AI brought us together. Vegas handled the rest.
Late September. Founders, marketers and operators in one room, comparing notes on what agentic systems actually do once you stop demoing them and start running a business on them.
Some of it was structured — sessions, slides, a whiteboard that kept getting rewritten. Most of the good part wasn't. It was the hallway, the table after dinner, the laptop turned around so someone could see the thing that broke.
Nobody came for predictions. Everyone there was already shipping something.
Agents, orchestration, search, automation — argued over at close range, with the screens right there.
“One concept can wear a few different outfits.”
— from a slide, mid-session
The part you can't put in a deck.
The sessions ended at some point. The week did not.
Marble, gold columns and a man who could, as it turns out, dance.
Shot on phones, by the people who were there.
Bonsai Marketing Company is the version of that Bryan Fikes is building — agentic systems doing real work for real clients, every day, not in a keynote.
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