ClarisTalk AI
FileMaker Pro meets AI. This is a continuing educational series about how and why to integrate AI into your Claris FileMaker Pro solutions. What it's all about, why it's important, and where do you start? We mix in plenty of FileMaker tips and tricks as well.
FileMaker veterans Matt Navarre and Cris Ippolite have 432 years of combined development experience, and somehow still haven't learned much. But we are trying.
Look for new episodes every two weeks.
Episodes
31 episodes
How AI is fundamentally changing education and learning FileMaker
"Sage on the stage" versus "guide on the side" teaching Cris and Matt look back on how we taught FileMaker in the past, and what changes happened with ChatGPT 4, how the Sal Khan book 'Brave New Words'https://www.amazon.com/Bra...
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Episode 31
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1:05:15
Agents and MCP in FileMaker with Michael Wallace and Ronnie Rios
Cris and Matt are joined by our friend Ronnie Rios from Claris, and rising star Michael Wallace from Empowered Data Solutions. Michael does an amazing demo of a solution he just released for free that allows you to interact with a FileMaker dat...
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Episode 30
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1:26:46
AI Impact on work, workers and jobs
Matt and Cris review the AI focus of Engage in Austin TX, and weave in the main subject: The impact AI has on work, workers and jobs, and where it's headed. Cris referred to this video: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told employees in a me...
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Episode 29
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1:24:31
Live at CodeWave in Valencia, Spain – Javier Durá & Doug Wallis
While presenting a JSON and Beyond session at the CodeWave conference in Spain, I had the chance to sit down with Javier Durá and Doug Wallis.Javier of Afterdata and Jesús Sánchez of dbFile have been hosting this conference for years to...
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Episode 28
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45:07
Alexis Allen and Matt talk about Engage and Elevate FM conferences
Alexis Allen teaches design classes at FM Design university and she is hosting a 1 day FileMaker conference in Toronto, with a training day following the conference. The dates are May 26-27 2025.Alexis and Matt talk about Engage with all...
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Episode 27
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55:26
More talk about Agents with Ian Jempson
Matt and Ian talk about running local models, the emergence of Agents, different models for Semantic Search, upcoming conferences, and more.
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Episode 26
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1:00:02
Agents vs. Workflows – with Ronnie Rios
Agentic. It's the new thing.Cris and Matt invite Ronnie Rios to talk about upcoming conferences, get deep into a use case that led directly to the cutting edge. It might seem crazy for a mature platform like FileMaker, but this is the B...
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Episode 25
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1:01:26
Year In Review
Show Notes for Episode 24 :12 Days of OpenAI: https://openai.com/12-days/Gemini 2: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/Claris Talk +Ai custom GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-iAiq4Ryjv-cl...
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Episode 24
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1:18:10
EngageU Live: Ryan McCann, the Interim CEO of Claris
Episode 23This just in! Ryan McCann is the interim CEO of Claris, replacing Brad. He has been at Claris a long time and knows the community well. Matt and Ryan talked frankly about many issues including the FileMaker community, how to h...
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EngageU Live: Matt talks with Joris Aarts and John Renfrew
Episode 21Joris Aarts and Johan Hedman are the two brilliant minds behind the EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden. This year they had over 200 attendees, and reached many other milestones.Matt sat down with Joris and John Renfrew...
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EngageU Live: Matt talks with Romein Van Buren and gets fresh perspective
Episode 21Romein was the youngest developer at the conference. He works with his father (who was also there) and also has his own company. Matt enjoyed getting fresh perspective on what FileMaker looks like in Romein's world, which part...
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Episode 21
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4:48
EngageU Live: Talk about database hosting with Joey Grimaldi from ODI Tech
ODI Tech is the oldest of the FileMaker hosting companies, and has been hosting databases since the 90s. Matt and Joey talk about hardware, AWS, SSD tech, AI Hosting, and more.
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Episode 20
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12:47
Chat with Wesley Powell at EnageU in Malmö
Wesley is the director of Product Engineering, and we talked about some upcoming features in Claris Studio and the new custom layout tools.
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Episode 19
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8:20
Bonus Episode: Matt joins FileMaker DevCast, talks JSON
Matt joins the Portage Bay Staff for their FileMaker DevCast podcast to talk about JSON. It was a fun discussion, and their staff are all advanced JSON users, and have religion.Links:DevCasthttps://youtu.be/_h8D-nuweE4?si=_8gbhT...
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Episode 18
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58:07
What is Chain of Thought?
Show Notes for Episode 17:Links:OpenAi o1: https://openai.com/o1/Reflection: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366Chain of Thought Prompting Guide: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/cotDevin: https://github.com/Signifi...
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Episode 17
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1:13:29
Joris Aarts & Johan Hedman: EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden/Nov 2024
Matt talks with Joris Aarts from ClickWorks and Johan Hedman from Square Moon. We discuss the upcoming Engage U Conference in November 17-19 in Malmö, SwedenThe conference will feature Brad Freitag, Andrew LeCates, Doug Wallis, David Lo...
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Episode 16
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AI and Design. Special Guests: Alexis Allen and Matt O'Dell
Featuring:Alexis Allen - President and Lead Design Engineer at Hyperspace Data Solutions, Inc., and Founder of FM Design UniversityMatthew O'Dell Senior Manager - Tech Experience Design at Capital OneEveryone Can Design Podcast:...
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Episode 15
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1:17:57
Is AI Conscious?
Ronnie Rios from Claris returns. We talk about Sentience, free will (and the illusion thereof), some great books, and use some StarTrek TNG references that make points. It will be a fun discussion, I promise.Show Notes:"Elemen...
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Episode 14
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1:07:23
Summary of WWDC and Apple's AI strategy, DotFMP Berlin, The Claristotle learning initiative
Show Notes:Introducing Apple’s on device Foundation models:https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-modelsIntuition from iSolutionsAI:http://isolutionsai.com/intuition/Links:Claris ...
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Episode 13
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1:12:24
Insights on AI and FileMaker Development: Interviews with Experts at DotFMP Berlin
Matt has conversations with some conference attendees:Jakov Milovanovic – KeeneightChris Moyer – The Moyer GroupStathis Askaridis (Στάθης Ασκαρίδης) – We Know DataVince Menanno – BeezwaxEgbert Friedrich – Founder and produce...
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Episode 12
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1:04:36
Semantic Search is Native in FileMaker 2024! Special Guest: Ronnie Rios
Show Notes:New FileMaker 2024 AI release:https://support.claris.com/s/answerview?anum=000041889&language=en_USLinks:Claris Community Live: Learn about AI prompting basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlOu-B...
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Episode 11
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1:35:14
Are LLMs Just Databases? The Real Story. Plus, Apple AI Predictions for WWDC
Predicting Apple’s AI Play:https://medium.com/@isolutions/predicting-apples-a-i-play-719b1c2f91a2LLMs are not Databases:https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crisippolite_ai-activity-7185307614539329536-qVcmLinks:Claris Com...
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Episode 10
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59:44
Dr. Michael Schuckers on Machine Learning, CoreML, AI, Biometric scanning ...and Fantasy Football
Chris and Matt welcome Dr. Michael Schuckers to talk about Machine Learning.Two key aspects of ML are Features and Target: It's more about prediction based on data and different than the LLMs we have been discussing.LISTEN TO THE EN...
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Episode 9
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59:11
Bonus Episode: Gabriel Woodger talks with Matt about amazing uses of AI and also JSON for 3D Rendering
Matt talks with Gabriel Woodger about a real-world example of AI to summarize complex invoices and projects so a customer can get a regular update of what's happening, and what is important. A great use case for sure.Also, and just as excit...
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Episode 8
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44:22
Special Guests: Ernest Koe and Joris Aarts
We have two special guests on this episode: Ernest Koe from Proof+Geist, and Joris Aarts from Click Works. Both have presented recently about FileMaker and AI at the Engage Conference, are Platinum partners, and are embracing AI in their organi...
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Episode 7
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55:17