James Fredley : Agentic Engineering Entrepreneurship

James is coming in person from North Carolina

• 6pm Pizza
• 6:30 Presentation
• 7:15 Group Discussion
• 7:45 Door prizes

Agentic Engineering Entrepreneurship

What used to take a team of 10, 20, or 100 now takes one engineer, a stack of AI agents, and a few hundred dollars a month. The question is no longer whether the leverage is real — it's who's positioned to capture it.
Serial entrepreneur James Fredley (five-time founder, 9-figure exit with FilterEasy/Second Nature, VP & Chair of the Apache Grails PMC) makes the case that experienced engineers — not prompt hobbyists — win this moment. Taste, architecture, verification instinct, and business context are now the scarce skills, and agents multiply them. You'll watch the full workflow live with OpenCode: broad questions → structured plans → multi-model implementation → tight verification loops that produce durable software, not vibe-coded debt.
Bring a real problem. You'll leave with concrete steps to put an agent on it — tonight.

James Fredley is the founder and CEO of Triumph Interactive, with over 28 years across startups, software engineering, and digital marketing, James has helped manage more than $1 billion in cumulative revenue - taking multiple companies from little or no revenue to seven, eight, and nine figures. The throughline is integration: he ships the custom software, instruments the analytics, and runs the conversion-focused growth marketing as one accountable engagement.

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