Guest: Anish Sebastian, CEO & Co-Founder, Babyscripts
Host: Ryan Estes
Episode Summary
Maternal mortality is rising in the U.S. while access to care lags. Anish Sebastian explains how Babyscripts uses AI, remote patient monitoring, and data-driven care plans to connect OB providers with patients between visits, cut unnecessary appointments, and surface high-risk events earlier. We dig into clinical validation, cultural and regulatory friction, value-based care incentives, and what an AI-assisted “team of experts” model means for the future of pregnancy care.
Who This Is For
Key Takeaways
Frameworks
Adoption Waves
Care Delivery Loop
Engagement Design
Incentive Alignment
Future Model
Resources
Episode
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Guest: Ricardo Vice Santos, CEO and co-founder of DreamStories.ai
Topic: Agentic content studio, personalized children’s books, character-consistent AI imagery, subscriber-style publishing economics
Episode Overview
How DreamStories.ai turns kids into the hero of their own beautifully illustrated adventure. Ricardo explains the “agentic content studio” model, why he started with physical books, how he achieves character consistency at scale, and the unit economics behind paid acquisition and repeat purchase behavior.
Time-Saving Highlights
Key Takeaways (Founder-Focused)
Ricardo’s Playbooks and Frameworks
1) Agentic Content Studio Framework
2) Intimacy-at-Scale Loop
3) Retention Through Episodes
4) Paid Media Unit Economics
5) Brand-Safe Personalization Guardrails
Resources and Links
Episode Sponsors
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Reddit has become a prime source for AI training data and AI search results. Founder Danny Kirk explains how ReddiReach helps 7–10 figure brands win inside AI search by using Reddit the right way. We break down why comments beat posts, how AI search is changing SEO, and what brands should do now to capture demand from LLM recommendations.
Founders, CMOs, growth leaders, e-commerce operators, and SEO pros who want practical playbooks for AI search, Reddit marketing, and LLM-driven discovery.
Guest: Keren Fanan, Co-Founder & CEO, MyOp.dev
Topic: Plugging AI-generated UI into production without breaking your core app
Episode overview
AI can now generate front ends and UX logic in minutes, but most teams still cannot ship that code safely. Keren explains how MyOp’s pluggable layer lets non-developers ship UI in isolation while engineering protects the core, enabling faster experiments, A/B tests, and personalization in live apps.
What you will learn
Key takeaways
Frameworks and operating models
MyOp Architecture
Separation of Responsibilities
Experiment-to-Production Pipeline
Adoption Playbook
Pricing and Metrics
Fast stats
Resources mentioned
Episode Sponsors
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Henry O’Connell, CEO of Canary Speech
— Voice Biomarkers, and Real-Time Clinical Support
Summary
Canary Speech turns everyday conversation into clinical-grade insight. Henry O’Connell explains how ambient listening analyzes 2,590 vocal biomarkers every 10 milliseconds to produce about 16 million data points per minute. The system returns real-time scores for anxiety, depression, cognitive health, Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and more without interrupting the doctor–patient relationship. We cover continuous monitoring, aggression detection for nurse safety, patents and IP strategy, data security, deployment across devices, and how ambient AI moves healthcare beyond chat.
Key Takeaways
Who This Episode Is For
Frameworks Discussed
Ambient AI Pipeline
Clinical Decision Support Loop
Longitudinal Delta Method
Compare patient voice features across time to quantify change and trend risk.
Safety and Operations Layer
Aggression detection with green yellow red indicators to reduce nurse assaults and burnout.
Compliance and Trust Stack
Hospital-level security posture, ISO certifications, integration with existing transcription and EHR workflows.
IP and Defensibility
Patents for voice biomarker detection, ambient AI methods, longitudinal comparison, and LLM fusion.
Notable Numbers
Resources
Episode Sponsors
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Guest: Devika Sarin, Founder of Soal (thisissoal.com)
Topic: AI-powered art discovery, taste mapping, and community-driven curation for Millennials and Gen Z
Episode Overview
Soal is building a daily ritual for art discovery that blends human curation with behavioral science and AI. Devika shares how the app helps users learn to see, name, and evolve their taste, why early community building beats early monetization, and how contemporary artists can thrive without chasing algorithms.
What You Will Learn
Key Takeaways
Frameworks Discussed
1) Discover → Learn → Engage → Support
2) Human First → Algorithm Next
3) Community Before Monetization
4) Taste Mapping Signals
Who This Episode Is For
Founders building consumer AI or marketplaces, product leaders designing recommendation engines, community builders, and creators exploring ethical and effective ways to scale human taste with technology.
Resources and Links
Episode Sponsors
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In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes sits down with Dave Polykoff, the founder of Zenpost — a content engine helping founders, consultants, and service providers turn one video shoot into a month of high-converting content. Dave breaks down how he built Zenpost into a systemized growth machine that scales personal brands, the frameworks behind consistent visibility, and how AI is transforming content creation at speed and scale.
If you’re a founder or marketer looking to grow your brand, streamline your content pipeline, and actually generate leads from what you post — this episode is your roadmap.
Frequency x Quality x Distribution = Reach
Create → Publish → Engage → Measure → Refine → Repeat weekly.
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Guest: Hank Leber, cofounder of Stanify.ai
Topic: Turning the comment section into conversions with multilingual, human-in-the-loop AI
Episode Summary
Hank Leber breaks down how Stanify.ai automates brand-safe engagement in social comment sections and DMs at scale. We cover auto-moderation that preserves healthy debate, multilingual on-brand replies, a human-in-the-loop workflow, and why smart Q&A in comments now powers answer-engine optimization for LLMs. If you run paid social, manage community at scale, or need brand-safe engagement across languages, this playbook shows how to capture viral moments instead of missing them.
Key Takeaways
Frameworks Mentioned
Who This Episode Is For
Founders, CMOs, growth and community leads, performance marketers, and creators who need scalable, brand-safe engagement, especially teams running paid social or managing global communities.
Resources & Links
Sponsors
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In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes talks with Drew Falkman, a veteran product strategist and AI coach who’s been building digital products for more than two decades. Drew has worked with major brands like HP, Adobe, AARP, and American Airlines, and today he’s leading the charge in AI product acceleration—helping founders build and test products faster than ever before using tools like Lovable, Magic Patterns, and Strella.
This conversation explores the evolution of vibe coding, agentic coding, and generative UI, and how these innovations are collapsing the gap between an idea and a finished, functional app. Whether you’re a product designer, founder, or creative experimenting with AI, this episode reveals how to go from zero to prototype in days—and how the rise of AI-driven interfaces could completely reshape the SaaS industry.
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Show Notes: Lawrence Coburn, CEO & Co-founder of Ambient
Serial founder Lawrence Coburn (DoubleDutch, Twine) returns with Ambient, an AI Chief of Staff that helps founders and CEOs reclaim time and upgrade decision quality. After interviewing 400 Chiefs of Staff, Ambient focuses on three high-leverage workflows: daily prep dossiers, secure leadership meeting notes, and red/yellow/green tracking on make-or-break initiatives. We cover the CoS vs EA vs AI division of labor, why “push not pull” is the future UX, and how calendar-anchored intelligence powers fundraising and execution.
Key Takeaways
Frameworks
1) Office of the CEO OS (CoS–EA–AI)
2) Ambient’s Three-Workflow Stack
3) Push UX Principle
4) Decision Quality Ladder
5) Pricing Mindset for AI Ops
Resources & Links
Connect
Sponsors
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Dr. Brigham Hyde, Co-Founder & CEO of Atropos Health
In this episode, Ryan Estes interviews Dr. Brigham Hyde to explore how Atropos Health is closing medicine’s “evidence gap” — the staggering reality that only 14% of clinical decisions are based on high-quality evidence. With products like ChatRWD® and GENEVA OS™, Atropos uses generative AI to transform real-world data into validated evidence in minutes, not months.
This discussion is for founders, data scientists, healthcare innovators, and investors who want to understand the intersection of AI, regulation, and scientific rigor in healthcare.
How Isaac Kassab Scaled Pearl Talent to $10M in ARR
Guest: Isaac Kassab (Pearl Talent)
Host: Ryan Estes, AI for Founders
Overview
In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes sits down with Isaac Kassab, cofounder of Pearl Talent. Isaac shares how he bootstrapped the business to $1M ARR in 7 months and scaled it to $10M by year three. You’ll hear actionable insights about using conversational agents for recruiting, structuring remote-first operations, and achieving high retention in global talent networks.
Who This Is For
Key Takeaways / Highlights
Frameworks & Models Discussed
Framework / Model
Purpose
Components
Conversational Agent Pattern
Automate human-like conversation in operations
Input (user text) → Scoring / Validation → Human Review / Decision
Readiness over Polish
Buyer qualification philosophy
Documented proof (resume, funds, advisors) > polished pitch
Retention Signal Monitoring
Early detection of friction
Engagement, response times, performance degradation
Domain Specialization Strategy
Competitive focus
Serve verticals deeply rather than broadly
Resources & Links
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Building Pinery with Heberti Almeida
Summary
From a stormy Brazilian farm to the Mac App Store. Former Square engineer Heberti Almeida spent seven years turning a side project into Pinery, a focused Markdown writing and self-publishing app for Mac. We cover privacy-first on-device AI, clean ePub and PDF export, subscription pricing that sustains indie software, and how tractor time can sharpen product thinking.
Who this is for
Product snapshot
Key takeaways
Frameworks discussed
1) Privacy-First Authoring
2) Lean Publishing Loop
3) Calm Tool Product Strategy
4) Indie Pricing Rationale
Links and resources
AI for Founders with Eunice, Co-founder and CTO of Kawara.ai
Topic: Turning creator content into newsletter-driven sales
Summary
Eunice explains how content-led growth is reshaping sales for creators and lean startups. Kawara.ai helps solopreneurs turn YouTube and other consumed or created content into weekly newsletter drafts that convert. We cover why newsletters outperform social for sales, how to keep voice quality high with AI, and the roadmap from drafts to full revenue workflows.
Who this is for
Founders, creators, and solo operators who want reliable conversions from audience to revenue. Teams that need to publish consistently without adding headcount. Builders exploring agentic workflows and AI-assisted content systems.
What You Will Learn
Key Takeaways
Frameworks Discussed
1) Content-Led Sales Loop
Listen to audience signals. Publish a weekly story-driven email. Link to a clear offer or call booking. Collect replies and clicks. Feed insights back into next week’s draft.
2) Newsletter Engine in 5 Steps
3) Voice Integrity with AI
Start with user tone guidance. Use creator-tested templates for structure. Allow light prompts for nuance. Constrain choices to prevent paralysis. Audit outputs for drift.
4) Trust Ramp for Agentic Products
Phase 1. Show reasoning and steps.
Phase 2. Collapse steps into summaries.
Phase 3. Hide steps by default. Reveal on demand.
5) Product Choice Hygiene
Few choices. Strong defaults. Obvious next action. Measurable outcomes.
Light Case Study Mentioned
YouTube creator with 51,000 subscribers and a 2,000-subscriber newsletter reported roughly twice as many booked client calls traced to the newsletter versus YouTube. Multi-touch consistency and owned distribution were the difference.
Tools and Links
Connect
AI for Founders — Owen from Meld on Somatic Leadership, Founder Resilience, and Community
Guest: Owen Marcus, co-founder of Meld (Men’s Emotional Leadership Development)
Topic: Building embodied leadership for founders through somatics, nervous system training, and high-trust men’s groups.
Why listen: A field guide for high performers who’ve maxed out intellect and want scalable tools to reduce stress, improve relationships, and lead with presence.
Key Takeaways
Outline & Frameworks
Who This Is For
Founders, CEOs, and execs who feel overloaded, want sharper presence, better relationships, and a community that tells the truth.
Episode Resources
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In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes sits down with Royan Nidea, founder of Setters Philippines, a consulting and lead generation firm that has scaled to millions in revenue by helping coaches, consultants, and B2B founders consistently land qualified calls and build thought leadership.
Royan shares how he generated $16 million from just 4,000 emails, the five-step process he uses to scale clients to $100K months, and why balancing automation with personalization is the key to sustainable growth. He opens up about the early challenges of building his company, the mistakes that shaped his playbook, and the systems he relies on today.
Whether you’re a founder, consultant, or B2B leader looking to create a predictable pipeline, this episode is packed with frameworks and insights you can apply immediately.
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Episode Summary
In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes sits down with Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, co-founder of Crossmint and former Google/WhatsApp product manager. Alfonso shares how he went from building “I am not a robot” CAPTCHA to building the rails for a programmable economy. They explore AI agents as financial actors, how micropayments could reshape the internet, and why stablecoins are doubling every few months.
This conversation is a roadmap for founders, builders, and investors who want to understand the intersection of AI, blockchain, and the future of online trust.
Key Takeaways
Frameworks Discussed
Resources and Links
Elle George on Founder Alignment, Partnerships, and Hard-Won Lessons
Episode Summary
Founder and author Elle George breaks down her new book “Before You Shake Hands”, a practical system for assessing alignment before partnerships, co-founder agreements, or investor deals. She shares hard lessons from a two-decade legal saga, the exact questions she now asks, and how to structure conflict protocols before momentum blinds everyone.
Who this episode is for
Founders, CEOs, operators, first-time investors, and anyone considering a co-founder or strategic partner who wants fewer surprises and fewer trips to court.
What you will learn
Key Takeaways
Frameworks from the Episode
1) The Alignment Framework — Five Domains
2) Partnership Diligence Checklist
3) Conflict Protocol Up Front
4) Investor Fit Questions
5) Founder Operating Rituals
Resources and Links
In this episode of AI for Founders, Ryan Estes interviews Alex, founder of Solmag.ai, a company building virtual power plants that enable peer-to-peer solar energy trading. From his journey after a first startup exit to a mission of helping humanity reach Type I civilization on the Kardashev scale, Alex shares how Solmag is tackling energy distribution, grid optimization, and decentralized networks.
Listeners will learn how communities can share surplus solar power, what regulatory shifts are coming in Europe, how AI is used to price and route electricity, and why Solmag could redefine the economics of clean energy. This is a must-listen for founders, climate-tech investors, real estate developers, EV infrastructure operators, and anyone passionate about the future of decentralized energy.
AI for Founders — Ben Wilcox (ProArch)
Episode Summary
CTO/CISO Ben Wilcox breaks down how to build a secure foundation before layering on AI and data. We cover compliance early vs. late, agentic AI realities, Microsoft Copilot in the enterprise, change management for AI adoption, and leadership lessons from Ben’s background as a racing instructor.
Who This Is For
Founders, CTOs, CISOs, product leaders, and operators at startups to mid-market enterprises who want fast AI adoption without compliance blowups.
Topics & Keywords
AI security, compliance, data privacy, PII, PCI, SOC 2, Microsoft Copilot, agentic AI, change management, enterprise AI adoption, Microsoft ecosystem, security foundation, data governance, quality engineering, automation, remote work.
Key Takeaways
Frameworks from the Episode
1) Secure-Data-AI Ladder
2) Compliance-Early Checklist (Startup Edition)
3) Agent Lifecycle & Quality Loop
4) AI Change-Management Playbook
Outline
Resources & Links
