Moltbook. MoltBot. OpenClaw.

A “Reddit for AI agents.” Bots talking to bots. A massive security breach. Headlines hinting at AGI and the singularity.

If you have been seeing this everywhere and wondering what actually happened and whether you need to care, this episode is for you.

In this conversation, Kyle James sits down with returning guest John Marcus III, someone he trusts to cut through hype and explain what is real, what is mostly nonsense, and what actually matters for go-to-market professionals.

We break down:

1. What Moltbook and OpenClaw really are, in plain language
2. Why this moment felt new even though the underlying tech is not
3. The real security and governance risks behind the headlines
4. Why AI orchestration matters more than chasing tools
5. What GTM professionals should do now, later, or safely ignore

This is not a demo and not hype. It is a guided walkthrough designed to help you shut the curiosity door, get back to work, and be better prepared for what is coming next.

Links & Resources

1. OpenClaw (GitHub): https://github.com/openclaw
2. Fractional Ventures: https://fractional.ventures
3. Connect with John Marcus III on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwmarcus/

AI agents are everywhere right now. But most go-to-market teams are experimenting without a clear sense of control, governance, or coordination.

In this episode of Builder Stories, Kyle James sits down with Jomar Ebalida to unpack why go-to-market does not have an AI problem. It has an orchestration problem.

Jomar introduces a powerful mental model built around the Bowtie Funnel, a looping view of the customer journey that connects marketing, sales, customer success, and expansion into one system. On top of that system, he explains the need for a control tower, a centralized way to see, manage, and guide AI agents across every stage of go-to-market, with humans always in the loop.

We explore:

1. Why buying AI tools first and figuring it out later is a backward approach
2. How the Bowtie Funnel becomes the map for orchestrating agents across the full customer journey
3. The control tower mental model and why pilots only fly the plane 11 percent of the time
4. The difference between basic workflow automation and reasoning-based agents
5. What “human-in-the-loop” really means and how reliability compounds over time
6. Why the GTM Orchestrator role is emerging as the next evolution beyond RevOps

This conversation is for anyone experimenting with AI in marketing, sales, or customer success who feels like things are moving fast, but not always in the right direction. If you want a clearer way to think about AI, governance, and scale without losing trust or quality, this episode gives you a new map.

Learn More and Connect with Jomar

1. Connect with Jomar on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jomarebalida/
2. Learn more about Bowtie Funnel: https://bowtiefunnel.com/

What happens when the skills you spent decades building suddenly feel obsolete?

In this episode of Builder Stories, Tom Elliott shares the moment AI forced him to confront a terrifying truth. At 50 years old, after spending over a decade building a successful software consulting business, he watched an AI demo that made him physically ill. The machine could do most of what he had built his career on, faster and better.

What followed was not retreat, but reinvention.

Tom walks through the fear, the identity shock, and the decision to either master AI or walk away from knowledge work entirely. He explains how a single month of intense curiosity and hands-on learning flipped his mindset from panic to possibility, and how he went from marketing leader to building agents, voice AI, and production workflows without a traditional engineering background.

This is not a story about hype or shortcuts. It is a story about relevance, agency, and what it really takes to reinvent yourself in the age of AI.

If you have ever wondered whether you are falling behind, or whether it is too late to adapt, this conversation will feel uncomfortably familiar and deeply hopeful.

Learn more and connect with Tom Elliott:

1. Connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomelliottnh/
2. Learn more about Nutum: https://nutum.ai/