Lead With AI

By Tamara NallTechnology

Lead With AI episodes

October 20 Unveiling Lava, the AI Teammate That Gets Work Done Across Your Business Tools (with Mitchell Jones)
Most 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. The platform puts an AI agent directly inside the tools a business already runs, including Slack and legacy ERPs. One customer used it to set up an entire Shopify store from a coffee shop in under an hour.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Mitchell Jones, Founder and CEO of Lava, about why most AI agents stall at the login screen, how Lava's connectors call tools directly instead, and why teams should not have to learn anything new to use AI. Mitchell also shares how a solopreneur used Lava to run her first print mailer campaign without hiring outside help.
Want to see Lava in action? Visit lava.so to connect it to the tools your business already runs. Check out the links below to follow Mitchell and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future.
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42 min
October 13 This AI-Powered Health Platform Finds Disease Risk Before You Even Get Sick (with Dr. Michael Doney)
Most 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 and preventive medicine platform that pairs advanced testing with AI to flag chronic disease risk years earlier. One patient with no outward symptoms and a low conventional risk score turned out to have a critical arterial blockage, caught early enough for a stent within a week.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Dr. Michael Doney about how Biograph uses AI across diagnostic imaging, clinical efficiency, and clinical reasoning, why years of personal data can surface patterns a single checkup cannot, and why a human physician still makes every final call.
Want to learn more about Biograph? Visit biograph.com to learn about the Biograph Journey. Check out the links below to follow Dr. Doney, connect with the Biograph team, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future.
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40 min
October 06 This AI Coaches Sales Calls in Real Time Without the Buyer Ever Knowing (with Pianpian Xu Guthrie)
Most 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 privately shows the seller what to say next, without ever joining the call itself. One hearing care practice, House of Hearing, reported a $160,000 jump in monthly sales company-wide.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Pianpian about the sociology behind her approach to emotional intelligence, why she keeps sellers in the driver's seat with AI coaching them live, and how a new insurance agent learned to handle objections with confidence.
Want to learn more about Amotions AI? Visit amotionsinc.com. Check out the links below to connect with Pianpian and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future.
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28 min
September 29 Viome Reads Your RNA to Tell You Exactly What to Eat (with Guruduth Banavar)
Most 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 gut and biology, then turning that picture into recommendations built for their own chemistry. One customer followed those recommendations through a serious illness and saw his biological age reportedly drop 12 years in nine months.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Guruduth Banavar about how Viome reads RNA to track biology over time, why it treats human and microbial genes as one connected system, and why a food generally considered healthy still showed up as a problem in Guru's own results.
Curious what your own biology says? Take $100 off the Full Body Intelligence Test with code LEADWITHAI at Viome. Check out the links below to follow Guru and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future.

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September 22 Chomp: Using AI to Map What People Really Think (with Kiko Zang)
Most 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. Players answer honestly, guess how everyone else answered, and then compare results. One early question asked players to rate "I love you" in month one of dating as a green flag or a red flag. 92.7% privately picked a green flag, while most guessed only half the room would agree.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Kiko about the gap between what people post and what they privately believe, how Chomp's format measures it, and why she sees the data as a resource for AI models learning human judgment. She also explains why she rebuilt Chomp for a mainstream audience after starting on crypto.
Want to try it? Search Chomp on the App Store or join the waitlist at Chomp.fyi. Check the links below to follow Kiko Zang and subscribe to Lead with AI.
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45 min
September 15 How Bob.AI Speeds Up Housing Assistance to Help Families Stay Housed (with Bejoy Narayana)
A 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 months while a housing authority worked through the math by hand. Bejoy Narayana built Bob.AI to close that gap, helping families get a voucher issued and matched to a new home in hours and days instead.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Bejoy Narayana, Founder, CEO, and Product Architect of Bob.AI, about how the platform reads pay stubs and award letters to calculate housing assistance, keeps public housing authorities audit ready, and frees case managers to spend more time with families.
Want to learn more about Bob.AI? Visit bob.ai and start a conversation with Bob. Check out the links below to follow Bejoy and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the founders building the future.

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33 min
September 08 Herd AI, Inc Reads Your Emails, Meetings, and Messages So You Know What to Work On (with Matt Francis)
Executives 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, Matt Francis built Herd AI, Inc to fix that, an AI platform that reads all of it and ranks it against a company's real objectives. One executive stopped working past seven at night and started finishing his most important work by early afternoon.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Matt Francis about how Herd AI, Inc decides what deserves attention, why the platform turns its own AI scoring on and off to control cost, and how leadership teams cut through thousands of daily emails, meetings, and messages without adding new tools.
Want to learn more about Herd AI, Inc? Visit getherd.ai to see how it works. Check out the links below to follow Matt and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future.

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24 min
September 01 He Is Building a Robots-as-a-Service (RaaS) Empire One Robot at a Time (with Albert Saunders Jr.)
Understaffed 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 doing four jobs at once, and built Neil AI Global Solutions to fix it. The company now runs 38 robots: cleaning machines, delivery robots that move up to 1,200 pounds, and AI voice agents answering phones around the clock. One warehouse needed 300,000 square feet swept daily. One robot has handled it ever since.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Albert Saunders Jr. about the RaaS model that prices a robot as a weekly labor cost, the faith and family values guiding Neil AI, and its recognition as North Carolina's first Black-owned AI and robotics company. Albert also shares his boldest prediction for Neil AI by 2030.
Want to learn more about Neil AI Global Solutions? Visit neilai.ai for the full robot lineup, and check the links below to follow Albert and subscribe to Lead with AI.

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August 25 NextSense Earbuds Try to Change Your Sleep While You're Still Asleep (with Jonathan "JB" Berent)
Most 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 NextSense, a pair of EEG-sensing earbuds that read brainwaves and use targeted sound to help extend that restorative stage of sleep. One early user, a menopausal investor who could barely sleep two hours at a stretch, became one of NextSense's first backers after weeks of real relief. Another user liked the earbuds enough to pass them along to his boss, the CEO of one of the world's largest consulting firms.
In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with JB Berent about the research project at Google's moonshot factory that became NextSense, how the earbuds translate raw brain signals into something the AI can act on, and why he built the company to run its algorithms locally instead of in the cloud. JB also shares his boldest prediction about AI and consciousness, and what he thinks brain-sensing wearables could look like a decade from now.
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August 18 How Luventix Is Using AI to Find Signs of Disease in a Single Urine Sample (with Dejan Nenov)
Can 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 explore a mind-blowing breakthrough in medical tech. By pairing 70-year-old gas chromatography science with modern machine learning classifiers, Luventix is training AI to mirror the biological superpower of a cancer-sniffing dog.
Instead of searching for a single biomarker over decades of research, their technology turns on the lights in the entire room—mapping a complete "digital twin" of your molecular makeup using 38,250 unique data points from just one sample.
Tune in to discover:
• The Ski-Trip "Aha!" Moment: How a TV clip about dogs led to a revolution in affordable diagnostics.
• Companion Diagnostics: The secret tech helping pharma companies save billions by predicting drug trial success.
• The Software Engineer's Oath: Why tech builders need a code of ethics just like the Hippocratic Oath.
• A Bold 5-Year Prediction: Why the world's first 10-person, billion-dollar company is right around the corner.
Stop guessing in healthcare. Press play and learn how AI is driving down costs while scaling population-level early detection!
Want to follow what Luventix is building? Connect with Dejan on LinkedIn, visit Luventix.com, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the people building what’s next.

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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.