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Your AI Agents Are Burning You Out: The Sustainable AI Workflows Founders Actually Need

Fourteen terminal instances. Fifty-two tabs across three browsers. Six customers, a dozen half-finished workflows, and a Friday morning where your brain simply refuses to boot. That's not leverage. That's a slow-motion crash dressed up as productivity.

This week, Ryan sits down with Ilan Man, founder and CEO of Paradox Machines, an AI-enabled data services company helping mid-market and private equity-backed businesses finally get real value from their data without the enterprise price tag. Ilan spent nearly 20 years in data before founding anything: statistician, actuary, data scientist back…

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