Built This Week

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...

Episode 6: From Avatar to AI Hire: Building NTRVSTA Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into NTRVSTA , a new AI-powered interview automation platform Jordan built to help teams move faster and smarter in the hiring process. The tool uses avatars to conduct adaptive, friendly interviews 24/7 across technical and non-technical roles. They break down how it works, why it saves time, and what they’ve l...

Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in Code Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Mate: a custom-built social platform designed to bring remote teams closer through clubs, shared interests, and personality-rich profiles. Then they spotlight Clay, a sleek relationship management tool that helps founders and teams stay in touch with the people who matter, minus the CRM bloat. Finally, in the news...

Episode 4: Hiring in Half the Time: Meet Ryz Score  Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Ryz Score, an internal tool they built to help recruiters stop wasting hours on bad resumes. It uses AI to rank candidates and streamline hiring decisions. For the Tool of the Week, they explore surprising ways people are using ChatGPT: from health tracking and meal planning to full-on life automation. And in...

Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil a tool Jordan secretly built — a mini CRM that scrapes podcast emails via RSS and auto-generates personalized, AI-written outreach using Gmail. Then they demo their favorite AI tool for creative expression: Suno , the text-to-song app that powers everything from Built This Week’s theme music to cookie-sale jingles and classical-to-trap remixes. Finally, they di...

This week on Built This Week Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI engine they built to write and publish SEO content across 15 Webflow sites with zero human effort They break down how they trained each site to sound like a real brand, how the tool runs daily without lifting a finger, and why it's already driving global traffic and leads from search engines and LLMs like Perplexity. They als...

In the debut episode of Built This Week , Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler walk through how they built Ryz Labs Video Studio — a new internal tool for generating marketing-ready videos using top AI models like Veo 3 and Seed Dance . They explain how they shipped the first version in just three days using Replit , Replicate , and GPT-4 , and how their team used it to produce two full commercials in un...

Welcome to Built This Week — the podcast where we dive into the startups, tools, and wild ideas built in the past 7 days. Hosted by founders Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler , each episode features three fast-paced segments: A brand new project we actually built this week The coolest new AI tools hitting the market A breakdown of the top tech stories everyone’s talking about This show is fast, fun, a...