Lead With AI
by Tamara Nall
How Plenums Lab Uses Multiple AI Agents to Debate and Evaluate Ideas…
About this podcast
Join Dr. Tamara Nall for coffee-shop-style conversations that explore how AI is transforming our world today. With 25 years in data analytics and a doctorate in AI and machine learning, Dr. Nall creates a welcoming space where the doers, the builders, and the innovators share their stories.
Each episode cuts through technical jargon to showcase AI-powered solutions that are solving real problems across industries. You'll hear from the people who are actually creating these technologies—no fluff, no abstract ideas—just real technology, real impact, and real innovation that expands what we thought possible.
Lead with AI focuses on authentic stories and practical applications. Dr. Nall's conversations highlight the genuine impact of artificial intelligence without the hype. Whether you're an AI expert or simply curious about how this technology is changing our world, you'll walk away thinking: "Wow. I never thought this was possible."
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Episodes
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- How Plenums Lab Uses Multiple AI Agents to Debate and Evaluate Ideas (with Evan Khanna) · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 89Testing an idea usually means gathering people to challenge it, which costs time or money. Evan Khanna wanted an instant way to debate his own decisions without hiring anyone or…
- Making Employment Law Accessible to Small Businesses with SixFifty (with Kimball Parker) · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 88OpenAI and Anthropic can afford the best employment lawyers in the country. Most small businesses cannot. Kimball Parker, Founder and CEO of SixFifty, built an AI platform that…
- How Labrynth Uses AI to Help Businesses Navigate Regulatory Red Tape (with Stuart Lacey) · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 87Regulatory complexity can slow projects, delay infrastructure, and make it harder for businesses to know what to fix first. Stuart Lacey, Founder and CEO of Labrynth, is building…
- Unveiling Lava, the AI Teammate That Gets Work Done Across Your Business Tools (with Mitchell Jones) · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 86Most AI agents still act like a brand-new employee, clicking through screens and tripping security blocks before they get anything done. Mitchell Jones built Lava to skip that…
- This AI-Powered Health Platform Finds Disease Risk Before You Even Get Sick (with Dr. Michael Doney) · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 85Most people only think about their health after something feels wrong. Dr. Michael Doney (MD, MPH, MS) the Executive Medical Director at Biograph, built a precision diagnostics…
- This AI Coaches Sales Calls in Real Time Without the Buyer Ever Knowing (with Pianpian Xu Guthrie) · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 84Most sales calls turn on one moment: the objection nobody prepped for. Pianpian Xu Guthrie built Amotions AI to help sellers handle it while the call is happening. The platform…
- Viome Reads Your RNA to Tell You Exactly What to Eat (with Guruduth Banavar) · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 83Most health advice is generic, built for a body that does not exist. Guruduth Banavar built Viome to fix that, using RNA sequencing and AI to map what is happening in a person's…
- Chomp: Using AI to Map What People Really Think (with Kiko Zang) · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 82Most people scroll past an opinion they disagree with instead of saying so. Kiko Zang, CEO and Co-Founder of Chomp, built a daily question game to capture what people think…
- How Bob.AI Speeds Up Housing Assistance to Help Families Stay Housed (with Bejoy Narayana) · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 81A family finds rats in their apartment and needs a new unit fast. A school district changes, and a household has to relocate. These requests used to sit in a queue for weeks or…
- Herd AI, Inc Reads Your Emails, Meetings, and Messages So You Know What to Work On (with Matt Francis) · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 80Executives are buried in email, meetings, and messages that pile up faster than anyone can sort them, and most teams cannot tell which ones actually matter. CEO & Co-Founder…
- He Is Building a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) Empire One Robot at a Time (with Albert Saunders Jr.) · 26 min · Season 1 Episode 79Understaffed teams end up cleaning floors, answering phones, and covering shifts built for two people. Albert Saunders Jr. saw it at a gas station with one exhausted employee…
- NextSense Earbuds Try to Change Your Sleep While You're Still Asleep (with Jonathan "JB" Berent) · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 78Most sleep trackers count hours. Jonathan "JB" Berent set out to measure something else: slow waves, the deep brain activity that actually restores the body overnight. He built…
- How Luventix Is Using AI to Find Signs of Disease in a Single Urine Sample (with Dejan Nenov) · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 77Can an AI "dog nose" sniff out cancer from a single urine sample? In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall sits down with Dejan Nenov, Co-Founder of Luventix, to…
- How AI Is Revolutionizing Award-Winning Filmmaking (with Eric Hamilton) · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 76Making a feature film has always started with someone else's permission. A writer spends months on a script, then spends a year asking studios for five or ten million dollars…
- The Question Every AI Team Forgets to Ask About Their Own Agent (with Moritz Sudhof) · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 75Every company that ships an AI agent wants to know if it is actually working. Dashboards report session counts and completion rates, but they cannot show if a user left satisfied…
- How Artificial Agency Is Building Game AIs That Think, Decide, and Adapt to You (with Brian Tanner) · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 74Most video game characters follow rigid scripts and never adjust to how you actually play. Brian Tanner, former DeepMind research engineer and now CEO & Co-Founder of Artificial…
- How Rubi Is Building the AI Brain Behind Private Equity Deals (with TJ Richardson) · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 73Buy-side deal teams live in a flood of PDFs and spreadsheets. A single deal means hours of reading teasers and memos, pulling numbers by hand, and typing it all into a CRM nobody…
- SportAI Turns Your Phone into a Pro-Level Sports Analyst (with Lauren Pedersen) · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 72For most of tennis history, technique feedback came down to a coach's trained eye and a hunch. Elite pros travel with analysts and data teams. The other 99 percent of players get…
- Ash, The Mental Health AI Helping People Reconnect with Life (with Daniel Cahn) · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 71Talking to an AI was supposed to make people lonelier. Daniel Cahn set out to build something that could do the opposite. Most people who need mental health support never get it…
- He Built an AI That Lets Anyone Design Their Own Microgrid Power System (with Joe Glass) · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 70Solar panels and home batteries get sold as the future of energy. Building a working system is where most people stall. Joe Glass spent more than 20 hours wiring his own van and…







