In this episode of The Agent Odyssey, host Matt Wyman (CEO and co-founder of Okareo) speaks with Pramod Singh—Executive in Residence at Duke University and former Chief Analytics Officer at Yodlee—about how decades of analytics and AI system-building are shaping the next wave of agentic and research-focused AI. Pramod shares the origin story of his new company, Inquisit, which applies AI to accelerate academic research and clinical trial workflows, including protocol development in drug discovery. Together, they explore foundational product and data principles, the shift from deterministic software to probabilistic AI systems, and what new skills (curiosity, multidimensional thinking, and problem-first framing) people need to thrive in an AI-driven world.

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to Okareo and Inquisit

• 07:17 First Principles in Problem Solving

• 13:31 Human in the Loop and Probability

• 19:16 Human Skills for the AI World