Built This Week
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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2025
Coding the Beat: Strudel, Claude Dashboards & OpenAI’s $1B Play
Episode 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. J…
Future in Focus: AI Tools & Big Tech
Episode 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 Gem…
Hiring Tools, Built from Scratch
Episode 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 an…
Can Public Make You a Better Investor?
Episode 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 d…
How Daily Check-Ins Fix Remote Work
Episode 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 ac…
From Avatar to AI Hire: Building NTRVSTA
Episode 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 i…
Reinventing Company Culture, in Code: Meet Mate
Episode 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 per…
Why Our Recruiters Stopped Reading Resumes And Let AI Take Over Everything
Episode 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…
Built This Week Ep3: Auto-Marketing for Podcasts? Let’s Build It!
Jordan 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 the…
Built This Week Ep2: We Built an AI SEO Machine That Writes and Publishes Itself
This 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 trai…
Built This Week Ep1: How We Built an AI Video Studio in 3 Days
In 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 model…
Built This Week – The Official Trailer
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 …