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.
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2025 Year in Review – What happened? And what's next? (01:28:10)
Show Notes Podcast segment that summarizes recent paper: Microsoft Copilot Usage Report 2025 It’s About Time: The Copilot Usage Report 2025 (PDF): https://microsoft.ai/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/What_people_do_with_Copilot-8.pdf Microsoft AI OpenAI State of Enterprise AI 2025 — State of Enterprise AI 2025 Report (PDF): https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/7ef17d82-96bf-4dd1-9df2-228f7f377a29/the-state-of-enterprise-ai_2025-report.pdfOpenAI CDN Perplexity / Harvard AI Agents Paper — The Adopti...
Claris releases MCP – Lui de la Parra shows us the way (01:16:32)
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 for FileMaker, designed to connect an AI client with your existing FileMaker applications. This allows for powerful natural language interaction with your hosted FileMaker data. https://www.claris.com/blog/2025/why-mcp-matters-for-claris-filemaker-developers https://help....
Context Engineering (01:02:05)
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 Prompt Engineering – which is but a small part of Context Engineering. Follow Cris: https://www.youtube.com/@iSolutionsAI https://www.linkedin.com/in/crisippolite/ https://twitter.com/ISolutionsai https://www.isolutionsai.com Follow Matt: https://www.navarre...
AI Architectural Techniques and Use cases with Charles Delfs (01:19:48)
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 cases, design patterns, and architectural approaches that are already shaping FileMaker + AI development. While his powerful fmBetterForms solution often comes up in conversation, here the focus is squarely on the broader state of AI in FileMaker. Follow us: M...
Matt and Jonn talk about the upcoming FileMaker Conference https://fullaccess.us We 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. 👥 Follow us Cris Ippolite YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iSolutionsAI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crisippolite/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ISolutionsai Website: https://www.isolutionsai.com Matt Navarre Website: https://www.navarre.training Linke...
It's all about Personalization (01:06:56)
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 responsibility? Your KPIs? Shoe size? 📌 Show Notes & References Key Clips & Talks Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997 – “Start with the customer experience” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE Eric Schmidt on WIMP model and UIs https://www.youtube.co...
How AI is fundamentally changing education and learning FileMaker (01:05:15)
"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/Brave-New-Words-Revolutionize-Education/dp/0593656954 Discussed the "2 Sigma problem" - how one-on-one tutoring dramatically improves learning outcomes, and looking for a large change (2 sigma is nerd-speak for that) is the goal. All well and good, but how can AI...
Agents and MCP in FileMaker with Michael Wallace and Ronnie Rios (01:26:46)
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 database entirely through natural speech. You have to see it to believe it. He then shows and explains how it works, and compares it to a solution that Ronnie showed at FM Engage that has similar features. This will spark your imagination. Michael's Links...
AI Impact on work, workers and jobs (01:24:31)
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 memo that artificial intelligence is making its way across the company, including when it comes to hiring. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/shopify-ceo-prove-ai-cant-do-jobs-before-asking-for-more-headcount.html One of the videos Cris showed was https://...
Live at CodeWave in Valencia, Spain – Javier Durá & Doug Wallis (00:45:07)
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 serve the large and healthy FileMaker community in Spain. There were 61 people at the conference this year, and about 10 of us were non-native Spanish speakers. Sessions were in either English or Spanish, and all are welcome. The feel of the event was great ...
Alexis Allen and Matt talk about Engage and Elevate FM conferences (00:55:26)
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 the AI and other goodness, approaches to design, our collaboration on teaching, and we nerd out a little bit about music. Many in our community are musicians, and the similarities in the two forms are instructive, and I think can lead us to be become better ...
More talk about Agents with Ian Jempson (01:00:02)
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 (01:01:26)
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 BEST time to do what we do. Why? Because of the skills set of solving totally different kinds of problems in different industries with what looks like magic. Here is a fascinating article about the subject https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effectiv...
Year In Review (01:18:10)
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-ris-talk-ai-podcast Crismas Elf: https://youtu.be/lt5ExfcXfoc Media Credits: ELF (https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/elf) +"Pennies from Heaven": (Composer: Arthur Johnston Lyricist: Johnny Burke) Links: OpenAi o1: https://openai.com/o1/ Devin: https://github....
EngageU Live: Ryan McCann, the Interim CEO of Claris (00:16:35)
Episode 23 This 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 handle infinite feature requests, and the upcoming Engage conference.
EngageU Live: Matt talks with Joris Aarts and John Renfrew (00:12:39)
Episode 21 Joris 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 to talk about their sessions and the conference. Joris did a session on the exciting things coming soon in Claris Studio, and John presented on OData and why it's a great way to integrate and communicate with FileMaker.
EngageU Live: Matt talks with Romein Van Buren and gets fresh perspective (00:04:48)
Episode 21 Romein 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 parts he likes best, and how he integrates with it.
EngageU Live: Talk about database hosting with Joey Grimaldi from ODI Tech (00:12:47)
ODI Tech is the oldest of the FileMaker hosting companies, and has been hosting databases since the 90s. Matt and Joey talk about hardware, AWS, SSD tech, AI Hosting, and more.
Chat with Wesley Powell at EnageU in Malmö (00:08:20)
Wesley is the director of Product Engineering, and we talked about some upcoming features in Claris Studio and the new custom layout tools.
Bonus Episode: Matt joins FileMaker DevCast, talks JSON (00:58:07)
Matt joins the Portage Bay Staff for their FileMaker DevCast podcast to talk about JSON. It was a fun discussion, and their staff are all advanced JSON users, and have religion. Links: DevCast https://youtu.be/_h8D-nuweE4?si=_8gbhTF1vQrCpAaU See Cris Community Live: Jumpstart AI in Claris FileMaker: A step-by-step workshop on OCT 24: https://appleinc.webex.com/appleinc/j.php?MTID=mffff1fbb23023de8065bb335a32bfd8a See Cris at Claris Engage doing FileMaker and Ai Training Day: https://conten...
What is Chain of Thought? (01:13:29)
Show Notes for Episode 17: Links: OpenAi o1: https://openai.com/o1/ Reflection: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.11366 Chain of Thought Prompting Guide: https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/cot Devin: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPTdevin Cursor: https://www.cursor.com OpenAI01 Ten tests: https://youtu.be/iINPTCQWy9E AutoGPT: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT BabyAGI: https://github.com/yoheinakajima/babyagi/blob/main/docs/inspired-projects.md Beyond text Generatio...
Joris Aarts & Johan Hedman: EngageU conference in Malmö Sweden/Nov 2024 (00:22:05)
Matt talks with Joris Aarts from ClickWorks and Johan Hedman from Square Moon. We discuss the upcoming Engage U Conference in November 17-19 in Malmö, Sweden The conference will feature Brad Freitag, Andrew LeCates, Doug Wallis, David Loeb, and Wesley Powell from Claris. We talked about a few speakers including Rob Spearman, Alexis Allen, Ian Jempson, Chris Moyer, Heidi Porter, Charles Delfs, Jan Stieperaere, Nicolás Franco, Osman Cabi (from Türkiye), Rob Speakman, and many more. This year...
AI and Design. Special Guests: Alexis Allen and Matt O'Dell (01:17:57)
Featuring: Alexis Allen - President and Lead Design Engineer at Hyperspace Data Solutions, Inc., and Founder of FM Design University Matthew O'Dell Senior Manager - Tech Experience Design at Capital One Everyone Can Design Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyone-can-design/id1731855846?i=1000654905652 Hyperspace Data Solutions: https://www.hyperspacedatasolutions.com FM Design University: https://www.fmdesignuniversity.com Matthew O'Dell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matto4/...
Is AI Conscious? (01:07:23)
Ronnie Rios from Claris returns. We talk about Sentience, free will (and the illusion thereof), some great books, and use some StarTrek TNG references that make points. It will be a fun discussion, I promise. Show Notes: "Elementary Dear Data" clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8IaUSpAtyk "Measure of Man" clips: https://youtu.be/vjuQRCG_sUw?si=MThgEItlvCjXHmRQ https://youtu.be/YzxgzxH8UCs?si=7fzL5SPiMtUEojb4 https://youtu.be/mGU6C0ojn7s?si=rKBumqR97rkjgQkd "Quality of Life" Clips:...
Summary of WWDC and Apple's AI strategy, DotFMP Berlin, The Claristotle learning initiative (01:12:24)
Show Notes: Introducing Apple’s on device Foundation models: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models Intuition from iSolutionsAI: http://isolutionsai.com/intuition/ Links: Claris Community Live: Learn about AI prompting basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQlOu-BIs5U See Cris at Summerfest-Tech “A.I Deployed: Real World Examples” on WED June 26th in Milwaukee: https://www.summerfest-tech.com/summerfest-tech-2024 Join the conversation on the Claris ...
