Built This Week is a weekly podcast where real builders share what they're shipping, the AI tools they're trying, and the tech news that actually matters. Hosted by Sam and Jordan from Ryz Labs, the show offers a raw, inside look at building products in the AI era—no fluff, no performative hype, just honest takes and practical insights from the front lines.
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Recipes from Receipts: AI Cooking, Kidpreneur E-Com & Replit’s $250M Raise
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19:16This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler bring a mix of practical, playful, and breaking AI news. First, Jordan demos Ryz Chef, a tool that turns your grocery receipts (Amazon, Instacart, even fridge photos) into 11 Mediterranean-inspired recipes — complete with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert options. Then Sam shares how h…
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Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play
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23:57Episode 11: Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into the intersection of AI, music, and enterprise tools. Jordan shows off a new project built on Strudel, a live-coding JavaScript music library, turning it into an AI-powered DJ + Ableton-style mixer that ge…
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Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech
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24:04Episode 10: Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech This week on Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI image platform they’ve been building from scratch at Ryz Labs, powered by Gemini’s new “nano-banana” update and other AI models. Designed to deliver faster, cleaner, and more customizable visuals, it pushes image generation bey…
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Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch
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22:23Episode 9: Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch This week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil Ryz ATS, a fully functioning applicant tracking system built in-house using Claude AI. From job templates and smart matching to drag-and-drop pipelines and sourcing CRM, this tool streamlines the entire hiring process with AI as a co-pilot. Then, they explor…
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Can Public Make You a Better Investor?
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32:14Episode 8: Can Public Make You a Better Investor? This week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler go deep on Public.com, the modern investing platform opening its trading infrastructure to developers. They demo a new tool built live on Public’s API, explore the real potential of programmable investing, and sit down with Emily Kurtz (Head of Product at Pub…
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How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work
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23:29Episode 7: How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler share a simple but powerful internal tool: a Slack-integrated daily check-in system that’s helped their remote team stay accountable, async, and aligned. It’s lightweight, fast, and has changed how their team shares progress. Then they revisit Clay, a thoughtfully designed…
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From Avatar to AI Hire: Building NTRVSTA
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25:46Episode 6: From Avatar to AI Hire: Building NTRVSTA Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler dive into NTRVSTA, a new AI-powered interview automation platform Jordan built to help teams move faster and smarter in the hiring process. The tool uses avatars to conduct adaptive, friendly interviews 24/7 across technical and non-technical roles. They break down ho…
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Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate
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14:34Episode 5: Reinventing Company Culture, in Code Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Mate: a custom-built social platform designed to bring remote teams closer through clubs, shared interests, and personality-rich profiles. Then they spotlight Clay, a sleek relationship management tool that helps founders and teams stay in touch with the people who…
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Why Our Recruiters Stopped Reading Resumes And Let AI Take Over Everything
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31:11Episode 4: Hiring in Half the Time: Meet Ryz Score Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler reveal Ryz Score, an internal tool they built to help recruiters stop wasting hours on bad resumes. It uses AI to rank candidates and streamline hiring decisions. For the Tool of the Week, they explore surprising ways people are using ChatGPT: from health tracking and …
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Built This Week Ep3: Auto-Marketing for Podcasts? Let’s Build It!
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29:54Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil a tool Jordan secretly built — a mini CRM that scrapes podcast emails via RSS and auto-generates personalized, AI-written outreach using Gmail. Then they demo their favorite AI tool for creative expression: Suno, the text-to-song app that powers everything from Built This Week’s theme music to cookie-sale jingle…
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Built This Week Ep2: We Built an AI SEO Machine That Writes and Publishes Itself
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30:51This week on Built This Week Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler unveil the AI engine they built to write and publish SEO content across 15 Webflow sites with zero human effort They break down how they trained each site to sound like a real brand, how the tool runs daily without lifting a finger, and why it's already driving global traffic and leads from…
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Built This Week Ep1: How We Built an AI Video Studio in 3 Days
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42:11In the debut episode of Built This Week, Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler walk through how they built Ryz Labs Video Studio — a new internal tool for generating marketing-ready videos using top AI models like Veo 3 and Seed Dance. They explain how they shipped the first version in just three days using Replit, Replicate, and GPT-4, and how their team …
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Welcome to Built This Week — the podcast where we dive into the startups, tools, and wild ideas built in the past 7 days. Hosted by founders Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler, each episode features three fast-paced segments: A brand new project we actually built this week The coolest new AI tools hitting the market A breakdown of the top tech stories e…
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