Cutting Edge AI

PropTech's current state is that despite decades of software development, property management systems have remained largely stuck in the past. We interviewed Johnny Siu, a PropTech expert who is changing the real estate industry right now with his venture, Vinny. Vinny is an AI property manager that automates the tenant journey end-to-end. It handles the repetitive administrative work, such a...

The prevailing narrative in AI suggests that spending more tokens guarantees more intelligence and reliability. But what if the key to dependable enterprise AI is actually spending fewer, or even zero, tokens on repeated tasks? In this episode, we speak with Alexander Oelling, founder and CEO of INXM, a company building a reliable execution layer for complex business processes. Alexander shares ho...

AI may not just replace work. It may also create entirely new categories of human work around training, evaluating, and operating intelligent systems. In this episode, we speak with Ingmar Klein, co-founder and CEO of Huzzle, a company that evolved from a talent marketplace into an AI-powered recruitment engine and, more recently, a provider of human data for frontier AI labs. Ingmar shares how Hu...

Voice AI is becoming one of the first real entry points for AI adoption in SMEs: not because of the technology itself, but because it delivers immediate, measurable value. In this episode, we speak with Daniel Keinrath, co-founder and CEO of Fonio AI , an AI call assistant used by thousands of businesses across the DACH region. Daniel shares how Fonio AI grew from 0 to rapid scale, why voice is a...

In this episode of Cutting Edge AI , Jens Lapinski and Robin Harbort speak with Tyler Dunn, Co-Founder of Continue , about how AI is transforming software development. As AI agents increasingly write code, a new question emerges: who reviews it? Tyler explains why the future of software may involve AI reviewing AI , and why developers may soon stop reading most of the code they ship. The conversat...

Procurement is one of the largest and most complex parts of the global economy – over $100 trillion a year – yet much of it still runs on spreadsheets, email threads, and legacy systems built decades ago. Mercanis , founded by Fabian Heinrich, is taking a different approach: rebuilding procurement from the ground up around agentic AI. In this episode, Fabian explains why procurement was historical...

Fashion imagery is entering a new phase, one where AI doesn’t just edit photos, it creates them. Graswald AI, founded by Julius Harling, builds a digital photo studio that lets brands generate lifelike product images and campaign visuals without physical shoots. Using proprietary generative models trained on synthetic data, Graswald can dress virtual avatars in real garments with pixel-accurate fi...

AI is changing how data moves. In this episode, we sit down with Matthaus Krzykowski, co-founder and CEO of dltHub , the company turning data pipelines into a native language for large language models. dltHub automates up to 95 percent of data-engineering workflows and is already used by thousands of developers and over 4,000 companies. Its open-source roots and recent selection for the OpenAI Sta...

Search has stopped behaving like a list of links. It’s turning into a stream of answers inside AI chat, and that changes everything from attribution to how brands meet customers. We sit down with Peec AI CEO Marius Meiners to unpack what visibility means when people ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for product advice, and how marketers can win in a category that went from a few players to 60-plus seeming...

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