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Weekly AI Founder Mastermind
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Weekly AI Founder Mastermind
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THU OCT 8 · 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.
What happened · 11 on the call
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Overview
Ryan hosted the first Weekly AI Founder Mastermind, a 30-minute call for members at $1M+ ARR. Lounge.ai, the community platform the call runs on, was built in six days with Claude.
Lounge so far
- 55 members in the community
- Member directory, city map, AI meetups, news, videos, deals, investor contacts and the ARR leaderboard
- New features ship in about 30 minutes with Claude
What each founder is building with AI
- Emeric Ernoult (Agorapulse, Archie): rebuilding social media management around AI-first content creation; also built an internal operating system based on his book.
- Chason Hecht (Retensa, TalentPulse): retention prediction at 91% accuracy across 59 countries; just launched Raya, an interactive voice agent for HR.
- Oliver Schmalholz (ListKit): cold email platform; 5 to 10x engineering output after cutting two-thirds of the team; AI-first since early this year.
- Steve Behrisch (OnRes): hotel software moving into AI operational intelligence; building internal tools instead of renting third-party software.
- Ron Laughton (ReviewInc): 15-year-old online visibility company; AI-ifying a legacy codebase rapidly.
- Feyzi Fatehi (Corent, AiFY): a tool that AI-ifies any SaaS in one to two weeks; also building channel and reseller enablement.
- David Trachsel (SaasRise): AI for digital ads, social creatives and reporting automation; building a company brain.
- Cristian Frunze (Ken.so): cold email agency; received a couple million dollars of Anthropic credits this week.
- Alfred Certain (Audara): B2B SaaS for CX, combining AI agents with human expertise; launching Audara Labs for vertical-specific AI solutions.
- Raz Choudhury (Sam.ai): go-to-market platform since 2016; rebuilt from scratch with Claude after a major pivot.
Next week
Topics proposed for the Oct 15 call: go-to-market, AI agents, turning a legacy codebase into an AI question-and-answer UI (including data security and how the AI reaches the data), sharing AI best practices, and how to monetize AI inside your app (tokens, requests, seats or outcomes).
Who was there
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Alfred Certain · CEO & Co-Founder, Audara
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Chason Hecht · CEO, Retensa Employee Retention
@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…
@emericEmeric Ernoult · Founder & CEO, Archie
Emeric Ernoult is the co-founder and CEO of Agorapulse, a Paris-based company that makes social media management software. Agorapulse is now building Archie, an AI tool that turns a person's expertise and everyday conversations into on-brand posts for LinkedIn, Instagram and…
@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…
@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…
@razRaz Choudhury · Founder & CEO, Sam.ai
Raz Choudhury is the co-founder and CEO of Sam.ai, a New York company that builds an AI prospecting platform for B2B sales, commercial real estate and recruitment teams, using warm introductions and intent signals to help them find prospects and book meetings. Raz began his…
@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…