Small Business Big AI · 2026-08-04 · 35 min
Ninety-nine episodes of telling business owners to build theengine. Then we got on a plane. Kim and Hal spent three days in Venice Beach, California with a group of engineers and mathematicians who build AI-native operating systems for a living. They sat in the same rooms, watched the same demonstrations, and flew home on the same red-eye. He came home with a task list. She came home with a question. At dinner one night, a mathematician mentioned that his AIagent was building something on Kim's laptop, back in the hotel room, right then. She went back and opened it. Same desktop. Same icons. Nothing running. Not even a spinning circle. Hal heard that same sentence and it was the greatest news of the trip. This is the honest version of the hundredth episode, including the part where Kim names the title she promised on episode 98 and could not keep. It ends where Hal accidentally started it: with a job description, one page per person, free, and available Monday morning. In this Episode The hotel room, the laptop, and the completelyordinary explanation for why nothing was on the screen. Why Kim was watching the screen and Hal waswatching the people, and what he saw that she missed.
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