+39
Registered for today
May 27 · 4 individuals returning from April
Agentic VC Dojo · Monthly All-Hands
Wednesday · May 27, 2026 · 9:00 AM PT
The Dojo
Two Kauffman Fellows share what they've been building, breaking, and learning.
Pre-session signals · two sessions in
April 29 set the baseline. May 27 builds on it.
Who's already in the room
+39
Registered for today
May 27 · 4 individuals returning from April
+19
New firms in May
8 firms returning from April
56
Firms across both sessions
29 April-only · 19 May-only · 8 in both
Where the room sits today
40 registrants answered. Multi-select on the experience question, single-pick per tier on tools.
What this room wants
Voices from the survey
Best practices for a solo GP to get 80% there with 20% effort.
Understanding output quality — that's what's lacking for me right now.
Architecture, tools, and best practices for getting the structure set up in a secure and effective way.
Would love to see what others are doing for fundraising.
Voices from the survey
Concrete workflows in flight. Anonymized.
Automating the horrible parts of being an emerging manager. Maybe we should create a Kauffman toolset.
An agentic VC stack for diligence, fund reporting, admin and portfolio support.
End-to-end automations across sourcing, screening, follow-ups, and internal evaluation — with AI summarizing calls, extracting key insights, and keeping deal-flow data organized. The goal: less manual overhead, more consistency, a more responsive investment process.
Exploring an "agent-powered autonomous startup" — 4–5 PhD-level agents doing the research, as an experiment.
Automating the grunt work: top-of-funnel curation, deep market research, market maps.
Simple integrations across our CRM and enrichment tools to manage dealflow — plus an agentic workflow that scores each deal for prioritization.
Trying to combine various personal workflows so the whole organization can use them.
Agentic workflows for deal triaging, due diligence, and memo creation.
We've built a basic IR/fundraising engine and audit/accounting support — game-changing for us. Co-pilot enterprise for MS integration and email; Claude Team for most everything else. On a 1–10 scale, we're still a 3–4.
The network
In the room
Funds, family offices, and operator-led shops — early-stage to growth, North America to MENA to LATAM to SE Asia.
Repeat-attender firms are the strongest signal we're building something worth coming back to.
How the next 60 minutes work
Quick precursor · before the polls
Two minutes. Unlocks Stacks, Polls, Working Groups & Projects — plus what we haven't cooked up yet.
Want to explore a new tool? See who's actively using it. See who's archived it. Find someone else with the same interest.
/stacks →Agent / AI + web app = better info, unlocks possibilities. Plus, looks cool.
Browse strawmen. Enlist in something that resonates. Propose your own. The dojo runs on emergent cooperation.
All current listings are strawmen. Green / Active = Michael will convene if no one else has time. The rest are ideas looking for a facilitator.
/working-groups → /projects →Top-right → Log in → pick a provider → done.
Data will never be used for any reason other than better curating experiences for the Dojo.
Not a company — just an initiative for the Dojo. see Michael's Stack → Vibe-coded with Claude Code + Pi.dev. Glitches are par for the course; we fix them once Claude explains them to us.
Pulse · before the breakouts
LPs want it. Most firms aren't running the process. Where do you actually land?
Snapshot Numbers shown are the seeded baseline from registration. Live votes are on the session page — vote on the live poll →
Three breakout tracks
Three obstacles, three breakouts. Pick the one closest to your operating reality.
Lightning demo · 1 of 2
Cortado Ventures — two angles on one stack.
Cortado Ventures
Starting with Claude Team, better housekeeping for agents, and speeding up LP DDQs.
Cortado Ventures
Claude Teams for fundraising, admin, and audit superpowers.
Lightning demo · 2 of 2
A founder's deal-flow brain, wired to live company signals.
Ideem · Founder & CEO
Companies arrive (intake, news, intros). OpenClaw ingests + classifies + routes. Obsidian holds the durable memory — notes, links, the watch list.
Breakout track · 1 of 3
"I have to get others on my team on board."
You have to prepare, socialize, get on the IC agenda, present your take, and prove this is "our" kind of deal. The work between your yes and the firm's yes.
Breakout track · 2 of 3
"I'm a smaller check that needs to come in alongside a powerful syndicate."
The founder has the round half-circled. You need to make sure the company will have value-add investors alongside you — without burning your relationships or your time.
Breakout track · 3 of 3
"Good size check, syndicate solves itself. But my LPs want co-invest opportunities."
Get the opportunity to LPs in a way they can digest. Keep them primed for opportunities that move faster than their normal deciding-clock. SPV mechanics, comms cadence, soft pre-circling.
The discussion rail
12 minutes per group. Treat the questions as a rail, not a march.
Q5 · the closing question
Between now and the last Wednesday in June (June 24) — dig in, or hear back?
Both answers are real answers. "Hear back" is not opting out; it's opting into the audience and watching what the doer cohort builds.
Doer cohort. Presents what you built on June 24.
Audience cohort. Sees the results on June 24.
See you on June 24
This is how the dojo gets sharper.
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