Mastermind recaps

A 25-minute peer mastermind for members at $1M+ ARR and paying Lounge members. Lounge is now at about 400 members.

• Ricardo Ghekiere (Founder, Patricia.app) is running a campaign built on fully AI-generated pages and outreach to host dinners in Amsterdam, Antwerp and Utrecht for agency owners (10 to 30 people). When an attendee confirms, their face is auto-cropped and added to the event page.
• Tom Regan (Founder & CEO, ArtemisGTM.ai) runs swarms of custom Claude-based agents from the terminal to build outbound GTM systems. They stack signals (funding, hiring), prioritize ICPs, and write personalized multi-channel sequences (email, LinkedIn, cold call) using Liquid syntax. The swarm cut a 20-hour target account list build to 4 hours.
• Tom uses Amplemarket as his main data provider: built-in waterfall enrichment, real-time email verification (near 0% bounce) and 80 to 90% mobile number accuracy.
• Ryan Allis (CEO, Lounge.ai) shared that Lounge grew from 0 to 385 members in 10 days on 14,000 emails (33% open rate, 4.9% click rate), sourcing members from GitHub, Hugging Face, YC and LinkedIn. SEO/AEO, cold email and affiliates are the core growth stack.

• Ron Laughton (Founder & CEO, ReviewInc) upgraded Bootstrap 4 to 5 in one day and built an AI assistant that generates and updates the markdown documentation automatically.
• Chris Brisson (Co-Founder & CEO, Salesmsg) uses Claude Design to prototype UI pixel-perfectly before handing it to developers.
• Oliver Schmalholz (Chief AI Builder & Co-Founder, ListKit) rewrote 3.5 years of code in about 90 days on Cloudflare, cutting operating costs by 80% and raising throughput 5x.
• Bruno Goulet (Founder & CEO, Biztree / Business in a Box) went from 35 developers to AI-driven rebuilds, handing the full repo to Claude to modernize the stack across 14 apps.

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.

• 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

• 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.

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).