Agentic VC Dojo · Launch Session
Why we're building this, what we'll cover, and who it's for. Bring your real-world AI experiments, or your nascent ideas — we'll workshop them together.
The kickoff session for the Agentic VC Dojo.
We'll set the table for the year:
what "agentic" AI, or any kind of AI, can reasonably tackle.
how to best set up, configure, and use AI Tools, from basic through technical
how to evaluate and select the right tools for your workflows, expensive through free.
how to manage costs, personal and firm-level
the practices we've seen work (and the ones we've seen fail),
and how members can apply AI and Agents in a VC firm context.
Format
| Time | Segment | What happens |
| 5 min | Framing | The "Dojo" concept, goals, and structure |
| 20 min | Inspiration Set | Four "speed demos" (5 min each) from guests and a Kauffman Fellow |
| 5 min | Polling & Backchannel | Live polls and backchannel discussion |
| 20 min | Town Hall | Bring an AI workflow you're trying to operationalize, or ideas and hunches to discuss |
| 10 min | Q&A + Next Steps | Open Q&A, nail down follow-up actions, and next steps for our Dojo community |
Who this is for
VCs from analyst to partner, Kauffman Fellows of course. No prior AI experience required. From "I use Chat GPT to write emails" to "I'm building an AI-powered investment assistant" — everyone is welcome.
You'll get more out of the sessions if you come with a real workflow you're trying to improve, but pure observers are welcome too.
We are kicking off a skill-based “peer learning” series on implementing AI Agents to help with Venture Workflows. Will be a “Dojo” series — interested folks can participate, contribute, and enhance concrete skills over time.
20m: An Inspiration Set: four “speed demos” (5min each)
3 guests and one Kauffman Fellow that have seen a small breakthrough in one of the many venture workflows we all drown in —-Intake forms processing and data augmentation, from OpenClaw into Notion
Portfolio news monitoring,
Executive Assistant Agents with context improvements (for email and scheduling),
Investment memo generation.
The remainder of the time will be polls, discussion, and collaboratively developing tracks for further program development.
There will be a follow up at end of May to demo any work that came out of this session, and continue the iteration cycles.
Assuming all goes well, we will try to hold the Agentic VC Dojo the last Wed of every month.
Smaller teams and emerging managers, as well as anyone burdened with more work than they can handle, should benefit. If you don't have management fees to spend, or don't control them, hiring for challenges like these are not an option.
One day, maybe we can step off the rollercoaster between crushing it and burning out.
Hope we give everyone a few AI superpowers.
See you then,
Michael Staton & Emily McMath