Session 002
New format: short presentations, then a moderated open floor on a timer. Three presenters, one live experiment, and the debate that decided how this library gets shared. Recorded in full; the chapters jump the player.
Chapters
Doors open
The room fills. An accountant, a lawyer, and a branding guy argue about which of their industries is the least sexy.
New House Rules and a New Format Colton Mulligan
The room opens early, entry closes, no bots, everything is recorded. Short presentations first, then an open floor where the chat picks the topics and a timer keeps them honest.
Salt Air Jeff Schneider
The not-sexy stuff that makes AI-written code safe to ship: markdown rules the agent must follow, phased tests, and every deploy landing in the company's own Azure account so nothing lives on one laptop. Plus a hospital benchmarking tool built on public Census data.
The Public Repo and Your House-Guest Page Colton Mulligan
How the shared repo works: every guest gets a page, edits it by pull request, and a human vets what goes in. The handwriting-OCR story, the domain habit, and a request: type your biggest AI problem into the chat.
Compound Engineering Jay Graves
Brainstorm, plan, execute, and write the lessons back into the repo. Four months in, a three-person team stopped drifting. The plugin is open source and linked from Jay's page.
The Degrading-Offer Timer and Is This A Business? Colton Mulligan
A business-partner pitch site where the offered percentage shrinks every second the partner waits. Then the public experiment with Brad Montague: prototype businesses live, buy the domain, chase the first dollar, film all of it.
What Should We Even Automate? Jay Graves
Jay's question to the room: how do you decide which habitual tasks deserve automation, and can an AI give you the tough love to stop doing the rest?
The Chief of Staff and the Agent Bench Mark Scrivner
Specialist agents for social voice, creative direction, acquisitions, sales plans, and audits, with a chief-of-staff agent dispatching to them. Morning and afternoon briefs off Outlook that got him to inbox zero, and culture-index profiles so each agent writes to its reader.
The SDR Agent and a Tagged Repo Mark Scrivner and Colton Mulligan
An SDR agent that finds prospects and writes outreach so well it booked more meetings than the calendar could hold. Then Colton walks through the categorized, tagged repo his own Claude runs from, and offers to package and scrub it for the room.
Open or Gated? The Repo Debate Jim West and the room
Public and scrapeable, or password-protected for EO only? Jim's point carried: most public skill files are junk, so a trusted, vetted shelf is the whole value. Colton takes the legal question to Chris. The recording ends mid-debate; the decision is on the homepage.
Who was in the room
What got shared
Every presenter's page carries their stack card and the piece they left behind. Where a guest has not signed off on the artifact yet, the page says "Pending approval of past house guest" instead of guessing.