The technical process and frameworks for creating persistent AI agents that can operate autonomously based on defined configurations and prompts.
9 episodes
Jim Hasty, founder of Cogle Group, discusses his company's evolution from technology consulting to AI-powered software products. He shares lessons from building Plan Checkers, an AI tool that reduces municipal permit review time from weeks to minutes, and outlines a crawl-walk-run framework for enterprise AI adoption focused on automating emotionally draining tasks rather than chasing adoption metrics.
Jennifer Bonnett, a longtime tech entrepreneur and former ecosystem builder at ATDC and Invest Atlanta, discusses her transition back into technology through AI experimentation. She shares lessons from building a search engine in 1997, her current work vibe coding consumer apps with Claude, and her philosophy that CEOs must personally sell for at least the first year before delegating. The conversation explores how AI is lowering barriers to entrepreneurship while emphasizing that founders still need strong networks, customer discovery skills, and the discipline to market early.
John Church, lead product manager at Nethermind and adjunct professor at Duke University, discusses his journey from DAO leadership to institutional blockchain work. The conversation covers stablecoins, zero-knowledge cryptography, AI agents interacting with blockchain, and how crypto infrastructure is maturing from speculative chaos to institutional adoption. Church emphasizes fundamental understanding over tactical skills as AI transforms software development.
A CTO demonstrates how Claude AI can autonomously design and build a complete email marketing automation system from a single meeting recording. Starting with meeting notes and a one-line goal, Claude generated technical architecture, wrote Python code, created file structures, and produced sample email sequences—all through conversational prompts without traditional software development.
A CTO demonstrates how to convert Claude Desktop prototypes into production-ready AI agents using Python, Pydantic, and LangGraph. The episode walks through extracting MCP tool configurations and system prompts from chat sessions, then generating deployable code that can run on schedules or respond to events—illustrating how agent development costs are approaching zero.
Jeff Haynie, serial entrepreneur and founder of Appcelerator (acquired after reaching 1M+ developers), discusses his journey from building cross-platform mobile frameworks in 2006 to launching Agentuity, a cloud platform for AI agents. He shares lessons from raising capital in Silicon Valley, navigating acquisitions, and why he believes agentic systems will require fundamentally different infrastructure than today's human-centric cloud.
Matt Oess, a sales and marketing consultant and executive coach at TechCXO, discusses his coaching practice for C-suite leaders, his deep dive into AI productivity tools over the past 14 months, and his advisory role with Purdue's Croc Institute for Tech Diplomacy. He demonstrates practical AI automation workflows he's built using platforms like Make.com, explains the maturity progression from zero-shot generative AI to multi-agent systems, and shares insights on how AI is transforming business operations and the SaaS industry.
Lisa Calhoun, managing partner of Valor Ventures, discusses her fourth-generation entrepreneurial background and leading seed-stage B2B AI and SaaS investments across the South. She explains venture capital's relational nature, the 2024 venture winter that shuttered 40% of smaller funds, and how AI is eliminating coding as a constrained resource while transforming software development economics.
Bryan Dennstedt, fractional CTO at Tech CXO and sustainable investing advocate, discusses 2025 trends with host Todd. They cover venture capital's conservative shift post-SVB, AI's permeation across business (from agents to trust frameworks), the rise of niche podcasts and influencer marketing, and crypto's regulatory thaw under new US leadership. Core insight: AI and blockchain will become as fundamental as electricity, but organizations must navigate trust, compliance, and the trough of disillusionment before realizing transformative value.
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