In this episode, Mitchell and Gavin unpack a huge week of live events, reflect on the first real signs of SaaS leverage inside SixSides, talk through plans to hire their first extra team members, and share why Project Rendezvous could become a major turning point for the business.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Intro

• What happened at the CCF Women in Civil event and how attendee usage is improving
• Why SixSides needs a better post-event attendee engagement strategy
• How the team is thinking about email automation and lifecycle messaging with Bento
• The current growth in platform users across all SixSides events
• Why Mitchell and Gavin are planning their first hires across development and lead generation
• How Project Rendezvous could unlock faster growth and more engineering capacity
• The moment SixSides started to feel like a real software business with paid events running without hands-on support
• Lessons from Project Hammer and how event setup is becoming more repeatable
• Bridging the gap between operations and development with better planning in Linear
• Why the team is looking at PostHog to better understand the user journey on the marketing website
• How bootstrapping affects hiring, planning, and long-term product decisions
• When AI agents might become part of the team structure

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