SpaceXAI has eleven presenters, a sales team, Grok Bot and three days in San Francisco. I’ve got Claude, one day and a fan on Koh Phangan. Thursday Sept 17 I’m designing 100 small, real-world businesses built to give people financial freedom in a world of AI and robots, live. Friendly challenge.
This week SpaceXAI is running Grok Bot Galaxy: three days in San Francisco, eleven presenters and a sales team, showing what its AI bots can do inside companies. Fair play, it looks great.
On Thursday September 17, a New Zealander on Koh Phangan, Thailand, is sitting down with Claude, just the two of us, to design a hundred small, real-world businesses with one job: give an ordinary person financial freedom that still holds up when AI and robots are everywhere. Steel boxes, water refill cabinets, lockers, storage yards, dog wash bays. The machines do the boring bits, the AI does the planning and admin, and a person owns the thing.
So it’s also Claude versus Grok. Their bots are built to do jobs. Mine is designing businesses that mean you don’t need one. Same week, opposite direction.
Ten blueprints an hour, straight through the day.
Hardware costs, software, who buys it, per-unit numbers.
A starting plan and an honest verdict on each one.
Some will hold up. Some won’t. All of them stay on the board.
Tile 100 lights at 4:30pm Pacific, the same time as their final showcase.
Nobody you’ve heard of. Thirteen years running unstaffed laundry lockers, a hundred operators, seven countries. Not an AI company.
One email when the stream goes live. Nothing else.