# Build What's Needed

Founders and investors share how to validate before building, iterate on real pain, and stay modular while AI shifts under them.

## Episodes

- [How to Reclaim Your Time with Jamie, the AI-Powered Meeting Assistant](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/04-how-to-reclaim-your-time-with-jamie-the-ai-powered/): Benedikt. Jamie co-founder Benedikt explains how an AI meeting assistant works, how it handles European data rules, and how to validate a startup idea.
- [Watching Users So You Don’t Have To: Human Behavior, YC, and AI](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/32-watching-users-so-you-dont-have-to-human-behavior/): Amogh Chaturvedi. A Stanford dropout in Y Combinator explains how his team built an AI that watches session replays, after two rejected ideas and a hundred customer calls.
- [Building Cactus: AI That Actually Helps Solopreneurs](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/29-building-cactus-ai-that-actually-helps-solopreneur/): Avinash, Ajith. Cactus co-founders explain how a personal need for private chefs led them to build an AI assistant for solopreneurs, and why they build slowly.
- [Investing in AI and Impact: Building Resilient Startups in Quebec](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/26-investing-in-ai-and-impact-building-resilient-star/): Cédric Beaudoin. A Quebec venture investor explains how modular AI, fast iteration and resilience shape the startups he backs, and why everyone should talk about AI.
- [L'IA au service de la Cybersécurité avec son Co-fondateur Jean-Sébastien](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/25-l-ia-au-service-de-la-cybersecurite-avec-son-co-fo/): Jean-Sébastien. A Montréal co-founder explains how guardrails and monitoring protect AI chatbots and agents, and warns about lost expert knowledge and data that stays in models.
- [QuébGPT : Révolutionner les PME avec l’IA – ft Charles Demontigny](https://aiwithsach.com/episodes/22-quebgpt-revolutionner-les-pme-avec-lia-ft-charles/): Charles Demontigny. A Québec founder explains why SMEs struggle with AI, where Québec stands in the AI race, and what his lead-capture chatbot taught him.