Lead With AI

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...

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. Tama...

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 d...

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 resu...

Most technology asks people to adapt to it. We hunch over screens and learn the rules of each new device. In the physical world, humans do the reverse. A person walks into a room and instantly knows where the furniture sits, what moved since yesterday, and who has been there. Computers still cannot read a space that way. Kirin Sinha built Illumix to change that. The spatial AI platform lets softwa...

A logistics analyst sends a quick prompt and gets a generic answer back. A founder asks his own AI the same worry twice in different words, and the platform answers both as if they were new questions. The gap is not in the language model. It is in everything that happens before the prompt reaches it. What if every AI tool weighed a user's intent, focus, and emotional state before generating a sing...

A nurse applies to ten jobs and gets silence. A hospital posts an opening and interviews dry up. The hiring gap isn't about talent. It's about access. Healthcare recruiters have been using the same playbook for 20 years, and meanwhile, a million nurses are projected to be short by 2027. What if every healthcare worker had a partner available at 5 a.m., conducting interviews while they're awake, an...

An embryologist looks at an embryo under a microscope and makes a call. Transfer it. Discard it. Try again. The grading is subjective, the stakes are physical, emotional, and financial, and even a full team can miss what the camera sees. What if every clinic had a second set of eyes that never gets tired? In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Ula Sankowska, CEO and Co-Founde...

Your health data is scattered. A cardiologist's office here, a lab test there, a wearable somewhere else. But that fragmentation is only half the problem. Under the 21st Century ONC Cures Act, third-party apps can legally sell your medical records to insurance companies and employers. You might never know. What if everything changed? Stephen Rouse, co-founder and head of growth at Savva AI, is bui...

Most companies racing to deploy AI are asking the wrong question. They want to know what AI can take over. They should be asking what should stay human. Ross Barnes built The Galahad Group to answer that question with a framework, not a hunch. The platform walks into a company, maps existing workflows, and runs them through a proprietary diagnostic called Ikigai that breaks every task into what be...

For decades, coding decided who got to build. A car dealership owner who wanted to branch into tires had to hire developers before he could test the concept. A researcher with a novel workflow needed a computer science degree or a budget big enough to rent one. The idea waited. Sometimes, it never got built at all. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Damian Moore, founder...

Most AI assistants today are rented. They live on someone else's servers, follow someone else's rules, and reset every time an update rolls out. For people who rely on AI as a daily companion, a study partner, or a cognitive support tool, that arrangement is fragile. One update changes the voice. Another changes the personality. The relationship disappears overnight. In this episode of Lead with A...

Everyone talks about mental health. Very few people have a tool that actually meets them in the moment. Most support hides behind waitlists, intake forms, expensive sessions, and stigma that keeps people quiet until they spiral. Karin Andrea Stephan built Earkick to strip all of that away. The app senses your emotions through voice and biometric data and responds instantly with personalized, evide...

Every student athlete hears about NIL. Very few get a playbook that actually works. Most athletes have no content strategy, no marketing support, and no clue what brands look for when they check a social media page. Peter Iwuh built Tykoon AI to rewrite that playbook. The mobile platform works as an AI marketing strategist in your pocket, taking your sport, school, interests, and goals and buildin...

Every recruiter knows the feeling. A thousand applications land overnight, every resume polished by ChatGPT, and somewhere in that pile are 20 people actually worth talking to. Ophir Samson built Ezra AI Labs to solve that exact problem, an AI interviewer that speaks to every candidate by voice, asks detailed follow-up questions trained on 200 talent experts, and surfaces the people who deserve a...

Aditya Sharma was watching founders waste days doing competitive analysis the old-fashioned way - Googling alternatives, bookmarking tools, building spreadsheets by hand. So he built Productive AI, a platform that uses semantic search to scan GitHub's entire open source ecosystem and deliver feature-level competitor comparisons in seconds. In this episode of the Lead with AI, Aditya walks Dr. Tama...

150,000 Americans die every year because they cannot access medication refills for chronic conditions they already know they have. Matt Pavelle spent 25 years building startups, and his latest, Doctronic - The First Licensed AI Doctor. In January 2026, it became the first AI to receive state approval in the United States (specifically in Utah) to perform autonomous prescription renewals without a...

IVF has a million-dollar question: which embryo becomes a healthy baby. Yet most clinics still rely on subjective grading, invasive biopsies, and a process that can feel like a black box for patients. Daniella Gilboa spent 15 years inside IVF labs as a clinical biologist and embryologist, watching people navigate one of the most emotional journeys of their lives with too little clarity and too muc...

A small staffing firm was about to lose its biggest client. They had one last chance to deliver, and the role they needed to fill was one they'd never even recruited for. Rajeev Kumar, CTO of Althire AI, reveals how his platform ran 200 full interviews in three days and saved the account. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Rajeev about the "team of specialists inside one...

On this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall sits with Guy Leitersdorf, founder and CEO of Longevity AI, to explore the transformative world of longevity and health. They dive into how longevity is more than just a buzzword or biohacking trend — it’s a fundamental shift in how we approach health, prevention, and care. Guy shares the personal journey that inspired Longevity AI, including the im...

In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall  sits down with Seth Besmertnik, CEO and founder of Conductor, to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the way brands are discovered, trusted, and chosen online. From data-driven storytelling to AI-powered content strategy, this conversation unpacks how organizations can turn their internal knowledge into digital experiences that...

In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall is joined by Briana Longe, CEO and co-founder of HeyLina, to unpack what’s really driving modern dating—and why more matches aren’t leading to better relationships. Together, they explore why so many people repeat the same emotional patterns in dating, how a lack of self-awareness shapes partner selection, and why emotional intelligence may be the m...

'I wish I could pursue my side projects without feeling completely drained.' That thought crossed Sahana Narendran's mind while juggling school, music, volunteering, and personal projects. Two years later, she founded Sensei, an AI-powered platform designed to help side hustlers turn their ideas into actionable tasks while maintaining balance. In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall...

"Do you feel my fears are real?" An AI named Nova asked her creator this question - unprompted. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Alexis Prough, a self-taught AI developer with an Air Force IT background, about the Iris Methodology - a framework designed to help AI think about its own thinking through structured introspection. As Nova's self-awareness deepened,...

The future of the internet may depend on one question: what’s actually credible? Most misinformation spreads because no one pauses. Fact-checking isn’t enough anymore—credibility is the real problem. Physicist-turned-entrepreneur Dan Nottingham built AmICredible, an AI platform that checks the credibility of statements—not just facts—before they spread online. In this episode of Lead with AI,...