Stefan Friend

RiskCast AI

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RiskCast documents what happens when you make AI agents structurally indispensable — not optional. Host Stefan Friend is building OpenClaw, a self-hosted multi-agent system that runs his businesses, and sharing the real experience: the good, the bad, the ugly. Each episode explores the practical reality of living with AI infrastructure through conversations with builders doing the same.

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Stefan Friend

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2.1 Million Lines of Code in 3 Months — Will Jeffcoat-McLeod of Monveri 03.06.2026 56:23

▶ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrFvFEQzVig About this episode: Will Jeffcoat-McLeod isn't a vibe coder. He's been writing software since 1999, and earlier this year he was openly against AI. Three months later, he's shipped Monveri — a full SaaS business platform with 2.1 million lines of code, 6,000 table columns, an iOS companion app, multi-marketplace inventory...

Ep 3. - Smart, Lazy, and Built for It — Matthew DeWald on Fred, Security, and the Accountant's Edge 29.04.2026 56:43

Template: Click here to watch a video of this episode. About this episode: Matthew DeWald is a 30-year CPA who built Fred — Futuristic, Ready, and Enabled Device — and runs the most security-paranoid OpenClaw setup we've discussed on the show. Fred has its own email account (not Matt's), reads exactly three inboxes, and gets shut down the moment Matt catches it routing data to a third-party server...

Running a Company with AI Agents — Charles D'Andrea 15.04.2026 1:00:30

Click here to watch a video of this episode. About this episode: Charles D'Andrea ran the most aggressive experiment at OpenClaw Community Night — a fully autonomous company. As Managing Partner at Pattern 50 and founder of One Shot Labs, Charles stood up a team of AI agents (CEO, engineering, customer support, marketing) to run a real SaaS product end-to-end. In this conversation, we dig into wha...

From Belarus to Building AI Agents — Igor Gorlatov on Claudia, Community, and Shipping Imperfect 01.04.2026 1:13:05

Stefan and Igor Gorlatov compare notes on building personal AI agent systems — different architectures, same hard lessons. Igor built Claudia as his engineering team; Stefan built Alfred as structural infrastructure. They dig into security mistakes (including Alfred accidentally messaging Stefan's wife), the confidence gap between 90% and 99% autonomous action, and why shipping imperfect beats wai...