20 MINUTES by Noco · 2026-07-01 · 23 min
Every week another AI tool claims it just killed an industry. This episode skips the hype and tests two platforms actually worth a look: Ploy, the autonomous marketing platform from Webflow co-founder Bryant Chou, and Ship Studio, the agentic builder that keeps you hands-on. Chapters: (0:00) AI fatigue and the disruption hype cycle (1:03) Ploy, the 27 million raise, and Bryant Chou (3:00) What Ploy is: agentic site building for marketers (4:21) Slurping: Ploy rebuilds the Noco site (7:45) Side by side: what the rebuild got wrong (8:59) Butchering or a head start: who Ploy is for (11:00) Prompt hell and losing control (15:49) Ship Studio: control back in agentic building (17:50) How Ship Studio works and who it is for (21:11) Finding the real gems in the noise At Noco we design and build high-performing websites for B2B SaaS & tech startups and scale-ups. From seed-stage to unicorn. Find us at: