Your AI Cofounder
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An OCAI × The Ticket 500 working session on Lido Island.
You've heard of Claude Code, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini — but every YouTube tutorial skips the hard part: how do you actually deploy these as a cofounder, not a toy? We're going there.
Stephan Fitzpatrick (founder, Orange County AI) leads a hands-on workshop on building agentic AI helpers that can actually own pieces of your business — drafting, reviewing, automating, scaling — without putting your customers or your data at risk.
What to expect
• A clear-eyed look at where AI agents are useful right now, and where they're still toys
• Live walkthrough of building an agent that does real work — research, content, ops, support
• Guardrails, oversight, and human-in-the-loop patterns that actually keep risk in check
• The tooling stack: which models, which orchestration layer, what to skip
• Open Q&A — bring the bottleneck you actually want to remove from your week
Who should come
• Founders and operators who feel they should "have an AI doing this by now"
• Engineers and tech leads evaluating where to invest agent effort
• CEOs / CTOs of SMBs (10–500) ready to move past chat into real automation
The Ticket 500 is Don DiCostanzo's invite-only entrepreneur space on Lido Island. RSVP is free, but the room is limited and subject to approval — apply via the Free RSVP tier.