Insightful
9.1Apr 29→9.6/ 10May 27
Agentic VC Dojo · Monthly All-Hands
Dealflow into Second Brains
Wednesday · June 24, 2026 · 9:00 AM PT
Marcus Brotman · Toby Rush · Michael StatonLaunch · Ideem · FullStack VC
In partnership with Kauffman Fellows · register →↓ to start
This month's theme
Get the front of the funnel into a brain that compounds.
Intake forms, inbound, sourcing notes, founder calls — into a system that grows sharper instead of rotting in an inbox.
Capture once, reuse everywhereOpenClaw does the routingNotion / Obsidian hold the memory
Two sessions surveyed · the trajectory
The room is getting more satisfied, not less.
April 29 launch → May 27 all-hands. Every measure moved up.
Would recommend
9.0Apr 29→9.6/ 10May 27
NPS
+75Apr 29→+100May 27
Sample: 8 respondents in April · 5 in May. Small rooms — directional, not statistical. NPS hit a perfect +100 in May (every respondent a promoter).
From last session · May 27
What this room said when the camera was off
5 attendees answered the post-session survey. Below: the numbers, the highlights, and the one piece of feedback we're acting on.
- 9.6/ 10InsightfulMedian 10 · range 9-10 · n=5
- 9.6/ 10Would recommend to other FellowsMedian 10 · range 9-10 · n=5
- +100NPS5 promoters · 0 passives · 0 detractors
Highlights
"This group is amazing and going to save my life."
"Great session! Very practical. Amazing how Michael, Jules and Toby prepared a bunch of materials to share."
"Walked away with a couple new tools and tactics."
Getting better
We surface every piece of pointed feedback alongside the change it triggers. No defensive footnotes.
"Some of the conversation was over my head. Still good to be part of the conversation and be exposed."
Our response:Signal for an explicit on-ramp / beginner track. Add a clearly-labeled "start here" thread and a non-technical glossary so newcomers can stay oriented when the room goes deep.
You asked · May 27 poll
You told us what to set up.
Voices from the survey
What the room wants to set up together
Free-response asks from last session's Setupathon poll. Anonymized.
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Hermes — maybe.
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MCP servers wiring Claude into the VC stack — Affinity / Notion / Drive — so I can query deal flow, GP pipeline, and LP CRM live. Painful to configure alone, transformative once it works.
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Yes — all of the above, especially the moral support. We don’t use Claude or Chrome; we run on CoPilot and 365, and we don’t have Pitchbook / TechCrunch / other data subscriptions.
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Is there a recording or FAQ you’d recommend for a nanoclaw install? OpenClaw seems like overkill and not safe. And is there a recording of the last Setupathon?
You asked · and today answers part of it
"Where do I even start?" · "Diligence + portfolio tracking."
Voices from the survey
What the room is curious to see live
Today's three demos — and the from-scratch primer to close — speak directly to these.
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There’s so much information about AI in VC that I don’t even know where to start (as a non-engineer / non-technical person).
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The Anthropic / Goldman “forward-deployed engineer” model applied inside an emerging manager’s ops — what actually changes in a 2-person GP’s weekly workflow.
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Most of our research is phone calls with experts. I’d love to learn how to use this for diligence and portfolio tracking.
The network
56 firms, two sessions in — and growing.
In the room
56 firms already on the registrant list
Funds, family offices, and operator-led shops — early-stage to growth, North America to MENA to LATAM to SE Asia.
- 468 Capital
- 53 Stations
- Acasia Ventures
- Aire Labs
- Alexia VC
- Alpha JWC Ventures
- Amplifica Capital
- Atlantica Ventures
- Audaz Capital
- Blueprint
- Cherry Rock Capital
- Cometa
- Corner Ventures
- Cortado Ventures
- Defined VC
- Determined Capital
- Domo Invest
- Domo VC
- DPI
- Enza Capital
- Feature VC
- FirstMark
- FJ Labs
- Garage Capital
- Genoa Ventures
- Glitch Capital
- Hi.VC
- HQ Capital
- iMena
- Invest2Innovate
- Iolar Ventures
- Josi Health
- Kauffman Fellows
- KB Partners
- Last Mile Ventures
- LoftyInc
- Lytical Ventures
- M25 Ventures
- Medici Capital
- Mercury Fund
- MGV
- Monashees×2
- Motley Fool Ventures×2
- Nido VC
- Notion Capital
- Novel Capital
- Novel GP
- Prose Ventures
- Prysm Capital
- Seedstars
- Soundboard Venture Fund
- Tribe Capital
- Voyager VC
- Walking VC
- Wild Basin Investments
- WVV Capital
Repeat-attender firms are the strongest signal we're building something worth coming back to.
How the next 60 minutes work
Six steps · ~60 minutes
- 01Dojo convening + framing5m
- 02Account setup & polls orientation5m
- 03Two lightning demos — Marcus, Toby20m
- 04Markdown second-brain primer — Michael10m
- 05Live polls5m
- 06Town hall — bring a dealflow-capture workflow — + Q&A15m
Quick precursor · before the polls
Please create your account and log in.
Two minutes. Unlocks Stacks, Polls, Working Groups & Projects — plus what we haven't cooked up yet.
Stacks
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 →Polls
Agent / AI + web app = better info, unlocks possibilities. Plus, looks cool.
Working Groups & Projects
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 →Sign in with
- Google Workspacemost VCs have one
- LinkedInsame as everywhere else
- GitHubif no account → get one anyway
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.
Lightning demo · 1 of 3
Intake → Notion for deal-pipeline insight
Capture the deal at the door, structure it, surface it for the whole firm.
Marcus Brotman
Launch
Intake forms catch the deal. OpenClaw augments + structures the raw submission. Notion becomes the living pipeline everyone on the team actually reads.
Lightning demo · 2 of 3
Everything funnels into one second brain
A personal-automation stack: capture from everywhere, synthesize, self-host.
Toby Rush
Ideem · Founder & CEO
Voice memos, links, files, even WhatsApp + iMessage threads get captured automatically — an iOS shortcut and a nightly sweep push it all to OpenClaw agents that synthesize and file into Obsidian + a shared Drive. Meeting notes arrive via an open-source Granola; Telegram is the agent's command line. And he runs the whole thing himself — a secured, self-hosted OpenClaw for him and one for each of his kids.
Closing primer · 3 of 3
Obsidian & Markdown Notebooks for Dummies
If the first two looked intimidating — here's how to start from zero.
Michael Staton
FullStack VC · Agent Conductor
What a markdown second brain actually is, why plain text + links beats a database for durable memory, and how to stand one up this week.
Town hall · the working part
Bring a dealflow-capture workflow you're wrestling with.
Where does your front-of-funnel leak? Let's troubleshoot it live, with the room.
- AWhat you capture today — and where it goes to die
- BNotion or Obsidian — which fits your team's reality?
- COne thing you'll wire up before July's all-hands
Thanks for being in the room
Capture once. Let it compound.
This is how the dojo gets sharper.
Today — Wednesday · June 24, 2026 · Dealflow into Second Brains
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