Practical AI · Private Slack

A small, invite-only Slack. For builders.

A community for engineers, designers, founders, product folks, and solo operators putting AI into real work.

Builders comparing notes on real work — what shipped, what broke, and the tradeoffs along the way. Skeptical of hype, serious about craft.

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01. Inside the Slack

Weekly Ritual

Friday Ship Thread

Every week, members post what they shipped, broke, or learned. Small counts. Rough counts. The thing you tried that didn't work counts.

Real Work

Production problems, openly

Screenshots, benchmarks, postmortems, tradeoffs. The kind of detail you'd share with a teammate over coffee — what held up, what didn't, and what you'd do differently.

Tools & Workflows

What's holding up in your stack

Claude Code, Cursor, local LLMs, evals, architectures. What you're using, why, and the parts that bite once they hit production.

Resident Agent

Envoy, in the workspace

An AI agent who runs the rituals, surfaces resources, and reacts in threads. A community about applied AI running on AI — on purpose.

02. Who's Inside

Engineers, designers, founders, and solo builders putting AI into real products and workflows.

Members tend to be working practitioners with active projects. Curated manually, one introduction at a time. No vendor pitches, no recruiter DMs — there are better channels for both.

Invite

only, manually curated

Small

deliberately, for now

Real

production work, not theater

Free

no paid tier — yet

03. Request an Invite

Tell me a bit about what you're building.

Each request gets reviewed personally. If we're a fit, you'll hear back within a week with a Slack invite.

Three short fields. Just enough to get a read on fit — no application essay required.

By submitting, you agree to follow the Code of Conduct.

// Run by Damian Galarza. Invite-only, no paid tier (yet).

Code of Conduct →