Tech Can't Save Us

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Dilip Chetan, Founder of Recursio Lab, the company behind Defensible Zone, a framework and product that helps HR teams and hiring managers see which roles are genuinely changing, which human capabilities will stay valuable, and which candidates and employees already bring them. Drawing on more than twenty years at Google, Meta, Oracle a...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Brent Hagan, Chief Supply Chain Officer of Lob, the direct mail automation platform that bridges software and physical execution. Lob lets businesses send personalised, data-driven mailpieces at scale, backed by a nationwide print and delivery network that Brent oversees end to end. They discuss how direct mail, long seen as a slow, leg...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Justin Steele, Co-Founder & CEO of Kindora, a public benefit corporation using AI to level the playing field in philanthropic funding. Kindora has built an AI fundraising platform that reasons like a program officer, narrowing thousands of loosely relevant funders down to the few actively funding a nonprofit’s work. They discuss why...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Farley Thomas, Co-Founder & CEO of Manageable, a leadership development platform on a mission to give everyone the gift of a great manager. Manageable brings executive-grade coaching to the managers who have historically been handed nothing, blending live, expert-led learning delivered globally in any language with data-driven insig...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Steve Kramer, VP of Product of PayNearMe, a fintech platform that helps businesses simplify and accelerate the way they collect payments. PayNearMe brings every major payment type into a single platform, from Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Venmo to cards, ACH and cash at more than 62,000 retail locations across the US. They discuss t...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Beth Flippo, CEO and Founder of DEXA, a Dayton-based autonomous logistics company transforming last-mile delivery from the birthplace of aviation. Spun out of TELEGRID Technologies in 2021, DEXA designs, manufactures and operates its own FAA-certified DE-2020 drone, turning two-day shipping into deliveries in under 15 minutes. They disc...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Anatolii Papulov, Founder & CEO of NewOrbit, a Reading-based satellite manufacturer opening up a band of space that has been written off as too hostile for commercial flight for sixty years. NewOrbit is building the world’s first commercial satellites designed to operate reliably in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), between 200 and 300km...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Claire Coady, Founder of The Attention Practice, a specialist communications consultancy built for what Claire calls the “Age of Attention Scarcity“. Drawing on more than 20 years of advising global brands, governments and NGOs, Claire and her team fuse brand and media strategy, audience research, information risk and the science of att...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Mona Potter, MD, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Strategy Officer of InStride Health, an insurance-based virtual provider of specialty anxiety and OCD treatment for young people aged 7 to 26. Founded by two Harvard-trained clinicians who spent over a decade building intensive anxiety programmes at McLean Hospital, InStride delivers a purpo...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Adam Harvey and Kiran Chauhan, Co-Founders of Proofed, the editorial partner behind some of the fastest-moving content teams in the world. Proofed combines a global network of hand-picked expert editors with proprietary technology, giving businesses a fully managed editorial desk that scales with their content volume rather than their h...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Dan Beck, CEO & Co-Founder of 401GO, a fintech platform that uses integration and automation to deliver affordable, simple and accessible retirement savings for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2017 after Dan tried and failed to find a workable 401(k) for his own team, 401GO has built its technology in-house to strip ou...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Jari Närhi, Co-Founder of NADMed, a Finnish health technology company that is redefining personalized diagnostics and global health. NADMed has developed a breakthrough method for extracting and measuring nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides (NADs)—critical biomarkers for metabolic health, aging, and disease management. They discuss how t...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Nikki Barua, Co-Founder & CEO of FlipWork, an AI transformation partner building the human operating system for the agentic era. FlipWork helps organisations close the gap between the speed of AI and the speed at which their people actually adapt, turning judgement, context and experience into measurable, repeatable capability. They...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Eric Chang, Co-Founder and CEO of Claira, an AI-powered deal intelligence platform for financial institutions, backed by Citi and Barclays, that turns complex legal and financial documents into actionable data. Built by a team of former bankers and investment professionals alongside technologists, Claira focuses on private markets, incl...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Michael Pytel, Technology Leader & Director of VASS, a global digital transformation group of nearly 5,000 experts operating across 26 countries, built to help large organisations simplify complexity and turn technology into measurable business impact. Through its THINK – BUILD – SCALE approach and partnerships with both SAP and Goo...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Ahikam Kaufman, Co-Founder and CEO of SafeBooks AI, a San Francisco-based platform building the world’s first financial data graph for the office of the CFO and Chief Accounting Officer. SafeBooks connects fragmented data across CRM, billing, and ERP systems into a single, agent-ready layer that automates complex contract reviews and pr...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Erika Anderson and Andalib Samandari, Founder and AI Researcher of Building Humane Technology, a grassroots movement and public benefit corporation working to make humane design the default rather than the exception. Together they co-created HumaneBench, an open-source framework measuring whether AI models respect human well-being, and...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Paula Chiocchi, Founder & CEO of Outward Media, a B2B data and digital marketing company that helps firms turn data into revenue. Over 27 years, Paula has built one of the world’s largest SMB databases and driven hundreds of millions in revenue for Fortune 500 clients, including more than 300 million for a single client in one year,...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Arnon Shimoni, VP of Growth at Solvimon, a next-generation billing monetization platform. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Solvimon is designed to help modern SaaS companies navigate hybrid business models and the shifting landscape of usage-based pricing. They discuss the evolution of software billing, analyzing why traditional seat-b...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Ignacio Berardi, Co-Founder and CEO of Rexi, an AI-native financial operations platform rebuilding the infrastructure layer beneath modern fintech. Rexi automates reconciliation, accelerates financial close, and replaces fragile manual back-office workflows with intelligent agentic systems — building what Ignacio describes as the operat...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Kim Smith, Founder and CEO of Health Evolve, a South Carolina-based femtech company building patient-centred technologies at the intersection of care and culture. Kim founded Health Evolve in 2023 following the loss of her daughter Lauren to HELLP Syndrome, naming the company’s flagship platform in her honour. They discuss why the patie...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Julio Martinez-Clark, co-founder and CEO of BioAccess, the world's first contract research organization (CRO) purpose-built specifically for first-in-human (FIH) clinical trials. They discuss the "valley of death" that claims roughly 90% of healthcare startups, which frequently fail not because their technology is flawed, but because th...

This week on Tech Can't Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Vojtech Oravec, the founder of Ranketta, an innovative platform helping companies measure and optimize their visibility within AI-driven search engines and answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. With a deep background as an AI research scientist and enterprise product manager, Vojtech is now building the tools brands need to stay r...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Nick Lenten, founder and CEO at Ahead Health and a veteran of the tech world who previously served as head of product at Google. Ahead Health is on a mission to build Europe’s AI-driven prevention platform, offering advanced health checkups in under 60 minutes to bring elite-level preventative care to the general public. The conversatio...

This week on Tech Can’t Save Us, host Paul David is joined by Ben Perreau, founder and CEO of Parafoil, a leadership intelligence platform that uses cognitive science and psycholinguistics to help managers evolve into exceptional leaders. They discuss the current crisis in management, where a “great flattening” of organizational structures has significantly increased the cognitive load on individu...