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In this AI Mastermind in Austin, TX, 32 founders shared…

AI teleprompter for Meta Ads, a LinkedIn Growth Agent, and a Real Estate Deal Underwriter

The room voted. Darby's phone app turns raw clips into posted ads, Oscar's LinkedIn agent interviews him before it writes, and Cristian's engine finds the Instagram formats that keep working.

  • Friday, November 6, 2026 · 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Industrious East 7th, Austin, TX

See how fellow entrepreneurs in Austin, TX are using AI Agents to grow their business.

During this AI Mastermind & Mixer, attendees submitted the most impactful AI Agents they've deployed and then everyone voted on the outcomes they wanted to hear a deep-dive on. Below, you'll see the outcomes with AI, who submitted it, and what we explored by popular demand.

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    Film yourself on your phone and send in the raw clips. AI picks the best takes, cuts the pauses, adds captions and your branding, and formats them for each platform. You approve what's ready, and nothing posts without your OK.

    ▲ 18
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    I built a LinkedIn agent that saves me hours every week. It researches content ideas based on my week, interviews me, writes copy in my voice, gets an independent review, publishes posts, and reaches out to my ideal customers on autopilot.

    ▲ 13
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    I built an AI system that finds repeatable formats working on Instagram. Each maps the hook, structure, and payoff, then pulls strategies, formats, and voice file from a vault and ties them into scripts in a Content Hub my clients film from.

    ▲ 10
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  • I built Acquiro, an AI acquisition desk that keeps every licensed real estate agent in our market in one list, works in a thirty to forty-five day cadence by email, AI phone call, AI texting, and procures deal flow from them.

    ▲ 10
    Read the story ↓
  • I built an AI harness for coaches and consultants to sell to their clients to execute their methodology. Over 2500 users across over 30 white labeled apps in 6 months.

    ▲ 9
    Read the story ↓
  • Built an GTM agency operating system in Claude that has generated 2,612 leads for clients and our agency the past 6 months.

    ▲ 9
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  • I have built a full business and personal dashboard that aligns with goals, KPI's, tracking and reporting, task creation. Called the The North Star Project - I often get distracted and it's important to revisit what is important and moving forward.

    ▲ 7
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  • I built a social media editor that takes raw footage or a link and cuts it up into clips, adds captions in your branding and a cover image thats post ready.

    ▲ 7
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  • In commercial real estate, I use large datasets, including census, traffic, demographics, drive-time analytics, and franchise expansion trends, to deliver insights that guide site planning, buildout, and leasing strategies before an LOI is submitted.

    ▲ 6
  • Build a client portal (general contractors) to house their business progress including predictive financial projections and cashflow modeling to keep them on target

    ▲ 6
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  • Agentic Analytics Kit that allows businesses to work with their new AI Agent CDO to connect to their key data sources, define insight goals, add relevant business context. It produces an analytics app that watches their business like never before.

    ▲ 6
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  • A skill that crops up fathom calls scans through the copy finds the video and then sends me drafts and then texts the clients to ask for their approval to and gets added to a testimonial vault and sent to me to post where necessary

    ▲ 5
  • I built an AI-powered creative decision system called SIRK (Scale / Iterate / Reallocate / Kill). You paste in Meta ad data and it automatically makes the call on every ad, using thresholds built from the brand's target CPA and margins.

    ▲ 5
  • We wrote an agent to read electronic and paper correspondence from horribly backwards state tax, unemployment, and revenue agencies. It identifies all problems, figures out how to respond, and finds the exact website to solve it. Saves mucho tirne

    ▲ 4
  • Agent generates invoices, checks bank account for incoming payments, marks corresponding invoices as paid in QuickBooks and internal invoice tracking dashboard, notifies team when there are outstanding past-due invoices, and drafts follow-up emails.

    ▲ 4
  • More for personal use: GrokBot integration with Garmin to coach, plan and track all my workouts, running, and nutrition just by asking what's up today?

    ▲ 4
  • I built a custom framework that converts a human built process flow into a detailed SOP & RASI in my current companies format. A process of this level of detail would normally take 2 weeks of development and now can be done in less than 5 minutes.

    ▲ 3
  • AI Scheduling agent for my cleaning crews and PA. STR for 8 houses. Connected via MCPs to booking platform and auto sends formatted WhatsApp messages. Any issues reported gets ingested in and reviewed before being re-routed to the right person

    ▲ 3
  • We could take a Rafael from the county find errors that are associated with property that they don’t know about in Wren a full title report as well as any type of character about the people that are involved

    ▲ 2
  • Wrote up my ROI for sxsw before #SXSW. For example today’s “agentic society” using a token. For example a SuperBowl promo at Los Angeles before February 14, 2027. Another example… IS YOU (and your ROI

    ▲ 2
  • Construction back office - research bids, schedule showings, analyze them, w9 and insurnace management, budget vs actual management, built-in invoices and accounting, bank draws, etc.

    ▲ 2
  • Outreach - the workflow generates targeted copy into the drafts folder (human gate), then compares if the sent message was unchanged-sent, changed-sent, or purged to train alignment with to authors’ voice & intention

    ▲ 2
  • I created an agent in a software product I'm developing that acts as a Quality Manager. The agent can take an open NCR, check the evidence and look for gaps and return a findings card from the linked records.

    ▲ 2
  • No staff. AI built and runs my protest desk across all 254 Texas counties (settlement mode + deadlines per county, auto-pulled partner reports, texting, support) and a marketing engine (animated brand characters, 19 videos, 7 platforms).

    ▲ 1
  • I built a CEO agent managing 60+ AI agents across five businesses; it audited 6,016 CRM contacts, fixed data errors, chased commissions, and eliminated hours of manual admin.

    ▲ 1

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Top 3 Voted AI Agents

Every owner shared one real result from the last 90 days. These are the three the room chose to go deep on.

Raw phone clips to posted, branded video

Built in two days at the hackathon; a web version followed in one more day

The problemFounder-led video is the content that speaks to buyers, but writing the script, staying on it while filming, editing the takes and posting them is enough friction that most founders stop after a few.

Darby is the Chief Agent Officer at Agentic Society, where he helps build the Agentic OS and its skill packs, and he runs a comedy game show for entrepreneurs on the side. The show wants more corporate bookings in 2027, and that was the spark for this build. When he asked Claude which thing he had built in the last ninety days was the most useful and broadly applicable to share, this was its answer, and the room agreed: eighteen votes and first place. He built it in two days at the Agentic Society hackathon as an iPhone app that ties together systems that used to live apart. It scans the market for signals that a specific kind of buyer is about to look for a team-building event, runs a buyer blueprint skill that does targeted research on that one customer profile, and writes a set of scripts and ad angles as starting points. Then he films. A teleprompter sits on top of the recording screen with adjustable speed, so he can do a few takes, stay on the idea and still riff. Once he approves a final take, an editing pass trims it and adds the brand and captions. From there it goes to Meta Ads Manager for paid tests, or straight to Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube through the Blotato API. Nothing posts until he approves it. This past week he built a modified version for a client, a keynote speaker who is excellent on camera with a script and stuck without one: the scripts are trained on the speaker's voice and writing style, he films in the app, and the takes flow into the content engine Darby already runs for him. The first version is native iOS because Darby had a rough start on an app already. Last Sunday he spent the day having Claude Code rebuild the same components as a web app, which was easy to deploy on Vercel. The app does not generate AI characters. Its job is to keep a real person on script.

What they built
  • Scan the market for signals that a specific buyer is ready to purchase.
  • Run a buyer blueprint skill that researches that one customer profile in depth.
  • Generate several scripts and ad angles from the blueprint as starting points.
  • Film in the app with the script overlaid as a teleprompter, and record a few takes.
  • Approve the best take; an editing pass trims it and adds branding and captions.
  • Send it to Meta Ads Manager for paid tests, or post it through the Blotato API to Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Outcome

A phone-to-feed workflow for founder video, in use for Darby's own ads and now adapted for a keynote-speaker client.

Key takeaways
  • Take away everything except filming. The app handles the blank page, the edit and the post. The founder just shows up on camera.
  • Start from one buyer. A buyer blueprint for a specific customer produces scripts that speak to that person instead of to everyone.
  • Put the script on the recording screen. With a teleprompter overlay, a 30-second script stays 30 seconds.
  • Keep an approval gate. Nothing goes to ads or social until you approve the final take.
  • A clear brief ships fast. The native app took two days, and the web version took one more.
The playbook: build it yourself
  1. Write down the buyer you want your videos to reach: who they are, what signal says they are ready, and what they care about.
  2. Ask Claude Code to build a buyer blueprint skill that researches that customer and writes five script variations with different angles.
  3. Have it build a simple recording screen with the script overlaid as a teleprompter and a speed control. Start as a web app if you do not need native features.
  4. Add an editing step that trims pauses, adds your captions and brand, and formats the cut for each platform.
  5. Connect a posting service such as Blotato for organic posts, and export the paid versions for Meta Ads Manager.
  6. Keep a manual approval step before anything is published.
Hand it to your AI employee
I want to make founder-led video ads and social posts without the friction that makes me stop after a week. Help me build a simple app for it.

My business: [WHAT YOU SELL]. The buyer I want to reach: [WHO, AND THE SIGNAL THAT SAYS THEY ARE READY TO BUY]. Where the videos go: [META ADS, INSTAGRAM, LINKEDIN, YOUTUBE].

Do this in order, and stop for my approval after step 2:
1. Write a buyer blueprint: what this buyer cares about, the words they use, and the objections they have.
2. From the blueprint, write five 30-second scripts, each with a different angle and a clear hook in the first line.
3. Plan a small web app with three screens: pick a script, record with the script overlaid as a teleprompter (adjustable speed), and review takes.
4. Add an editing step that trims pauses and adds my captions and brand colors, and a final approval button.
5. Only after I approve a take, send it to my posting tool for organic posts or save it for my ads manager.

Never publish anything without my explicit approval. Keep the first version as small as possible so I can film with it this week.

Takeaway This is the kind of thing that you can build with AI in a very short amount of time if you have a clear idea how to tell Claude what to do.

A LinkedIn agent that interviews you first

Saves hours every week (as posted to the board); six to ten interview questions a week

The problemMost of Oscar's consulting clients come from rooms like this one and from introductions. To grow past that he needed LinkedIn, but asking an AI to write a viral post produces content that does not sound like anyone.

Oscar is the CEO of CG Service Pros, an HVAC company in Austin, runs Vindex Consulting, which puts AI into companies across industries, and is an AI advisor at Agentic Society, where he teaches custom agent builds. He is a repeat winner on this board, and this build took second place with thirteen votes. The idea came from Rohan, a member who runs LinkedIn for his clients by interviewing them once a month and turning what they know into posts. Oscar wanted an AI to do that interview, not to write a post on its own. He built it as a Hermes agent and planned it the way he would plan a hire: what information the role needs, what tools it needs, and what the job is. The agent starts with research. It scans the last seven days of his working notes and call recordings in his second brain, and it reads what is changing in AI news through Agent Reach. From that it writes six to ten interview questions about his week. He answers by voice note on his Plaud recorder, which all his agents are connected to, then tells the agent the interview is done and it fetches the recording. The transcript becomes the substance of the post. A draft is written with a set of writing skills, including a humanizer, and a voice file he created of his own writing. Then a sub-agent on a different model does an independent review: it checks the rules, that the post does not sound like AI, that there are no em dashes, that it matches his voice, and that it does not invent data. Pictures come from his Google Drive rather than being generated. When he gives feedback, the agent saves it to a small database of learnings for that agent, so each post is better than the last. The example he showed came from a client call that week, testing a voice agent for a law firm that quoted the wrong fee, and the post is close to what he would say if someone asked him in person. Posting runs through the Composio LinkedIn connector, which logs in with his account and posts directly. The same agent runs outreach through Lemlist, sending connection requests and follow-ups while the platform handles account safety, and anyone who replies is added to his CRM as a lead. His company brain is a version of GBrain, a database plus a GitHub repository. Engagement is low so far, and he expected that: he is new to posting on LinkedIn and treats the profile as a resume for the people his outreach reaches. He still reviews every draft, and will until the agent has earned the right to post on its own.

What they built
  • Research: scan the last seven days of call recordings and notes, plus current AI news.
  • Interview: write six to ten questions about the week and let him pick which to answer.
  • Capture: he answers by voice note; the agent fetches the recording and transcript.
  • Draft: write the post with writing skills, a humanizer and his own voice file.
  • Review: a sub-agent on a different model checks rules, voice and facts.
  • Publish and prospect: post through the Composio LinkedIn connector, run outreach through Lemlist, and log replies as leads.
Outcome

Weekly LinkedIn posts built from his real work, plus outreach that runs on its own, with Oscar approving every draft.

Key takeaways
  • Interview first, then write. The agent gets your expertise out of you instead of making up opinions you do not hold.
  • Feed it your week. Recorded calls and notes in a second brain give the interview real material.
  • Review with a different model. A second model catches AI tells, em dashes, invented data and drift from your voice.
  • Save every correction. A learnings file per agent makes the next post better without rewriting the prompt.
  • Make the agent earn its autonomy. Oscar still reviews every draft and will until the output is reliably his.
The playbook: build it yourself
  1. Make sure your calls and notes are recorded and land somewhere an agent can read, such as a Google Drive folder or a second brain.
  2. Write the job description for a content agent: what it reads, what tools it has, what it must never do.
  3. Have the agent scan your last seven days and write six to ten interview questions. Answer the ones you care about by voice note.
  4. Give it your writing samples and have it build a voice file, then draft from your answers.
  5. Add a review step on a different model that checks voice, facts, AI phrasing and your formatting rules.
  6. Connect LinkedIn through a connector such as Composio, and keep posting manual until the drafts are consistently right.
  7. Save every piece of feedback to a learnings file the agent reads before each draft.
Hand it to your AI employee
Act as my LinkedIn content agent. Your job is to turn what I actually did this week into posts that sound like me, by interviewing me first.

Where my week lives: [WHERE YOUR CALL TRANSCRIPTS AND NOTES ARE]. Who I want to reach: [YOUR IDEAL CUSTOMER]. Writing samples of mine: [PASTE 3-5 POSTS OR EMAILS].

Every week:
1. Read my last seven days of calls and notes, and scan current news in my field. Summarize the five most interesting things that happened.
2. Write six to ten interview questions about them. Wait for my answers (I will reply by voice note or text).
3. From my answers, draft one post in my voice. Do not add opinions or numbers I did not give you.
4. Review the draft as a separate, skeptical editor: flag anything that sounds like AI, any em dashes, any claim not supported by my answers, and anything off-voice. Fix it.
5. Show me the final draft and wait for my approval. Save my feedback to a learnings list and read it before the next draft.

Never post without my approval.

Takeaway As with any agent, you want to make sure that it earns its autonomy.

Instagram formats, found and encoded

About 100 creators studied per client; only reels at roughly 3x the creator's median are kept

The problemHis clients already post consistently and have editors, and still get no results. Finding what actually works means hours of scrolling competitors, chasing one-off virals and writing every script from scratch.

Cristian runs a marketing agency for business owners who post on Instagram. His build took third place with ten votes, tied with Prashant Vanka and ahead on submission time. Shortly before presenting, he asked his second brain, which holds his workflows and context, to make a short training video on the system, and played what it produced. The system does not invent formats. It looks for the ones creators reuse over and over, on the theory that a format working for lots of different people is a structure and not luck. The format's DNA stays fixed: the hook, the structure, the cadence, the length and the payoff. Only the message, the angle and the voice change, so the script fits the client's niche and sounds like them. The work runs in stages. To find formats, scrapers and agents pull Instagram at scale with Apify, Sandcastles and Bright Data, starting from about a hundred creators per client: some in the niche, some competitors, and some from unrelated industries who use the same formats. Every reel is ranked against that creator's own median, and only real outliers, roughly three times the median or more, are kept. Each winner is broken into its format DNA and stored in a vault with three layers tied together: strategies, formats, and a voice file that captures how the client actually talks. Agents write the scripts from the vault. Delivery is a custom content hub built on Supabase: the client signs in once, picks a script card, watches the reference reel, reads the visual and text hook, films from a teleprompter and sends the takes back. One operator runs this across several retainers with no writing team. He has four clients today and is candid that results are mixed while he iterates on formats. Asked about AI clones of the client, he sees a mix: a fully generated channel loses trust, but generated pieces alongside the real person can work, and he is testing a Higgsfield clone for one client.

What they built
  • Pick about a hundred creators per client: niche peers, competitors, and other industries using similar formats.
  • Scrape their reels with Apify, Sandcastles and Bright Data.
  • Rank each reel against its creator's median and keep only outliers at about three times or more.
  • Break each winner into format DNA: hook, structure, cadence, length, payoff.
  • Store it in a vault alongside strategies and the client's voice file.
  • Have agents write scripts from the vault and deliver them in a Supabase content hub with a teleprompter.
Outcome

One person writes film-ready scripts for every client, with no writing team.

Key takeaways
  • Copy the structure and keep your own words. A format that works for many different creators can be reused.
  • Measure against the creator's own median. Three times their normal is a signal; one viral hit is noise.
  • Store formats next to the voice file. Keeping strategies, formats and voice together is what lets agents write scripts that sound like the client.
  • Leave the client one job, which is filming. The script, the reference reel and the teleprompter sit behind one link.
The playbook: build it yourself
  1. List about a hundred creators: ten to twenty in your niche, your competitors, and some outside your industry who use formats you like.
  2. Use a scraper such as Apify or Sandcastles to pull their recent reels with views.
  3. For each creator, compute their median views and keep only reels at three times the median or more.
  4. Have an agent break each kept reel into its format DNA: the hook, the structure, the cadence, the length, the payoff.
  5. Write a voice file for yourself or your client from real transcripts.
  6. Have the agent write scripts that keep the format DNA and swap in your message and voice.
  7. Film from a teleprompter with the reference reel open, and track which formats win for you.
Hand it to your AI employee
Act as my short-form content strategist. I want scripts based on formats that are proven to repeat, not on one-off viral hits.

My niche and offer: [NICHE AND OFFER]. Creators to study: [LIST OF ACCOUNTS, OR ASK ME TO HELP YOU BUILD ONE]. How I talk: [PASTE A TRANSCRIPT OR TWO OF ME SPEAKING].

Do this in order:
1. For each creator, find the reels that performed at three times their own median views or more. Ignore anything below that.
2. For each outlier, describe the format DNA: the hook, the structure, the cadence, the length and the payoff. Group outliers that share a format.
3. Rank the formats by how many different creators use them successfully.
4. Build a short voice file from my transcripts: words I use, sentence length, how I open and close.
5. Write five scripts using the top formats, keeping the DNA and changing only the message, the angle and the voice to fit me. Include the visual hook and the on-screen text hook for each.

Tell me which reel each script is modeled on so I can watch it before I film.

Takeaway If a format keeps working for a lot of different people, it is a structure, not luck.

Also spotlighted

More Outcomes From the Room

Beyond the top three, more builders from the board shared what they made. Here are their stories and the workflows behind them.

Acquiro: a real estate acquisition desk that underwrites deals for you

Due diligence that took 45 to 90 minutes per deal now runs automatically; 119 comp rules applied by script

The problemAbout nine in ten deals that agents send or list on the MLS miss the margin or are overpriced, and a proper due diligence on each one takes 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

Prashant is a real estate developer in Austin. His board entry tied for third with ten votes and missed the tie-break on submission time, and he gave a full demo on stage. He built Acquiro at the Agentic Society hackathon, with Oscar Hidalgo helping him get started, to automate what he has done by hand for fifteen years. It asks very little of the sender: text or email an address and an asking price, and it does the rest. Four agents sit behind the underwriting. A scout reads a deal in any format, from an ugly email to a PDF, an MLS sheet or a wholesale blast, and builds one standard record in which every fact is tagged as either what the agent sent or what Acquiro found itself. It checks the lot from the county, zoning from the city, the flood map and deed restrictions. Because Austin protects trees and a survey is often missing, he built a tool that looks at a Google Earth image, estimates the tree species from the canopy, then the trunk size and the critical root zone, and works out what can and cannot be built. The underwriter pulls closed new-build comps from MLS sold data, the same size he would build, within half a mile when there are enough and across the ZIP code otherwise, and it says which. It applies 119 comp rules. As Oscar explained, the agent only gathers data and fills in what is effectively a spreadsheet, while scripts do all of the math, so the numbers are predictable enough to feed a prediction model; vision models also read listing photos for a repair estimate. Then it judges the lot the way an owner would, on profit per lot, margin on all-in cost, cash on cash and return on equity in a downturn case, and marks it for review or declines it against his buy box. A declined deal gets a reply in his voice, in three bullets: the comps it pulled, what the lot supports and the most he would pay, so agents learn his buy box and keep sending. If he likes a deal, one click sends an offer through DocuSign on his terms. Outbound keeps every licensed agent in his market on one list and works them on a thirty to forty-five day cadence by email, AI calls and AI texts. The day before the Mixer and that morning he added a competitor permit analyzer that shows who is doing deals in an area and reverse-engineers their buy boxes. The engine can be pointed at another asset class, market or industry; a commercial version that reads lease comps, cap rates and lease expirations is next.

What they built
  • A scout agent ingests any deal format and builds one standard record, tagging each fact by source.
  • Due diligence checks the lot, zoning, floodplain, deed restrictions, permits and tree constraints from public data and Google Earth.
  • The underwriter pulls closed new-build comps and applies 119 rules, with scripts doing every calculation.
  • Each deal is scored on profit per lot, margin, cash on cash and downside return, then reviewed or declined.
  • Declines reply to the agent with the reason; offers go out through DocuSign in one click.
Outcome

Every inbound deal is underwritten without him, and the agents who send deals are trained on his buy box with every reply.

Key takeaways
  • Let scripts do the math. The agent gathers and structures data; deterministic code computes the numbers.
  • Tag every fact by source. Keep what the sender claimed separate from what you verified.
  • Explain every decline. Agents who hear why you passed send you better deals next time.
The playbook: build it yourself
  1. Write down your buy box and the rules you use to comp a deal, as specifically as you can.
  2. Have an agent turn any incoming deal, in any format, into one standard record, marking which facts came from the sender.
  3. List the public data sources for due diligence in your market and have the agent pull each one.
  4. Put every calculation in a script. The agent fills in the inputs; the script returns the numbers.
  5. Set review and decline thresholds, and have the agent reply to declines with the comps and your maximum price.
Hand it to your AI employee
Act as my acquisitions analyst. I want every deal that comes in underwritten the same way, with the math done by code and not by you.

My buy box: [ASSET TYPE, MARKET, SIZE, MARGIN AND RETURN TARGETS]. My comp rules: [LIST THEM]. Public data sources in my market: [COUNTY, ZONING, FLOOD, PERMITS].

For each deal I forward you:
1. Turn it into one standard record. Mark every fact as either "sent by the agent" or "verified by us".
2. Pull the due diligence data from the sources above and flag anything that limits what can be built.
3. Gather comps that match my rules and fill in the inputs for my underwriting script. Do not calculate the results yourself; run the script.
4. Mark the deal "review" or "decline" against my buy box and list the weak spots.
5. For a decline, draft a three-bullet reply to the agent in my voice: the comps, what the property supports and the most I would pay.

Show me every review deal before anything is sent.

A go-to-market agency that runs on Claude Code

2,612 leads for clients and the agency in six months (as posted to the board)

Rees runs Astra GTM, a B2B go-to-market agency. The team started on Clay, which connects data-enrichment providers to language models to run campaigns. When Claude Code got good early this year, they moved the whole five-person team onto a Claude Code operating system, dropped Clay, and now buy direct API subscriptions to the underlying tools, with every skill and SOP in a shared GitHub repository. Everyone works out of Claude Code every day, and campaign quality and client results both went up. The leads come from email and LinkedIn automation campaigns.

Coaching methodologies, turned into agents clients pay for

30 white-label apps and about 2,500 users in six months (as posted to the board)

Dan, a former Austinite who flew in from California, sold a SaaS company and partnered with his former business coach, James Kemp, on an idea: put a coach's methodology behind a paywall as an agent that actually does the work. Six months and thousands of commits later, Tool Chat (a working title) is a custom harness on top of Claude Code where a client talks to the coach's agent and it helps write the offer, build landing pages and funnels and launch ads. Coaches upload their videos to build the agent, add skills, and sell it with Stripe built in; there is also a community, a classroom and chat over the coach's content. Dan owns the technology and licenses it as white label, taking a margin on AI usage. He did not write a single line of the code himself.

A social media editor you drop raw footage into

Micah of Summit Oak AI is not a video editor, so he built a skill to do it. Drop in raw footage or a link and give it direction, plus your fonts, branding or reference reels, and it cuts shorts and clips, adds captions in your brand and produces cover images ready for Instagram. The skill is public on GitHub for anyone to take and improve, and a larger update is coming.

Project North Star: fifteen tabs in one dashboard

Cory is a real estate investor, broker and the marketing and sales director for AeroVista, a hangar home community in Salado, Texas, where owners can taxi their plane into the garage. He describes himself as a one-man, fifteen-person office with ADHD, and his rule is that what he cannot see does not get done. Project North Star pulls his CRM, social accounts and every daily tool, fifteen browser tabs in all, into one dashboard of KPIs and reports on any timeframe, with a switch to personal goals such as workouts and nutrition. Every part of it can be moved and rearranged.

An agentic analytics kit for business owners

Bryce runs Connectricians. His analytics kit gives a business owner an agent that walks them through connecting their key data sources, with skills for where to store credentials securely, where to host and publish, how to refresh every day, and how to validate and test the result. The output is an analytics app that tells owners things about their business they probably did not know.

A client portal that keeps contractors on target

Sam is a business coach from Australia, where contractors are called tradies, and his clients were breaking the formulas in his Google Sheets templates. He asked Claude what to build and ended up with a client portal: members set their mission, revenue and net profit targets, map the team they need on an org chart, and the portal produces a month-by-month forecast for the financial year from the unit economics behind each hire, with cash flow modeling to keep them on target.

Big ideas

The patterns that kept surfacing, with the people who said them best.

  1. 01

    Hire an agent for a job title, not a task.

    An agent that only does Instagram posts is a task. An AI CMO covers traffic, conversion and follow-up with one consistent message. A fleet of micro agents ends in costly orchestration, dropped handoffs and wasted tokens; a few macro agents keep it simple.

  2. 02

    Plan before you let the agent build.

    Dump all the context, let the agent ask its questions back, and agree on the order of the build before it starts. At the hackathon the room spent the first 90 minutes only planning, and the next five sessions flew. Austin's rule of thumb is that every hour of planning saves ten hours of execution. He answers the planning questions out loud on a walk with Wispr Flow.

  3. 03

    Let the agent gather the data and let scripts do the math.

    Acquiro's agent only fills in the inputs. Every underwriting calculation runs in a script, so the numbers are predictable and can feed a prediction model.

  4. 04

    Interview the expert before the agent writes.

    Oscar's LinkedIn agent reads his week, asks six to ten questions and drafts from his voice-note answers. The ideas are his; the agent does the research, the drafting and the posting.

  5. 05

    Have a different model review the first model's work.

    A sub-agent on another model checks each draft for AI phrasing, em dashes, invented data and drift from the author's voice before a human sees it.

  6. 06

    Rank content against the creator's own median.

    A reel at three times a creator's usual views is a repeatable signal. A single viral hit is not. Cristian keeps only those outliers and encodes their format.

  7. 07

    Turn every 'no' into training for your deal flow.

    Acquiro replies to every declined deal with the comps, what the lot supports and the maximum price, so the agents sending deals learn the buy box and send better ones.

  8. 08

    Put the script on the recording screen.

    A teleprompter overlay on the phone camera keeps founders on message, so a 30-second ad stays 30 seconds, and generated scripts actually get filmed.

  9. 09

    Sell your methodology as an agent that does the work.

    Dan's platform turns a coach's videos and frameworks into an agent clients pay for monthly, so the coach serves ten times more people without more calls.

  10. 10

    Make your KPI spreadsheet report itself.

    Give Claude the spreadsheet and ask for an artifact, then tell it where each number comes from, such as Meta Ads, GoHighLevel and Stripe. Austin's estimate: about ten minutes to a self-reporting dashboard.

  11. 11

    Celebrate your team's AI wins in public.

    Austin's version is Taco Tuesday. Get the team around a table at lunch, ask who has had results with AI, pass the mic and reward the answers. What leadership recognizes and rewards gets repeated.

Questions from the room

Asked out loud in the room, answered by the people doing it. Straight from the transcript.

How many clients are you running this for, and what have the results been?

Four clients right now. Results are mixed while he iterates on formats; one client has around 12,000 followers. It is a work in progress.

Cristian Aguilar

Will AI clones of the client replace filming the real person?

A mix. People like animated content, but in business they want the real person and their experience behind it. A channel that is entirely generated loses trust; generated pieces alongside the real person are where it is heading. He is testing a Higgsfield clone for one client.

Cristian Aguilar

How do you keep animated brand characters consistent across ads?

Use a node-based system that plugs into your digital asset library and your brand bible, so every iteration comes out on-model. Figma Weave, formerly Weavy, was the recommendation from the room.

Rachel Coburn

Do you pull critical environmental features from the City of Austin data, beyond tree canopy?

It is all public data, and more layers can be added to the engine. Kevin Ramberg, who runs an environmental consulting firm, and Prashant agreed to compare notes.

Prashant Vanka

Does it work for commercial real estate?

The engine keeps the philosophy and swaps the methodology. Commercial is about NOI, so it reads lease comps, market cap rates and lease expirations. A commercial asset pack is next.

Prashant Vanka

Comps are subjective. How is it trained?

Acquiro applies 119 comp rules. Oscar Hidalgo, who helped build it, added that the agent only gathers data from the MLS and fills in the inputs, vision models read the photos for a repair estimate, and scripts run all of the math so the results are predictable.

Prashant Vanka

How is engagement on the posts so far?

Low, and that is expected: he is starting fresh on LinkedIn. He treats the profile as a resume, so the people his outreach reaches find an expert talking about real work. He is very happy with the content itself.

Oscar Hidalgo

Browser automation will not post to LinkedIn for me. What does?

Composio has direct connectors for LinkedIn and the other platforms; start there. At higher volume, move to a dedicated posting platform with a good MCP for scheduling and analytics; Blotato is among the cheaper options.

Oscar Hidalgo

Is the teleprompter for AI characters?

No. Nothing in the app generates characters. It keeps a real person on script, so you can film twenty ads in a sitting without a 30-second script becoming a three-minute read.

Darby Rollins

Is it a web app or native?

The first version is native iOS because he had a rough start on an app already. Last Sunday he had Claude Code rebuild the same components as a web app, and it deployed on Vercel with only a few changes.

Darby Rollins

AI tools mentioned

Every tool, skill, and build that came up, with links to go try them.

Meet with attendees of the Mastermind

Follow up with the smart people who attended this event to build meaningful connections and make progress implementing AI Agents in your business.

Alex Greenstein

Founder, Austin Tea Party

Runs a Texas property tax protest desk across all 254 counties with no staff, built and operated by AI.

Bryce Sandry

Connectricians

Built a 'Connected Mind' from 305K texts, 15 years of emails, and every saved Instagram post — living profiles of his whole network.

Chris Piper

Founder, Piper Ops

Growth operations for creator companies; turning SOPs and transcripts into Hermes agents for client deliverables.

Corey Boutwell

Coach, founder

Built a skill that finds client wins in Fathom calls, drafts testimonials and texts clients for approval.

Cory Mortensen

Broker and sales director, AeroVista

Real estate investor and broker for a hangar home community in Salado, Texas; built the North Star dashboard for business and personal KPIs.

Cristian Aguilar

Founder, Instagram marketing agency

Runs a marketing agency for Instagram creators; built an AI system that finds repeatable formats and turns them into film-ready scripts.

Cyril Claire

Founder

Agency founder building a new business AI-native from day one; coaches his own training with Grok and Garmin.

Dan Schwartz

Founder, Tool Chat

Built an AI harness that lets coaches and consultants productize their methodology; 30 white-label apps and about 2,500 users in six months.

Daniel Thompson

Golden Weekend Hospitality

Runs eight short-term rental houses in Austin with an AI scheduling agent for cleaning crews.

Darby Rollins

Chief Agent Officer, Agentic Society

Builds the Agentic OS — skills and agents for the community; founder of GenAI University.

David Wen

Realtor, Ottawa and Toronto

Built a CEO agent that manages 60+ agents across five businesses, including a 6,016-contact CRM audit.

Devin Shea

Founder, R3SET

Building GTM systems and moving his team to an AI-first workflow.

Grigoriy Peppo

Builder

Guest of Pete Starnes at the November 2026 Mastermind Mixer.

Jesse Martinez

Owner, Root Home Services

Runs a pest control company with a lean team and is automating follow-up, scheduling and back-office work.

Julia Ott

Austin AI

AI consultant at Austin AI, building agents that find new client opportunities.

Justin Mayer

AI automation consultant

Built an agent that issues invoices, matches incoming payments in QuickBooks and drafts past-due follow-ups.

Kevin Ramberg

Founder, ACI Group

Runs an environmental consulting firm in Austin and is automating site research from public data.

Larry Chiang

Founder

Writes ROI cases for events like SXSW with AI.

Lucas Nash

Founder, Centy

Built an outreach workflow that drafts copy for human review and learns from what he changes before sending.

Matthew Gabb

Founder, Periscope Industrial

Turns a process flow into a detailed SOP and RASI in under five minutes, work that used to take two weeks.

Micah Burgess

Founder, Summit Oak AI

Built a custom CRM that grades sales calls, drafts the quote and collects signature and payment through Stripe.

Oscar Hidalgo

CEO, CG Service Pros · Vindex Consulting

Runs an Austin HVAC company and an AI consulting practice; built 'Ali,' the always-on outreach employee behind two $200K+ rebate-program contracts.

Pete Starnes

Co-founder, Frontera Space

Former CIO at Firefly Aerospace; built an automated 24/7 product development pipeline now past 1.5 million lines of code.

Piero Ladhur

Founder, MR Durden LLC

Founder starting to automate content with AI.

Prashant Vanka

Agentic real estate, Austin

Runs an AI-powered direct-to-seller wholesale and high-end spec engine in Austin.

Rachel Coburn

Operations automation consultant

Built SIRK, a creative decision system that makes the scale, iterate, reallocate or kill call on every Meta ad from the brand's target CPA and margins.

Rees Bayba

Founder, Astra GTM

Runs a five-person B2B go-to-market agency entirely out of Claude Code; 2,612 leads for clients and the agency in six months.

Robert Corwin

CEO, Austin AI

Leads an Austin AI consulting firm; built an agent that reads state tax, unemployment and revenue agency letters and works out the fix.

Ryan McCreay

Licensed private investigator, Balboa Research Group

Heir locates and title research across Texas counties, with comps, appraisal values and title reports pulled by API.

Sam Ackland

Business coach, Alpha Tradie

Australian business coach for tradies; built a client portal with forecasts and cash flow modeling for general contractors.

Sasha Tetera

Founder

Built a construction back office covering bids, showings, insurance, budget against actuals, invoicing and bank draws.

Tim Tran

Commercial real estate, CIP Texas

Uses census, traffic, demographic and drive-time data to guide site planning and leasing before an LOI.

Austin Distel

Founder, Agentic Society

Founder of the Agentic Society — a private room of owners and operators becoming Agentic CEOs.

Hosted by Austin Distel Ex-CMO @ Jasper.ai → $1.5B valuation

Heard in the room

“It's not just a room of learning about AI. It's a room of uplifting entrepreneurs. No matter where you're at on the scale of AI, this is the room to be in to grow your business.”
Justin Day, Founder, Day by Day
“It's a really cool room of builders. I come out of each of the last three meetings and write down a list full of ideas that I want to implement.”
Prashant Vanka, Agentic real estate, Austin
“I can step into the role of being the founder and focus on the highest-leverage tasks every day. I feel so confident leaving here.”
Kuval, Founder, Say So
“Everyone's there working — you hit a problem, you voice it, and someone has a suggestion. Productive play is a real thing.”
Tomer, VA staffing agency · Side Hustle events
“It's a thousand times better. You're totally focused, working side by side with people. If you have questions they get answered, and you just get way more done.”
Big Jason, Email deliverability expert, 30 years

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