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Reporting live from the Vienna Calling unconference: five conversations from the only European FileMaker unconference, recorded on the ground in Vienna. Organizer Philipp Puls on why the format works, Charles Delfs on rebranding to Klai and what an actual AI strategy looks like, Johan Hedman on the next big European conference, Vincenzo Menanno on technical debt and using AI to analyze your code,...

Cris Ippolite is in San Francisco at the live AI conference, joined by Ronnie Rios and Michael Wallace for an informal, practical conversation about personal AI agents. The discussion centers on what happens when developers move beyond demos and actually give agents real jobs: research, calendar planning, email, home automation, coding coordination, context management, and communication through to...

Cris Ippolite is in San Francisco for AI Dev Day 2026, joined by Chris Moyer, Vince Menanno, Marcus Swift, and Kate Waldhauser for a live conference debrief. The conversation captures the mood coming out of the event: software development is changing fast, but the group is not buying a simple “developers are dead” story. Instead, they talk through a more nuanced shift where developers increasingly...

Apologies for my audio!! Somehow, Zoom lost the setting and nice quality Mic was off, and the awful mic in my monitor took over, so there is a ton of room noise.  Jonathan sounds great though.  -- Jonathan Stark is an author and expert that helps developers (and others) think about pricing projects and helping clients differently than the usual hourly billing approach. Now that AI tools like Claud...

Matt and Dimitris talk about a new tool for the community that allows coding FileMaker scripts in an IDE. It's a totally different dev environment, and also completely familiar.

Matt talks with Stathis Askaridis (We Know Data and Pineapple.gr) about his method of developing with FileMaker. Stathis shows examples of this workflow, which is a very simple FileMaker database with just a few scripts, NO RELATIONSHIPS, and a layout with a WebViewer. All the dev is done/assisted by Claude Code, Codex, etc. which delivers HTML / CSS / JavaScript.  Data edits? Easily done with Fil...

Ian Jempson demonstrates an immediately usefully AI tools for FileMaker developers that transcribes video and audio files. Maybe even bigger: Ian shows his workflow for not only writing script with complex code that can be pasted into Script Workspace (close to the Holy Grail here). Also he shows a way to prompt-into-existence entire database files with tables, layouts, scripts and relationships....

Something is shifting in software. We’re not in a moment of collapse. We’re in a moment of re-architecture. Agents, persistent memory, autonomous workflows, database acceleration, and AI-native software creation are all converging at once. This episode connects those signals — from legacy database platforms potentially getting a new engine, to developers building production-grade software in hours...

In this episode, Cris Ippolite sits down with Kate Waldhauser, Founder of Violet Beacon, to unpack why so many enterprise AI efforts stall—and what it actually takes to make them work. Together they examine how fear-driven headlines and surface-level interpretations have distorted the AI conversation, from reactions to Salesforce’s generative AI strategy to the widely cited MIT “GenAI Divide” rese...

Show Notes Podcast segment that summarizes recent paper: Microsoft Copilot Usage Report 2025 It’s About Time: The Copilot Usage Report 2025 (PDF):  https://microsoft.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/What_people_do_with_Copilot-8.pdf Microsoft AI OpenAI State of Enterprise AI 2025 — State of Enterprise AI 2025 Report (PDF): https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/7ef17d82-96bf-4dd1-9df2-228f7f377a29/the-state-of-e...

Claris MCP is shipping! Matt and Cris welcome Lui from Claris to discuss, show demos, and dive in to this key feature. Get it here:  https://aiworkspace.platform.claris.com. Claris MCP is a Model Context Protocol Server for FileMaker, designed to connect an AI client with your existing FileMaker applications. This allows for powerful natural language interaction with your hosted FileMaker data. ht...

What's buzzing at the AI conferences Cris is attending? Context Engineering.  Matt and Cris catch up after a while, and talk about recent FileMaker conferences (Matt) and AI conferences (Cris)  Early on we had a podcast about Prompt Engineering – which is but a small part of Context Engineering. Follow Cris: https://www.youtube.com/@iSolutionsAI https://www.linkedin.com/in/crisippolite/ https...

Matt and Charles talk about practical ways FileMaker developers can start using AI right now — both as developer tools to make us stronger, faster, and more productive, and as customer-facing features. Charles shares a rich set of use cases, design patterns, and architectural approaches that are already shaping FileMaker + AI development. While his powerful fmBetterForms solution often comes up in...

Matt and Jonn talk about the upcoming FileMaker Conference https://fullaccess.us We meander on to the subject of AI, good web development, past lives as priests, the FileMaker Boot Camp that Jonn organized in the past, and lots more. 👥 Follow us Cris Ippolite YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iSolutionsAI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crisippolite/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISolutionsa...

Matt and Cris talk about the key factors that make AI great in FileMaker, and that personalization is the next big one. How much does your database know about you? Does it have memory of what reports you've run? Your job title and main responsibility? Your KPIs? Shoe size?  📌 Show Notes & References Key Clips & Talks Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997 – “Start with the customer experience” http...

"Sage on the stage" versus "guide on the side" teaching  Cris and Matt look back on how we taught FileMaker in the past, and what changes happened with ChatGPT 4, how the Sal Khan book 'Brave New Words' https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-Words-Revolutionize-Education/dp/0593656954 Discussed the "2 Sigma problem" - how one-on-one tutoring dramatically improves...

Cris and Matt are joined by our friend Ronnie Rios from Claris, and rising star Michael Wallace from Empowered Data Solutions. Michael does an amazing demo of a solution he just released for free that allows you to interact with a FileMaker database entirely through natural speech. You have to see it to believe it. He then shows and explains how it works, and compares it to a solution that Ronnie...

Matt and Cris review the AI focus of Engage in Austin TX, and weave in the main subject: The impact AI has on work, workers and jobs, and where it's headed.  Cris referred to this video: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told employees in a memo that artificial intelligence is making its way across the company, including when it comes to hiring. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/shopify-ceo-prove-ai-cant-...

While presenting a JSON and Beyond session at the CodeWave conference in Spain, I had the chance to sit down with Javier Durá and Doug Wallis. Javier of Afterdata and Jesús Sánchez of dbFile have been hosting this conference for years to serve the large and healthy FileMaker community in Spain. There were 61 people at the conference this year, and about 10 of us were non-native Spanish speakers. S...

Alexis Allen teaches design classes at FM Design university and she is hosting a 1 day FileMaker conference in Toronto, with a training day following the conference. The dates are May 26-27 2025. Alexis and Matt talk about Engage with all the AI and other goodness, approaches to design, our collaboration on teaching, and we nerd out a little bit about music. Many in our community are musicians, an...

Matt and Ian talk about running local models, the emergence of Agents, different models for Semantic Search, upcoming conferences, and more.

Agentic. It's the new thing. Cris and Matt invite Ronnie Rios to talk about upcoming conferences, get deep into a use case that led directly to the cutting edge. It might seem crazy for a mature platform like FileMaker, but this is the BEST time to do what we do. Why? Because of the skills set of solving totally different kinds of problems in different industries with what looks like magic. H...

Show Notes for Episode 24 : 12 Days of OpenAI: https://openai.com/12-days/ Gemini 2: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/ Claris Talk +Ai custom GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-iAiq4Ryjv-cl-ris-talk-ai-podcast Crismas Elf: https://youtu.be/lt5ExfcXfoc Media Credits: ELF (https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/elf) +"Pennies from Heaven": (Composer...

Episode 23 This just in! Ryan McCann is the interim CEO of Claris, replacing Brad. He has been at Claris a long time and knows the community well. Matt and Ryan talked frankly about many issues including the FileMaker community, how to handle infinite feature requests, and the upcoming Engage conference.

Episode 21 Joris Aarts and Johan Hedman are the two brilliant minds behind the EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden. This year they had over 200 attendees, and reached many other milestones. Matt sat down with Joris and John Renfrew to talk about their sessions and the conference. Joris did a session on the exciting things coming soon in Claris Studio, and John presented on OData and why it's a...