Gatherings · Human Signal
A room for people
using AI on real work.
Human Signal is a bi-monthly gathering in Austin. Six evenings a year, capped at 32 people, each one built around a single honest question about using AI without losing the human part of the work. Hosted by me. Not a panel, not a pitch.
How it works.
CadenceEvery other month. Six evenings a year, so each one is worth clearing an evening for.
SizeCapped at 32. Small enough that you talk to most of the room and nobody performs.
ShapeOne theme. A short framing, two or three voices from the room, structured conversation, then time.
RulesNobody sells from the front. No sponsor slide, no name tags, no pitch deck. A hard stop at 9.
Who it is for.
Founders and operators. Salon and studio owners. Clinic owners. Independent practitioners. People who run something and are already using AI on it, badly or well, and have opinions about what it is doing to the work.
Deliberately not a room of engineers talking to each other. The useful version of this evening is the one where a salon owner who automated her booking sits next to an operator rebuilding a team around AI, and they find out they have the same problem.
What an evening looks like.
6:30Doors. Food, something to drink, no programming. Arrive late without missing anything.
7:00The framing. Ten minutes from me on the question we are actually here for, and why it is not settled.
7:15Three voices from the room, eight minutes each. People doing the thing, not people selling it.
7:45Structured conversation. Small groups, one prompt, then back to the full room for what came up.
8:20The room. Unhurried, nothing scheduled, the part most events cut first.
9:00Hard stop. Everyone leaves wanting the next one.
The first four themes.
- The work you stopped doing yourself, and whether you can still do it.
- Taste, when everyone has the same tools and the same output.
- Burnout in a year of infinite output. More capacity has not meant more rest.
- The line you will not cross. What you would never hand to a model, and why.
Themes move based on who is in the room. If you have the evening that you wish existed, put it in the box below and it may end up on this list.
Tickets.
$45General admission
$30Host venue members
$200Season pass, all six
32Seats per evening
Tickets open when the first date is locked. Venue and date are announced together, and the list hears before anyone else does. Ticket revenue covers putting the evening on, which is the whole reason it is priced the way it is.
The container matters as much as the content.