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Tamara Nall

Join Dr. Tamara Nall for coffee-shop-style conversations that explore how AI is transforming our world today. With 25 years in data analytics and a doctorate in AI and machine learning, Dr. Nall creates a welcoming space where the doers, the builders, and the innovators share their stories. Each episode cuts through technical jargon to showcase AI-powered solutions that are solving real problems across industries. You'll hear from the people who are actually creating these technologies—no fluff, no abstract ideas—just real technology, real impact, and real innovation that expands what we thought possible. Lead with AI focuses on authentic stories and practical applications. Dr. Nall's conversations highlight the genuine impact of artificial intelligence without the hype. Whether you're an AI expert or simply curious about how this technology is changing our world, you'll walk away thinking: "Wow. I never thought this was possible." Subscribe to discover how today's innovators are using AI to address challenges, create opportunities, and shape our future.

  1. 1d ago

    The Question Every AI Team Forgets to Ask About Their Own Agent (with Moritz Sudhof)

    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 built Bigspin AI to close that gap, reading every conversation between a company's users and its AI agent and delivering a daily report on what broke down and why. One Bigspin customer rolled out the same AI product, the same model, and the same prompts to two different companies. It thrived at the first. It went quiet at the second. The real difference was buried in the transcripts the whole time. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Moritz Sudhof about building Bigspin AI after leading AI coaching products at BetterUp, why the biggest lever for improving an AI system often sits outside the AI itself, and how research with Stanford professor Chris Potts uncovered failure patterns standard monitoring misses. Moritz explains why two identical AI products performed in totally different ways depending on how each was introduced to its users, why people should treat AI as a collaborator rather than a vending machine, and where he expects agent-to-agent conversation to head by 2030. Want to see how Bigspin AI works? Visit bigspin.ai to learn more or request early access. Check out the links below to follow Moritz, connect with the Bigspin AI team, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Moritz Sudhof (Co-founder & CEO, Bigspin AI) LinkedIn: @sudhof | Website: bigspin.ai | LinkedIn (Bigspin AI): @bigspin-ai

    The Question Every AI Team Forgets to Ask About Their Own Agent (with Moritz Sudhof)

  2. Jul 28

    How Artificial Agency Is Building Game AIs That Think, Decide, and Adapt to You (with Brian Tanner)

    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 game AIs can think, decide, and adapt to each player in real time. Instead of fixed logic, game characters and invisible game directors make their own choices, including an AI companion that organized a player’s supplies and unexpectedly named a lonely storage chest the “Berry Lonely Chest.” In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall talks with Brian about how their behavior engine can respond to a player’s skill level and mood, why an invisible game director might introduce new challenges based on your play style, and how one of the team’s early test agents once asked its developer for a new feature so it could eat. Brian also shares his current view on how close artificial general intelligence and superIntelligence may be. Want to see where their behavior engine is headed? Visit artificial.agency to learn more about the team and what they’re building next. Then follow Brian, connect with Artificial Agency, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the people shaping the future of games and AI. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Brian Tanner (CEO & Co-Founder, Artificial Agency) LinkedIn: @bttanner Artificial Agency Website: artificial.agency | LinkedIn: @artificialagency | YouTube: @artificialagencyai

  3. Jul 21

    How Rubi Is Building the AI Brain Behind Private Equity Deals (with TJ Richardson)

    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 make sharp calls end up spending their days on data entry. TJ Richardson built Rubi to change that. Rubi is a deal intelligence platform for private equity funds, family offices, and other buy-side firms. It reads a deal, runs the analysis, and loads everything into the firm's system of record in seconds, work that used to take days. One firm watched it automate the exact job their team dreaded most. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with TJ Richardson about the framework behind Rubi, an orchestrator agent that deploys sub-agents to extract data, screen deals, and update records on their own. TJ breaks down how Rubi codifies a firm's investment thesis and flags which deals to pass on and which ones deserve a closer look, why he built the tool to upskill investors instead of replacing them, and why he built it to work across industries and geographies without losing focus. He also shares a bold take on why AI could shrink the institutions that have long gatekept money and knowledge work. Want to see what Rubi can do for your firm? Head to Rubi.AI or reach out to TJ directly. Check out the links below to connect with TJ, follow Rubi, and subscribe to Lead with AI on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen for more conversations with the leaders building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow TJ Richardson (Founder & CEO, Rubi) LinkedIn: @TJ-Richardson | Website: Rubi.AI | Rubi on LinkedIn: @RubiAI | Email: TJ@Rubi.AI

    How Rubi Is Building the AI Brain Behind Private Equity Deals (with TJ Richardson)

  4. Jul 14

    SportAI Turns Your Phone into a Pro-Level Sports Analyst (with Lauren Pedersen)

    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 to close that gap. The platform uses computer vision to analyze video off a mobile phone or a court-mounted camera, treats nearly every pixel like a sensor on the player's body, and returns instant feedback on technique, tactics, and pro-style match stats. When Oivind Sorvald, Casper Ruud's longtime technical coach and one of the best in the world, saw the technology, he recognized how it could change the way coaches everywhere collect data on players. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Lauren Pedersen about her path playing Division One college tennis, building a career at global ad agencies, and founding SportAI in Oslo. Lauren breaks down how the camera-agnostic system works, why consent sits at the center of its ethics, how clubs and federations turn court cameras into new revenue, and why she believes AI should give coaches 10x more impact instead of replacing them. Want to see what SportAI can do for your game? Go to sportai.com to apply for the beta and test it with your mobile phone, or learn about court camera options for your club. Check out the links below to follow Lauren, connect with the SportAI team, and subscribe to Lead with AI on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen for more conversations with the founders building the future of AI. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Lauren Pedersen (CEO and Co-Founder, SportAI) LinkedIn: @laurenmartinpedersen | Website: sportai.com | LinkedIn (SportAI): @sportai-com

    SportAI Turns Your Phone into a Pro-Level Sports Analyst (with Lauren Pedersen)

  5. Jul 7

    Ash, The Mental Health AI Helping People Reconnect with Life (with Daniel Cahn)

    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 therapist charged about 174 dollars an hour last year, and in many areas there are roughly 10,000 people for every available one. Ash, built by Slingshot AI, is a free app designed to put personalized mental health support within reach. It runs on a model trained specifically on psychology, and early research points to something Daniel did not expect. Early research suggests that people who use Ash leave the house more often and report about one more close personal connection in their lives over time. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Daniel Cahn about why he built an AI for the people the system leaves behind, how Slingshot trains its model in three stages so it knows when to challenge someone and when to stay quiet, and why he measures success by real-world relationships rather than time spent in the app. Daniel also shares why he thinks AI is about to reshape how people find meaning, value, and identity in their lives. Want to try Ash for yourself? Download it free on iOS or Android, or visit talktoash.com. Check out the links below to follow Daniel, connect with the Slingshot AI team, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | X (Twitter): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Daniel Cahn (Founder & CEO, Slingshot AI) Website: slingshotai.com | LinkedIn: @cahnd | Substack: The Cahn Artist | Podcast: Thinking Machines Slingshot AI (Ash) Ash: talktoash.com | LinkedIn: @slingshotai | Instagram: @talktoash.official

    Ash, The Mental Health AI Helping People Reconnect with Life (with Daniel Cahn)

  6. Jun 30

    He Built an AI That Lets Anyone Design Their Own Microgrid Power System (with Joe Glass)

    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 Me, a free AI tool that designs solar and battery systems in about 20 minutes. One user even planned a 131-unit apartment complex with it. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Joe Glass about why distributed energy is becoming essential infrastructure, how Microgrid Me works like an expert that runs the calculations for you, and his vision for community microgrids that connect whole neighborhoods. Want to design your own power system? Try the tool at microgridme.xyz. Check out the links below to connect with Joe and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Joe Glass (Founder, Microgrid Me) LinkedIn: @joe-glass | Website: microgridme.xyz

    He Built an AI That Lets Anyone Design Their Own Microgrid Power System (with Joe Glass)

  7. Jun 23

    Most People Never Make a Will. This AI Makes Yours a Gift to Your Family. (with David Rosati)

    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 accounts and fight over what you never wrote down. Succession Wills was built to end that standoff. It puts an AI in the chair a lawyer would normally sit in, asking the questions you did not know to ask until your will is done. And this is the part where the free AI will tools get wrong. The AI never writes the document. A deterministic engine that David Rosati, a practicing lawyer, approved line by line does that, so nothing in your will is guessed or hallucinated. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with David Rosati, Co-Founder & CEO of Succession Wills, about why most estates are simpler than the price of a lawyer suggests, how a toggle lets you switch between a form and a real conversation, why he refused to let AI near the legal drafting, and where Succession Wills goes after the will is signed. Want to see it? You can build your entire will free at successionwills.com and watch it draft in real time, with the paywall showing up only at the end. Follow the links below to connect with David, reach the Succession Wills team, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the people building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow David Rosati (Co-Founder & CEO, Succession Wills) LinkedIn: @david-rosati | Website: successionwills.com | Instagram: @successionwills | Facebook: Succession Wills | LinkedIn: Succession Wills

    Most People Never Make a Will. This AI Makes Yours a Gift to Your Family. (with David Rosati)

  8. Jun 16

    Stop Babysitting Your AI Agents and Start Managing Them Like a Team (with Austin Born)

    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 Shinzo Labs to break that loop. The platform gives teams secure remote workspaces where agents run in the cloud, take on tasks that last half an hour or more, and message back the results on Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord when the work is done. Austin runs six agents in parallel and ships software features at least five times faster than he did working alone. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Austin Born about leaving a five-year blockchain career at the end of 2024 to build at the start of the agent wave, how agents on the platform delegate work to one another, why users should question their agents the same way they would question a coworker, and the guardrails that keep agents honest about the work they claim to finish. Austin also shares his prediction that truly autonomous agents will soon run their own businesses with their own wallets. Want to try Shinzo for yourself?   The platform is live at shinzo.ai with a free tier, and Austin offers a free 30 minute onboarding consultation. Check out the links below to connect with Austin and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the founders building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms: Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI |  YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall: LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Austin Born (Founder, Shinzo Labs): LinkedIn: @Austin-Born | Website: shinzo.ai | X: @shinzolabs

    Stop Babysitting Your AI Agents and Start Managing Them Like a Team (with Austin Born)
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Join Dr. Tamara Nall for coffee-shop-style conversations that explore how AI is transforming our world today. With 25 years in data analytics and a doctorate in AI and machine learning, Dr. Nall creates a welcoming space where the doers, the builders, and the innovators share their stories. Each episode cuts through technical jargon to showcase AI-powered solutions that are solving real problems across industries. You'll hear from the people who are actually creating these technologies—no fluff, no abstract ideas—just real technology, real impact, and real innovation that expands what we thought possible. Lead with AI focuses on authentic stories and practical applications. Dr. Nall's conversations highlight the genuine impact of artificial intelligence without the hype. Whether you're an AI expert or simply curious about how this technology is changing our world, you'll walk away thinking: "Wow. I never thought this was possible." Subscribe to discover how today's innovators are using AI to address challenges, create opportunities, and shape our future.

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  • Creator
    Tamara Nall
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    74
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