HUMAN

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Real people. Real tools. Fifteen minutes.

A weekly live show where two ex-Microsoft builders share the AI tools they actually use. No decks. No Q&A. Just the work.

Next Episode: Friday, April 3 - 4:00 PM ET

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What is this?

Every Friday at 4 PM ET, one of us goes live for exactly fifteen minutes. No slides. No audience Q&A. Just a camera, a screen share, and one real tool we used that week. We show the messy version - the one that actually works in our lives, not the polished demo. Think of it as looking over the shoulder of someone who builds AI systems for a living.

The Founders

Chris Shanku

Chris Shanku

Builder. Storyteller. Moth StorySLAM Winner.

8 years at Microsoft FSI. Solution Engineer turned seller turned builder. Now Senior Director at iLink Digital, building AI systems that run in production every day. Created The Grove - a personal AI operating system with 23 agents and 41 skills.

The Grove - a personal AI operating system
shanku.net →
Sash Mohapatra

Sash Mohapatra

Explorer. Course Creator. Product Builder.

20 years at Microsoft. Started as an Exchange server engineer in India, ended as Director of Data & AI Sales for Capital Markets. Now building what he wished existed during that transition - courses, newsletters, and AI-native products.

RiftLab, Pollzy, Rift Dispatch, Maven Course
riftlab.ai →

Both Microsoft Data & AI veterans. Both let go. Both discovered they are builders.

The Format

15 Minutes

Tight. No filler. Respect your Friday.

Always Live

No editing. No retakes. The real thing.

Building a Library

Every episode adds to a growing AI toolkit anyone can reference.

Real Tools Only

Things we actually use. Not sponsors.

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