Sprint to AI

THE PODCAST

Sprint to AI Podcast

Candid conversations from the front lines of AI. Where operators, founders, and builders talk about what actually ships — and what doesn't.

WHY WE MADE THIS

AI moves faster than any technology we’ve lived through. Most conversations about it don’t.

Executives get the hype. Engineers get the pessimism. Operators get stuck in the middle — trying to figure out what actually works, what’s a distraction, and what’s coming next. This podcast is the middle ground: real builders, real projects, real numbers.

HOSTED BY

Two operators. Both founders. On every episode.

Nicole J Patten

Host

7 years at Google as a Senior UX Engineer and Sprint Lead. Now a certified Anthropic expert, founder of Elevate Online and claudetraining.com. She maps systems, finds the friction, and designs the sprint that gets answers in days.

Harry Roper

Host

Founder of Imaginary Space, an 18-person AI engineering firm, and an official partner of Lovable and Supabase. A forward deployed engineer at heart — he embeds in the business, tells you what’s worth building, then actually builds it.

FEATURED EPISODES

Who’s been on the show

EP 01Louis Carter

Education Innovation: Moving Beyond the Traditional Model

How one of the country's most forward-looking education leaders is using AI to rethink curriculum, assessment, and the student experience from the ground up.

EP 02Emily Bennett

Tech in Higher Ed — What We've Learned

Candid lessons from rolling out AI tools across a university system — what worked, what stalled, and what every operator should know before they start.

New episodes on Spotify.

BE ON THE SHOW

Shipped something interesting? We want to hear about it.

We’re looking for operators, founders, and builders with real stories about AI, product, and shipping things that matter.