Ember: AI Agents + Messaging

​Smoldering on nights and weekends.

​​​​​Join us in San Francisco for a small group office hours to hack and learn about new ai agent tools.

​This Sunday, we'll tinker with a new framework, a1Base, that enables "Twilio for AI agents". The framework helps AI products talk to and work with their users through email, Slack, SMS, WhatsApp and more.

​Guides:

• ​Pasha Rayan cofounder of A1Base

• ​Pennie Li cofounder of A1Base

​Technical founders Pasha and Pennie, formerly cofounder and engineers at Forage (sold in 2024 to Vista Equity-backed conglomerate) will walk us through initial setup and we'll deploy ai agents in WhatsApp by the end of the afternoon.

​Prep

• ​Review some of the applications being built with A1Base so far

• ​Skim their docs

​Requirements

• ​You should be comfortable with vibe coding (reviewing errors and debugging with help of ai) and ideally a general sense of front-end coding

• ​We’ll ask you to pre-install some libraries before Sunday

​Ember Manifesto

• ​"Your work is going to consume a large part of your life, so the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you consider to be great work." - Steve Jobs

• ​Or in the words of Big Sean "F**k a vacay, I feel better at work"

• ​The weekends are supposed to be for rest.

• ​But you're the person going to the coffeeshop on Sunday.

• ​You’re a little too obsessed with your side project. 

• ​But name a great project that came from someone who wasn’t obsessed. 

• ​I’ll wait. 

• ​If you’re not 100 percent all in on something, someone else who is 100 percent obsessed will build it better.

• ​I don’t make the rules, I just follow them.

• ​You’re not tinkering on the weekend because you’re trying to prove something. 

• ​You’re doing it because you love the craft. You love building.

• ​Going deep on new frameworks. Tinkering with tools. Turning that grid green.  

• ​This is the idea you haven’t been able to get out of your head. 

• ​This is why you live in SF. It’s the “all in, build the idea you’re obsessed with town.”

• ​Smoldering on nights and weekends is how you make it happen. 

• ​Now just do it with a community. 

• ​And Sunday’s an unofficial work day in SF after all, amirte?