** Please take this two-minute survey to help us create more great Crafted episodes. http://tinyurl.com/craftedsurvey **Nautilus Labs uses AI to make maritime vessels more efficient by helping giant cargo ships optimize their routes across the ocean and suggesting when they need maintenance, saving money and reducing carbon emissions in the process. In this episode, former CTO Todd Sundsted describes how they model ships and their routes and push the envelope with AI. He also shares his approach to organizational design and how to align teams to the customer problems a company aims to solve. Crafted is a show about great products and the people who make them. Hosted by Dan Blumberg, an entrepreneur, product leader, and public radio host with deep experience not only delivering major software releases, but also as the producer of the best known, and most listened-to, public radio shows. Dan has founded startups and led product releases and growth initiatives at LinkedIn, The New York Times, and as a consultant to fintechs and big banks. Before getting into tech, Dan led the team behind Morning Edition on WNYC, the most listened-to show on the nation’s largest NPR station. Dan produced, edited, reported for, and hosted this and other marquee news shows at WNYC and WBEZ and also frequently reported on national news events for NPR.Timestamps:00:00 - Intro01:53 - Helping cargo ships be more efficient04:17 - Getting the data from difficult environments06:24 - Aha moments07:37 - Improving Nautilus Labs’ organizational design12:31 - Aligning teams to the impact they have15:15 - Outro