The AI Momentum Podcast™

Hey everyone, welcome back to the notebook. If you are a creative, a solo operator, or a misfit entrepreneur trying to build something real online, you’ve probably felt the ultimate crossfire lately. On one side, your purist friends look at generative AI like it’s a threat to humanity’s soul. On the other side, tech enthusiasts are screaming at you to automate everything.. NOW! Enter Rachel Lee, c...

Why is it that the smarter a startup team is, the easier it is for them to get trapped in "decision debt"? Today, we look at the moment that financial veteran Ivo Perts walked away from a credit-scoring system he’d spent years preparing, all because a 48-hour window of AI evolution made him realize he was solving the wrong problem. We cut through the standard fintech jargon to look at the raw mech...

What we dissect in this episode: - How Claude Code changed the game - Why Amir still pays humans to sell the vision - When the AI makes a choice you may have to live with forever - Why veterans see the "AI Hype" differently If you want to move at Amir's pace, here's exactly what he's using: Claude & Claude Code → The brain and CLI Base44 → The heavy-lifting backend, user management and AI agent hu...

If you’ve ever felt the dopamine hit of a working prototype only to realize nobody wants to pay for it, this one is for you. Nicoleta Mocanu is a Systems Engineer. She speaks the language of reliability. But when she entered the AI beauty space, she realized that the excitement of new technology was actually obscuring a massive profit leak: the industry’s $2 billion failure to accurately match mak...

Leadership & AI Sentience: The moment I let a machine audit my soul with Daina Byčiūtė Daina reached a crossroad that sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: " AI knows me better than some of my friends do, but I'm still terrified of losing the human part of my work. ", she said. She realised her AI knew her better than her friends did, she wasn't scared to bare her soul. Most leaders use AI to fi...

Let me ask you this - do you treat AI as a "feature" to add to your existing builds? Well, Bryan Mills did - the opposite. After hitting a capacity cliff where he couldn't even choose what to have for dinner despite running a successful agency, he ended up taking a step back and wipe the whiteboard clean. This episode is the diagnostic of how he moved from a 40-hour grinder to a 4-hour governor we...

For as long as we remember, we've been told that content is kind, and keywords are the currency of the internet. WE've poured billions into a game where rules were written by a Google algorithm that hasn't fundamentally changed since Blackberry was a status symbol. But the game just ended, and we have a new king. In this episode, we talk with Andreas, A mad scientist of the AI Search world, with C...

"I used to treat hard work like a badge of honor... it was actually the complete opposite." This episode of the AI Momentum Podcast features Bryan Mills, creator of the Step Back System who shares his journey from being a burnt-out grinder to a business owner working just 4h/week. The conversation centres on the momentum leak that happens when a founder becomes the bottleneck for every decision, l...

Your startup is bleeding, and you're arguing over the colour of the bandages? Most founders are treating their MVPs like a sacred relic, but vibe coded MVPs are not bulletproof. They're just very (very!) expensive, heavy anchors. In this episode of The AI Momentum Podcast™ with Moshe Mikanovsky , we will perform a visceral autopsy on the 2018 wave. Moshe has been in the Product war room for 3.5 de...