What The Tech?

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Jessica Glowacki, CEO and Founder of EH!, Canada's local-first social network. After 27 years in tech, Jessica decided to build something distinctly Canadian, a platform designed to lift local communities instead of extract value from them.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

On the latest episode of What The Tech from Boast, we welcome to the show Float Co-Founder Ruslan Nikolaev. At Float, Ruslan and his team are building Canada’s smartest corporate cards, while combining banking, payments and spend management in one intelligent platform purpose-built for Canadian businesses.  

His team is on a mission to simplify business finance in Canada, with Float already being trusted by 7,000+ companies to help finance teams save time, improve compliance, and scale with confidence.  

It’s an amazing mission, and I can’t wait to pick Ruslan’s brain on his path through Canada’s tech and business ecosystem and what’s on deck for Float heading into fall 2026. 

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

On the latest episode of What The Tech, we welcome to the show Cleanlist AI Co-Founder and CEO Levon Adamyan! At Cleanlist, Levon and his team are building the world's smartest agents that run GTM for you, giving teams a powerful way to build and execute Go-To-Market playbooks at scale without needing engineers or complex workflows.  

Levon brings a wealth of experience work at all levels of GTM to his mission at Cleanlist, having started on the Outbound frontlines before eventually lead Growth functions and acting as a Growth Advisor at some of Canada’s most exciting businesses. It’s this expertise combining “systems thinking” with hands-on execution that has informed the vision at Cleanlist to develop powerful GTM solutions that deliver results for teams faster, cleaner and with less friction than legacy tools.  

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Alyssa Mack-Lee, Founder and CEO of Blissminds, to discuss why women's cognitive health has been overlooked by the healthcare system and how she's building a movement to change that.

Blissminds: cognitive wellness products designed specifically for women through major life transitions. Not generic. Not one-size-fits-all. Formulated with bioavailable ingredients (DHA/EPA from microalgae, inulin for gut-brain connection, high-extract chamomile + magnesium) and backed by clinical validation.

Alyssa secured Health Canada approvals. Partnered with clinical researchers. And is running actual trials to measure neurological outcomes.

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Matthew Dillon, CEO and Co-Founder of Limitless AI, to discuss how AI automation is changing customer discovery—and why the real competitive advantage isn't speed, it's learning.

What You'll Learn:

→ Why the customer discovery phase is moving from Google to AI search engines
 → How Limitless AI automates the first step of the customer journey while capturing critical intent signals
 → The self-improving loop: how captured conversation data trains AI to be more effective
 → Why service-based businesses need enterprise-grade customer intelligence (and why it's now accessible)
 → Matthew's entrepreneurial journey: from lawn care at age 10 to AI automation at 21
 → How real customer use cases drove product development (not the other way around)
 → The R&D investment required to build AI agents ($10K+/month in Claude API costs alone)
 → Why SR&ED tax credits matter for bootstrapped AI startups
 → Partnership strategy: scaling through e-commerce platforms and agencies
 → How SMBs can access the same customer intent data that enterprises spend hundreds of millions to understand

Key Insights:

"The companies that win in the next decade, they're not just gonna respond faster. They're gonna learn faster. They're gonna learn about their buyers' signals, wants, needs, pain points, objections—and surface those quicker."

"It's not about automating for the sake of automating. It's tracking the conversation, understanding what the customer actually asked for, and using that to improve the AI and the product itself."

"We didn't develop an idea. We went out, integrated, worked with multiple different businesses, got proof cases, and then built a product around it."

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If you have ever watched a new build drag on for months, balloon in price, and still feel like a custom prototype at the end, you already know the real problem with housing: the process does not scale. Today we sit down with Vikas Enti, CEO and co-founder of Reframe Systems, to talk about a different model for construction, one that borrows lessons from robotics, systems engineering, and manufacturing to make housing faster, cheaper, and more predictable.

Vikas helped lead major deployments at Amazon Robotics after the Kiva acquisition, and he brings that “complex systems” mindset to one of the most stubborn industries in America. We dig into why jobsite construction stays serialized and weather-dependent, and how Reframe’s low-cost modular microfactories change the equation by decoupling work from the site. He explains the idea of “bending gravity” inside the factory, how worker augmentation enables generalists to do skilled tasks, and why their robotics roadmap is designed to raise automation without the price tag of traditional industrial systems.

We also get concrete about where this matters most: infill development in existing neighborhoods, where zoning differences and approval friction can make costs spike to $300 to $400 per square foot. Vikas walks through how computational design and software-driven engineering support mass customization across municipalities, plus what they are learning from projects in Massachusetts and from wildfire rebuild work in Altadena. Finally, we talk team building, vertical integration, and what is coming next: a production-scale facility, a five-story apartment building, and an aggressive push toward higher volume.

If you care about construction technology, affordable housing, low-carbon homes, modular building, or the future of factory-built housing, this one is for you. Subscribe for more conversations with builders and technologists, share this with a friend who debates housing policy, and leave a review with your biggest question about scaling microfactories.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

On this episode we welcome to the show Garrett Fritz, Partner and CTO at MetaCTO. Garrett brings more than 10 years of experience leading software development and digital transformation to his role at MetaCTO, where  his team helps business owners create new revenue streams, increase customer lifetime value and improve profit margins through mobile app design and development.  

Garrett is especially adept at helping non-technical founders turn ideas into high-performing mobile apps and AI-enabled products, with work spanning wellness, education, sports, and professional services. 

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

Here's how you know you're in the right place: You walk into a podcast studio in a shared co-working space in Calgary called Thin Air Labs. It's the kind of space where real work happens; not polished, not pretentious, just functional and full of energy. And it's become the epicenter of meaningful conversations about building tech companies in Canada. 

That studio is home to Tech Thursday; and Phil Burns, who created it, is the kind of person who believes that the best ecosystems aren't built top-down, but instead by showing up, week after week, and asking the right people the right questions. 

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Nyle MacLeod, Co-Founder of CondoScan, to discuss why condo buying is fundamentally different—and why most buyers have no idea what they're actually purchasing.

What You'll Learn:

→ Why buying a condo means you're buying into a corporation (not just a home)
 → The hidden documents and financial accounts that scare first-time buyers
 → How reserve funds, special assessments, and bylaws actually work
 → Why CondoScan's document review helped one buyer negotiate $100K off asking price
 → The difference between due diligence and overwhelming information
 → How personalized analysis reveals risks unique to each buyer
 → The realtor tool launching soon that changes the buying experience
 → Why Calgary's startup ecosystem is powerful for early-stage founders
 → What happens when you prioritize clarity over complexity

About Nyle MacLeod:

Nyle grew up entrepreneurial, working at scrappy startups while in business school. He's a generalist who loves the zero-to-one phase of building—finding problems and getting them started. He reconnected with developer co-founder Ewan when Ewan brought the idea for CondoScan: what if we made buying a condo less terrifying?

About CondoScan:

CondoScan provides Alberta's fastest condo document review, taking the heavy lifting so customers can buy condos with confidence. They analyze condo corporation finances, identify risks, explain everything in human language, and personalize recommendations based on each buyer's situation. Same-day delivery. Dedicated support throughout.

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

Robert Price had built something remarkable. At Axia, he helped grow a multi-billion dollar fiber optics company from the early days of cloud computing. Then, when the company sold, he'd earned the right to step back and think about what mattered. 

Instead, he wrote a $50,000 check. 

At the time, Robert was selling a home and buying another at the same time. By the end of closing, after all the broker fees, commissions, and processing costs, he'd paid $50,000 for what felt like nothing; a few signatures and some paperwork, all tied to a system that hadn't changed in decades. 

"That's when it hit me," Robert realized. "Everything about buying and selling a home is now digital. We shop online. We see listings online. We find each other online. But somehow we still need two brokers to close the deal." 

That question became Bōde. 

Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence.

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Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.