Clouds & Waves: We Build Builders

Clouds & Waves: We Build Builders There are two kinds of people in AI right now. People who talk about it. And people who ship it. One group has a slide deck. The other has scar tissue. On August 19, the second group is sitting at a long table at Malcolm Yards. And they are not doing a presentation. They are just sitting there. Ready to answer anything you ask. Our forward deployed engineers will be at that table. These are the people who put agents into production inside real companies. Manufacturing floors. Healthcare systems. Quote to cash. Scheduling. BOM automation. They know what breaks at week three. They know what the vendor demo left out. They know what it actually costs when the pilot meets the real data. Ask them. All of it. No NDA theatre. No sales engineer standing behind them with a discount sheet. Train The Next Wave will be there too. Because we do not want to be your dependency. We want to be your head start. Zero to Agent. Four episodes. Paddle Out. Read the Water. Stay on Your Board. Carve It. Built on one idea: you do not learn AI by watching someone else use it. Live sessions at the table. Sit down for ten minutes or two hours. Build something before you leave. We do not build slides. We build builders. And it is still Clouds & Waves. No agenda. No stage. No name tag theatre. No one running the "so what do you do" death spiral on you. Come at 3. Come at 7. Stay five minutes or five hours. The table is long enough for everyone. What to expect Where: Malcolm Yards Food Court, Minneapolis When: Wednesday, August 19, 2026 | 3:00 to 8:00 PM Cost: Free. Actually free. No upsell at the door. Food: All of Malcolm Yards is yours. Martes Tacos. OG Zaza. The full lineup. (Your tab. Our table.) Format: Long table. Real talk. Zero PowerPoint. Zero pitches. New this round: Forward deployed engineers on hand. Train The Next Wave live sessions. Who shows up: Founders. Operators. Engineers. Designers. AI builders. Recovering consultants. People who still believe business should feel human. Who this is for → The leader who has been sold three AI platforms and shipped zero. → The builder who wants to talk to someone who has actually deployed this. → The person who is done watching AI happen to them and ready to make it happen. → The friend who said "I'd go to one of these if it wasn't... that." This is not that. Who hosts this CirrusNorth Minneapolis crew building the future of cloud, led by Adam Johnson. Ride The Next Wave The Unconsultants. Working AI prototypes in 4 weeks. Outcomes over PowerPoints. Led by Cihan Behlivan. Two crews. One philosophy: we owe you everything. Drop in any time between 3 and 8. Bring your hardest question. Bring a friend. Bring the colleague who needs to see this is real. Save your seat. We already saved it for you.