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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• Amazon Music – https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1017d387-fbb0-4bbf-9488-817cee38e058
• Deezer – https://www.deezer.com/us/show/1001995001
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Sam Nadler
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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.