environment, and what human-in-the-loop really looks like when clinical decisions are on the line. It's a rare look inside an enterprise AI platform built for one of the most regulated industries in the world—and a team that's still figuring it out in real time.

    1hr 6min
  3. Building GitHub for Product Management: How Momental Uses AI to Find Merge Conflicts in Strategy

    5 MAR

    Building GitHub for Product Management: How Momental Uses AI to Find Merge Conflicts in Strategy

    What if an AI could spot the moment two product teams start pulling in opposite directions -- before it derails a quarter? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about their vision for building what they call "GitHub for product management." Momental ingests documents, meeting transcripts, and voice recordings across an organization, then uses AI agents to map them into a structured context layer—a set of interconnected trees covering goals, decisions, learnings, and who's doing what. When it finds a conflict—say, one team betting on retention while another is prioritizing conversion—it surfaces the misalignment for humans to resolve, just like a merge conflict in code. You'll hear how their journey started in 2022 with GPT-3, pivoted through a multi-agent team that exposed the real problem (agents need aligned context, too), and landed on an OODA-loop-driven document processing agent that builds and maintains a living knowledge graph. It's a detailed look at how domain-specific context modeling, human-in-the-loop conflict resolution, and self-improving agents come together to tackle one of the hardest problems in product organizations: keeping everyone aligned.

    1hr 5min

  4. 19 FEB

    Building AI Sales Reps: How ShowMe Orchestrates Voice, Video, and Multi-Agent Workflows to Close Deals

    What happens when you treat an AI agent not as a chatbot, but as a full teammate on your sales team -- one that can jump on video calls, demo your product, make phone calls, and follow up over days? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Yuri Vela Tulupov (Co-Founder and CEO) and Quique Gomez (Co-Founder and Lead Product Engineering) from ShowMe, an AI-native startup building digital sales reps for companies selling through inbound channels. Founded in April 2025, ShowMe has already built a sophisticated multi-agent system where conversation agents handle live voice and video interactions, evaluator agents score every call for quality and sentiment, and creator agents ingest customer documentation to build tailored sales playbooks -- all coordinated by a workflow layer that manages the full lead-to-close journey. You'll hear how they decompose a single sales conversation into multiple specialized sub-agents to manage latency and model limitations, why adding a realistic avatar (via HeyGen) dramatically changed how prospects engaged with the AI, and how customer-driven eval loops—where every conversation is reviewed early on and gradually reduced to about 5%—keep quality high for revenue-critical interactions. It's a detailed look at what it takes to build agents that don't just talk, but actually sell.

    1hr 4min
  5. Building Earmark: How a Two-Person Team Turned Meetings into Finished Work

    5 FEB

    Building Earmark: How a Two-Person Team Turned Meetings into Finished Work

    What if your meetings could actually produce the artifacts you need—specs, tickets, slides—before the call even ends? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Mark Barbir (CEO) and Sanden Gocka (Co-Founder), the co-founders of Earmark, about building a productivity suite that turns unstructured conversations into finished work in real time. Unlike generic AI notetakers that produce summaries nobody reads, Earmark runs multiple agents in parallel during your meetings—translating engineering jargon, drafting product specs, even spinning up prototypes in Cursor or V0 while you're still talking. You'll hear how they pivoted from an Apple Vision Pro presentation coaching tool to a web-based meeting assistant, why their ephemeral (no-storage) architecture became a feature for enterprise sales, and the technical challenges of making real-time AI affordable—from $70 per meeting down to under a dollar through prompt caching. They also dig into why vector search falls short for analysis questions and how they're building agentic search to find insights across months of meetings. Whether you're a PM drowning in follow-up work or a builder curious about real-time AI architectures, this conversation offers a detailed look at what it takes to ship an AI product that people can't imagine working without.

    1 hr

  6. 22 JAN

    When Trust Is Everything: Building AI for Physicians at Healio

    How do you build an AI product for an audience that can't afford to be wrong—and won't trust you until you prove it? In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with three leaders from Healio—Jennifer Deal (SVP of Product Development), Casey Utley (Senior UX Designer), and Matthew Skepner (VP of Technology)—about how their 125-year-old medical publishing company built Healio AI, an AI-powered assistant that helps physicians prepare for patient care. They share how a survey of 300 healthcare professionals shaped their early assumptions, why physicians surprised them by asking for help with patient communication rather than diagnostics, and how they built a working prototype in a single weekend using Cursor. You'll hear how they combined RAG with hybrid search across trusted sources like PubMed, designed citation UX that physicians actually trust, and set up eight LLM judges alongside real physician feedback to evaluate response quality. If you're building AI for a high-stakes domain where trust, accuracy, and transparency matter more than speed, this conversation is packed with practical lessons.

    49 min
  7. Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes

    15 JAN

    Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes

    When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire building), figure out which products are relevant, look up pricing, and draft a quote—all before the deadline. It's tedious, error-prone, and surprisingly manual. In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Daniel Kappler (CTO, Product & Design) and Matthias Hilscher (CTO, Engineering) from Tendos AI about how they're automating this entire workflow for manufacturers in the construction industry. What started as a narrow prototype matching radiator requests to product catalogs has grown into a full agentic system that handles everything from email categorization to offer generation. You'll hear how they validated the opportunity with a design partner, spent a week on-site watching users work, and built a multi-agent architecture where specialized agents collaborate—complete with a "review agent" that checks the work of other agents before anything reaches a human. They dig into why they evaluate each agent independently (not just the whole chain), why they built custom observability tools when off-the-shelf solutions fell short, and how human-in-the-loop feedback is pushing them toward a self-learning system.

    1hr 6min

  8. 8 JAN

    Building a Career Co-pilot for Disadvantaged Students: How Zero Gravity Bridges Knowing and Doing

    How do you help disadvantaged students take action on opportunities they don't even know exist? In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Elliot Little (Product Manager) and Dan St. Paul (Software Engineer) from Zero Gravity, a UK-based platform that helps state school students access elite career opportunities through mentoring, community, and learning pathways. They've built an AI career co-pilot that acts as an orchestrator—not an automation tool—bridging the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. You'll hear how they: - Started with grand visions of AI mentors and synthetic avatars, then scaled back to something simpler and more effective - Discovered that hiding the "LLM magic" backfired—students needed to feel the personalization - Built context management strategies to handle multi-month student journeys without blowing up token counts - Approached safeguarding as a first-class concern when building AI for 16-year-olds - Used application logic rather than complex RAG architectures to manage tool availability and context freshness It's a practical look at building AI products that augment human relationships rather than replace them—from a team navigating the unique challenges of educational technology.

    1hr 10min
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How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.

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  • Creator
    Teresa Torres
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Clean
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