Experts in the Loop
Experts the Loop brings you inside Australia’s AI frontier. Hosts Chris Sinclair and Mark Monfort sit down with founders, leaders and experts shaping the digital AI market, uncovering the products, journeys, and ideas driving AI adoption. Smart, unfiltered, and a little cheeky — it’s your backstage pass to the people redefining Australia’s tech future (and the world of course).
Mark Monfort, the tech wizard behind the @AusDefi Association and NotCentralised, isn't just a name—he's a legend. With blockchain fin-tech victories under his belt, he's now on a quest to build the ultimate #LLM, SIKE.ai, enhancing business workflows and securing data like a true digital sorcerer. Nothing can stop him!
Chris Sinclair, the design guru and UX/CX mastermind, knows the secrets of digital innovation and business strategy like the back of his hand. Partnered with Digital Village, a league of specialists leading the charge in product development and innovation, Chris is here to prove that the old ways of working are no match for the future!
Get ready for epic discussions, expert perspectives, and a sneak peek into the future of digital innovation. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and stay tuned for more episodes as we explore the frontiers of technology with a dash of humour and a whole lot of superhero flair...or fails!
Episodes
18 episodes
You Don't Need a Designer to Ship Great Product Anymore w/ Jason Zhou
What happens when a product designer with 200K+ YouTube subscribers builds an AI tool to replace the most frustrating part of their own job?Jason Zhou did exactly that. In this episode he joins Chris and Mark to talk through his path fro...
We Built 3 Real Tools With AI and Showed You How (Claude Code, Manus & More)
Episode 50: Building With AI — Real Tools, Live Demos, and the Future of the Builder StackThis is episode 50, and we're doing something a bit different. Less interview, more build session — live demos, real tools, and some honest ...
The New AI Product Skill Stack (LLMs, Eval, Data Loops) — Explained
AI is changing product management fast — and “adding AI to the roadmap” isn’t a strategy.In this episode of Experts in the Loop, we sit down with Alex Zenoviev (Head of Product at Neo Intelligence and co-founder of Genelab, one of Austr...
Privacy, AI, and Risk: The Practical Governance Playbook w/ Ed Morris from Transform LogiQ
AI is moving fast. Your data foundations probably aren’t.We sit with with **Ed Morris from Transform Logic** to break down the practical steps teams need to take *before* they roll out AI tools across the business. You’ll h...
AI in 2025: The Real Wins, Real Fails, and What’s Next (Year in Review)
**AI moved fast in 2025. The bigger story? The people building with it.**In this Year in Review, Chris & Mark recap the biggest themes from the last 13 episodes—what founders got right, where “AI strategy” goes wrong, and why *experts* ...
AI Fixing Workplace Burnout, Emotion & Psychological Safety - Dr Nathan Jones
Can AI actually make us more emotionally intelligent instead of more robotic?In this episode of the Digital Nexus Podcast, we sit down with Dr Nathan Jones – musician, MTV/Nickelodeon voiceover artist turned psychologist, researcher and co-...
AI vs The Creative Industry: Why It’s Changing for Good | with aiCandy Founders
Can you shoot a Cannes-level ad with no cameras, a fraction of the budget and a 99% lower carbon footprint? That’s exactly what Kent Boswell and Marcus Tesoriero are doing with aiCandy, one of the first AI film production studios built for bran...
Stop Treating AI Like a Toy - Building real Workflows and AI Digital Twins w/ Tim Rayner
In this episode of Digital Nexus, Chris and Mark are joined by Dr Tim Rayner — AI Philosopher, author of Hacker Culture and the New Rules of Innovation, and educator at UTS Business School — to unpack how AI can move from “smart autocomplete” t...
The Loveable for Games - Tempest ai the one prompt game creator with Jack Wakem
Can AI make game dev truly “prompt to play”?Jack Wakem (Founder, Tempest AI) breaks down how his team is building “Lovable for games” — a consumer platform where anyone can prompt, iterate, and ship, including a timeline that lets you scrub...
How Relevance AI & Build Club Turn Demos into Customer Ready AI Products w/ Annie Liao
Digital Nexus Ep 42: Annie Liao, From Community to Company: Building AI Products That Actually ShipWhat does it take to turn AI hype into shipped products? Annie Liao (Build Club / Relevance AI) joins us to unpack agentic workflows, com...
From Mental Health App to Indy Jeff Quach on Building AI Families Actually Trust
From hacking mainframes to building Haven (mental health) and now Indy, an AI co-pilot helping families navigate paediatric and developmental care, Jeff Quach shares a builder’s journey grounded in anthropology, trust, and real-world impact. We...
AI Doom, Hope & the Builders Shaping Australia’s Future - Hosted at SXSW 2025
AI isn’t the enemy, it’s the experiment of our lifetime. At SXSW Sydney 2025, we took Digital Nexus onto the floor and into the streets to ask a simple question: doom or hope? From late-night hackathons to founders shipping agentic workflows, t...
How AI Could Heal a Generation Mental Health to AI Leader w/ Nicole Gibson
Can AI help understand our emotional state? Nicole Gibson, founder of Love Out Loud and co-founder of inTruth, shares how a recovery journey became a product mission, and how she’s using AI in mental health to scale evidence-based impact, leade...
Prompt Like a Product Pro in ChatGPT & Claude: The 3-Phase System you must know (w/ Bastian Epskamp)
Want clearer, more consistent AI outputs? In this episode, we break down three prompting skills that help founders, PMs, and UX leads go from idea → clickable MVP fast—using ChatGPT and Claude. Guest Bastian Epskamp shares his 3-phase system (p...
5 Product Traps Killing AI Projects (and What To Do Instead w/ Kurt Yang)
Build Real AI Products (Fast): Product Manager to Community Builder with Kurt Yang (Fintech & EdTech, RAG, Embedded Finance)From banker to PM to community catalyst, Kurt Yang shares how non-engineers are shipping functional AI proto...
The CEO Who Cloned Herself To Run The Company — Michelle Gilmore (Juno leading AI research platform)
Michelle Gilmore (CEO & Co-founder, Juno) built a digital twin of herself to scale her business. Juno conducts high-quality, qualitative interviews—turning Michelle's 20+ years, and 10,000+ research projects into an AI “listening engi...
Stop Using Spam Cannons The B2B Playbook That 5×’d Replies w/ Serena Lam
From IBM strategist to startup founder, Serena Lam is building Fuzzy AI to reshape B2B sales with hyper-personalized outreach. In this candid conversation, she shares her founder journey, lessons from building in AI, and where sales tech is hea...
Aussie AI (Reality Check): From POCs to Product—What Changed? w/ Sha-mayne Chan
In this episode of Digital Nexus, we sit down with Sha-mayne Chan, Co-founder of Friyay and Wakey Wakey Sales, to unpack how AI is reshaping startups, SMEs, and big business in Australia.We cover:🚀 How startups can now build pro...
