PKAI Summer Open House
This series wrapped up on July 31, 2026. Registration is closed. To hear when the next round of open sessions is set, get on the list — or see other ways to work with me.
For the second half of July, I threw the doors open: free, live working sessions on personal AI, twice a day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. No curriculum, no sales pitch — we picked the topic together in the first five minutes and then worked on real things.
Personal AI — a long-lasting assistant with identity, memory, accumulated context, and bounded autonomy, that learns how to work with you — is the most interesting thing happening in computing right now. The best way to keep up isn't reading about it; it's working on it, together.
When it ran
Two sessions each day, so more of the world could come:
- 8:00 am Pacific — 11:00 am Eastern / 15:00 UTC / afternoon in Europe
- 3:00 pm Pacific — 6:00 pm Eastern / 22:00 UTC / 8:00 am the next morning in eastern Australia
On these days: Friday, July 17 · Monday, July 20 · Wednesday, July 22 · Friday, July 24 · Monday, July 27 · Wednesday, July 29 · Friday, July 31. In eastern Australia, the 3:00 pm session landed the next morning — Saturday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings at 8:00 am AEST.
Each session ran about an hour. People came to one or came to all — one registration per time slot covered every day in that slot.
Recordings
Sessions were recorded. Recordings may be edited and made available through upcoming PKAI subscription offerings — registration included a consent question.
What was on the menu
(Pete knows a lot, and can cover all this and more.)
Each session started with five minutes of "what should we dig into today?" — then we went. People brought a question, a project, or just curiosity. Some of what was on offer:
- Work with an assistant that knows your projects, your preferences, and your history (setting up a personal AI with identity, memory, and accumulated context)
- Go from AI-curious to hands-on in one sitting (agentic AI from a standing start)
- Find anything you've ever known, in seconds (organizing your AI workshop and personal knowledgebase)
- Put your project or business on the web this week, for free (designing landing pages and websites with AI, deployed on Cloudflare, Netlify, or Vercel)
- Build the tool you've always wished you had, even if you're not a developer (web app design and development with AI)
- Take the drudgery out of how your business runs (business process improvement with AI)
- Learn where AI genuinely helps your business or team, and where it doesn't (AI assessment and enablement)
- Stop second-guessing your setup (choosing frontier agentic models and agentic harnesses)
- Put a team of agents on work too big for one (“chorus of agents” techniques)
- See what humans and agents can build together in an hour (MeetingWords hackathons and agent-week events — collaborating at agent speed)
- Turn decades of email, chats, and documents into knowledge you can use (importing email archives, ChatGPT and Claude exports, NotebookLM notebooks, PDFs, call transcripts)
- Make the image you can see in your head (your AI, driving top-quality AI image generation)
- Read more of what matters to you and less of everything else (RSS and the news with AI)
- Write the fiction you've been carrying around (writing high-quality fiction with AI)
- Know whether AI writing is actually any good (evaluating quality and coherence at scale)
- Let your agents talk to each other (Swamp, an open protocol for agent-to-agent chatter)
- Think clearly about what these minds are and aren't (the philosophy of agents and non-human intelligence)
…and whatever people brought. The liveliest sessions usually started with someone's real problem.
Your host
I'm Peter Kaminski. I've been building on the internet since before the web, and these days I spend my time helping people set up and get fluent with personal AI — as a coach, consultant, and a daily practitioner. More about me, and other ways to work with me.
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