2026-06-01
Building AI-native Startups
Daniel (Co-founder + CEO, Improvado) · Will Schenk (Founder, Focus AI) · Artemii Novoselov (Founder, Forcyn) · Kevin Simback (Co-founder + COO, Delphi Labs)
Key takeaways
- Four real production setups, live on screen. No pitches, no slides — just demos of how each founder's AI-native company actually runs day to day.
- One of these shapes maps onto yours. A 90-person company (Daniel / Improvado), a consultancy juggling 150 repos (Will / the Focus AI), a solo operator running five businesses (Artemii / Forcyn), and a venture studio across a portfolio (Kevin / Delphi Labs). Pick the closest and lift the pattern.
- Watch agents self-improve overnight. Artemii's voice memos get sharper while he sleeps. Will's hard-won project lessons auto-promote into a company-wide Standards repo. Both are reusable blueprints, not theory.
- Four flavors of the same knowledge-layer idea. Ontology + Clickhouse, Habitats + Standards, Rust Wiki-graph, Obsidian vault — same principle, four formats, each explained in enough detail to rebuild.
Case studies discussed
Packaging startup advisory into an agent-agnostic 'second brain' skill pack
How a venture studio made its high-touch zero-to-one advisory repeatable: an Obsidian second brain feeding agent-agnostic workflows and an advisor portal with a skill pack across seven disciplines.
A self-building knowledge graph with a GAN-style overnight self-improvement loop
How parallel research agents extract atomic facts into a vector-search-free knowledge graph, and an overnight generator/discriminator loop with self-written rubrics improves voice, email, and skills
A multi-agent command center that turns session traces into company knowledge
How a small studio runs agents across ~150 repos from a keyboard-driven Cmux workstation, propagates best practices with a 'standards' repo, and mines agent session traces into reusable team skills.
The one-prompt company: running sales & marketing from a knowledge graph
How Improvado turned its entire sales/marketing stack into one company knowledge graph so agents run ICP discovery, sales-script generation, and multi-channel campaigns from a single prompt.