Ryan Carson believes that for startups, building features has become almost trivial, shifting the primary challenge to go-to-market, user adoption, and product-led growth.

Ryan Carson hired Brett from Design Joy at a cost of approximately $6,000 per month to create the initial branding and social media images for his company.

Ryan Carson's prospecting agent has generated 10 to 20 meetings from cold outreach in the last couple of weeks.

Ryan Carson has raised a $2 million seed round for his startup but does not plan to hire any human employees for a while, opting to use AI agents instead.

Ryan Carson predicts that companies like Evry, which offer "OpenClaw in the cloud" services, will become billion-dollar businesses by providing on-demand digital employees.

Ryan Carson estimates he receives $2,000 to $3,000 worth of tokens for his $200 per month ChatGPT Pro subscription, believing OpenAI is currently subsidizing token costs.

Ryan Carson's OpenClaw agent, R2, conducts daily business development outreach by researching contacts, adding them to a spreadsheet, and sending emails on his behalf.

According to Ryan Carson, the traditional startup advice of minimizing system and documentation work for an MVP has reversed, and founders must now invest heavily in these areas upfront to leverage AI...

Ryan Carson states that it is significantly easier and faster to onboard and train AI agents compared to human employees.

Ryan Carson is a member of the core development team for the AI coding agent AMP.

Ryan Carson believes that startups solving an acute problem, which he calls a "pain pill," are always better businesses than those offering gradual improvements, or "vitamins."

Ryan Carson is building his new startup, Untangle, as a solo founder and is bootstrapping the company.

Ryan Carson's second startup, Treehouse, was an online school that taught approximately one million people how to code.

Ryan Carson's first startup was a file-sharing service called Dropsend, which he built himself and was acquired after two years.

Ryan Carson believes AI agents are fundamentally composed of cron jobs and markdown files.

Ryan Carson is using AgentMail, a Y Combinator startup, to provide email addresses for his AI agents.

Ryan Carson ships at least 10 pull requests per day using his AI-assisted workflow.

Ryan Carson believes that by combining a human designer's initial brand setup with tools like Claude Design and OpenAI's latest image model, companies can generate unlimited, on-brand imagery.

Ryan Carson predicts that most serious software developers will eventually move to cloud-based engineering environments and stop coding on local machines.

Ryan Carson built a system called ClawChief, consisting of Markdown files and cron jobs, to configure his OpenClaw instance as an executive assistant named R2.