Then Is Now: How a Black Technologist Is Using AI to Reclaim What History Tried to Erase

Then Is Now: How a Black Technologist Is Using AI to Reclaim What History Tried to Erase

February 27, 2026 · 45 min · Season 5 · Episode 42

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Max Riggsbee Jr. discusses how AI and semantic twins can transform unstructured content into reliable knowledge.

Send us Fan Mail Want to see your PDFs think like a database and your chatbots answer with context, not guesses? We sit down with technologist and entrepreneur Max Riggsbee Jr., co-founder of Gadget Software, to unpack how compute-ready documents—what he calls semantic twins—turn unstructured content into structured, queryable knowledge that both humans and machines can trust. Max explains why simply chunking PDFs into a chatbot loses meaning, and how deep descriptors, QA pairs, and entity ma...

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