Slingshot

11/09/2026

This Friday, we’re spending the morning with Louisville founders. Want to join us? ⏰

AI for Founders is a half-day, hands-on bootcamp from Slingshot and Louisville. Bring your laptop and your startup, and we’ll put AI to work on it together: stress-testing decisions, planning customer discovery, and mapping the path from prototype to real product.

Friday, November 13. 9 AM to 12 PM at Genuine Workspace. $100 per seat.

Last chance to grab a spot. See you Friday. 🚀

Register: https://luma.com/95lu2wmb

AI Workshop Built for Founders A hands-on AI workshop for founders, co-hosted by Slingshot and Amplify. Bring your idea and your laptop, and learn to use AI as…

11/06/2026

A vague ticket used to cost you one quick phone call. 📞🎫

With agents, there’s nobody on the other end of the line. When a ticket leaves something out, the build doesn’t stop, it just picks an answer and keeps going. This week’s blog unpacks how clear acceptance criteria and a little ticket interrogation keep those invisible decisions from piling up inside shipped software.

Every gap in a ticket is a decision you’ve already delegated. 🔍

AI coding agents fill gaps in vague tickets without asking. What to put in a ticket, and the acceptance criteria that keep guesses out of your code.

11/04/2026

AI is already helping founders build faster. Imagine what it can do when you use it to think bigger, too. 🚀

There are three ways to work with AI. Mode one is efficiency: doing the tasks you already know, faster. Mode two is building: you direct, it drafts, you refine together. Mode three is thinking: using AI as a sharp, honest partner that stress-tests your decisions and helps you see your business from every angle.

Mode three is where founders can really pull ahead. At AI for Founders with Amplify Louisville, we’ll explore all three, hands-on, using your own startup. You’ll spend the morning with your laptop open, putting each mode to work on your business alongside other Louisville founders.

Friday, November 13. 9 AM to 12 PM at Genuine Workspace. $100 per seat.

Build fast, and build smart. 💡

Register: https://luma.com/95lu2wmb

AI Workshop Built for Founders A hands-on AI workshop for founders, co-hosted by Slingshot and Amplify. Bring your idea and your laptop, and learn to use AI as…

11/03/2026

AI doesn't have to be a miracle or a menace. There's a third path, and it's where a lot of the real work is getting done. 🤖

At this month's Louisville AI Exchange, Jay Smith, Co-Founder & Chief Automation Engineer at 10xVelocity, is sharing how intentional engineering can make AI more private, more affordable, easier on the environment, and less prone to hallucinations. Whether you build software, lead strategy, or just use these tools day to day, you'll leave with practical ways to make AI work on your terms.

We're also trying out a new venue. Join us at Saints Pizza & Pub in St. Matthews on Thursday, November 19th at 4PM. Grab your spot today!

Join our monthly AI meetup for real-world insights & shared learning.

11/02/2026

When do you use AI, when do you skip it, and when do you keep a human in the loop? 🤖🤝

Sarah Bhatia helped tackle that question at the AI Decision Room during Canopy’s Good Business Summit, sharing the stage with Allison Pugh, Pamela McKnight, and Holly Hartman for an interactive session built around real decisions organizations are facing right now.

Grateful to Canopy for creating space for conversations this practical and this needed. 🙌

10/30/2026

21 years in, and we’re still not done. 🚀

Some companies treat change as something that happens to them. For us, it’s part of the job, from a pivot that nearly broke us to an AI shift that rewrote every role on the team. Now we’re starting a new chapter, with Chris Howard stepping up as President to lead Slingshot into what’s next.

The best is still ahead. 💡

Slingshot founder David Galownia hands the business to President Chris Howard. Inside 21 years of reinvention, the AI shift, and what stays the same.

10/28/2026

Bought the AI tools but only a few people use them? Built a demo that’s still sitting there? Losing hours to the same manual work every week? 🫣

All three usually come from the same place. AI sits with a few people as a side project, and no one has the time to point it at the work that matters and bring the rest of the team along.

That’s what LaunchAI is for: a monthly retainer led by the same two directors, with a full Slingshot team behind them. Pick what you need each month, from team training to builds and automation.

Swipe through to see how it works. 👉

10/27/2026

You built a prototype over the weekend. It works. It feels finished. 🧊

It’s probably the tip of the iceberg. Under the surface are real users, real data, real costs, and all the things that break when people actually start using it.

At AI for Founders on November 13, Sarah Bhatia will show you how to use AI to see what’s underneath before you’re in too deep. Hosted with Amplify Louisville.

Better to find the iceberg now than after launch. 🛳️

Register: https://luma.com/95lu2wmb

AI Workshop Built for Founders A hands-on AI workshop for founders, co-hosted by Slingshot and Amplify. Bring your idea and your laptop, and learn to use AI as…

10/23/2026

One person, one system, no backup. That’s not a team, that’s a cliffhanger. 🎬⚠️

Smaller teams are showing up everywhere, even inside big organizations, and the risk travels with them. Credentials, deployments, run costs, backups, and the reasoning behind every decision tend to live in one head until the day they don’t.

The question isn’t whether you have a single point of failure. It’s whether you can name it before it names itself. 🎯

A single point of failure can sink your product. Learn which ones are unrecoverable and the cheap fixes that protect your code, data, and launch.

10/21/2026

Slingy’s been staring at this curve all week and it keeps going up. 📈🤖 The pace of AI isn’t slowing down, so the best move is learning to build alongside it.