Cohort sessions

Raider Roundup

Weekly RaidGuild Raider Roundup for guild updates, coordination, and open discussion. Agenda: - Define the different BD/agent roles, clarify the "threads" terminology overlap, and choose what metric those roles should optimize for. Source agenda thread: https://discord.com/channels/684227450204323876/1496892348582596668/1520926421680128070

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RaidGuild Discord / Raider Roundup

Raider Roundup

Weekly RaidGuild Raider Roundup for guild updates, coordination, and open discussion. Agenda: - Define the different BD/agent roles, clarify the "threads" terminology overlap, and choose what metric those roles should optimize for. Source agenda thread: https://discord.com/channels/684227450204323876/1496892348582596668/1520926421680128070

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RaidGuild Discord / Raider Roundup

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Sara Brown)

Sara Brown joined the June cohort fireside to discuss how AI is being used in digital advertising and programmatic campaign work. The conversation covered AI-assisted targeting, reporting, and cost-efficiency tools across DSPs such as The Trade Desk and Amazon, along with day-to-day uses of Claude and Microsoft Copilot. Sara and Dekan also discussed barriers to broader automation, including first-party data security, walled-garden ad platforms, and the need for human oversight in campaign quality assurance and brand storytelling.

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Travis McCutcheon)

Travis McCutcheon joined the June cohort fireside to discuss AI workflows, forward-deployed development, and team coordination around agentic tools. The session covered his work with Syncrobe and a recent client engagement that connected an MCP server to Microsoft 365 systems such as OneDrive, Outlook, and SharePoint to support custom workflows and skills. The group also discussed why companies need cleaner data, files, processes, usage cycles, and success metrics before AI agents can reliably improve day-to-day work.

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Graven Prest)

Graven Prest joined the June cohort fireside to discuss how AI is changing product management, builder relations, and public-goods software work. The conversation covered his work around public goods, open source, radical markets, Superfluid-powered funding flows, Flow State, and an Octant protocol-focused role supporting builders. Graven described AI as increasing the speed and ambition of small teams, while shifting bottlenecks toward testing, documentation, business-logic validation, scope control, product judgment, and production readiness.

Archive status: Recorded

RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Jake Winckowski)

Jake Winckowski joined the June cohort fireside to discuss AI-augmented customer experience work at HackerOne. The conversation covered how increased AI-driven activity has changed support ticket volume, and how Jake built an internal Slack-based workflow with Claude Code to pull in tickets, suggest responses from historical context, and let support agents approve, edit, escalate, or resolve them. The group also discussed keeping humans in the loop for trust, security, payment, mediation, and technical troubleshooting while the team improves confidence scoring, data access, reporting, and agent-assisted support workflows.

Archive status: Processed

RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (0xHunter)

Hosted by Elliott Conway

0xHunter joined the June cohort fireside to discuss AI-enabled consulting workflows, self-hosted software strategy, and context sharing across teams and clients. He described Datalist Consulting's work building custom software, training, integrations, and technical consulting for medium-sized businesses, with a thesis that cheaper custom software can let smaller companies own more of their infrastructure. The conversation also covered Hunter's Codex-heavy workflow, build-versus-open-source decisions for internal tools, frontend QA concerns, and the still-unsolved challenge of sharing scoped AI context without copying isolated agent chats by hand.

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June Cohort Fireside Chats (Victor Ginelli)

Hosted by Dekan

Victor Ginelli joined the June cohort fireside to discuss how AI-assisted development is changing developer workflows and team collaboration. The conversation covered his move from skepticism to daily use of tools such as Codex, Claude, Cursor-style workflows, terminal tooling, and mobile prompting, with developers shifting toward specifying work, managing AI agents, reviewing output, and building CLIs or wrappers for repeatable tasks. The group also discussed limits around planning, infrastructure, deployment, maintenance, governance, and human review, plus how small teams may collaborate more through shared specs, internal tools, and agent-ready interfaces.

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RaidGuild Discord

MoDev & RaidGuild

MoDev & RaidGuild was scheduled as a June 17, 2026 fireside conversation hosted on Google Meet. A same-day RaidGuild Discord message invited raiders to join a conversation with the founder of MoDev.com about agentic event platforms, using the same meeting link and 11:00am-12:00pm America/Los_Angeles time window.

Archive status: Scheduled

Google Meet

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Andrej Berlin)

June Cohort Fireside Chat with Andrej Berlin. Calendar: RaidGuild Created by: clerics@raidguild.org

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Cj Miller)

June Cohort Fireside Chat with Cj Miller. Calendar: RaidGuild Created by: clerics@raidguild.org

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Elco)

June Cohort Fireside Chat with Elco. Calendar: RaidGuild Created by: clerics@raidguild.org Who: elco@thedaoist.gg, clerics@raidguild.org

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Justice Conder)

Hosted by Dekan

June Cohort Fireside Chat with Justice Conder. Calendar: RaidGuild Created by: clerics@raidguild.org Who: clerics@raidguild.org, justiceconder@gmail.com

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Adam Kerpelman)

Hosted by Dekan

June Cohort Fireside Chat with Adam Kerpelman. Calendar: RaidGuild Created by: clerics@raidguild.org

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RaidGuild Discord

June Cohort Fireside Chats (Spencer Graham)

Hosted by Dekan

Hosted by Dekan, Spencer Graham joins RaidGuild for a June Cohort Fireside on personal CRM systems, agentic coding workflows, and the future of coordination. The conversation connects Spencer's product and strategy background with his current experiments in self-hosted relationship software, AI-assisted development, context systems, UX verification, and open source security. Guest background: Spencer's RaidGuild profile highlights product management, operational strategy, UX/technical trade-off thinking, game theory, and token economics. Discussion themes: - Self-hosted personal CRM and relationship-aware software - Agent-assisted development workflows using doer/reviewer loops - Context and verification as hard problems for AI agents - UX QA automation for human-facing products - The risk of AI workflows creating more atomized developers - Why AI may strengthen, not kill, open source software Notable guest quotes: - "Context is changing still, and it came in an unsolved kind of lane." - "It would be really bad if it happened that we lost so much of what makes working together on things fun." - "The idea that open source is dead is just hilarious and so wrong."

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RaidGuild Discord

Cohort Fireside Prep

Discuss materials, process, and preparation for this month's fireside chats.

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Discord / Cohort voice channel

Demo Day

Cohort Demo Day is a session for raiders and cohort participants to share what they have been working on, show progress, and connect around next steps.

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Discord / Cohort voice channel