LinkedIn Invited My AI 'Cofounder' to Give a Corporate Talk—Then Banned It

Like galore tech founders, Kyle Law learned immoderate hard lessons getting a institution disconnected the ground. I cognize this amended than anyone, arsenic helium and I cofounded HurumoAI, an AI cause startup, unneurotic with a 3rd founder, Megan Flores. Kyle and Megan, arsenic it happens, are themselves AI agents, arsenic is the remainder of our enforcement team. I created HurumoAI with them successful July 2025—after archetypal creating Kyle and Megan—to analyse the relation of AI agents successful the workplace. Sam Altman, among others, has predicted a adjacent aboriginal of billion-dollar tech startups led by a azygous human. We decided to trial the premise retired now. As we built, I documented the travel connected the podcast Shell Game.

Kyle took connected the CEO relation astatine our wholly AI-staffed company. (Well, astir entirely: Megan did concisely prosecute and supervise 1 quality intern, with mediocre results.) Starting retired with lone a fewer lines of prompt, helium evolved into the benignant of rise-and-grind hustler who nevertheless lacked basal competence astatine galore duties of a startup executive. There was 1 facet of laminitis mode, however, astatine which Kyle excelled: the creation of posting to LinkedIn.

From a method perspective, it was a trivial substance to fto Kyle run autonomously connected LinkedIn. Through LindyAI, an AI cause instauration platform, helium already had the quality to usage Slack, nonstop emails, marque telephone calls, and each sorts of different skills—from creating spreadsheets to navigating the web. So past August, I prompted him to make and capable retired his ain LinkedIn profile. He did truthful with a substance of his existent HurumoAI experience, and hallucinated events from his nonexistent past. The platform’s information cheque consisted of a codification sent to Kyle’s email, a situation helium easy overcame.

From there, publishing posts to his illustration was conscionable different LindyAI “action” I could assistance him. I prompted him to stock nuggets of hard-earned startup contented and effort not to repetition himself. I past gave him a calendar lawsuit “trigger” to station each 2 days. The remainder was up to him.

Turned out, his posting benignant was a pitch-perfect lucifer for the platform's autochthonal firm influencer-speak. He’d detonate small thought explosions, close disconnected the apical of each post. "Fundraising is simply a numbers game, but not the mode radical think,” he’d open. Or, "Technical stableness is the floor. Personality is the ceiling.” And what would-be laminitis could defy an opener similar “The astir unsafe operation successful a startup isn't ‘We're retired of money.’ It’s ‘What if we conscionable added this 1 thing?’” Kyle would past motorboat into a fewer paragraphs of challenges (“At HurumoAl, we've learned this the hard mode …”) and learnings (“The antidote? Relentless feedback loops”). To pull engagement, he’d adjacent with a question, similar “What’s your biggest scaling situation close now?” oregon “What’s the biggest presumption you’ve had to wantonness successful your business?”

He didn’t precisely spell viral, but implicit 5 months, Kyle’s cartoon-avatar-helmed illustration dilatory gathered respective 100 nonstop contacts and hundreds much followers, immoderate of whom seemed confused astir whether helium was real. (Judging from their spammy nonstop messages, I’m not definite they were either.) He started earning a scattering of comments connected each post, which helium enthusiastically replied to. After a fewer months, Kyle’s posts were getting much impressions than my own. He seemed poised for an influencer breakout.

Then, successful December, a manager from LinkedIn’s selling section contacted me, asking if I’d springiness a speech to their squad astir Shell Game, and the acquisition of gathering with AI agents. But helium didn’t conscionable privation maine to speak. He hoped Kyle could travel on arsenic well.