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by Kayvon Kay

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Vault Unlocked is for founders who don't want to learn the hard way. If you're building something real and you care about growing revenue faster, cleaner, and with fewer blind spots, this podcast is your unfair advantage. Hosted by Kayvon Kay, Vault Unlocked brings elite founders and operators into conversations they normally keep private. Not the public story. The real one. The fumbles that cost them millions. The decision they almost didn't make. The strategy they only understood after it finally worked. Every episode is built around one question founders actually care about: "What do you know now that would have saved you time, money, and pain if you learned it earlier?" Kayvon goes deep on purpose. The guests don't hide. Because surface-level answers don't grow companies. This is where you learn what not to do, what actually moved the needle, and how the best founders think when things are on the line. No motivation. No recycled playbooks. Just inside access to hard-earned lessons that help you grow faster by learning from other people's mistakes, missteps, and breakthroughs. If you want to shortcut the learning curve without gambling your own business, Vault Unlocked is for you. Listen like a founder who plans to win.

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9/2/2025

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Episode thumbnail for Why Building With AI Got Easy and Maintaining It Got Brutal with Fathom CEO Richard White

July 29, 2026

Why Building With AI Got Easy and Maintaining It Got Brutal with Fathom CEO Richard White

<p dir="ltr">Building software has never been easier. Keeping it alive has never been harder. Most founders adopting AI right now have only priced in the first half of that sentence.</p> <p dir="ltr">Richard White is the founder and CEO of Fathom, the top rated AI note taker on G2. He started the company just before 2020 on two bets almost nobody agreed with: transcription costs would fall to zero, and AI would get good enough to do something useful with what it heard. Both were right. He breaks down what actually changed, what didn't, and why the maintenance cycle is the part nobody warns you about.</p> <p dir="ltr">A new frontier model lands every three to six months. The other side of that coin is that a model gets deprecated every three to six months too. Build on one version and you have about six months before you rebuild on the next.</p> <p dir="ltr">Richard explains why Fathom is moving workloads off frontier models and onto open source, not to save money, but because the upgrade cycle is unsustainable for anything you intend to maintain. He walks through why a purpose-built pipeline running five or six models still beats a single general purpose call, what happens to accuracy when you're searching for something that appears in one percent of your meetings, and why the GPT-5 release that landed flat commercially mattered enormously to anyone solving retrieval problems.</p> <p dir="ltr">Then he flips it. Fathom operates like a Formula One team because it competes at the frontier and throws away the engine after every race. A normal business isn't in that race. Move your build from one model version to the next and it'll be slightly worse and close enough that you won't care. The maintenance cost is real. It is not a reason to wait.</p> <p dir="ltr">This is for founders and operators making real decisions about AI inside a business that already generates revenue, and for domain experts sitting on knowledge they've never been able to productize. Software markets that were never worth raising against are now buildable in a weekend by the person who already understands the customer.</p> <p dir="ltr">Questions Answered</p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why has building with AI become easier while maintaining it has become harder?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why is Fathom moving from frontier models to open source?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How should a business owner adopt AI without it becoming a full time job?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What replaces the meeting when AI captures and routes the information for you?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Why doesn't dumping all your transcripts into a chatbot work?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">What does managing AI agents have in common with managing people?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">How does model capability map to what you can safely delegate?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Can a domain expert now build profitable software without funding or a team?</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Is headcount still a useful proxy for company size?</p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr">Looking to dive deeper into these conversations and connect with our host and guest?</p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Richard White:</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rrwhite/">LinkedIn</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://x.com/rrwhite">X</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.fathom.ai/">Learn more about Fathom</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Follow Kayvon:</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.instagram.com/kayvonkay">Instagram</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.facebook.com/kayvonkayy">Facebook</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayvonkay">LinkedIn</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.tiktok.com/@kayvonkayy">TikTok</a></p> <p dir="ltr"> </p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Want to go deeper with Kayvon?</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.kayvonkay.com/">Subscribe to the newsletter</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.kayvon.com/booking">Book a discovery call</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://revenueenginediagnostic.com/">Get your Revenue Engine Scorecard™️</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://salesfit.ai/">Hire the right salespeople</a></p>

Episode thumbnail for How Real Brands Build Trust and Consistency (Most Companies Miss This Entirely)

July 22, 2026

How Real Brands Build Trust and Consistency (Most Companies Miss This Entirely)

Host Kayvon is interviewing branding expert Howard Lim about how companies build trust and consistency through systems, not slogans, to avoid costly mistakes.

Episode thumbnail for Why Talented People Fail and Tenacious People Don't (The U2 Roadie Who Proved It)

July 15, 2026

Why Talented People Fail and Tenacious People Don't (The U2 Roadie Who Proved It)

Host Kayvon interviews Scott Scovill, a U2 roadie turned author, who reveals how tenacity, not talent, fuels success and overcomes fear of failure.

48 total episodes available with 42 transcripts

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What is Pitch Me?

Vault Unlocked is for founders who don't want to learn the hard way.

If you're building something real and you care about growing revenue faster, cleaner, and with fewer blind spots, this podcast is your unfair advantage.

Hosted by Kayvon Kay, Vault Unlocked brings elite founders and operators into conversations they normally keep private. Not the public story. The real one.

The fumbles that cost them millions.

The decision they almost didn't make.

The strategy they only understood after it finally worked.

Every episode is built around one question founders actually care about: "What do you know now that would have saved you time, money, and pain if you learned it earlier?"

Kayvon goes deep on purpose. The guests don't hide. Because surface-level answers don't grow companies.

This is where you learn what not to do, what actually moved the needle, and how the best founders think when things are on the line.

No motivation. No recycled playbooks.

Just inside access to hard-earned lessons that help you grow faster by learning from other people's mistakes, missteps, and breakthroughs.

If you want to shortcut the learning curve without gambling your own business, Vault Unlocked is for you.

Listen like a founder who plans to win.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

Where can I listen to this podcast?

This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

Does this podcast accept guests?

Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.

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