Concord AI Lab: The Agentic Home Lab: Building a Production-Ready AI Playground

🧠 Concord AI Lab: The Agentic Home Lab: Building a Production-Ready AI Playground

What does it look like when a developer stops babysitting AI agents and actually lets them work? Lucas Ward will walk us through his basement-powered home lab, a Kubernetes-based platform built specifically to give AI agents the tools, guardrails, and context they need to execute real work autonomously.

Lucas has built an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline ecosystem designed for experimentation that's production-ready by default, not as an afterthought. He'll share how he uses OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Codex in distinct roles, how RAG services help agents get up to speed across different sessions and contexts, and how he benchmarks models against real-world tasks (not just leaderboard metrics).

If you've ever wondered what a disciplined, self-hosted agentic workflow actually looks like in practice, this one's for you.

What You'll Take Away:

• Why strict guardrails make AI more capable, not less
• How to architect an environment where agents can work without constant hand-holding
• A practical look at running multiple AI tools in coordinated, specialized roles
• Insights on benchmarking models against tasks that actually matter

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🍕 What to Expect
• BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch)
• Live demos & hands-on workflows
• Collaborative atmosphere with room for questions, experiments, and feedback

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👥 Who’s It For?
Tech folks, indie hackers, marketers, creatives (writers, designers, video editors), and startup founders—anyone working with or curious about AI tooling and automation.

You don’t have to be an expert—just bring your curiosity (and your laptop if you want to build along).

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Let’s turn big ideas into real tools—together.
Join us every 3rd Tuesday at Flywheel Cowork.

Sponsors

• FocalGroove provides groovy marketing and facilitation.
• Special thanks to Flywheel Coworking for providing our meeting space in their fantastic Concord facility!