Laura Cruickshanks

Today, we're launching Multiplayer Bots at PromptQL: Word → Google Docs Photoshop → Figma Grok Bots, Muse, Instinct → Multiplayer Bots

This July, Excedr raised $25M to help scientists lease expensive life sciences equipment to accelerate research. This is their PromptQL story, and of how they've become one of the most AI pilled startups in the valley. Jon started Excedr when he was frustrated with literally having to run uphill for lab equipment at Berkeley. So he started Excedr, a company that scientists now love to help them get the equipment they need. But after 15 years of running Excedr he had a view of the business that was hard to give to everyone else, and as science research is starting to accelerate and things are scaling rapidly, Jon was the bottleneck to scaling up. The reasons behind an underwriting decision. What finance learned from a particular customer. How the team works. The context that's obvious only if you were in the room. At @ExcedrInc, they're bringing those pieces together in PromptQL, so people and AI can work from shared knowledge rather than each starting with their own fragment. Jon calls it the Excedr-verse. And hearing @jonchee_excedr, Sasha and Emilia talking about their multiplayer AI with shared context has utterly blown my mind. It makes me so happy to be a partner in their journey to quite literally help make the world a better place to live in ❤️ 🏥 We went inside it for the latest 4min episode of "Inside an AI-Native Company"

Today we’re launching something for the era where every AI logo looks like a butthole, ❌ Bots ❌ Dots ✅ Pots Supports all models. Except Muse, obv.

WOOT. Just in time. In tomorrow's Jev hackthon, we'll be pitting Clef against Jev! We'll kick off w a bot we just deployed at PromptQL. Replacing a $100k in GTM spend on linkedin sales navigator, zoominfo, LLMs with $25 on a Jev based flow. Join us! luma.com/jev4

Available on @PromptQL now. My goodness, GPT 6 Luna is 50x cheaper than Opus 4.5/GPT 5.6 Sol. Going to switch my deepseek workloads to Luna and see how it is.

🥳The winner of the Sunday Jev Hackathon! Someone commented how this was an entire university capstone built in under 60 mins :) Congratulations to Swaroop! Will showcase more of the builds soon! And if you’re in SF and want to come build with Jev, join us for the hackathons on Thursday or Friday this week!

most AI workflows use the expensive model on everything. wrong architecture. jev prioritized 1,955 conversations in 87 seconds for $0.23. classify the firehose cheaply. save expensive generation for the moments that matter. see it live: lnkd.in/gJQQZ9w4

BREAKING NEWS: SF and LA Tech Week calendars are LIVE! You can now register for events: tech-week.com/calendar 2,300+ event submissions across San Francisco and Los Angeles 📍SF: October 5-11 📍LA: October 12-18 People always ask about the data, so a few stats: -SF once again takes the crown for “biggest tech week ever” with 1,500+ events -1 in 7 SF events is about agentic AI: 213 events in SF and 53 in LA are explicitly about agents (in the title or description). In 2024 there were only about a dozen! -There are 124 hackathons across the two weeks, and the variety is huge: everything from hardware to defense, media/creative, fintech, civic/social good, etc. Everyone is a builder now. - LA, the OG Tech Week (now in its fifth year!), has seriously doubled down on deep tech with 100+ events and lots of El Segundo activity. Last year, Tech Week saw attendees from over 100 countries. It’s going to be a party. See you there! 🥳

Tuesday night at the PromptQL office, teams shared demos and lessons from working with AI together. AI Pilled Night 3 brought together people building with multiplayer AI across GTM, incident response, coding, and product. Thanks to our presenters, attendees, and @EntireHQ . lu.ma/promptql

INSANE moment at PromptQL! Just closed our first 8 figure deal at a Fortune 500. Excluding token costs tyvm. I jotted down some learnings that might be useful if you're a founder in the AI space – esp. at the application layer. My observations are downstream of 3 big changes: ⁠⋅Unstable reference architecture ⋅Existential chaos on both sides ⁠⋅Security The six lessons: ⁠1⃣ Navigators, beyond just champions 2⃣FDXs along with FDEs (forward deployed execs) 3⃣Tokens is the budget line-item 4⃣Customers want to deepen their moat, not just understand yours 5⃣Multi-tenancy is dead 6⃣Connect to the data, don't move it Ofc all the old rules still apply. You need a real product, provide value, build a relationship etc. No shortcuts there. Full article: nitter.gq/tanmaigo/status/209203…