Building AI Agents with TARS & Weaviate

Welcome to AI Engineer Spotlight, the series where we showcase groundbreaking AI projects and the brilliant engineers behind them. In this episode, host Adam sits down with the creators of TARS, a revolutionary conversational AI platform that makes it easier than ever to build intelligent agents. You’ll see a live demo of TARS in action — from connecting agents to knowledge bases and tools like Google Sheets, to handling real user queries with semantic search powered by Weaviate. The team also shares insights on prompt design, tool integration, and how to package documentation into a retrieval system that fuels powerful conversational agents. Whether you’re building customer support bots, knowledge assistants, or next-gen AI applications, this episode is packed with practical takeaways and inspiration. 👉 Explore TARS: https://hellotars.com 👉 Learn more about Weaviate: https://weaviate.io Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more stories from the builders shaping the future of AI. 00:00 Intro – Welcome to AI Engineer Spotlight 00:17 Meet the creators of TARS 00:39 Demo overview: Agent, Knowledge & Tools 00:58 Connecting business knowledge & documents 01:12 Using Google Sheets as an AI tool 01:53 Live conversation demo with the agent 04:54 Knowledge retrieval tool on Weaviate Documentation 05:24 How Weaviate vector database powers search 06:31 Building knowledge retrieval tools 06:47 Connecting 300+ tools (Notion, Google Drive & more) 07:09 The challenge of prompt engineering 07:20 Auto-generating prompts & welcome messages 08:14 Wrapping up: Making AI agents accessible 08:26 Closing thoughts & where to try TARS