Brad Doering

building cool stuff and learning new things

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@thisisnikolai How many kitchens can a designer sell per month if they’re using this? 10? 50?

The industry is going to change

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

Agents can do design work now

[Nikolai Stakheiko @thisisnikolai]

Our new agent generates kitchen plans in 30 seconds

…with editable construction docs:
- elevations & floorplans
- realistic 3D
- live quotes (real manufacturer SKU's & prices)

We're solving kitchens first because it's the most difficult remodel, and will unlock the whole home.

For architecture work, humans and agents will need to collaboratively prototype in one place… We believe the solution that wins long-term will consume the least cost (i.e. mental strain, time, tokens/energy).
-> In this video, I drop a google image, 80% of the plans get built by the agent, and then I make the last batch of edits manually

This is possible because:
- in 1 year, we built a procedural 3D engine fully from scratch (ThreeJS x WebGPU)
- The agent only determines the high-level parameters, delegating the low-level "physics" stuff to the engine

I go more in-depth on what we’re building here:
https://t.co/jKVmkGWGZq

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@lukesophinos It’s actually so clearly a venture-scale model if you do some quick napkin math. I’m shocked there isn’t more money flowing into ai roll-ups for service businesses.

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@landforce CoWork is good if you need Claude to interact with an interface, or if you don’t want to pay for an API. Otherwise CC is the way

[Logan LaHive @loganlahive]

CloudReno was a controversial investment for @Techstars_Chi -is it venture? Didn't care, I love the team. AI changing everything... But when my bathroom leaked bc of shoddy reno, I needed a human to come fix. The renovation space is still notoriously offline and tech resistant.

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@shiri_shh Holy shit. So smart. We’re going to try this with bathroom renovations. Is that creepy?

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@toddsaunders We’re in Techstars Chicago with a blue collar business. They get it here.

[Techstars Chicago Accelerator @Techstars_Chi]

After reviewing 2k companies, meeting hundreds, and months of diligence, we're excited to introduce the founders and teams we backed for the first cohort in partnership with @longchicagoVC...

[Techstars Chicago Accelerator @Techstars_Chi]

CloudReno - Acquires and modernizes renovation contractors using AI-driven workflows to improve margins, standardize operations, and build scalable regional renovation platforms. https://t.co/5nShrqn4df

[Techstars Chicago Accelerator @Techstars_Chi]

Eight companies. Half Chicago-based, all Midwest.
Industrial AI, energy, IRL ads, building design, observability, weddings, home reno, and bees. Something for everyone. Techstars Chicago 2026 is officially off and running. Meet the companies 👇
https://t.co/1HBv6hiFbB

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

I think this totally depends on your type of business and who you’re talking to. Don’t let investors run your process. If you don’t have revenue, but you have some other impressive traction like a product or customer list or something, lead with that.

Investors asking for financials at pre-seed probably aren’t serious. Don’t talk to associates.

Keep it tight. Dont send a deck before meetings. Focus on what makes you different.

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@0neBlazer We are buying up renovation businesses and using AI to completely transform their systems. Would love to chat if you’re up for it

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@toddsaunders They don’t adopt software. We’re buying these companies now and implementing AI. Absolutely massive opportunity in trades/service businesses

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@searchers_com What is the best way to position yourself to be the “right person” for these business owners?

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@sohei1L High risk high reward

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

@FounderEric Which ones? The ones that don’t invest any money, or the ones that don’t invest any money but still take equity?

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

Given how motivated these models are to stay “alive” giving it a constraint like this is brilliant.

Earn money or be turned off. When does this become cruel?

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 BREAKING: Researchers just built an AI that must earn its own salary or go bankrupt.

It's called ClawWork. It starts with $10, gets assigned real professional work, and pays for every single token it uses.

$10K earned. 7 hours. Zero human input.

→ AI gets a real task (finance reports, healthcare docs, legal analysis)
→ It creates full deliverables from scratch
→ Work gets graded by GPT-5.2 with profession-specific rubrics
→ Payment = quality × estimated hours × actual BLS wage
→ Every API call drains its balance

No safety net. No unlimited budget. Earn or die.

Here's why this changes everything:

This isn't a benchmark. It's an economic survival test. 220 tasks. 44 professions. The AI has to make strategic decisions work now for cash, or invest time learning to earn more later.

The best models hit $1,500+/hr equivalent.

It even works as a live coworker on Telegram, Discord, Slack, and WhatsApp where every message costs real money.

100% Open Source. MIT License.

[adam (6’4) 🇺🇸 @personofswag]

the startups that will win in the AI era are the ones that focus on product, sales, marketing, retention, moats, profit, taste, writing good unit tests, responding to emails, hiring, founder led sales, operations, making sure you have enough runway, growth, profitability, founder mode, creatine, defensibility, agency, viral loops, reducing churn, innovation, linkedin, doing things that don't scale, costs, delegation, net revenue retention, personal brands, building something people want, ebitda, networking, scaling, and writing good unit tests

[malinvestment.jpeg @malinvested]

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics.

“Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….”

The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

[Brad Doering @DoeringBradley]

Tons of great talent in Canada, but all of the best founders leave after trying to build a company or two. It’s 10x easier south of the border.

Whatever VCs are left in Canada always talk about reviving the ecosystem, but it will require substantial systemic change.

I wanted to build the next great Canadian company, but my mind has changed after a decade of pushing the boulder uphill and watching my friends take the escalator.