Anyone can build a web agent these days, the hard part is knowing whether it actually did what you wanted. In this Episode 4 of The Brick Lounge, Zach Richardson, Head of AI at TinyFish unpacks what it really takes to ship a web agent that's fast, cheap, and reliable at scale.

Zach walks through TinyFish's agent, Mako — from a 15-year path through actuarial science, the Navy, and the whole evolution of AI to the architecture decisions that let a specialized model outperform frontier models on the web. We get into what it means to build a web-native model that thinks in elements and positions instead of text.

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It's Episode 3 of The Brick Lounge! Audrey Stone from the Databricks Adtech team and her partner in crime Randy Pitcher join us to talk all things ads and marketing.

From Audrey's time at Google to Databricks, where evaluating the return on investment for marketing spend and understanding your customers' customer is a powerful strategy in winning trust. Plus hear about how the world of advertising is changing as we move from print media to the new age of LLMs.

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Welcome to Episode 2 of The Brick Lounge! In this episode, we are joined by the co-founders of Zipline AI, Varant Zanoyan and Nikhil Simha, talking about how they are building production-grade infrastructure for ML and AI.

Learn more about how ZIpline AI bridges the gap for enterprises that want to do more with their decisioning systems, from allowing a transaction or not, to recommending what a user should buy next. Plus hear about their journey from Airbnb and big tech into the world of startups.

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Welcome to Episode 1 of The Brick Lounge! In this episode, Brian Sokol, VP of Data Architecture at Westat, reveals how they built Weslytics on Databricks to revolutionize public policy analysis and health research.

Discover how Westat leverages AI-driven pipelines for real-world impact, from categorizing 40,000 grant proposals to extracting vital cancer registry data using OCR - saving time, reducing errors, and powering smarter decisions.

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