2026-06-01
Building AI-Native Startups [001]
Will Schenk (Founder, The Focus AI) · Artemii Novoselov (Founder, Forecyn)
Key takeaways
- Two 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 consultancy juggling 150 repos (Will / The Focus AI), and a solo operator running five businesses (Artemii / Forecyn). 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.
- Two flavors of the same knowledge-layer idea. Ontology + Clickhouse, Habitats + Standards, Rust Wiki-graph, Obsidian vault — same principle, two formats, each explained in enough detail to rebuild.
Case studies discussed
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.