Built 2 Scale · 8 May 2025 · 1h 09m
Hosts Scott Wilcox and Matt Parrot discuss the intersection of AI, robotics, and founder productivity, highlighting Archistar's selection by the City of LA for wildfire rebuild permits and OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf. They analyze Jensen Huang's leadership, Neuralink's brain-computer interface breakthroughs, and the negative AI sentiment in Australia compared to developing nations. The episode concludes with Matt recommending productivity tools like Granola and MyMind to streamline workflows and capture insights.
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Engineering & simulationGPT (custom)
A staff member created a custom GPT that analyzes tendering and pricing data to recommend contractors, automating a key part of the host's decision-making process.
“a young staff member here prepared a GPT that sort of analyzes all of our tendering, pricing data, and recommends a contractor, which is sort of one of the key things I do here.”
Speaker 1 · Hear it at 0:00
Running the companyNotebookLM
The host used NotebookLM to ingest previous podcast episodes and generate an honest review of positives, negatives, and actionable improvements for the show.
“I was able to um, plug our previous episodes in and just say, give us an honest uh, review of the positives and negatives um, of the show uh, and tell us where we can improve.”
Speaker 1 · Hear it at 40:39
Running the companyGranola
Granola transcribes meetings in real-time and uses AI to enhance notes into templated minutes (e.g., board minutes) based on user-defined prompts.
“It just transcribes it straight away. … at the end, I click enhance. Then what it does, it takes the transcript and it takes my own notes and it keeps my own notes in a separate section … it produces that for you.”
Speaker 2 · Hear it at 48:01
Running the companyMyMind
MyMind captures screenshots and voice notes to automatically create a visual mind map of tasks and reminders, reducing the friction of manual note organization.
“You can just screenshot it, and you hit share, and you share it to your my mind app, and it goes in there, and you essentially get this this mind map. So it's for visual people who can get a mind map of all of the things that you need to do.”
Speaker 2 · Hear it at 48:01
Running the companyHiDock H1
HiDock H1 is a voice recorder that connects to AirPods to transcribe phone calls and voice notes into AI-generated task lists and recaps for users on the move.
“You can connect your AirPods into this device and then the device connects to your phone. So anytime that you get a call, you could click record … it puts all of that into your model. At the end of the day, you get a recap of all of the tasks that you need to do…”
Speaker 2 · Hear it at 48:01
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