How Agentic AI is Rewiring Software, Brokers, and the Future
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 precisioncompute’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 software30:30 Agentic demand, Elon's Grok/xAI32:27 Outro
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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 times
Connect 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/untappedventures
00:00 Trailer
02:06 Introduction
02:20 Ben Collins
04:02 Dakotah Rice
04:37 Tushar Nair
05:21 Agentic AI hot takes
11:59 Deep dive on Woz
17:05 Deep dive on Harper
24:15 Y Combinator and the founders community
28:21 Non-technical business side of software
30:30 Agentic demand, Elon's Grok/xAI
32:27 Outro