Name: Stop Prompting, Start Shipping: Office Hours
Start: 2026-05-22T14:00:00.000-06:00
End: 2026-05-22T15:00:00.000-06:00
Location: Online Event

Personal

Christopher McDermut

TL;DR: Open office hours with the Stop Prompting, Start Shipping facilitators. Bring the
questions that have come up since our talks — about AI, automation, your stack, your stuck
project — and we'll work through them together. No agenda, no slides, just our time.

We've given a handful of talks and workshops over the last few months, and the best
conversations always seem to start after the room clears out. This is that conversation,
scheduled. Drop in, ask what you've been chewing on, hear what other founders are running
into, and leave with a concrete next step instead of another tab to read later.

You'll leave with: clarity on a specific problem you walked in with, a concrete next step
you can take that afternoon, and at least one conversation worth continuing.

No prep required. No coding required. No prior AI experience needed. Just bring one
question — or one thing you've been trying to ship and can't quite get over the line.

This session is for you if you're a founder, operator, or business owner who is:

Patrick McHeyser has deployed production code for everything from newly-funded startups to
multinational organizations, and has worked as a leadership consultant with Special
Operations, Google, NASA, and other Fortune 500 companies. Now he runs an AI consulting
practice as a solo operator, managing 10 client projects with a custom infrastructure of
autonomous agents, automated workflows, and systems that replace a small operations team.

Chris McDermut is a software engineer with over a decade of experience serving in
leadership positions at startups, PE, venture-backed, and public companies. He has shipped
$250M revenue platforms, serverless messaging architecture serving 3 million users, and
onboarding systems for 2 million users. He brings deep experience shipping revenue-critical
systems and architecture at scale and is shipping an open source AI orchestration
platform.

Natalie Levy runs She's Independent, an investment community supporting first-time angel
investors and has automated 100 hours a month of the operations that make it run, building
bots, content pipelines, and knowledge bases as a non-technical founder.