How Agentic AI is Rewiring Software, Brokers, and the Future

About this episode

The episode discusses how Agentic AI is transforming software development and insurance brokerage with insights from industry experts.

I brought Ben Collins of Woz and Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair of Harper for a special episode of Agentic–our AGM!Ben’s Woz lets non-technical founders build scalable apps with no engineering team—think Shopify for software while Dakotah and Tushar’s Harper quotes 476 complex insurance deals with voice AI, turning family brokerage chaos into a data goldmine. On the docket:​Harper’s logged-call advantage for scalable precision​compute’s brewing storm (NVIDIA’s got rivals rising)​how reasoning models cut months off build timesConnect with us: ​ Ben Collins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bentcollins​ Dakotah Rice: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakotahrice/​ Tushar Nair: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-nair-b08988222/​ Woz: https://www.linkedin.com/company/withwoz/​ Harper: https://www.linkedin.com/company/harperinsure/​ George Bandarian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgebandarian/​ Untapped Ventures: https://www.linkedin.com/company/untappedventures00:00 Trailer02:06 Introduction02:20 Ben Collins04:02 Dakotah Rice04:37 Tushar Nair05:21 Agentic AI hot takes11:59 Deep dive on Woz17:05 Deep dive on Harper24:15 Y Combinator and the founders community28:21 Non-technical business side of…

People in this episode

Host: George Bandarian

Guests: Ben Collins, Dakotah Rice, Tushar Nair

Topics covered

• AI in software development
• voice AI in insurance
• non-technical founders
• scalable applications
• insurance brokerage
• technology trends

Keywords

• Agentic AI
• Woz
• Harper
• voice AI
• insurance deals
• software development
• non-technical founders
• NVIDIA
• Y Combinator

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Woz, Harper, NVIDIA, Y Combinator, Elon Musk, Grok, xAI

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