The Tesoro AI Podcast

If only real life were like your favorite crime series – zoom in on low quality images from surveillance cameras and up comes an HD image with immaculate detail.  Surprise! Neural networks are turning what was once fiction into reality.  Photoshoots are expensive, but the rise of social media is demanding high quality visuals, especially for consumer focused businesses. In this episode, we chat with Sofiia Shvets, Co-Founder and CEO of Let’s Enhance.  We discuss how her team is leveraging neural networks to produce high res images from low res photos.  Other topics covered include: identifying a viable product, launching on Product Hunt, finding a co-founder, when to work with contractors, and much more. If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, data labeling, and AI product development.

Field service workers generally aren’t tech savvy, but whether we are talking about industries such as oil & gas, facilities maintenance, construction, or manufacturing - artificial intelligence is a tool being used to create massive productivity gains.  The challenge for AI vendors is to develop solutions that encourage adoption by non-technical users.  This is the task our guest, Vikram Takru (Co-Founder & CEO of Kloudgin), is taking head on in field services.   In this episode we sit with Vikram to discuss the greatest challenges in field services, creating a data strategy, driving ROI via user adoption and worker productivity, designing an engaging UI/UX, and more.   If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.

In this new remote work we live in, we have all been forced to experience the pain of meeting scheduling.  From back and forth emails, to time zone mistakes, to calendar confusion – all of these represent wasted time and resources.  Undock, which identifies itself with a spaceship, is to prepared to bring us into the new world, leveraging artificial intelligence to solve our scheduling woes.   In this episode, I sit with Nash Ahmed (Founder and CEO) as well as Chenda Bunkasem (Head of AI) to discuss predictive scheduling, fundraising while building game changing products, being intentional about hiring diverse talent, as well as the people that inspire our two guests.   Undock has an ambitious goal of 1 billion users.  If this podcast resonates with you, visit www.undock.com and download the app.   If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.

Social Networks, CRMs, and even Excel spreadsheets have been great for storing professional relationships.  For dealmakers, getting a foot in the door with a new client requires access beyond 1st degree connections.  Who do your colleagues know?  What is the nature of the relationship and how strong is it?  These questions are golden, yet current systems underperform in providing answers.  4Degrees, a Chicago-based AI startup is seeking to be the solution.   In this episode, I sit with Ablorde Ashibe (Co-Founder & CEO of 4Degrees) to discuss how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing relationship management, finding the right co-founder, evaluating whether and accelerator is right for a startup, and much more.   If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.

Few industries took a bigger hit than retailers relying on in-store purchases.  Ironically, it appears this adjustment period forced them to heighten their focus on better understanding their customers.  Artificial intelligence has emerged as one way to gather deeper customer insighst.  Rillavoice, led by Co-Founder and CEO, Sebastian Jimenez, is enabling retailers to analyze unique customer feedback provided in live conversation.  In this episode, Sebastian shares how stand-up comedy led him to a career as an AI Founder, why accelerators are important to young founders, and how data can be leveraged to better serve retail customers, plus much more. If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.

What’s the best way to get inside of the mind of a customer or audience you’re serving?  Traditionally, we’d hire market research experts or run a survey.  These methods are limited by scale, but with AI we may be able to dive deeper into real-time customer conversations to derive insights that speed the feedback look and accelerate the innovation cycle.  Remesh, led by our guest Andrew Konya, is tackling this head on. In this episode, we discuss how AI can understand large population in-depth, finding an instant audience, training on the most useful data sets, and go-to-market strategy for startups. If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.

We often think of insider threats, related to cybersecurity, as the rogue employee hacking internal systems.  However, well-funded nation state attacks have increased complexity as individuals inside the network collaborate with outside organizations with malicious intent.  DTEX Systems has set out to leverage AI to combat this issue.  In this episode, Mohan Koo (Co-Founder & CTO), walks us through how DTEX developed its data strategy, finding top talent, avoiding “AI science projects” and more. If you are hoping to expand your AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development.

Imagine AI solving challenges related to loneliness and social isolation. Aging adults would certainly benefit as many health related issues they face could be mitigated by having a non-judgmental sounding board to converse with. Care.coach is taking this challenge head on, providing AI-enabled avatars to improve patient engagement. In this episode, I sit with Victor Wang, Founder and CEO of care.coach. We discuss how to get the data needed to launch an AI platform, strategies for finding healthcare companies, and differentiating AI solutions from tech giants.

The fashion industry keeps us on our toes with jaw dropping creativity and design.  The challenge is that the products we see are often the result of an endless amount of wasted material, unproductive human labor, and design limitations.  COUTURME, a startup led by Yuliya Raquel (Co-Founder & CEO), seeks to solve those issues.  In this episode, we discuss AI’s ability to enhance design creativity, starting an AI company as a non-technical founder, and transitioning from a B2B to B2C customer base.    If your company is looking to scale it’s AI initiatives, head over to Tesoro AI (www.tesoroai.com) – experts in AI strategy, staff augmentation, and AI product development