What The Tech?

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Jun 2026

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How are founders, startups and innovators from across the globe accelerating progress and extending their R&D runway? On What The Tech? we talk with some of the brilliant minds behind new and exciting tech initiatives to learn what it takes to tackle “technological uncertainty” and, eventually, change the world. Brought to you by the R&D tax experts at Boast AI. Boast AI's What The Tech podcast was recently ranked #8 in Feedspot's Top 70 Venture Capital Podcasts on the Web ranking! Listen to What The Tech and other leading podcasts for the latest guidance and startup strategies.

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June 16, 2026Episode 11027 min

The Secret Costs of Condo Living (And How CondoScan Decodes Them)

In this episode of What the Tech from Boast.AI, we sit down with Nyle MacLeod, Co-Founder of CondoScan, to discuss why condo buying is fundamentally different—and why most buyers have no idea what they're actually purchasing.What You'll Learn:→ Why buying a condo means you're buying into a corporation (not just a home) → The hidden documents and financial accounts that scare first-time buyers → How reserve funds, special assessments, and bylaws actually work → Why CondoScan's document review helped one buyer negotiate $100K off asking price → The difference between due diligence and overwhelming information → How personalized analysis reveals risks unique to each buyer → The realtor tool launching soon that changes the buying experience → Why Calgary's startup ecosystem is powerful for early-stage founders → What happens when you prioritize clarity over complexityAbout Nyle MacLeod:Nyle grew up entrepreneurial, working at scrappy startups while in business school. He's a generalist who loves the zero-to-one phase of building—finding problems and getting them started. He reconnected with developer co-founder Ewan when Ewan brought the idea for CondoScan: what if we made buying a condo less terrifying?About CondoScan:CondoScan provides Alberta's fastest condo document review, taking the heavy lifting so customers can buy condos with confidence. They analyze condo corporation finances, identify risks, explain everything in human language, and personalize recommendations based on each buyer's situation. Same-day delivery. Dedicated support throughout.Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

June 9, 2026Episode 10928 min

The $50,000 Question: How Bōde is Fixing Home Selling

Robert Price had built something remarkable. At Axia, he helped grow a multi-billion dollar fiber optics company from the early days of cloud computing. Then, when the company sold, he'd earned the right to step back and think about what mattered. Instead, he wrote a $50,000 check. At the time, Robert was selling a home and buying another at the same time. By the end of closing, after all the broker fees, commissions, and processing costs, he'd paid $50,000 for what felt like nothing; a few signatures and some paperwork, all tied to a system that hadn't changed in decades. "That's when it hit me," Robert realized. "Everything about buying and selling a home is now digital. We shop online. We see listings online. We find each other online. But somehow we still need two brokers to close the deal." That question became Bōde. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

June 3, 2026Episode 10824 min

How Purelend Is Eliminating Hours of Manual Document Review

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, recorded in person at Thin Air Labs in Calgary, we sat down with Sebastien Hiscock, Co-Founder of Purelend, to discuss how his company is using AI to fully automate the manual checks and underwriting that have plagued the mortgage industry for decades, and why the best AI solutions empower humans rather than replace them. Sebastien's path to founding Purelend is a masterclass in experiential learning. He started as a software developer at WestJet, got his first "fake startup experience" building the Swoop subsidiary, then joined Neo Financial at an incredibly early stage as one of the first 10 employees in mid-2019. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

May 25, 2026Episode 10717 min

How Bidaya AI Levels the Playing Field for Government Contracts

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, recorded in person at Tech Thursday in Calgary, we sat down with Omar Sabbagh, CEO of Bidaya AI, to discuss how his company is using AI to level the playing field for small and mid-sized firms bidding on government contracts Omar's journey to founding Bidaya is wonderfully nonlinear. He's a mechanical engineer by training who thought he'd be a biomedical engineer. Instead, he worked in finance doing equity research on oil and gas stocks, watched his firm transform from a traditional research company into a tech company, then decided to work at Shopify to be "in the thick of it." Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

May 18, 2026Episode 10630 min

How Think Accounting Helps Innovation-Driven Companies Scale Smarter

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Varun Sehgal, CPA and Founding Partner of Think Accounting, to discuss how his firm's transformation from a traditional location-based practice to a cloud-first national firm changed everything, and how accountants play a critical coordination role in helping Canadian businesses maximize R&D tax credits like SR&ED. Varun's journey started at Ernst & Young in audit, then moved to industry roles. But in 2016, he made the leap that would define his career: Leaving corporate life to build Think Accounting with his business partners. Today, Think Accounting delivers accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, tax advisory, M&A advisory, and fractional CFO work. They also play a crucial role in identifying SR&ED candidates and coordinating with specialists like Boast to ensure clients maximize non-dilutive funding. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

May 5, 2026Episode 10518 min

How telli Automates Customer Journeys Without Losing the Human Touch

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder and COO at telli, to discuss how AI voice agents are transforming B2C customer journeys, and why the most successful entrepreneurs focus on solving problems they've experienced firsthand. Philipp's journey started on the other side of the entrepreneurship equation. He worked in venture capital and private equity, looking at companies from the outside. But he quickly realized the most interesting stories came from the entrepreneurs actually building the businesses. Backed by Y Combinator and Cherry Ventures, telli serves customers ranging from Sky (Comcast subsidiary) to Viessmann (part of Carrier) with a mission that resonates deeply with Boast's ethos: Enable businesses to achieve growth and scale without overextending their resources. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

April 28, 2026Episode 10422 min

How AirDev Turned No-Code Development Into an Assembly Line

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Vlad Leytus, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AirDev, the global leader in no-code and Bubble.io development. Vlad shared how AirDev enables customers to build powerful custom web apps in a fraction of the time, cost, and effort of traditional agencies, and how R&D tax credits have been critical to their growth as a bootstrapped, US-based company serving hundreds of clients from one-person startups to Fortune 100 enterprises. The mission: Make software development faster, cheaper, and more accessible—without requiring coding expertise. The approach: Treat software development like an industrial process. Standardize what can be standardized, modularize what's common, and customize only what's unique. The result: A San Francisco-based company that's been growing for 10+ years, bootstrapped entirely on revenue, now retooling for the AI era. And they're doing it all while claiming R&D tax credits to fuel continued innovation in their development framework, project management tools, and assembly-line approach to custom software. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

April 21, 2026Episode 10326 min

How Symbiotic AI Is Making Precision Heart Health Decisions Data-Driven

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Arjun Puri, CEO and Co-Founder of Symbiotic AI, to discuss democratizing precision heart health, why SR&ED tax credits should be a badge of honor, and how personal tragedy sparked a mission to reduce variability in life-or-death medical decisions. Today, Symbiotic AI is building Revaz AI—an AI-enabled clinical decision support solution specifically focused on coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death and disease globally. Revaz helps clinicians choose between treatment options like medical therapy, stenting, or bypass surgery by generating personalized risk predictions for each pathway. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

April 13, 2026Episode 10219 min

How Possibility Neurotechnologies Is Making Brain-Controlled Interaction Accessible to Everyone

In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Dion Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Possibility Neurotechnologies, to discuss brain-computer interfaces, the power of getting comfortable being uncomfortable, and how Canadian non-dilutive funding programs are enabling groundbreaking neurotechnology innovation. Dion's journey is unconventional. She started with lemonade stands, redesigned secondhand clothes to sell at local markets by age 10, and planned to attend fashion school. Instead, she became one of the few researchers in the world with expertise in brain-computer interfaces, then built a company making brain-controlled interaction accessible to everyone. Her first product, Think2Switch™, is "a bit like Siri for your thoughts." It translates brain signals from off-the-shelf brain-sensing headsets into usable commands so you can control computers, toys, or smart devices using your thoughts. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

March 31, 2026Episode 10122 min

How Nimble Science Is Unlocking the Small Intestine's Secrets

n our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble Science, to discuss a truly revolutionary innovation: Accessing the "dark side of the moon" of human health, the small intestine. Sabina's journey started with free computers and straight lines. She became a mechanical engineer in the mid-90s because of a push for women to enter engineering, and because she could "draw really straight lines." But after landing at a biomedical institute, she discovered her true calling: Biomedical engineering, "the ultimate engineering because you have to reverse engineer one of the most complex machines on the planet." Today, at Nimble Science, Sabina and her team have developed the SIMBA™ Capsule, a clinically validated ingestible device that's changing how we understand gut health, food absorption, drug effectiveness, and diagnostics. They're working with Food giants to biopharma companies developing biologics. Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.