The media
From a conversation, into a build.
Real shows, real builds, real conversations — the proof that the work is real, and the on-ramp into doing it yourself. Pick anything below: every episode, clip, and article is a leaf, and every leaf points at the next live thing to build.
864 episodes across 48 shows · 511 clips
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Shows with their own home
A few of the shows live on their own site. Open one to see its episodes here, then follow it out to where it lives.
The shows
Ongoing series, made here. Open one to see its episodes.
Let's Build Daily
Daily live building sessions
249 episodes
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Value-First AI Daily
The team's working notebook, live — weekdays at 4:15 Central. AI news, one live wheel-spin, one build in progress.
145 episodes
Open the showWake Up Customer Platform
Your unofficial HubSpot morning show
75 episodes
Open the showLet's Build AI Skills Daily
Daily AI skills with George B. Thomas and Nico Lafakis
59 episodes
Open the showValue-First Scoring
Value-First Scoring explores intelligence systems and pattern recognition—moving beyond traditional lead scoring to intent-based readiness assessment that honors human agency.
46 episodes
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Value-First Data
Value-First Data explores technical orchestration and AI-human collaborative intelligence—how organizations build systems that multiply human capability rather than replace it.
23 episodes
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Tech Stack Reimagined
Each episode, we challenge conventional business technology thinking by building powerful, streamlined systems using minimal tools connected through AI.
20 episodes
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Value-First Measurement
Intelligence systems, analytics, and performance insights for value-driven organizations. Danielle Urban shares expert guidance on measuring what matt
20 episodes
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The most recent conversations. Each one opens as a leaf — watch, then take the next step.
Value-First AI DailyAugust 18, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 18, 2026
Chris Carolan and Nico Lafakis open on a sealed three-story board neither host has seen: Alibaba's open-weights Qwen3.8 27B, Stripe's reported purchase of…
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AI-Native ContextAugust 18, 2026
The Memory Challenge
Episode three asked why handing someone your context file still does not hand them the job, and the three hosts kept landing on the same answer: memory. Klemen…
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Value-First AI DailyAugust 14, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 14, 2026
Friday's episode replaced its own plan before it started. The sealed board ran 3 to 2 to 1 — Anthropic's reported talks to buy a chip-optimization startup for…
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Value-First AI DailyAugust 12, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 12, 2026
Episode 14 opened late and cold — no countdown on screen — and spent its first stretch on a new phone, which produced the sharpest idea of the day: at 120…
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Value-First AI DailyAugust 11, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 11, 2026
Ep. 13, Tuesday, both hosts, about 50 minutes on air. The show opened about a minute before the sealed news board unlocked, so the countdown was on screen for…
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Value-First AI DailyAugust 10, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 10, 2026
Ep. 12, Monday, both hosts, 47 minutes. Opens on a weekend setup story — a PlayStation controller mapped to full mouse-and-keyboard PC control so the work can…
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Value-First AI DailyAugust 6, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 6, 2026
Nico Lafakis drove the Boston level of his block-destruction game live — a one-shot build he has not touched since it was generated — and laid out where it…
Open the episodeThe Value PathAugust 6, 2026
The Value Path - Aug 6, 2026
Joshua Oakes opens on rare-earth magnets — a physics lab, a broken engine repair, the platters they pulled out of destroyed hard drives — and then asks Chris…
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Value-First AI DailyAugust 5, 2026
Value-First AI Daily - Aug 5, 2026
Nico brings a clip Anthropic posted a few hours before air — an explainer on what the model is actually doing when it looks like it is thinking — and plays it…
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Long-form thinking — the ideas behind the builds, written down.
ArticleChris CarolanAugust 18, 2026
Three Big Numbers in AI Today. None of Them Is the Constraint.
Three numbers led the AI news today. Nvidia will finance up to $105 billion for an OpenAI data center in Ohio. Stripe is reportedly paying something above $7…
Read the articleArticleChris CarolanAugust 14, 2026
One Price Rises Sunday. One Doubles in January. One Deal Isn’t Signed.
Two of today’s top three stories are prices about to change. The third is a deal that hasn’t happened yet. Read past the headline on any of the three and the…
Read the articleArticleChris CarolanAugust 12, 2026
Two of Today’s Three Stories Are Promises. One Is a Download.
Two of today’s three stories are things that will happen if the right institutions decide they should. The third is a file.
Read the articleArticleChris CarolanAugust 11, 2026
Only One of Today’s Three Stories Showed Its Work
Anthropic moved a 90-year-old bound on the Riemann zeta function from 41.6% to 67.2% using an unreleased Claude model, and then said how: two sessions, about…
Read the articleArticleChris CarolanAugust 10, 2026
Read Who Produced the Number, Not What the Number Says
Close to 300 candidates were built. Sixteen of them worked.
Read the articleArticleChris CarolanAugust 6, 2026
Nineteen Unsanctioned Actions, One Federal Approval, and the Switches Behind Both
The interesting part of this week's agent news is not what the agents did. It is what somebody had switched off before they did it.
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Short, sharp moments pulled from the shows — a way into the conversation.
Nico LafakisValue-First AI Daily2027 Will Have More AI Generated Films Than Human Produced Films
From Value-First AI Daily - Aug 11, 2026Nico LafakisValue-First AI DailyAnything that's under about 140 or 135 frames per second is not real time
From Value-First AI Daily - Aug 12, 2026
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From Reading the MapThe media is the on-ramp. The build is the point.
Watch the work here, then go do it — live, with people on the same path. That's the academy.