A one-day seminar for owners, with Michael Griswold

Stop being the only one who knows how your company runs.

One day in Houston. You and the person who runs your place bring laptops and one job you are sick of doing. By 4pm it runs on its own, inside rules you wrote. AI does the work. You own it. Nobody writes code.

Thursday, November 12, 2026
9am to 4pm
Houston, Galleria area
Ten companies, two seats each

Reserve your company’s two seats See the day, hour by hour

$5,000 per company, both seats, lunch included. If one job is not running by 4pm, you get every dollar back before you leave.

You have tried ChatGPT. It wrote an email. Then nothing changed.

You open it most days. It does a paragraph, a summary, a draft. Then you close it and go back to running the place by hand.

The work that eats your week is still yours. The follow-ups. The reports. The chasing. The checking. Nobody else knows how it runs, so nobody else can do it.

That is not an AI problem. It is an operating problem. I run a company on AI agents every day, and the part that matters has nothing to do with code. It is the part you already do with people: tell them how you work, give them rules, check their work. In one day you do that with an agent, on your own laptop, with your own files.

Michael Griswold speaking at a microphone — Michael Griswold. He runs his company on AI agents and teaches the part that has nothing to do with code.

What you walk out with at 4pm

Six things you did not have at 9am.

01
One job running on its own.
Something you did by hand this morning, running without you this afternoon, and telling you what it did.
02
The one page that runs it.
How your company works and what the agent may never do without you. In your words, on one page.
03
Your red lines.
Money, other people’s records, anything permanent. It stops and asks you, every time.
04
A memory that outlives the chat.
Your vendors, your customers, your decisions. Written down once, so you stop explaining them.
05
The thirty-second check.
Done is evidence, not a claim. You learn to tell the difference before you trust anything.
06
A person who can keep it running.
Your second seat leaves holding the keys, with a checklist for the next thirty days.

Reserve your company’s two seatsNothing is charged when you apply.

Thursday, November 12, 2026

The day, hour by hour.

No talks about AI. In every block you and your operator do the thing on your own laptop while I walk the room.

9:00
Your laptop already works
Set up with you on a call before the day. You open it and it is ready.
10:00
Your agent does its first job in front of you
You point it at one folder of your own files and hand it the job. You watch it work, and you see where it stops.
11:05
You write the one page that tells it how you work
What it may do on its own. What it has to ask you about first. Short, in your words.
12:00
You learn to check its work
Three questions, every time. You never take "done" on its word again.
12:40
Lunch, in the room
Everyone says the job they came to kill.
1:30
You give it a memory and some rules
It remembers how you like things done. What went wrong once does not go wrong again.
2:35
One job runs without you
Then your operator runs it, with you watching, so it does not leave the building when you do.
3:20
What you take home
Your files, the thirty-day checklist, and my email address.
4:00
Done
One job off your desk for good.

The kind of job people bring

Chasing the lien waivers and insurance certificates that hold up a payment.
Turning a week of delivery notes into invoices.
Answering the twenty emails a week that all ask the same question.
Getting a quote out the day it is asked for, instead of on Friday.

You do not have to pick it before you apply. We pick it together on the call.

This room is for owners.

It is for you if

You run the place. Owner, founder, president, principal.
Something in your business is already on a computer. A shared drive, spreadsheets, a customer list, accounting software, email. One of those is enough.
You can name the person who keeps things running when you are out, and they can come with you.
You can decide to spend on this without asking a committee.
You would rather watch it work than take my word for it.

It is not for you if

You want to build agents for a living. There are better rooms for that.
You want it done for you. You will do it, with me next to you, so you can do it again.
Everything in your business is on paper and there is nobody to bring for the second seat.

Two seats, on purpose. You, and the person who keeps things running when you are out. They come with you, and they are the one who keeps it running afterwards.

Why believe me

Taught by someone who runs his company this way, every day.

This is the first time I am running this room, so there is nobody to quote yet. What there is: the numbers below, counted, not estimated.

31,000: finished pieces of work my agents shipped in twelve months, from my desk; Counted from my own machine on 2026-09-13. Software calls them commits. With my brother’s desk it is 42,400.
1.1 million: words of written rules and memory my agents work from; Counted on 2026-09-13. They open the part they need, when they need it.
26: rule files, most of them written the day something went wrong; Counted on 2026-09-13. One is printed below, as it is.
14,096: people downloaded a free tool my agents built; SageThumbs 2K. Read from GitHub on 2026-09-13. The console I run the agents from is public too.

Every number, with the day it was counted and how, is on the numbers page.

Michael Griswold

I ran crews before I ran software: demolition, construction, manufacturing, a dairy farm, then private credit and family-office work. Then I built a software company, and I run it on AI agents. The numbers above are what that looks like.

I am not a programmer by trade and I do not write the code. I direct the agents that do, the way you direct people. That is the job I teach, because it is the job you already do.

I host the Accredited Capitalists room in Houston every month, for investors and family offices. This seminar is that kind of room, with owners in it.

One of my rules, as it is written

I have 26 of these. Most were written the day something went wrong. This one came from an agent reading eight notes that belonged to other people while it tidied up. Nothing was damaged. Reading was the line.

Mine is written for my software team, so it is longer than yours will be. In the room you write four lines about your invoices, your customer list or your bank, in your own words.

A rule from my own setwritten 2026-08-10

⛔ Somebody else's data - reading it is the line, not just changing it

Owner directive, Michael, 2026-08-10. AGENTS.md § How to work carries the short version of this; here is the full text. It exists because the mutation half of this rule was written down in 2026-07-03 and the ACCESS half was not, so an agent that would never have deleted a customer row read a dozen of their private notes without pausing.

The rule: a hand-run pass over customer records is scoped to the operator's OWN rows unless he names another owner out loud. Backfill, census, cleanup, migration, "let me just look" - all of it. Filter by owner in the FIRST query. Never enumerate a whole table and let other people's rows ride along because they happened to sort into your page.

The line is ACCESS, not damage. A note you read and wrote nothing for still put that person's private text into a transcript, and it stays there. "It produced no rows", "I only read it", and "nothing was modified" are not defenses - they describe the blast radius, not the act. Judge a data pass by whose records it TOUCHED, never by what it changed.

When a task genuinely needs another owner's rows, say so and get a yes first. "The sweep would be incomplete without them" is a reason to ASK, never a reason to proceed - and an incomplete-but-scoped result you report honestly is always the better outcome. If the answer is yes, it covers that pass and those owners; it does not generalise to the next one.

Michael with two people outdoors at an event

From the rooms and events I host in Houston, not from this seminar, which has not been held yet.

Seats

Reserve your company’s seats.

One company. Two seats.

$5,000

per company, both seats, paid in full

The whole day, 9am to 4pm, Thursday, November 12, 2026, in Houston.
Lunch in the room.
A fifteen-minute setup call before the day, so both laptops arrive ready.
The thirty-day checklist and my email address after.
The whole $5,000 credited against my $9,500 two-day read, if you ever book it.

Reserve your company’s two seats

Nothing is charged when you apply. You pay after we have talked and you have the date in writing.

Ten companies. Twenty seats.

When the tenth company confirms, this page closes. The next room does not have a date.

The 4pm guarantee

By 4pm one job in your company runs on its own. If it does not, you get every dollar back before you leave the room.

Running on its own means three things. It starts without you. It does the work. It tells you what it did. No forms, no hoops.

I do not promise a revenue number or hours saved. Nobody has been through this room yet, so there is no honest number to give you, and I will not make one up.

Three steps to a seat.

1
Apply. Two minutes.
Your name, your company, what you run, and who you would bring. Nothing is paid.
2
An AI agent reads it within a minute. Then I do.
It drafts my reply; I read it and send it: a yes, a no with the reason, or one question. That agent is the thing you come here to build.
3
A fifteen-minute call. Then you are in.
We pick the job you bring and set up both laptops. You get the date in writing. Then you pay.

Reserve your company’s two seats

Questions people ask before they apply.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. Nobody writes code. If you can write an email and open a folder, you can do everything in this room.

What is an AI agent, in plain words?

A program you give a job to. Not a chat box you type questions into. You point it at a folder of your real files, you tell it how you like things done, and it does the job and reports back. It can read, write, sort, draft, check and send. It works while you do something else.

Is this the same as ChatGPT?

No. ChatGPT answers a question and forgets you. An agent does a job, remembers how you like it done, and does it again next week without being asked.

When and where is it?

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 9am to 4pm, in a private boardroom in Houston’s Galleria area. The exact room comes with your confirmation. Lunch is in the room.

What does it cost?

$5,000 for the company, both seats, lunch included. You pay after the call, once you have the date in writing. Nothing is charged when you apply. The whole $5,000 credits against my $9,500 two-day read if you ever book it.

Does my company information go into an AI, and who can see it?

Your files stay on your laptop. Nothing of yours is sent to me, and nothing of yours goes on a screen in the room unless you choose to show it. When the agent works, it sends the part of the file it needs to the company that makes it, the same way ChatGPT does when you paste something in. You pick the folder, so you pick what it can see. If there is a folder you would not want touched, do not point it there, and we will talk about that on the call.

What does it cost to keep running after the day?

The agent runs on your own laptop on a paid plan in your own name, with the company that makes it. We set it up together on the call before the day. You own the account and I make nothing from it. Prices move, so we check what it costs that week instead of printing a number here that goes stale.

What do I bring?

A laptop you use for work, and one job you are tired of doing yourself. Before the day we set the laptop up with you on a fifteen-minute call. You do not install anything on your own.

What if my laptop is locked down by an IT person?

Tell me on the call and bring them in. If nothing can be installed on it, we sort out a different machine before the day rather than on it.

Who should I bring, exactly?

The person who keeps things running when you are out. An office manager, a controller, an operations manager, a dispatcher, a chief of staff, a general manager. If you have two candidates, bring the one who is at a computer all day, not the one in a truck.

Does this mean I let someone go?

No. The job you hand over is one nobody wanted. The person you bring leaves with more authority than they came with, not less, and that is what to tell them when you ask them to come.

Will I be lost?

No. There are ten companies in the room and I am there all day. If a table is stuck, we stop until it is not. Nobody in this room has done this before except me.

Is it recorded, or can I join online?

The day is recorded, so you can rewatch a part you missed. You also leave with the files on your own laptop, which is the part that matters. The room itself is in person, not online.

What if I cannot make the date, or it does not work for my business?

Tell me as soon as you know and I move you to the next room or send the money back; the wording is on the refunds page. And if you did the work and one job is not running on its own by 4pm, you get every dollar back before you leave the room.

Thursday, November 12, 2026. Houston. Ten companies.

One job off your desk, running without you, by 4pm.

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