S04E03 - AI-assisted journaling with reconfigured - with Richard Makara and Niko Korvenlaita

In this episode, we spoke to Richard Makara and Niko Korvenlaita who are CEO and CTO of reconfigured. reconfigured is a journal app that makes it incredibly easy to capture and retrieve on-going notes, thoughts & insights. Richard is the CEO and he has led growth and built go-to-market data systems in high-growth scale-ups. Niko is a second time founder and the CTO. He has been building end-to-end machine learning applications since 2014 and has worked with Natural Language Processing since 2017. We spoke to Richard and Niko about the common problems data professionals face, how data people create knowledge faster than they can capture it and what challenges that creates, why reducing the cost of note-taking to zero is so important for data work, how AI can help with the retrieval and structuring of ideas, and how to use AI in a product in a thoughtful and meaningful way. Please enjoy our conversation with the team behind reconfigured! Find out more about reconfigured here: You can also find Richard and Niko on LinkedIn. — David’s book, The Well-Grounded Data Analyst is out! ⁠ If you want to find out more, we have a whole episode about it: ⁠

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This episode was published on May 14, 2025.

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