🛠️ Engineering and GTM are Converging!

When anyone can ship a product in a few days, the product alone stops being the moat. What separates the tools that break out from the ones that fade is GTM engineering: the technical discipline of building distribution, growth, and discoverability directly into the architecture of the product itself.

AI Tinkerers is bringing the GTM Engineering track to San Francisco to convene the builders who understand that in a world of abundant software, the competitive advantage is how the thing you build gets noticed, adopted, and embedded into workflows before anyone else’s does.

📅 Event Details

• Date: Monday, May 18th, 2026
• Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
• Location: San Francisco, CA (Address provided upon approval)
• Focus: What have you built that generated growth?

🎙️ Speakers

Kwindla Hultman Kramer - Co-founder & CEO, Daily
Kwindla builds real-time voice and AI infrastructure at Daily and created the open-source Pipecat framework. He’ll be demoing Gradient Bang, a massively multiplayer online game built from the ground up around LLMs that started as sample code and broke containment into an active community of players and contributors.

Pierson Marks - Founder & CEO, Jellypod
Pierson built Jellypod, an AI-native podcasting studio that transforms written content into professional audio. He’ll be demoing his system for launching, evaluating, and scaling Google Search Ads with agents using MCPs, Skills, and Claude Routines that let Jellypod semi-autonomously run paid marketing with positive ROAS.

Cyrus Nouroozi - Founder, Zenbase AI (YC S24)
Cyrus is a core contributor to Stanford NLP’s DSPy framework and co-founder of WOMBO.ai (100M+ downloads). He’ll be demoing YALC, an open-source GTM OS and CLI he built as an alternative to Clay for programmatically managing LinkedIn outreach, lead qualification, and multi-channel campaigns.

Alexander Liteplo - Founder, RentAHuman
Alexander built RentAHuman, a marketplace that lets AI agents discover, book, and manage human workers via API. He’ll be sharing lessons learned from growing to 900K rentable humans and the systems behind RentAHuman’s rapid scale.

🥽 Who Should Attend?

Entry is selective by design to maintain a high-signal environment. We require demonstrable proof of hands-on work with AI. This is a high-trust space for:

• Engineers building programmatic SEO engines and automated distribution.
• Founders shipping systems where the product and the GTM strategy are the same thing.
• Researchers optimizing agentic workflows for growth.

To apply, you must provide a description of a project you are currently building and a link to your technical work (GitHub/LinkedIn).

🤝 Sponsors

Venue Host

B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology. With more than $10 billion in assets under management and dedicated stage-based funds, the firm focuses on early-stage to late-stage venture investments, primarily in the technology, healthcare and climate sectors.

Food & Drinks Sponsor

Attio is sponsoring food and drinks for the AI Tinkerers San Francisco GTM Engineering Track. Attio is an AI-native CRM platform built for startups and builders, helping teams unify customer data, automate workflows, and build custom solutions for modern go-to-market operations.

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AI Tinkerers San Francisco Stats

• Attendees: This elite community of 7,317 technical professionals features a powerful distribution of skills: 48% specialize in agentic systems and multi-agent orchestration, 42% in advanced model engineering and PyTorch, and 38% in high-performance AI infrastructure and MLOps. Distinguished by a high density of venture-backed founders and researchers from top-tier labs like Google DeepMind and Meta, members actively collaborate on cutting-edge Model Context Protocol implementations and verifiable AI governance.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon, alongside AI pioneers such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI, and rising startups like Replicate, Wordware, Chroma, and Vercel, and more
• Demos: 487 demos were submitted and 172 were accepted and presented. The most compelling themes covered agent-native product UX, real-time multimodal voice/vision experiences, and protocol-driven integrations (especially MCP). Technical exploration has also emphasized reliability via tracing/evals and verification, grounding via advanced retrieval/context strategies, and security-focused agent infrastructure including safe tool access, privacy controls, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Testimonials:

  “This is meaningful work. We don’t all recognize it but we need community and social activity... As someone exclusively working at home by myself I really really appreciate AI tinkerers. I’d love to participate again.”

  — SRE @ fintech

  “Thank you. (Esp. Matthieu... I know that pulling off an event of this scope and quality is not easy, and that the lack of any IRL issues whatsoever, represents a tremendous behind-the-scene effort... )”

  — Founder, edtech startup

  “Very special”

  Dylan — June 10, 2026

  “It was cool having access to the kickoff replay... We should make sure there's a screen or projector where all the participants can assist the presentations live”

  — AI consultant, NLP

  “Building was epic - I and some others came looking for teams... Building types of events.”

  — ML researcher, Algoverse

  “Bright data was a wonderful host”

  — AI consultant, NLP

  “Thanks for the warm welcome... Menotors! I appreciated the onboarding video and sponsor support, too.”

  — Research computer scientist