AI Builders Co-work + The Stage: Building Past Demos
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Friday is our open co-working day.
Friday is our open co-working day. Arrive anytime from 10AM — bring your laptop, grab any open seat, stay as long as you like.
Most people show up after lunch and settle in before The Stage. It's quiet, focused, and builder- and founder-led.
The Stage @ 1.30pm
Topic: Building past demos: Agentic engineering patterns for Brownfield Systems
Hrishi Olickel · CEO, Southbridge.ai (formerly YC W21)
Hrishi runs Southbridge.ai, where he's spent the last year building long-horizon data agents for healthcare, research and finance — the kind of places where an agent that's flaky 5% of the time isn't an agent, it's a liability. He writes at olickel.com when he's not shipping.
Most AI demos look great and fall apart the moment real data shows up. Hrishi's sharing what he's learned about engineering agents that hold up past the greenfield honeymoon — the patterns that make them repeatable, dependable, and actually usable after 0 to 1. You'll leave knowing what breaks next, and how to build for it from day one.
Hrishi writes at olickel.com
After the session, we go back to work