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Today’s show:
*Eragon CEO Josh Sirota believes that you should “own your intelligence.” He demos a live enterprise AI operating system connecting email, Slack, calendar, and financial data into a single agentic layer that’s pre-trained to understand any business inside and out.
PLUS we’ve got IONA Drones founder Etienne Louvet, a first look at Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6, and a brand new Off Duty with JCal and Lon.
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Guests :
Eragon: https://eragon.ai
Josh Sirota on X: https://x.com/joshua_sirota
IONA: https://ionadrones.com/
Etienne Louvet on X: https://x.com/etienneldva
Relevant Links
Eragon Seed Round coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/this-startup-wants-to-make-enterprise-software-look-more-like-a-prompt/
Neurometric: https://www.neurometric.ai/
Ollama model: https://ollama.com/
Orange Slice: https://www.orangeslice.ai/
Corgi Insurance: https://www.corgi.insure/
Slash Financial: https://www.slash.com/
The Syndicate: https://thesyndicate.com/
FAA Part 108 Explained: https://pilotinstitute.com/part-108-explained/
Zipline: https://www.zipline.com/
Google Wing: https://wing.com/
Joby Aviation: https://www.jobyaviation.com/
Enterprise Ireland: https://www.enterprise-ireland.com/
Éire Composites: https://www.eirecomposites.com/
Kimi K2.6 blog post: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
Kimi K2 series on GitHub: https://github.com/moonshotai/Kimi-K2
NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 work station: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb300-nvl72/
Timestamps:
0:00 Josh from Eragon AI joins the show
2:01 Plaud: If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — you need a Plaud NotePin. You can check it out at https://Plaud.ai/twist and use code TWIST for 10% off!
5:07 Why founders should own and control their data sets
8:33 What is a "company world model?"
9:48 Quo (formerly OpenPhone) - Quo gives you a clean, modern way to handle every customer call, text, and thread all in one place. Try it free at https://quo.com/TWiST
11:32 Eragon demo
15:55 Giving agents their own bank accounts
19:07 Inside Eragon's first partnerships
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25:50 How does Eragon make money?
29:11 Pilot - Visit https://www.pilot.com/twist and get $1,200 off your first year.
39:33 Etienne Louvet of Iona Drones joins the show
42:37 What is FAA's Part 108?
47:13 How innovation in drones impacts the aviation industry
50:26 Working with Enterprise Ireland
58:28 Jason attended the Breakthrough Awards
1:04:10 Doug Liman's AI-powered "Bitcoin" movie
1:09:09 "Love Story" on FX and "Dust Bunny" on HBO Max
1:13:10 Jason's love of tinned fish
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