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EP02March 26, 2026~1 hour

How AI Is Changing Who Gets to Build Software

Alexander Payne
CEO, SignalEight.ai

CEO of SignalEight.ai, an AI-native CRM for food & beverage sales teams. Background spanning F&B startups, home brewing, and enterprise technology sales. Building tools where 100% of orders are created through conversation, not forms.

Agentic CodingF&B TechDemocratizing Software

About This Episode

We dig into how AI is changing who gets to build software, how rabbit holes are a good thing, and what it's like to ship product in Hong Kong. Alexander shares how he went from oat milk to building conversational interfaces that replace forms for wholesale F&B accounts.

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