In episode 7, we sit down with Samuel Witherspoon, co-founder and CEO of Anvil Intelligence, an Ottawa-based defence and national security company that’s transforming how analysts and commanders make decisions. Drawing on his background as an engineer, lawyer, and clerk at Canada’s National Security Court, Sam shares how Anvil’s technology increases analytical capacity for the Canadian Armed Forces, why Ottawa is Canada’s defence innovation hub, and the lessons of persistence, trust, and human-centred leadership that have guided the company for over a decade.