Most founders pay for tools they barely use. A few decided to stop.

In Episode 2 of Unhinged AI, we sit down with two builders who ditched the SaaS subscription cycle and started building their own internal tools with AI — navigating the wins, the failures, and everything that broke along the way.

From prompting dashboards into existence to walking away from a three-day Microsoft Teams chatbot experiment, this is an unfiltered look at what vibe coding actually looks like in practice.

• Katrina Laszlo (Founder at Tanzo): How a product manager background became a superpower for building with AI — and why she ditched Lovable for Claude Code in the terminal.
• Brian Wade (Media & Consumer Investor): Building custom deal-flow tools when Prequin and PitchBook cost tens of thousands per seat — and what it's like to ship a weekend project end-to-end.

• Build vs. Buy: When it makes sense to build your own tools and when to just pay the subscription.
• Maintaining What You Build: The honest reality of things breaking — and the mindset that keeps you moving.
• Vibe Coding in Practice: The tools, stacks, and workflows these founders actually use day to day.
• The Future of SaaS: Which tools are on the chopping block — and which ones aren't going anywhere.

Originally recorded live on X Spaces.

Hosted by: Talha Masood, Founder at Founding Dev