The room where Physical AI lets its guard down.
An intimate circle of founders, investors, and researchers, known to each other by their work, not their following. Robotics. Embodied systems. Hardware that thinks.
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What we believe
- Proof over prestige.
- Trajectory over polish.
- Contribution over follower count.
Every seat is earned the same way: by the work. Not the following, not the logo on the badge, not the size of the last round.
Three or four founders. Two or three investors. Two or three researchers. That is the whole room.
the work
No panels. No pitch decks. No recordings. No lanyards. Just dinner together, small enough that no one talks past you and no one performs for the room.
We look for diamonds where no one is digging.
The people at this table are usually the ones the spotlight hasn’t found yet. We read the work itself: the machine that runs, the deployment that survived the field, the idea nobody else believed in early enough.
If your work is louder than your name, you are exactly who this room was made for. No formula seats you here. A person does, slowly, and with care.
When it’s time, you won’t get a link. You’ll get a letter.
Every invitation is written by hand. One person, one page, one reason you belong at this table. There are no blasts, no waitlists, no plus-ones. If a seat has your name on it, it’s because someone here already knows your work and wanted you in the conversation.
We already know what you give, what you need, and who you should be sitting beside.
Give
What you carry that the others can’t find anywhere else. The deployment story. The hard-won failure. The insight that isn’t fashionable yet.
Need
What you’re actually looking for right now, said plainly, to people who can actually help.
Adjacency
The neighbor you didn’t know you needed. The researcher whose dead end is your shortcut. The investor who already believes what you’re proving.
You don’t have to perform here. You get to be yourself.
The host carries everything else: the logistics, the introductions, the care. Nothing is recorded and nothing is owed. Around this table you can say the unfinished thing, admit the hard part, laugh about what broke at two in the morning.
Everyone here has already passed the only test that matters. So nobody has anything to prove.
We hold ourselves to our own standard: the real.
Nothing here is a projection. Every number is a night, a conversation, a piece of footage we can put in front of you.
2 Invite-only rooms convened, in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
20+ Applications declined for a single Los Angeles room.
11 Founder conversations filmed at CES 2026.
43 Minutes, one take: our longest founder interview from CES.
50+ Attendees at the summit we organized.
3 Campuses visited in person: UCLA, USC, Caltech.
Ask us about any number on this page over dinner. Each one has a story, and we would love to tell it to you.
There is no ticket. There is only the work.
Tell us what you’ve built: the machine, the deployment, the idea others missed. If the room is right, a handwritten invitation will find its way to you.
Seats are for builders. Sponsorships keep the table free for them. Collaborations are for kindred rooms and partners.