{"podcast":{"title":"Just Now Possible","slug":"just-now-possible-7481489","podcast_index_feed_id":7481489,"rss_url":"https://justnowpossible.podigee.io/feed/mp3","website_url":"https://justnowpossible.com","image_url":"https://images.podigee-cdn.net/0x,sE3DpK6ye22MceFW24luiwKIEBIkAbv9w3bVVaFUvtQU=/https://main.podigee-cdn.net/uploads/u78902/19a97a2f-6164-40f9-8ff0-c2480f4e273a.png","author":"Teresa Torres","episode_count":28,"summary":"How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T18:17:48.296419+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/just-now-possible-7481489"},"episode":{"title":"Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes","slug":"building-tendos-ai-how-an-agent-swarm-turns-construction-emails-into-quotes","published_at":"2026-01-15T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/just-now-possible-7481489/building-tendos-ai-how-an-agent-swarm-turns-construction-emails-into-quotes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/just-now-possible-7481489","url":"https://justnowpossible.podigee.io/16-building-tendos-ai","audio_url":"https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2299436-m-1cefc3fc4a6ae94bea53572687400c67.mp3?source=feed","summary":"When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire building), figure out which products are relevant, look up pricing, and draft a quote—all before the deadline. It's tedious, error-prone, and surprisingly manual. In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Daniel Kappler (CTO, Product & Design) and Matthias Hilscher (CTO, Engineering) from Tendos AI about how they're automating this entire workflow for manufacturers in the construction industry. What started as a narrow prototype matching radiator requests to product catalogs has grown into a full agentic system that handles everything from email categorization to offer generation. You'll hear how they validated the opportunity with a design partner, spent a week on-site watching users work, and built a multi-agent architecture where specialized agents collaborate—complete with a \"review agent\" that checks the work of other agents before anything reaches a human. They dig into why they evaluate each agent independently (not just the whole chain), why they built custom observability tools when off-the-shelf solutions fell short, and how human-in-the-loop feedback is pushing them toward a self-learning system.","meta_description":"When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire bui…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3946,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/just-now-possible-7481489/episodes/building-tendos-ai-how-an-agent-swarm-turns-construction-emails-into-quotes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/just-now-possible-7481489/building-tendos-ai-how-an-agent-swarm-turns-construction-emails-into-quotes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}