The Tesoro AI Podcast

Historically, breeding has been a blend of science and chance – a lengthy, expensive process where outcomes often come with tradeoffs. As one plant characteristic such as yield is optimized, another such as protein content is compromised. CropOS changes this by enabling greater control and precision, this means reduced costs and greater accessibility. In this episode of the podcast, we sit down wi...

Today we sit down with Pascal, the founder, and CEO of Bardeen AI, a leading workflow automation company. Pascal shares his journey in the AI and machine learning field, and how his experience of spending too much time on repetitive tasks led to the creation of Bardeen, a platform designed to automate micro functions for users. They discuss how Bardeen integrates AI into its platform to understand...

As software development accelerates, it's becoming increasingly challenging for legal, security, and IT teams to track personal data flows. Manual workflows like forms and meetings can leave them in the dark, putting user and customer trust at risk. That's where Relyance AI comes in. Their machine learning technology builds a dynamic, real-time data inventory and map to monitor how personal data m...

Many game studios and developers are aware of the toxicity and harassment happening in their games and have put what's known as "reactive moderation" measures in place as a response. Built on advanced machine learning technology and designed with player safety and privacy in mind, ToxMod triages voice chat to flag bad behavior, analyzes the nuances of each conversation to determine toxicity, and e...

With the advent of online shopping, the supermarket industry is undergoing a major transformation. As more consumers shift to online grocery shopping, experts predict that it will make up 20% of all grocery shopping by 2026. In response, grocery stores are seeking innovative technologies to enhance the in-store experience and stay ahead of the competition.   Today, we speak with Henry Michelson, C...

The use cases for AI are ever expanding, especially in sectors that typically wouldn't have been known for using AI. For example, Canvass AI offers an Industrial AI platform that fast tracks operational efficiency, profitability, and sustainability goals for large scale oil and gas, chemical and manufacturing operations.   In this episode, I sit with Humera Malik the founder and CEO of Canvass AI...

Today, I sat with Adam Gibson, the founder of Konduit, who is building the tooling for AI development and model deployment.  Konduit is on a mission to help run AI models where developers want them to run -  whether that be in the cloud on premise, the edge, or mobile. Adam explains the new projects they are working on and the importance of the acceleration of AI adoption.       Founder Bio:   Ada...

In this episode we sit with Bibhrajit Halder, Founder and CEO of SafeAI. SafeAI is leveraging artificial intelligence to enable the transition to autonomous mining in construction. They're retrofitting heavy vehicles in site operations with autonomous technology  to enable a safer and more productive worksite.    Bibhrajit is a seasoned operator and technologist in the AI space. He has led and sup...

In this episode we sit with Anu Shukla, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Botco.ai. Botco.ai is a conversational marketing platform, enabling meaningful and intelligent conversations between businesses and their customers. Leveraging conversational AI, its platform, optimizes marketing performance by enabling businesses to create personalized experiences.    Anu is a serial entrepreneur with 20...

In this episode we sit with Kirk Marple, Founder and CEO of Unstruk Data. Unstruk Data is enabling its customers to utilize information stored in video image, 3D and industrial files with its knowledge hub, which is designed specifically for spatial and unstructured data. Its technology unlocks the information stored in these data files so that you can easily search, visualize, analyze, and integr...

In this episode, we sit with Hila Goldman Aslan, Co-Founder and CEO of DIA analysis. DIA analysis leverages artificial intelligence to analyze ultrasound images.  Historically, this been a complex, manual process requiring trained professionals.  With the help of AI/automation, Hila and her team are enabling fast and accurate analysis with users of various levels of experience.   Hila is a former...

In this episode we sit with ZeZe Peters, Founder of Beam City, a unified advertising automation platform that uses AI to help businesses. Beam City plans and optimizes ads across all top ad channels. ZeZe and I discuss several topics related to building and launching an AI product, building effective teams, how the pandemic shifted the conversation around adtech, and much much more  If your compan...

This episode is action packed with advice on standing up a commercially viable AI product.  Our guest, Babak Hodjat (CTO of AI, Cognizant), is an incredibly successful AI founder with multiple successful exits.  Lucky for us, he also touches on some of his failures and challenges faced when building AI.  This is a must listen for anyone building AI products or teams internally.   If you are inspir...

Manufacturing is an industry that has taken early interest in the promise that artificial intelligence will deliver massive productivity gains.  Sectors such as autonomous vehicles are generating massive amounts of data that can be used to improve production and vehicle safety, reduce part recalls, and optimize costs using AI.   In this episode, we sit with Greta Cutulenco (Founder and CEO of Acer...

Google is the king of search.  But, is it the right search platform to use across all use cases?  Today's guest, Leigh Fatzinger (Founder, Turbine Labs) explains why and how executive decision making requires a more contextually relevant solution.    SEO and ad spend can reduce the relevancy of information served up to executives while they are trying to make critical business decisions.  Turbine...

Recently valued at $2 billion, Verbit is the latest AI-platform to reach unicorn status.  The startup has grown to $100mm in annual recurring revenue in only five years through its AI-driven transcription and captioning platform.    In this episode we sit with Tom Livne, Founder and CEO, to discuss several topics including how he leveraged the gig economy to build a more powerful AI product, growt...

Each bite of food we eat was prepared using a recipe with several ingredients with varying quantities depending on the food.  Apply that across a global food industry and you can understand the immense amount of data pouring out of this process alone.   Interestingly, the food industry still leverages dated processes for producing and delivering high quality food products.  Journey Foods has arriv...

Manufacturing and design firms continue to stumble upon novel use cases for artificial intelligence.  Today we learn more about how 3D imaging data is reducing supply chain complexity for manufacturing parts.   Startups also have an interesting challenge in acquiring the data necessary to train machine learning models.  In this episode with Paul Powers, Founder and CEO of Physna, we dive into what...

There is always room for AI that improves the quality of human life.  In this case, we examine an artificial intelligence solution that is actually saving lives.  For stroke victims, the length of the process from scan to treatment is often the difference between life and death.  Today, many hospitals deal with preventable death due to processes that delay wait times for treatment of stroke patien...

AI is often referred to as a "black box" as AI practitioners struggle to explain why a model generates a given prediction.  As AI is being deployed into the real world, organizations are not only tasked with producing high performance models but also with avoiding AI models that are bias (and have a negative impact on society).   In this episode, I am joined by Will Uppington, Founder and CEO of T...

Legal fees – the line item in your budget you hate to see, but also the critical service that keeps your business afloat.  Most executives haven't the slightest idea of what legal services should cost and how what they are charged compares to the market rates.  Simply put, transparency in legal spend does not exist – until now.  Bodhala is leveraging AI to demystify and recommend legal services ba...

AI is often thought of as the tech that is going to replace human workers.  Less often do we see opportunities for AI to improve and protect human life.  Active shooter threats have begun to become a more common media headline.  This issue also plays itself out in the commercial sector as disgruntled employees create unsafe environments in the workforce.  Security cameras are common and spread thr...

Virtually every company is becoming a tech company, or tech-enabled at the very least.  The challenge is that the global talent shortage for software developers is slowing the rate at which we can innovate.  This challenge is even more pronounced when we consider cutting edge technology such as artificial intelligence.  For more than 20 years, OutSystems mission has been to allow every organizatio...

After three hours of waiting to talk to customer support, you finally reach a real human who you hope will be able to solve your problems.  Unfortunately, that human doesn't seem to care about your issues any more than the automated support system that had you waiting.  Is it because the support agent doesn't care – potentially – but it's nothing personal.  Consistently listening to customer issue...

The cloud was a gift to AI, enabling the compute power necessary for company to leverage powerful ML algorithms.  As edge technologies such as smart phones, drones, and autonomous driving begin to incorporate greater cognitive capabilities, processing speeds and decision making need to be more efficient at the device level.  To solve this problem, Deeplite has emerged with a solution that optimize...