.TECH is giving founders building in AI, SaaS, devtools, and Web3 the chance to apply for premium domains — complimentary for 10 years. Names like host.tech, bot.tech, dev.tech. The kind of name that makes investors lean forward.

Your competitors are paying for theirs. You could apply for yours. → startup.tech

https://codestory.co/podcast/the-ai-control-loop-ai-security-is-api-security-with-tim-erlin-of-wallarm/

Today, we are kicking off a new series entitled The AI Control Loop, How enterprises govern the AI they’ve already deployed – sponsored by our friends at Wallarm.

Wallarm is the AI Control Platform for Enterprise AI, protecting every AI workload, API, and application in production, giving CISOs the governance they need and CIOs the speed they demand. Organizations choose Wallarm for a complete inventory of APIs, AI agents, and AI apps, patented AI/ML-based threat detection and blocking that operates at production traffic speeds.

Today’s episode is entitled AI Security is API Security, and joining us is Tim Erlin, VP of Product Marketing at Wallarm. We discuss the foundational link between AI security and API security, digging into the role that APIs play in the dev, deployment, and operations of AI. We explore how they contribute to the risk profile of AI transformation projects, and how securing APIs is critical for successful AI transformation.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e22-alex-bowcut-sphere/

Alex was approached by the founder of his current venture. He was approached while he was working at another startup, to tackle the creation of AI control and scaling within the company internally. When he joined, he immediately started changing the game in creating the initial version of their assessment model, TRAM.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-ankit-dheendsa-morphos-ai/

Ankit and his team quickly realized that although the advent of AI was exciting, hallucinations within LLMs area a big problem. They started to dig into how to lower and/or eliminate hallucinations, and ensure that the LLMs only hold onto the most important data. And they landed on a powerful approach to vector size reduction.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e21-marco-benitez-rook/

Marco and his team was building a wearable in the past, centered around fitness. They figured out that the real value was around feeding data into these types of wearables. When they were approached by a company who was excited about this type of solution, they started to accelerate.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-kunal-bhatia-hexo-labs/

Kunal and his team have been researching AI technologies within their current venture. In particular, they were focused on building self improving AI. Beyond that, they have started building and thinking about how to build the AI platform that builds all other technology.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e20-ofir-stein-apono/

Ofir and his cofounder started interviewing CISO’s and security professionals on how they feel about access management. The found out that this was the first line of attack for bad actors, but from a business standpoint, access management is a slow to value feature. They decided to build a platform that was based on just in time access, over the slow to value setup plaguing the industry.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-anusha-iyer-corsha/

Anusha has been in the cybersecurity space for quite some time, starting off in naval research in DC. Further down here career, she had a friend reach out to pitch an idea to build a platform for dynamic machine identification.

.tech is giving serious builders the chance to apply for premium domains - complimentary for 10 years. Names like dev.tech, bot.tech. No auction. No $10K wire transfer. Just a name that actually fits what you're building.

Stop launching on a subdomain. Apply for yours. → startup.tech

https://codestory.co/podcast/e19-thomas-schlegel-built/

In the past, Thomas was a lead engineer at a professional services organization in Tennessee. While at a conference, he met the CEO of his current venture, and they hit it off. He was intrigued by their company, and several years later, he started working for the company as an individual contributor – and quickly activated his entrepreneur DNA to solve ALL the problems.

In the early 2000s, Yoni Avital was cold-calling software companies from the Yellow Pages in Tel Aviv. He wasn’t a computer science prodigy. He was someone with a Microsoft certification, an economics degree in progress, and an unusual curiosity about how technology could improve people’s workdays.

Fast forward to today, and the company he co-founded, ControlUp, has crossed $100M ARR and a $1B+ valuation. But as the name of this story suggests, that was never the plan. They just wanted to know how many people were logged into a server.

The Question Nobody Could Answer

The idea that became ControlUp emerged between 2008 and 2010, while Yoni and co-founder Asaf Ganot were consulting for a large travel agency. The question was almost embarrassingly simple: how many users are working on each server right now?

There was no real-time way to see it. So they built one.

Download. Double-Click. Done.

The breakthrough wasn’t just the data; it was the experience. Most enterprise monitoring software required weeks of setup, database permissions, and sign-off from half a dozen teams. ControlUp’s unofficial motto became “Download. Double-click. You’re done.“

The first real validation came at that same travel agency. Yoni showed an administrator the tool during a routine visit. By the time he returned the following week, every administrator in the building had it running on their desktop. No sales pitch required! They got a powerful solution that worked instantly and went with it.

The Shift to Autonomous IT

Today, under CEO Jed Ayres, ControlUp has evolved well beyond monitoring. The platform now uses agentic AI to power Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM), not only surfacing what’s broken but also fixing it automatically before a ticket is ever filed. Over 14 million automated remediations run through the platform every week.

The vision has always been the same: technology that works for people, not against them. The tools to deliver it have just gotten considerably more powerful.

Three things worth taking away:

1. Solve the frustrations others overlook. ControlUp was born from a question so basic it seemed trivial. The problems that feel too small to build a company around are often the ones closest to what people actually need.

2. Ease of deployment is a product decision. The “download, double-click, done” philosophy let ControlUp bypass traditional enterprise sales cycles entirely and earn adoption from the ground up, administrator by administrator.

3. The future of IT is autonomous. More dashboards aren’t the answer. The next chapter is AI that handles the repetitive, predictable, and preventable, so IT teams can focus on work that actually moves the business forward.

Want to go deeper? Read the full founder story, plus see Yoni and Asaf reflect on the journey on camera: Read The Accidental Unicorn

Also, you can check out their story on the ControlUp YouTube channel.

Big time thank you, to our subscribers, listeners, supporters and guests. We couldn’t have done this without you.

https://codestory.co/podcast/making-ai-deterministic-for-developers-and-their-agents-with-patrick-vuong-of-moderne/

Today, we have a special guest on the Code Story podcast – Patrick Vuong, Director of Product at Moderne. Moderne is the agent tools company, building the. Knowledge, discovery and execution tools that AI agents rely on – so they can operator faster, more accurately, and at far lower cost.

In today’s episode, Patrick is going to tell us about the company, and how Moderne is enabling developers to build software faster, and with the best context – using agents and agent tools. Their approach to semantic models produce deterministic over probabilistic, or inference driven, tools, which for this engineer/host, has been a point of skepticism for AI since the beginning.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-aron-dsouza-objection-ai/

Aron made the stark realization that we are a divided society, and do not have a trusted, unbiased media source. He attempted to build a rudimentary version of a solution for a tribunal of truth 20 years ago, but the tech wasn’t ready for it. That is, until the most recent advances in AI.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e16-nikunj-bajaj-true-foundry/

After joining Meta, Nikunj realized that building machine learning models for the company is different than using public ecosystems. The realized early on that machine learning models will hit an inflection point, where the stacks will need to change and adapt. He and his team decided to take on this challenge ahead of that inflection point.

https://codestory.co/podcast/bonus-tyler-hochman-fore-enterprise/

Tyler built a workforce turnover solution half a decade ago, in the space of predicting employee turnover in a business. It got a lot of solid traction, but what he and his team noticed was that though people wanted to use the solution, they didn’t have the infrastructure necessary to provide data to the tool. This led he and his team to swim a bit downstream to build that data pipeline for customers.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e15-meghan-joyce-duckbill/

Meghan was sitting on a bed in Amsterdam, and experienced a problem with parental technology (IE a breast pump) that was keeping her from running things at Uber. While sitting on hold with the company, trying to get another one available, she started to wish she had a solution that would help her with this, while she attended her meetings at Uber.

https://codestory.co/podcast/the-ai-ultimatum-preparing-for-a-world-of-intelligent-machines-and-radical-transformation-with-steve-brown/

Today we have a special guest and author on the Code Story podcast, Steve Brown. Steve is a former DeepMind futurist, and recently published a book called The AI Ultimatum: Preparing for a World of Intelligent Machines and Radical Transformation. In the book, he provides a step by step framework to guide leaders in identifying use cases for AI, turning it into business value, and obtaining buy in from employees.

In our conversation, Steve is going to elaborate on why AI is a teammate (not a threat), the top AI rollout mistakes, leadership and management tactics that need to go, and much more.

https://codestory.co/podcast/e14-catalina-turlea-lovelaice/

Catalina has been building products for 14 years, and recently was running a small tech consultancy for startups. What she observed was that a lot of products contained an AI feature, but the “feature” was based on a prompt, didn’t work well, and wasn’t a good fit for the users. Eventually, she and her co-founder realized they saw the same problem, and built a platform to support products teams in building valuable AI features.

What if you could get a $100K domain name for your startup…

Complimentary (FREE), for 10 years?

Premium domain names are a founder's secret weapon. They signal credibility, stick in investors' heads, and build brand trust from day one. But the best names on .com don't come cheap — we're talking $100K+ on the aftermarket, real seed money that never makes it to your product.

.Tech is flipping that script. They're sponsoring premium .tech domains — complimentary for 10 years — for serious founders building in AI, SaaS, devtools, Web3, and beyond. Names like host.tech, bot.tech, dev.tech — handed to the right builders, no strings attached.

Keep your seed money. Get the name you deserve. → startup.tech