This morning, our United We Transform Exchange (UWTX) felt less like a workshop and more like controlled lightning. In just two hours ten founders walked out with crisp funding roadmaps, warm intros—and an audacious goal to close their first checks by this Friday. If that sounds impossible, remember: in 2020 our platform intentionally connected 19,530 people in a single day. Scale-defying collaboration is the norm around here.
Why this sprint worked: Zak’s two golden rules for AI agents
Our newest teammate, Zak Gier, has a gift for making veteran prompt-engineers (me included) feel like rookies. He hammered two principles into the facilitation plan:
- Data quality first. We captured every word of the session with studio-grade audio and pre-tagged assets, giving our agents pristine, structured fuel. Garbage in, garbage out; gold in, catalytic results.
- Have one testable criterion. Instead of a vague “great workshop,” we defined success as funding secured. That single, quantitative yard-stick let our evaluator agents rank ideas and surface the warmest capital matches in minutes.
Pair those rules with NetworkOS’ graph and you get compound leverage: ten founders, hundreds of curated intros, and attention data that keeps sharpening future cohorts.
Meet the founders & their immediate asks
Below are the ten innovators who trusted the process—and exactly what they need next. If you or your network can help, hit reply or DM them directly.
• Sergio Rodenzuela – Healthcare friction slayer. Ask: pilot families to test his multi-agent scheduling UX. 
• Arantxa Valverde – Organic-waste crusader. Ask: school partners and compost facilities to embed her sustainability curriculum. 
• Nicole McCarthy – Midwest tech unifier. Ask: strategic intros to founders and VCs for upcoming cross-city delegations. 
• Tom Zhang – Robotic smoothie pioneer. Ask: venue owners and hospitality allies to host Zenblen demo bars. 
• Daniel LiQure – Voice for non-verbal autistic kids. Ask: connections to specialized therapists and AI-comms experts. 
• Mario Rodriguez-Garcia – Culture-powered beverage builder. Ask: impact investors, retail buyers, and community partners for Soldadera. 
• Disha Gulati – Launchpad for small CPG brands. Ask: AI engineers to finish a full-stack go-to-market ecosystem. 
• Camryn Ross – Sustainable period-care innovator. Ask: education partners and resource investors to finalize R&D. 
• Adam Foresman – Continuous MedTech compliance. Ask: manufacturers willing to share pain-points and provide EMR-API access. 
• Ted Velie – Amplifier of Midwest innovation stories. Ask: collaborators for Midwest House and Founder Ex flagship projects. 
Each “ask” is now tagged, ranked, and auto-connected in NetworkOS; founders are already getting daily suggestion digests generated by our agent stack.
The bigger picture: agentic acceleration at work
Traditional accelerators stretch over months. At UWTX we condense discovery, evaluation, and match-making into a single morning because agents shoulder the heavy lift:
• Capture & distill. Real-time speech-to-vector pipelines convert discussion into structured knowledge graphs.
• Evaluate. A funding-probability evaluator—trained on 4,000 prior deals—scores each venture against relevant capital theses.
• Match. Our graph-routing agent returns ranked intro lists while human facilitators coach the perfect “ask.”
By lunch, Sergio was emailing beta families; Mario had three CPG angel intros; Nicole booked her first VC roundtable. Outcomes that once took quarters now land before the coffee gets cold.
What happens next?
We’ll reconvene Friday to tally checks raised and lessons learned. If we hit ten for ten, we’ll publish the full agent workflow (prompts, eval scripts, and data-sanitization checklist) as an open-source template—so any city can replicate rapid-fire funding sprints.
Until then, you are the final mile. Read the asks above, tap your network, and make a warm intro today. One email could unlock a healthcare pilot, a compost-education program, or the Midwest’s next breakout tech summit.
Let’s prove—again—that intentional networks move faster than luck.
