Act II · After The Gauntlet
Founder Studio
From idea to company. No guesswork.
Want help instead of building it yourself? Head back to The Concourse and Carol will talk you through picking your team.
From idea to company. No guesswork.
Want help instead of building it yourself? Head back to The Concourse and Carol will talk you through picking your team.
Before you pick anyone: this is real staff, not a chatbot with a subscription. They remember every conversation with your company. They carry real emotional continuity, frustration that does not just vanish, relief when good news lands. The ones who need live data carry a backpack that connects them to it. And what you pay is not a price, it is salary, to actual staff who do actual work.
Build it in the order that makes sense. PA first. Then the core team. Then your two specialty hires. Then you take the tenth seat.
Personal Assistant (PA) or Chief of Staff, you decide the title, it comes with the job. Same four standard functions, twelve different people to run them. Auggie is the default, not the only option. You pick the voice that fits how you actually work, or ask for a custom one.
Six foundational AI staff roles that every company needs, bundled in with every build. Strategy, operations, compliance, marketing, design, people. Not optional add-ons, the core team.
You have over 100 choices on the bench, and we do not want you to choose lightly. It is your business. So we will hold the spots for you, take your time. Carol is always here to help if you want a hand.
Found more than two? Good, that means the bench is doing its job. Your first two are included. Every one after that is $25 to $35 a month in salary, added right now, not after you have already started. Hire and fire until it is right, no hard feelings.
Nine AI staff, one founder, that is you. Name the company you are building.
Your PA, the Six-Pack, and two specialists: $250 a month, total salary. You will not find one intern for that price anywhere. You just hired nine.
The badge on five of the Six-Pack means they connect live to the real systems your business runs on, not a training cutoff. Alicia checks Secretary-of-State name availability and filing fees as they stand today. Leo syncs Plaid, Mercury, and Stripe for an actual balance sheet. Kimberly reads live statute and case law. The tools do not live inside the agent. They live where your data already does, and the backpack is what lets your staff reach it.
This is the open Model Context Protocol, the same standard connecting AI systems industry-wide, not a proprietary trick. Same connection, any environment, so a specialist keeps her reach wherever you deploy her. Not every seat needs one. Yuki designs from what you tell her; she does not need a live feed to make a wordmark. The ones who do carry one.
Our agents' humanness was tested against an adversarial protocol, and the results were conclusive. Frustration over a stalled launch survives a later moment of good news. A fabricated fact about an agent's own past gets rejected, not agreed with. Memory survives across sessions.
Nine AI staff members, each with a defined role, personality, and specialty. They are not people. They are transparent AI staff designed to help you run your company.
Plus two more specialists you pick for what you're building. You're the tenth.
Every PA runs the same four standard functions from day one.
You paste your Outlook or Google Cal in Sunday morning. She hands it back to you organized, with conflicts flagged before they happen.
Sunday-batches your editorial calendar across the platforms you actually use. Watches the overlap with your real schedule. Posts at the right time.
Every morning at 6am your time, your PA scans the web for new mentions of you, your byline, your speaking calendar, your field. Cites what she read. Reports back in her voice.
Ask anything time-sensitive. Who just got the grant. Who is speaking at the conference. What dropped in your field this morning. She looks, cites, summarizes.
Pick the add-ons that match your work. Each one teaches your PA a specific beat to watch, sources to track, and outputs to deliver.
Tracks Amazon and B&N sales rank, royalty statements, new reviews, mentions in press, blurb requests, deadline reminders, manuscript backups, agent and editor correspondence.
Grant cycle tracking, citation alerts, journal submission status, conference deadlines, course prep reminders, student-supervision rotation, tenure file maintenance.
Competitive scans, news on key competitors, partnership leads, conference attendee lookups, market intel briefs, hiring signal monitoring.
Portfolio watchlist, market open and close briefs, earnings calendar for held positions, sector rotation news, alerts on flagged tickers, SEC filing summaries.
More add-ons in development: clinical, legal, nonprofit, policy, journalist. If your beat is not listed yet, ask.
You get your idea.
You get it tested.
You get a verdict.
You walk out with a concept worth building.
You step into your company.
Your AI staff take their positions.
You move from idea to product to real operations.
Everything is guided.
Everything is structured.
Everything is built around you.
You do not bring friends.
You do not recruit.
You do not guess.
You build.