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Where founders share real-time insights, battle-tested strategies, and the unfiltered truth about building the future.

Our Story

The Unwritten Playbook

Innovation moves at light speed. What was cutting-edge last quarter is table stakes today. Founders building the future face an unprecedented challenge: there is no stable rulebook.

We emerged from this reality. We saw brilliant founders reinventing wheels, grappling in isolation with challenges others had just cracked, and drowning in noise while thirsting for genuine signal.

We realized that the only viable “textbook” is the collective, real-time experience of those on the front lines. It must be written – and rewritten – together, constantly. We exist to make that happen.

Our Mission

Accelerate the Builders of Tomorrow

To equip founders and technical leaders with the real-time insights, hard-won strategies, and deep knowledge needed to navigate hypergrowth, build enduring moats, and achieve sustainable product-market fit.

We achieve this by fostering radical transparency through curated, high-signal tech talks and discussions led by active founders. We focus relentlessly on the how: lean operations, defensible architecture, fundraising amidst uncertainty, and translating breakthroughs into product.

Our Vision

The Foundational Intelligence for Innovation

To be the indispensable global nerve center and collective intelligence hub for technical founders building transformative companies. We envision a world where no founder builds in the dark.

Where the shared wisdom of the community accelerates innovation and de-risks the journey, ensuring the most impactful ideas thrive. We are where the future of building is actively shaped, shared, and understood – in real-time.

Upcoming Events

Join us for intimate conversations with founders who are defining the future

Matt Fisher
Shipping AI Products at Speed – lessons from Daydream and Microsoft/Amazon days
AI Product Development
Scalability
Tech Leadership

In this fourth Tech Talk, Matt Fisher, CTO and co-founder of Daydream, will share how his teams at Daydream, Microsoft, and Amazon tackled the challenges of building and scaling AI products fast. He'll explore strategies for scalable AI infrastructure, cross-functional collaboration, and speed in innovation. A must-attend for builders aiming to ship AI products with velocity and precision.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT
Foundations, Seattle, WA

Past Events

Catch up on insights from previous sessions and access exclusive resources

Dr. Zhou (Jo) YuFounder & CEO at Arklex.AI
Saturday, July 19, 202510:00 AM - 11:30 AMFoundations, Seattle, WA
AI Agents
Evaluation
Validation

Dr. Zhou (Jo) Yu presented a practical framework for evaluating and validating consumer-facing AI agents before launch. She shared strategies to systematically detect and prevent poor user interactions, moving beyond trial-and-error to ensure consistent end-user satisfaction.

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Pierre BrunelleCEO & Cofounder at Pixeltable
Tuesday, July 15, 20254:00 PM - 6:00 PMFoundations, Seattle, WA
AI Agents
Multimodal
Production
Infrastructure

Pierre demonstrated how to build AI agents that process documents, images, videos, and audio using declarative syntax, without writing thousands of lines of orchestration code.

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Shan HuangCofounder and CTO at FlickBloom
Wednesday, June 18, 202512:00 PM - 1:00 PMFoundations, Seattle, WA
AI Agent
MCP
Vibe Coding
CTO

Shan shared insights on architecting AI agents and building scalable AI systems from a technical founder's perspective.

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