AI Power Hour: The $500K Solo Founder Stack
On track for $500K this year. Zero full-time employees.
Bethany Crystal runs her entire company on software she built herself, in Claude Code, without writing a line of code. In this Power Hour she opens the hood on the whole thing, then you build your own.
The stack you'll see:
- The pipeline that tracks every deal and tells her who to follow up with today
- The collections agent that drafts her late-payment emails and knows when to stop
- The revenue dashboard that shows whether she's actually going to hit the number
- The app she teaches from, built for the way she teaches
- The AI teammate that sits in on her meetings and takes the notes
None of it bought off the shelf. All of it assembled by one non-technical founder who had a failing app and no plan 18 months ago. You'll get the unglamorous parts too: What broke, what she'd skip, and what actually moved revenue.
Then you build. You'll leave with the first piece of your own business OS running on your laptop.
If you've been waiting for proof that you don't need a technical co-founder to start something real, this is it.
Bring your laptop and a paid account on any AI tool you like. We'll build with Claude, but Gemini or ChatGPT work too.
About Bethany: Bethany Crystal (formerly Union Square Ventures, Stack Overflow, Tech:NYC) is the founder of Build First, an AI learning lab that has trained 3,000+ people, ages 8 to 80, to build their first AI-powered tools.