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Weekly AI Founder Mastermind
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Weekly AI Founder Mastermind
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THU OCT 15 · 11:00 AM CT
Our weekly 30-minute member mastermind to share what we're learning that week building with AI. Bring one thing that worked, one thing that didn't, and one question for the room. Every member — free and paid — is invited.
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Overview
A 25-minute peer mastermind for members at $1M+ ARR and paying Lounge members. Lounge is now at about 400 members.
Topic 1: AI go-to-market
- Ricardo Ghekiere (Founder, Patricia.app) is running a campaign built on fully AI-generated pages and outreach to host dinners in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Utrecht for agency owners (10 to 30 people). When an attendee confirms, their face is auto-cropped and added to the event page.
- Tom Regan (Founder & CEO, ArtemisGTM.ai) runs swarms of custom Claude-based agents from the terminal to build outbound GTM systems. They stack signals (funding, hiring), prioritize ICPs, and write personalized multi-channel sequences (email, LinkedIn, cold call) using Liquid syntax. The swarm cut a 20-hour target account list build to 4 hours.
- Tom uses Amplemarket as his main data provider: built-in waterfall enrichment, real-time email verification (near 0% bounce) and 80 to 90% mobile number accuracy.
- Ryan Allis (CEO, AI Lounge & SaasRise) shared that Lounge grew from 0 to 385 members in 10 days on 14,000 emails (33% open rate, 4.9% click rate), sourcing members from GitHub, Hugging Face, YC and LinkedIn. SEO/AEO, cold email and affiliates are the core growth stack.
Topic 2: Rebuilding legacy SaaS apps
- Ron Laughton (Founder & CEO, ReviewInc) upgraded Bootstrap 4 to 5 in one day and built an AI assistant that generates and updates the markdown documentation automatically.
- Chris Brisson (Co-Founder & CEO, Salesmsg) uses Claude Design to prototype UI pixel-perfectly before handing it to developers.
- Oliver Schmalholz (Chief AI Builder & Co-Founder, ListKit) rewrote 3.5 years of code in about 90 days on Cloudflare, cutting operating costs by 80% and raising throughput 5x.
- Bruno Goulet (Founder & CEO, Biztree / Business in a Box) went from 35 developers to AI-driven rebuilds, handing the full repo to Claude to modernize the stack across 14 apps.
Who was there
@andreiAndrei Stefan · CEO, Vitals
Andrei Stefan is the co-founder and CEO of Vitals, a Shopify app that gives online merchants more than 40 conversion tools in one subscription. He started the company from Bucharest in 2017 after studying at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and Tekpon named him…
@bobdBob Drobish · Founder and CEO, Recon InfoSec
Bob Drobish is the co-founder and CEO of Recon InfoSec, an Austin-based managed detection and response company. It helps organizations of all sizes improve their security, including through outsourced cybersecurity partnerships for small and medium businesses. Before Recon,…
@brad007Brad Malcolm · co-founder & CEO, EyeQ
Brad Malcolm is co-founder, President and CEO of EyeQ, a Calgary company whose Perfectly Clear technology automatically corrects and enhances photos and videos for businesses. Brad began his career in corporate tax accounting at Ernst & Young, then left in 2001 to help found…
@brunoaiBruno Goulet · Founder & CEO, Biztree / Business in a Box
Bruno Goulet is the Montreal-based founder and CEO of Business in a Box, a Biztree company that makes business templates and tools for small and medium-sized businesses. He founded Biztree in the early 2000s and has spent more than two decades building Business in a Box,…
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Chason Hecht · CEO, Retensa Employee Retention
@chrisbrissonChris Brisson · Co-Founder & CEO, Salesmsg
Chris Brisson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Salesmsg, a business texting and calling platform that helps sales, marketing and support teams text leads, make calls and automate follow-ups with AI inside their CRM. Before launching Salesmsg in 2017, Chris co-founded Call Loop, a…
@cristianCristian Frunze · Founder, Ken
Cristian Frunze is the founder of Ken, which runs done-for-you email and LinkedIn outreach for B2B companies and handles lists, copy, deliverability and sending on its own platform. Before Ken, Cristian built Smart Course, an eLearning platform in Romania that reached 50,000…
@davidDavid Trachsel · Head of Growth, SaasRise
David Trachsel is Head of Growth at SaasRise, a community for SaaS CEOs, and is based in St. Petersburg. Before joining SaasRise, he held marketing roles at Netrix Global, The SSL Store and Affiliate Nation. His work has focused on digital marketing, paid social and product…
@feyzifatehiFeyzi Fatehi · CEO, Corent Technology, Inc.
Feyzi Fatehi is Chairman and CEO of Corent Technology, Inc., an Aliso Viejo company whose AI-driven platform helps system integrators and software makers with cloud migration, modernization, FinOps and SaaS delivery. Before Corent, Feyzi spent years building teams at HP and…
@ishayIshay Tentser · Founder, TimelinesAI
Ishay Tentser is the co-founder and CEO of TimelinesAI, a remote company whose product connects teams' WhatsApp accounts to their CRMs and automates their messaging. Before TimelinesAI, Ishay was CEO of Initech Software Services and co-founded Mobile Development Services and…
@james.kennedyJames Kennedy · Founder, ProcurementExpress.com
James Kennedy is the co-founder and CEO of ProcurementExpress.com, a Dublin company that makes audit-ready purchase order software for organizations funded by federal, state and local government grants. James studied computer science at Technological University Dublin and…
@idelsoftLenar Mukhamadiev · Founder, iDelsoft.com
Lenar Mukhamadiev is the founder of iDelsoft, a Tampa-based remote hiring platform that builds engineering teams for startups and small businesses and aims to hire them within 48 hours. Before working full time on iDelsoft, Lenar was a senior software engineer at Spok, where…
@oliverOliver Schmalholz · Chief AI Builder & Co-Founder, ListKit
Oliver Schmalholz is Co-Founder and Chief AI Builder at ListKit, a cold email platform that gives B2B companies and agencies verified leads, inboxes, warmup and sending in one subscription. Before ListKit, Oliver co-founded several companies, including News Quantified and…
@ricardo_ghekiereRicardo Ghekiere · Founder, Patricia.app
Ricardo Ghekiere is the founder of Patricia.app, a Brussels-based company building an AI coworker for small marketing agencies that works inside Slack or Teams and handles client reports, spend alerts, recaps and follow-ups. Before Patricia, he spent about ten years running…
@richturnerRichard Turner · President & Founder, Convergence Data
Richard Turner is President and Founder of Convergence Data, an Orlando company that pairs product information management (PIM) software with data services like taxonomy design for manufacturers. Richard spent much of his earlier career as a consultant helping companies…
@practicebeatRick Cancelliere · Founder and CEO, PracticeBeat
Rick Cancelliere is the Founder and CEO of PracticeBeat, a Pittsburgh company that gives independent medical practices a patient access and engagement platform with tools for appointment scheduling, billing integration and performance analytics. Rick started a healthcare…
@ronlaughtonRon Laughton · Founder & CEO, ReviewInc
Ron Laughton is the founder and CEO of ReviewInc, a Woodland Hills company that makes reputation management software for local businesses. The software tracks reviews on more than 600 sites, helps businesses get new reviews, manages their listings, and helps them show up in…
@ryanallisRyan Allis · CEO, AI Lounge & SaasRise
Building Lounge.ai into the world’s leading mastermind community for AI Founders
@onresSteve Behrisch · President and CEO, OnRes
Steve Behrisch is President and CEO of OnRes, a Vancouver company that makes cloud-based hotel management software, including a property management system and online booking engine, for independent hotels, lodges, resorts and vacation rentals. He leads a company that has…
@timoTimo-Pekka Leinonen · CEO & Co-Founder, Master English
Timo-Pekka Leinonen is CEO and co-founder of Master English, a Tampere-based company whose app helps adults in North, Central and South America as well as in the first markets in Europe to reach the advanced English skill they need for their careers, using AI and personalized…
@artemisgtm.aiTom Regan · Founder & CEO, ArtemisGTM.ai
Before that, Tom was a founding SDR leader at Apollo.io. He is now building Artemis GTM agents for Claude Code and Codex, along with an open GTM revenue audit checklist.