In this episode of "Exploring the AI Rainforest," host Derek speaks with Saushank, founder of PitchPilot, an AI-driven platform helping founders refine their investor pitches. Saushank shares his journey discovering AI tools years before ChatGPT's public release and explains how he sees AI and blockchain technologies converging. He discusses how PitchPilot uses smart contracts to create agent personas that give feedback to founders, including verified personas of actual investors. Saushank also explores his involvement with GigaBrain, an AI-powered crypto trading platform using agent architecture to replicate hedge fund operations. Throughout the conversation, they discuss the cooling hype around crypto and AI, why smaller teams can now build powerful products, and how AI is making it harder for projects without real value to succeed in the market.

• Website: https://myzscore.ai
• Get your zScore: https://app.myzscore.ai
• Learn how to build with zScore: https://zpass.myzscore.ai
• Saushank: https://x.com/saushank_

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In this episode of Exploring the AI Rainforest, host Derek E. Silva speaks with Parag Paul, CTO at Rig AI and advisor to Zeru. Parag shares fascinating insights from his background in computational intelligence and swarm algorithms, exploring how AI is reshaping our economy across blue-collar, white-collar, and creative sectors.

The conversation covers innovative blockchain-based reputation systems like zScore that could revolutionize lending protocols, as well as the potential need for Universal Basic Income as automation accelerates. Parag also reveals how Rig AI is building human-verified blockchain solutions that could help governments create transparent, auditable systems for public spending and eventually support new economic models.

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In this episode of Exploring the AI Rainforest, we sit down with Dr. Piet Martens, a distinguished solar physicist and AI researcher, to explore the arc of his remarkable career — from space weather forecasting to cutting-edge financial reputation systems.

Dr. Martens shares what inspired his early fascination with space during the Apollo era, his time at NASA and the Netherlands Institute for Space Research, and how his work has evolved over decades — from solving equations by hand to pioneering machine learning models that predict harmful solar events. He also discusses the practical impact of his research, including safeguarding astronauts from radiation and protecting power grids from solar flares.

We then shift into new terrain: his collaboration on zScore, a decentralized credit scoring model for blockchain finance. Dr. Martens offers insight into the AI techniques used in the system, the challenge of building reputation without traditional benchmarks, and why he’s excited to contribute to this new frontier in finance and verifiable data.

This episode is a deep dive into the intersections of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and the future of decentralized reputation.

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