Rowan Mockler

Cofounder @ekhohq

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

@meetgranola Bruh who uses Google anymore

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

2/2 Come through if:

- you have a skill graph that chains together to automate most of your current role
- you added an OpenClaw to your family group chat and your mom's worried about you
- you go home and feel existential that most people haven't realized what's happening yet
- your Claude Code usage would make most engineering orgs uncomfortable
- you shipped a side project last weekend that would've taken a team a quarter one year ago

The whole team will be there. Bring someone!

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

1/2 @ekhohq housewarming Thursday 7pm in NYC. Hiring for 7 roles, but this isn't a recruiting event. Just pizza, drinks, and hopefully the most interesting room of people in the city that night.

RSVP: https://t.co/gKv53bXafo

[Ekho @ekhohq]

Most "AI for dealers" is just a contact form in a trench coat 🧥

Powersports Business this week on what Moto Morini ended up shipping with us instead: real conversation, real qualification, warm handoff to the dealer.

https://t.co/TEdWkDFtXo

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

If you like what we built for ourselves and want it for your own dealership, get in touch and join the waitlist today: https://t.co/cx3oUSAXyA.

And if you're an engineer, operator, or anyone who likes the idea of building software this way (unlimited tokens, fast mode), we're hiring: https://t.co/lRKgn4mAGv.

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

We rebuilt the @ekhohq website with AI in a week.

150+ URLs. 26 content collections. 327 files. Zero agencies.

The whole story (plus the part where the first attempt almost killed it) 👇

https://t.co/VFii3i0RCH

🧵

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

The catch: a corporate site is the easy version.

A real dealer site has live inventory, OEM compliance, lender routing, financing, trade-ins, multi-rooftop rules.

You can't point an agent at that and say "go."

And that's the product we actually offer dealers.

Our Dealer Website is not another website builder. It's a website that ships pre-connected to the things that matter: live inventory, an AI Sales Agent that handles leads on every page (+ SMS, email) 24/7, embedded financing and trade-in flows, accessory configuration, and the regulatory plumbing for 50-state remote vehicle commerce (this part's taken us years).

The website is the surface; the actual product is the system underneath.

[Ekho @ekhohq]

8:02 a.m., Saturday. Eight overnight leads on the screen.

Two never got an answer. One got "leave your email and someone will reach out."

By Monday, two of those eight are buyers somewhere else.

That's not a lazy team. That's 2026.

Full breakdown: https://t.co/AtwV5TBRK8

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

Let's go! 🇮🇹

What's under the hood: a parent-child agent architecture where the OEM agent orchestrates the brand experience, then hands off to the right dealer-level agent — each with its own inventory, settings, and personality.

One brand. One experience. Many dealers, all in control of their own store.

[Ekho @ekhohq]

Moto Morini × Ekho is live. 🇮🇹

@MotoMorinieu has deployed Ekho's AI Sales Agent on https://t.co/dnZCzPQIjC — every buyer gets a real conversation about the X-Cape, Vettore, Calibro & Seiemmezzo lineups, 24/7.

Full story: https://t.co/J0lTD6MANS

[Ekho @ekhohq]

AI in 2026 is giving @BachParadise energy.

Sam and Dario won't stop fighting. Elon showed up unexpectedly with a $60B engagement ring for a code editor. Microsoft got left at the altar. Anthropic's running Super Bowl ads to subtweet their ex.

And in the corner, completely unbothered, a 30-person vehicle commerce startup is using @Claude to ship an entire feature from a single sentence.

No roses. No drama. Just a team that's gone all in on l̶o̶v̶e̶ PMF.

We're @EkhoHQ. Here's our mid-season confessional 🧵

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

@sebgoddijn 💡

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

@ac_steele 🚀

[Rowan Mockler @RowanMockler]

@QVagabond Drilled it 👏

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Legalize skilled immigration

[Hunter (Let's hop on a quick 5 min call) @huntercoldcalls]

My mom doesn't understand the grind

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

If this is really some EA, decel, AI safety coup at OpenAI, the board just torched $80B of value, destroyed a shining star of American capitalism, and will be sued to high heaven by investors.

Every talented employee at OpenAI should quit and join Sam/Greg's new thing (if they make one). This time, skip the woke non-profit board, eject the decels/EAs, maintain founder control, avoid nonsensical regulation, and just build. Accelerate progress. You are building something good for the world, don't let anyone make you feel guilty for it and try to capture it for their own motives.

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

Some of the best startup ideas live in a grey area of legality. Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, YouTube, Coinbase were all somewhere between questionable and flat-out illegal in their early days.

One reason for this is that incumbents cannot take any legal risk on a new initiative. Even if Google execs saw Uber and thought "that seems promising", there was no way they could launch a competitor because they would face unlimited liability that could destroy all of Google.

So a startup taking legal risk will be invulnerable to competition from big companies for a long time.