Weekly AI Founder Mastermind

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).