ClarisTalk AI
FileMaker Pro meets AI. This is a continuing educational series about how and why to integrate AI into your Claris FileMaker Pro solutions. What it's all about, why it's important, and where do you start? We mix in plenty of FileMaker tips and tricks as well.
FileMaker veterans Matt Navarre and Cris Ippolite have 432 years of combined development experience, and somehow still haven't learned much. But we are trying.
Look for new episodes every two weeks.
Episodes
43 episodes
Changes in the world of Value Pricing in the land of AI with Jonathan Stark
Apologies for my audio!! Somehow, Zoom lost the setting and nice quality Mic was off, and the awful mic in my monitor took over, so there is a ton of room noise. Jonathan sounds great though. --Jonathan Stark is an au...
Dimitris Kokoutsidis announces ai2fm.com - a new way to write FileMaker scripts in an IDE.
Matt and Dimitris talk about a new tool for the community that allows coding FileMaker scripts in an IDE. It's a totally different dev environment, and also completely familiar.
Stathis Askaridis shows AI Built front-end with FileMaker on back
Matt talks with Stathis Askaridis (We Know Data and Pineapple.gr) about his method of developing with FileMaker. Stathis shows examples of this workflow, which is a very simple FileMaker database with just a few scripts, NO RELATIONSHIPS, and a...
Ian Jempson – New tool: Transcribr for FileMaker.
Ian Jempson demonstrates an immediately usefully AI tools for FileMaker developers that transcribes video and audio files.Maybe even bigger: Ian shows his workflow for not only writing script with complex code that can be pasted into Sc...
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Something Big Is Happening...
Something is shifting in software.We’re not in a moment of collapse. We’re in a moment of re-architecture. Agents, persistent memory, autonomous workflows, database acceleration, and AI-native software creation are all converging at onc...
Fear, Trust, and the Playbook for Successful AI Deployments
In this episode, Cris Ippolite sits down with Kate Waldhauser, Founder of Violet Beacon, to unpack why so many enterprise AI efforts stall—and what it actually takes to make them work.Together they examine how fear-driven headlines and ...
2025 Year in Review – What happened? And what's next?
Show NotesPodcast segment that summarizes recent paper:Microsoft Copilot Usage Report 2025It’s About Time: The Copilot Usage Report 2025 (PDF): https://microsoft.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/What_people_do_with_Cop...
Claris releases MCP – Lui de la Parra shows us the way
Claris MCP is shipping!Matt and Cris welcome Lui from Claris to discuss, show demos, and dive in to this key feature.Get it here: https://aiworkspace.platform.claris.com.Claris MCP is a Model Context Protocol Server f...
Context Engineering
What's buzzing at the AI conferences Cris is attending? Context Engineering. Matt and Cris catch up after a while, and talk about recent FileMaker conferences (Matt) and AI conferences (Cris) Early on we had a podcast about P...
AI Architectural Techniques and Use cases with Charles Delfs
Matt and Charles talk about practical ways FileMaker developers can start using AI right now — both as developer tools to make us stronger, faster, and more productive, and as customer-facing features.Charles shares a rich set of use ca...
[Full Access] FileMaker Conference – Jonn Howell
Matt and Jonn talk about the upcoming FileMaker Conferencehttps://fullaccess.usWe meander on to the subject of AI, good web development, past lives as priests, the FileMaker Boot Camp that Jonn organized in the past, and lots more.
It's all about Personalization
Matt and Cris talk about the key factors that make AI great in FileMaker, and that personalization is the next big one. How much does your database know about you? Does it have memory of what reports you've run? Your job title and main responsi...
How AI is fundamentally changing education and learning FileMaker
"Sage on the stage" versus "guide on the side" teaching Cris and Matt look back on how we taught FileMaker in the past, and what changes happened with ChatGPT 4, how the Sal Khan book 'Brave New Words'https://www.amazon.com/Bra...
Agents and MCP in FileMaker with Michael Wallace and Ronnie Rios
Cris and Matt are joined by our friend Ronnie Rios from Claris, and rising star Michael Wallace from Empowered Data Solutions. Michael does an amazing demo of a solution he just released for free that allows you to interact with a FileMaker dat...
AI Impact on work, workers and jobs
Matt and Cris review the AI focus of Engage in Austin TX, and weave in the main subject: The impact AI has on work, workers and jobs, and where it's headed. Cris referred to this video: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told employees in a me...
Live at CodeWave in Valencia, Spain – Javier Durá & Doug Wallis
While presenting a JSON and Beyond session at the CodeWave conference in Spain, I had the chance to sit down with Javier Durá and Doug Wallis.Javier of Afterdata and Jesús Sánchez of dbFile have been hosting this conference for years to...
Alexis Allen and Matt talk about Engage and Elevate FM conferences
Alexis Allen teaches design classes at FM Design university and she is hosting a 1 day FileMaker conference in Toronto, with a training day following the conference. The dates are May 26-27 2025.Alexis and Matt talk about Engage with all...
More talk about Agents with Ian Jempson
Matt and Ian talk about running local models, the emergence of Agents, different models for Semantic Search, upcoming conferences, and more.
Agents vs. Workflows – with Ronnie Rios
Agentic. It's the new thing.Cris and Matt invite Ronnie Rios to talk about upcoming conferences, get deep into a use case that led directly to the cutting edge. It might seem crazy for a mature platform like FileMaker, but this is the B...
Year In Review
Show Notes for Episode 24 :12 Days of OpenAI: https://openai.com/12-days/Gemini 2: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/Claris Talk +Ai custom GPT: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-iAiq4Ryjv-cl...
EngageU Live: Ryan McCann, the Interim CEO of Claris
Episode 23This just in! Ryan McCann is the interim CEO of Claris, replacing Brad. He has been at Claris a long time and knows the community well. Matt and Ryan talked frankly about many issues including the FileMaker community, how to h...
EngageU Live: Matt talks with Joris Aarts and John Renfrew
Episode 21Joris Aarts and Johan Hedman are the two brilliant minds behind the EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden. This year they had over 200 attendees, and reached many other milestones.Matt sat down with Joris and John Renfrew...
EngageU Live: Matt talks with Romein Van Buren and gets fresh perspective
Episode 21Romein was the youngest developer at the conference. He works with his father (who was also there) and also has his own company. Matt enjoyed getting fresh perspective on what FileMaker looks like in Romein's world, which part...