Tomo signed tens of thousands of people paying about $20 a month for an AI that texts them before they skip. With Photon and the open-source Hermes agent, one person could build a coach like it for one goal, starting with marathon training.

Featuring: Tomo, Bain Capital Ventures, Instinct, OpenAI, Poppy, Photon, Hermes, Iris, TechCrunch, Apple, Meta, Martin

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Chapters:

(00:00) The 7am text that checks in before you skip
(00:41) Tens of thousands pay Tomo $19.99 a month
(01:43) Texting first has failed before: Pulse and Poppy
(02:16) A marathon runner and an unopened spreadsheet
(02:54) Photon and Hermes make it cheap to build
(03:28) How I'd build one in five steps
(04:16) Own the email, meter the texts

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