In Episode 4 of Unhinged AI, Talha Masood talks to Jorge Alcantara about what changes when code gets cheap: why AI projects show no ROI, which roles disappear, and when building your own software beats paying for it.

In this episode, Jorge and Talha cover:

• Why code by itself has zero value, and what actually turns it into something worth paying for
• Why AI projects show no ROI, and why "how do we sell AI" is the wrong question to start from
• Which roles disappear: product managers survive, project managers and scrum masters don't
• Why self-hosting an open source model costs more than it saves until you have around 300 developers
• Build vs buy vs vibe, and what a SaaS subscription really pays for beyond the software
• How a two-founder team went from 15 pull requests a month to over a thousand

In Episode 3 of Unhinged AI, Talha Masood talks to Chris Brady about the real state of AI in construction: what firms are adopting, what they're building themselves, and what the new RICS AI standard demands of them.

In this episode, Chris and Talha cover:

• The real state of AI adoption in UK construction, from owners just discovering ChatGPT to firms running their entire business through Claude
• Why contractors build custom tools with vibe coding platforms but never adopt them
• The 10-80-10 rule for working with AI, and the guardrails that catch hallucinations before a client sees them
• What the RICS AI standard requires: AI policies, tool registers, risk registers, and client disclosures
• How AI workflows changed quoting, tendering, and construction document management for small contractors
• Why every business will eventually run on its own operating system instead of a stack of SaaS subscriptions

Hosted by: Talha Masood, Founder at Founding Dev

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

Most SaaS stacks aren't just tools—they’re quiet financial leaks.

In the premiere episode of Unhinged AI, we move past the basic "audit" and dive into the actual builds that are replacing bloated subscriptions.

We’re talking to the builders who decided they were done paying the "SaaS Tax" and instead engineered their way into leaner, custom internal tools that actually perform.

The Builders & Their Frameworks:

• Peter Sullivan (Founder at Allspice): Highlighting the shift from off-the-shelf bloat to specialized workflows.
• Ernesto Riestra (CTO at Yeira Inc.): How to maintain technical speed while cutting external dependencies.
• Hashim Mahmood (Founder at Unbiassly): The exact criteria for identifying what to keep, what to cut, and what to build.

Key Takeaways:

• The SaaS Tax: Identifying the quiet killers in your monthly budget.
• Build vs. Buy: The honest math behind building your own internal tools.
• Lean Scaling: How to build custom solutions that don't slow down your team.
• The Tech Stacks: A look at the frameworks these founders used to gain software independence.

Originally recorded live on X Spaces.

Hosted by: Talha Masood, Founder at Founding Dev