Can You Still Tell What’s Human in Business? | Zvi Band on Trust, AI, and the Future of Relationships

As AI-generated messages, outreach, and content flood the market, founders are facing a new challenge:

It’s getting harder to tell what’s real—and who to trust.

In this pre-launch episode of The Building Business Relationships Show, Matt Stone sits down with Zvi Band, founder of Contactually (acquired) and Relatable, to explore how AI is reshaping relationships in business—and why trust is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage.

Zvi has spent much of his career building technology designed to strengthen human connection, not replace it. In this conversation, he shares why trusted relationships are becoming the most valuable filter in an AI-saturated world.

In this episode, we explore:

• why it’s increasingly difficult to tell humans from bots
• how AI is changing signal vs noise in business relationships
• why trust becomes more valuable as automation scales
• how founders should rethink relationships in sales, hiring, and partnerships
• what won’t change, even as technology accelerates

This is a grounded, forward-looking conversation for entrepreneurs navigating AI without losing their humanity—or their edge.

In this episode:

• Can you still tell what’s human anymore?
• AI-generated communication and trust erosion
• Relationships as a competitive moat
• Signal vs noise in an automated world
• Building trust at scale without losing authenticity
• What founders should prioritize next

For more about Zvi Band: https://zvi.band/