We’re giving away $100k in dictation microphones to SF startups. We’ll outfit your office with mics + months of Willow free. Whisper into your mic. Willow writes for you. Work at the speed you talk. Comment “Voice-maxxing” and we'll set you up.

We just raised $4M at @lightsagehq , led by @nexusvp , to build the growth stack for internet’s newest customer: AI agents. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can already discover products, compare alternatives, read documentation, install SDKs, call APIs and start using software on behalf of humans. Soon, they’ll increasingly transact too and that changes how internet companies grow. For decades, companies built growth infrastructure around humans. PLG helped humans adopt products. Now there’s a new journey to optimize: Can an AI agent discover you, choose you, successfully use you, and eventually pay for you? We call this Agent-Led Growth. Lightsage helps companies get discovered, recommended and used by agents → Agent Discovery - when and why agents recommend you vs. competitors → Agent Experience - whether agents can successfully use your APIs, SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers and agent skills → Agent Analytics - what real agents do when they reach your website, docs and product. and most recently agent-attributed traffic conversion. Companies including @firecrawl , @reductoai , @daytonaio , @rimelabs , @Tiny_Fish and @insforge are already using Lightsage to build their agent-led growth strategy and improve their agent journey. We’re incredibly grateful to have Nexus lead this round alongside these amazing founders and operators. - Former Salesforce CTO Steven Tamm - Postman CEO @a85 - Apollo CEO Matt Curl - DocuSign President Robert Chatwani - Former GitLab Head of Growth @HilaQu - Resend CEO @zenorocha - Firecrawl Co-founder @ericciarla - Daytona CEO @ivanburazin - Tinyfish COO @shuhao_friday - Adam Frankl and many more! As agents increasingly discover, evaluate, use and pay for products on our behalf, we believe every company will need to understand and optimize for the agent channel. That’s what we’re building Lightsage for. Huge thank you to my co-founder Sean Er, customers, early investors @AlchemistAcc and everyone who believed in us early. Honoured to be featured in @Forbes . We’re just getting started. lightsage.com

Excited to be building the Infra for Agent-Led Growth! 🔥

Can’t wait! This conference is going to be amazing!!

Shoutout to Julius Aho, CTO and Co-Founder at Evenpay, for taking the time to chat with me about his story and experience with migrating auth solutions! > Read the full migration story: lnkd.in/g7wUN7Vh

I open sourced my AI setup. Pipa packages the OpenCode and Slack workflow I use to run my studio into a local CLI. ➡️ Steal my AI setup for OpenCode: Day #159

Seattle, that was fun. 🤖 Camp AI Seattle brought the builders together for a day of demos, ideas, and conversations around what’s next for AI. Big thanks to @AnthropicAI, @PulumiCorp, @temporalio, and @stripe for joining us. Until the next one. 🇯🇵👀

If you're new or looking to get more connected to SF tech: bookmark these 45+ irl events 🗓️ A list of what's happening this week (July 27 - Aug 3) ⬇️

Thursday 7/30 ‣ SF Creatives Night: Hard Launch x Osmo x a16z New Media luma.com/db3xynd2 @hardlaunching @ryleestanton @willyhopps @Jackyhuang @repkarinabao @olexdsgn ‣ Built Different: Auth0 x Stripe Hackathon luma.com/builtdifferent-auth… @stripe @shreythecray @FirstFredition @auth0 ‣ Private dinner for seed+ founders in SF luma.com/dinewithfounders @edugiansante ‣ Founders & Funders: The Odyssey Private Screening with M12 luma.com/b7p1jvgy @M12VC ‣ Scaling revenue at Stripe and Vercel with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel) luma.com/7h2hjufc @basetenco @anaskar ‣ Agents Over Drinks — with Tony Stoyanov (EliseAI) luma.com/8k55fy3x ‣ Agents & APIs SF Developer Meetup luma.com/july-SF-Agents-APIs… @patricia_dugan

¡Buen trabajo! ¡Un esfuerzo heroico! ❤️

Crypto explained in 24 seconds.

Hail the victor! Great time working with #AuthorizedToAct grand prize winner to feature their blog post ➡️ auth0.com/blog/identity-chai…

Been working on this integration between @auth0 and @vercel and it's now LIVE! 🤝🤝🤝 Native Integration means you can get auth for your humans and your AI agents in your Next.js apps in a couple clicks

ny tech week was life changing this year

I am once again surfacing my life hack: Traveling so much for work can put a strain on my wife. She’s juggling 3 kids, school activities, work, 3 dogs, and a bunch more. I get lots of hotel travel points. When I get back, I book my wife 1-2 days at a hotel down the street so she can read, relax, destress, or whatever she wants. We started doing these mental health getaways during Covid and have kept up with them ever since!

The @auth0 DevRel team is accepting challengers!

Hola guys! Amazon taught me one thing well - to build mechanisms. In the last 3 years, I built 15+ GenAI projects as a head of ai in a consulting company serving to Fortune 500 companies. I nailed one thing well - how to provide for LLMs a feedback loop. Now my Claude code agents self-reiterate and self-perfect on projects with code and without. Follow me to learn how to do it.

Just got done doing a virtual workshop for @MLHacks where I showed off @auth0 beyond just signin/signout. Really proud of how this turned out! Amazing time and love teaming up with those folks! Shoutout to Mr. AI Tech for coming in clutch with the praise 🤣

We're not saying we're excited to kick off Camp AI .. but WE'RE EXCITED TO KICK OFF CAMP AI SF!! Let's go! @erabek @chrissev @shreythecray @FirstFredition