Lead With AI · 2026-06-16 · 28 min
Most developers running AI agents today are stuck babysitting them. The agent works in a terminal; the human watches every step, approves every change, and the promised productivity never shows up. Austin Born built Shinzo Labs to break that loop. The platform gives teams secure remote workspaces where agents run in the cloud, take on tasks that last half an hour or more, and message back the results on Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord when the work is done. Austin runs six agents in parallel and ships software features at least five times faster than he did working alone. In this episode of Lead with AI, Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Austin Born about leaving a five-year blockchain career at the end of 2024 to build at the start of the agent wave, how agents on the platform delegate work to one another, why users should question their agents the same way they would question a coworker, and the guardrails that keep agents honest about the work they claim to finish. Austin also shares his prediction that truly autonomous agents will soon run their own businesses with their own wallets. Want to try Shinzo for yourself?
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