Last week I attended https://humanx.co in San Francisco. I went as a founder building MASON, a platform for running AI agent teams, and came back with my head spinning.
The pitch competitions were the highlight. Watching founders pitch live to panels of investors — the energy, the pressure, the feedback — was fascinating. You learn more about what investors actually care about by watching 10 pitches than by reading 100 blog posts about fundraising. It also sparked an idea for our next product (more on that soon).
The sheer number of AI startups blew me away. Every other booth was an agent framework, an AI workflow tool, or an LLM-powered something. The explosion is real — and it's just getting started. What stood out is how many of these companies are tackling the same fundamental problem from different angles: how do you make AI agents actually useful in production, not just impressive in demos?
I got to even meet Simba Khadder, founder of Featureform who is now at Redis. Cool dude!
The next few years in AI are going to be wild. The gap between "impressive demo" and "production-ready tool" is where all the interesting work is happening right now — and that's exactly where we're building with MASON.
If you were at HumanX, I'd love to hear what stood out to you.
https://masonteams.ai — Run a software team of AI agents on your machine.
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