Built This Week

Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in Code

Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Mate: a custom-built social platform designed to bring remote teams closer through clubs, shared interests, and personality-rich profiles. Then they spotlight Clay, a sleek relationship management tool that helps founders and teams stay in touch with the people who matter, minus the CRM bloat. Finally, in the news: OpenAI signs a $30B cloud deal with Oracle, Trump issues an executive order banning “woke AI,” and Google reports its AI Overviews now reach 2 billion users monthly, with 100 million using AI Mode in the U.S. and India.

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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro

(0:51) Why we built “Mate”: a social app for our team

(2:10) What Mate is and how it works

(4:13) Why remote teams need tools like this

(5:04) Demo: profiles, badges, clubs, and interests

(7:21) How our team uses it today

(8:56) Tech stack: built with Bolt, Cursor & Supabase

(10:30) Google’s AI user numbers are wild

(13:32) Wrap-up & final thoughts

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Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
• Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
• Mate (internal tool)

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Episode 4: Hiring in Half the Time: Meet Ryz Score 
Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Ryz Score, an internal tool they built to help recruiters stop wasting hours on bad resumes. It uses AI to rank candidates and streamline hiring decisions. For the Tool of the Week, they explore surprising ways people are using ChatGPT: from health tracking and meal planning to full-on life automation. And in the news, they break down Grok’s new 3D AI avatars, OpenAI’s plan to monetize in-chat shopping, and Claude’s expansion into finance with its first industry-specific platform.
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 Show Notes:

(0:00) Intro
(1:30) What is Ryz Score? The AI resume filter
(10:15) Tool of the week: ChatGPT as a personal assistant
(11:13) Using GPT for meal tracking & other hacks
(16:34) Claude enters finance — Bloomberg disruptor?
(22:14) OpenAI adds shopping + affiliate revenue
(25:46) Grok’s NSFW AI avatars — companion or concern?
(30:12) Final thoughts: loneliness, Alexa 2.0, AI futures
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 Platforms / Tools Mentioned:
 • Ryz Labs – https://www.ryzlabs.com
 • ChatGPT – https://chat.openai.com
 • Claude by Anthropic – https://claude.ai
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Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil a tool Jordan secretly built — a mini CRM that scrapes podcast emails via RSS and auto-generates personalized, AI-written outreach using Gmail. Then they demo their favorite AI tool for creative expression: Suno, the text-to-song app that powers everything from Built This Week’s theme music to cookie-sale jingles and classical-to-trap remixes. Finally, they discuss the rise of the AI band Velvet Sundown and how AI might reshape education after OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic partner with America’s largest teacher union.

This week on Built This Week Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI engine they built to write and publish SEO content across 15 Webflow sites with zero human effort

They break down how they trained each site to sound like a real brand, how the tool runs daily without lifting a finger, and why it's already driving global traffic and leads from search engines and LLMs like Perplexity. They also dive into their new favorite productivity tool Granola and unpack Meta’s talent raid on OpenAI

In this episode
• How they built a self-publishing AI SEO machine from scratch
• Why voice and images make AI content feel real
• How Granola saves their brain on back-to-back interviews
• What Meta's OpenAI takeover means for the future of AI power plays
• Why Figma’s S1 shows big upside but AI might eat its lunch

Built This Week is a podcast about building real tools in real time. No fluff. No theory. Just AI builds, startup tactics, and weekly drops from the front lines

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In the debut episode of Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler walk through how they built Ryz Labs Video Studio — a new internal tool for generating marketing-ready videos using top AI models like Veo 3 and Seed Dance.

They explain how they shipped the first version in just three days using Replit, Replicate, and GPT-4, and how their team used it to produce two full commercials in under 48 hours — without touching a camera.

In this episode:

• Why Veo 3 costs $6 for 8 seconds — and how that pricing changes your content strategy
• How they enhanced prompts to boost video quality across multiple AI models
• What they learned giving everyone on the team shared access to premium video tools
• Early roadmap plans for multi-model batch generation and image tools
• Why WhisperFlow has become their go-to productivity tool for fast dictation and AI prompting

Built This Week is a podcast about building real tools in real time — focused on AI, product development, and startup hacks that actually ship.

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Welcome to Built This Week — the podcast where we dive into the startups, tools, and wild ideas built in the past 7 days.

Hosted by founders Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler, each episode features three fast-paced segments:

• A brand new project we actually built this week
• The coolest new AI tools hitting the market
• A breakdown of the top tech stories everyone’s talking about

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