Just Now Possible

Is This Okay? How Override Labs Built a Safety-First AI Consent Coach for Teen Boys

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if AI could help prevent sexual assault before it happens — without tracking users, judging them, or handing them a verdict? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Priya Nakra (Founder and Product Lead) and Olivia Rowley (AI

Beyond Black Box Scores: How Musubi Trains Custom AI for Trust and Safety Teams

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What do you do when off-the-shelf moderation scores aren't good enough—and the alternative is paying human contractors to spend their days reviewing traumatizing content at scale? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with

Building Lorikeet: How AI Humility and a Dual-Agent Architecture Are Redefining Customer Support

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it take to build an AI customer support agent that actually knows when it can't help — and says so? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Jamie Hall (Co-founder & CTO), Xharmagne Carandang

Building Rhea's Factory: How AI-Designed Enzymes Could Finally Solve Plastic Recycling

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Only 10% of the plastic we manufacture gets recycled. We've been trying to solve this for a hundred years using the same mechanical and chemical tools that created the problem. What if biology—specifically, engineered enzymes—is the missing piece?

Building AI Employees for Hospitality: How AITropos Takes Orders Where Customers Already Are

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it take to build an AI that can take a food order over WhatsApp — correctly, every time, fast enough that customers can't tell it's not a person? That's the core challenge Santi Marchiori and

Building Todoist Ramble: How Doist Turned Voice Braindumps into Real-Time Task Capture

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you turn a rambling stream of consciousness into a clean task list — while the person is still talking? That's the core challenge Doist solved with Ramble, a voice-to-task feature inside Todoist that uses live audio AI

Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if the future of product design isn't about replacing designers — it's about giving every team access to one? For solo founders, stretched design teams, and early-stage startups, great UX has always been out of reach. Banani

Building Agent Studio: How Medable Is Using Agentic AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if AI could help reduce the 10-plus years it takes to get a new drug to market? That's the driving ambition behind Medable's agentic platform—and the bet that led them to build Agent Studio. In

Building GitHub for Product Management: How Momental Uses AI to Find Merge Conflicts in Strategy

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if an AI could spot the moment two product teams start pulling in opposite directions -- before it derails a quarter? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about their

Building AI Sales Reps: How ShowMe Orchestrates Voice, Video, and Multi-Agent Workflows to Close Deals

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when you treat an AI agent not as a chatbot, but as a full teammate on your sales team – one that can jump on video calls, demo your product, make phone calls, and follow up over days? In this episode

Building Earmark: How a Two-Person Team Turned Meetings into Finished Work

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if your meetings could actually produce the artifacts you need—specs, tickets, slides—before the call even ends? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Mark Barbir (CEO) and Sanden Gocka (Co-Founder), the co-founders of

When Trust Is Everything: Building AI for Physicians at Healio

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you build an AI product for an audience that can't afford to be wrong—and won't trust you until you prove it? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with three leaders from

Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes

Listen to this epsiode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire building), figure out which products are relevant, look up pricing, and draft a quote—all before the

Building a Career Co-pilot for Disadvantaged Students: How Zero Gravity Bridges Knowing and Doing

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you help disadvantaged students take action on opportunities they don't even know exist? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Elliot Little (Product Manager) and Dan St. Paul (Software Engineer) from Zero Gravity, a

Automating the Full Customer Support Iceberg: How Gradient Labs Built a Multi-Agent Platform

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when a customer reports a stolen credit card? The frontline answer is simple—freeze it. But underneath lies a cascade of follow-ups: dispute filings, fraud investigations, merchant communications, and proactive outreach to gather more details. Most AI support tools

Building Mowie: How a Concierge Service Became an AI Marketing Platform

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if your small business could have a full marketing team—automated content calendars, customer segmentation, and channel-specific posts—without the headcount? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Chris O'Connor (CEO) and Jessica Valenzuela

From Prototype to Production: How Perk Built a Voice AI Agent That Makes 10,000 Calls a Week

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What happens when you combine a real customer problem, a no-code prototype, and a team willing to listen to every single call? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Steven Payne (Product Manager), Gabriel Stock (Senior Engineering

Building an AI Sleep Coach: How Rest is Making CBTI Principles Accessible to DIY Sleep Hackers

Listen to this episode: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if you could get personalized sleep coaching—inspired by the same principles that cost thousands of dollars and have year-and-a-half waitlists—through a voice AI that checks in with you every morning? In this episode of Just Now Possible,

Turning Vendor Chaos into Answers: How Xelix Built an AI Helpdesk

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Accounts payable inboxes can see 1,000+ vendor emails a day. Xelix’s new Helpdesk turns that chaos into structured tickets, enriched with ERP data, and pre-drafted replies—complete with confidence scores. In this episode, Claire Smid (AI Engineer), Emilija Gransaull

When AI Becomes Your SRE: How Incident.io Is Automating Incident Response

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts When your site goes down, every second counts. For years, Incident.io has helped engineering teams coordinate through chaos—getting the right people in the room, keeping stakeholders informed, and restoring order fast. Now, they’re building something new: an AI SRE

Building Trainline’s AI Travel Assistant: How a 25-Year-Old Company Went Agentic

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Trainline—the world’s leading rail and coach platform—helps millions of travelers get from point A to point B. Now, they’re using AI to make every step of the journey smoother. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with David Eason

Powering Government with Community Voices: How ZenCity Built an AI That Listens

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you use AI to help city leaders truly hear their residents? In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Noa Reikhav (Head of Product), Andrew Therriault (VP of Data Science), and Shota Papiashvili (SVP of R&D) from Zencity, a

Building AI Coworkers: How Neople Is Making Agents Work Where You Work

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What if your next teammate was an AI coworker — one that could answer support tickets, process invoices, or even draft your next email — and your non-technical colleagues could teach it how to do those tasks themselves? In this episode, host Teresa

Building Alyx: How Arize AI Dogfooded Its Way to an Agentic Future

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts What does it really take to build an AI agent inside an AI platform—especially when you’re using that same platform to build the agent? In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with SallyAnn DeLucia (Director of Product

Debugging AI Products: From Data Leakage to Evals with Hamel Husain

Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts How do you know if your AI product is actually any good? Hamel Husain has been answering that question for over 25 years. As a former machine learning engineer and data scientist at Airbnb and GitHub (where he worked on research that