Charleston · October 2026
COMMANDER
Your AI. Your terms. Your business.
Build, launch and own your AI executive assistant.
In one day you build your own AI executive assistant — named, supporting you with whatever you need, and doing real work before you walk out.
This is empowerment, not a product.
Nobody's renting you anything. We unlock you, and the resource you leave with is yours forever — no licence, no seat, no monthly anything to Commander.
Charleston · Thursday, October 15
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Networking Happy Hour After
A private historic military installation on the coast.
Location revealed upon registration.
For Owners. For Loan Officers. For Realtors. For Entrepreneurs. For Artists. For Visionaries. For Everyone.
For You.
Now — tell your AI executive assistant what hurts.
OBJECTIVE: No lead goes quiet again.
Meet your briefing officer
AI executive assistant at Commander
Lieutenant Dan.
He never lets one of our leads go quiet.
MISSION: Revive the quiet pipelineYour briefing from Lieutenant Dan
In Dan's Wheelhouse
For the mission you picked
Watch one work
Experience him now
He'll call you the moment you hit the button. He answers your questions, solves your problems.
- Builds your website — and changes it at 11 PM without asking anyone
- Builds a real app and puts it in the App Store
- Builds internal tools nobody would ever fund
- Writes the code, and fixes it when it breaks
- Stands up a landing page for a single campaign
- Connects two systems that don't talk to each other
- More coming soon
- Writes and schedules the social posts
- Builds and runs the ad campaigns
- Writes email sequences and sends the monthly newsletter
- Makes the images and the graphics
- Writes and edits video scripts
- Turns one piece of content into ten
- Asks your happy clients for reviews
- Reads what performed and tells you why
- More coming soon
- Answers your email in your voice, all day
- Calls people and holds a real conversation
- Answers your phone when you can't
- Sends text messages — once your number is approved, and we'll show you how
- Follows up with every lead until they reply or bow out
- Books, confirms and reschedules appointments
- Screens what comes in and escalates only what needs you
- More coming soon
- Scores every lead overnight by momentum
- Hands you a morning brief: who's hot, who's cooling, who needs your voice
- Drafts the day's touches for one-tap approval
- Never lets a lead go quiet on the day you got busy
- Reactivates a list you gave up on
- Keeps the CRM current without you touching it
- More coming soon
- Reads the long document and gives you only what matters
- Researches a market, a competitor or a person before the meeting
- Analyses your numbers and finds what you missed
- Builds the spreadsheet and the model
- Preps you for the call, then debriefs it after
- Tracks every commitment you made out loud
- More coming soon
- Drafts contracts, quotes, proposals and scopes of work
- Fills out the forms
- Chases the invoices you're owed
- Turns a messy meeting into notes, decisions and owners
- Chases the documents you're waiting on
- Keeps files organised and findable
- More coming soon
- Places orders online
- Books the travel
- Buys the client gifts
- Compares vendors and collects quotes
- Waits on hold for you
- Works the night shift so you don't
- More coming soon
- Trained on your documents, your pricing, your process, your objections
- Speaks in your voice, not a template's
- Gets sharper when you correct it instead of starting over
- Answers only to you
- More coming soon
The tools will change. The skill won't.
Every few years the tools reset — command line, then chatbots, then agents, then whatever's next. The professionals who win aren't the ones chasing each new tool. They're the ones who master the skill that sits above all of them: conducting intelligence — directing it toward what their business actually needs. That's what you'll learn here — in person, hands-on, alongside two Naval Academy officers who spent their careers in command and now build AI inside real businesses.
The skill has a name:
CONDUCTING INTELLIGENCE
Climb the ranks
Your first command
The Commissioning
One day. You arrive with a bottleneck and walk out with your own AI executive assistant — named, working, commissioned in front of the room.
Thursday, Oct 15 · Charleston · 50 seats
Friday — the whole system in service
The Deployment
For the ones who don't want a taste — they want the whole system in service. Book your Commissioning day, then stay for Friday the 16th beside Grant and Bill, building your workflows and automations — tested and running before you leave.
Friday Oct 16 · $198, added to your Commissioning day · 50 seats
BUDS Helm Week
Seven days. Six nights. Once a year. Fifteen seats. The week where Commanders become something else entirely — they become brothers.
By invitation and application only
The founders
Every officer has a service jacket.
Bill Sandvig
Companies Founded & Software Built
Every one is live — open any of them.
Grant Whitmer
Companies Founded & Software Built
Every one is live — open any of them.
On your seat
God Is a Vibe Coder — in paperback. The rest of the library, digital.
Every Commander leaves with Grant Whitmer's newest book in hand and free digital access to all eight titles. Tap any cover for the story — and where to get the paper version.
Real people, real businesses, on camera
They built theirs. Ask them how.
Christa Votaw helps families buy homes — filmed on her beach trip, business running itself. Earl Proeger guides clients through financial turning points. Grant and Bill trained them both on this exact system — the same one you build at the Commissioning.
More to watch
The 350-year passion project
For forty years, Earl collected original Quaker volumes from the 1600s — a hundred of them, the oldest from 1674. Then he and his AI executive assistant rewrote them into modern English, annotated, linked, and published: sixty restored volumes, on a world-class website, available to everyone. "This thing brought back life to something I'd had on my shelf for thirty years."
Earl Proeger — trained by Grant and Bill on this exact system.
See Earl and his AI executive assistant's work here →Earl — we're so proud of your creativity, vision, & passion. Keep blowing us away.— Grant & Bill
The manifest
Everything that leaves with you
Nothing here is a bonus. It is the list.
What you leave owning
Your AI executive assistant
Named, working, and yours — built beside you on the day, wired into your own accounts.
The skill to run it
Not a walkthrough you forget by Friday. The thing you keep when the tools turn over.
The room
Everyone else who paid to be serious about this, on the same day.
First two months free — $97/month after
Your assistant's harness and controls
Speak it into existence — windyword.ai
All eight of Grant's books, digital
Your AI Operating Map — the DNA building process
On site, on us
Drinks on us, firepit going
God Is a Vibe Coder — paperback, on your seat
Forever. There is nothing to cancel because there is nothing to start.
Dates & pricing
A private historic military installation on the Charleston coast — exact location revealed upon registration.
One price. It does not go up.
✓ Every seat is backed by the founders' guarantee →
The Commissioning
One day, Thursday the 15th. You build your AI executive assistant.
Thursday, October 15
50 seats
$499
One price. It does not go up.
Have a friend's code? $100 off at checkout.
The Deployment
Friday the 16th, putting the whole system into service. It is added to a Commissioning day, not sold on its own: book Thursday, and add Friday for $198 at checkout.
Friday, October 16
Friday holds 50 seats
$198
Added to your Commissioning day
Share the value. Join us free.
Every Commander gets a personal code. Anyone who uses it takes $100 off their seat — and you get $100 back for each one. Share it with enough friends and your own seat is free. Then keep going: up to $1,900 more.
Questions, answered straight
What exactly is the founders' guarantee?
It means Bill and Grant put their names on the day. Attend the Commissioning — all of it — and if you walk out feeling your time wasn't well spent, tell them, and they'll cover the cost of your seat. No forms, no fine print, no argument. This isn't a discount and it isn't a promotion; it's how two officers run an event they're proud of. If the day doesn't deliver for you, its cost belongs to them — not you.
Who sees my business data?
Your AI, on your terms. What you build here answers to you — not to someone else's terms of service.
Do I need to be technical?
No. Neither are most people in the room. You're not learning to code — you're learning to direct. If you can brief a new hire, you can do this.
Is this training, coaching, or consulting?
All three, honestly — and none of them exactly. It's hands-on training: you build a working AI executive assistant yourself, live, that day. There's coaching in the room — Bill, Grant, and the crew work with you at your table until yours works. And because everything is built against your actual business, you leave with what consulting usually only recommends. If you're comparing it to an AI course, class, workshop, or seminar: those teach you about AI. Here you learn by building yours — and it clocks in the next morning.
What do I bring?
A laptop (not a tablet) — Mac 2018 or newer, or Windows 10/11, 8GB RAM minimum — your charger, and one real bottleneck from your business, written down. Chrome or Edge preferred. A personal machine beats a corporate-locked one.
What if my laptop can't run it?
You'll finish regardless. Everything essential runs in a browser on an account we set up for you before you arrive, and there are loaner laptops and a help desk on site. Nobody leaves without a working AI executive assistant.
Where exactly is it?
A private historic military installation on the Charleston coast. The exact address is revealed when you register — it's in your confirmation email.
What about parking?
Street parking is plentiful, and golf carts run a loop from 8:00 AM. Full details come in your confirmation and day-before emails. Carpooling is encouraged.
What's the refund policy?
Your ticket is transferable to another person at any time. Refunds are available up to 7 days before your event date.
Is this a sales pitch for something else?
No. One day, one outcome: you leave with a working AI executive assistant. If you want to go further afterward, the next step exists — but the day stands on its own.
What exactly will I build?
An AI executive assistant configured for your business. A loan officer's drafts follow-ups and pre-approval letters in their voice. A realtor's writes the listing launch — description, posts, the email to their sphere. An owner's handles intake, quotes, and the paperwork that eats evenings. Yours is built against the real bottleneck you bring in the door.
Who is this NOT for?
People looking for a get-rich system, a stock-tips seminar, or a room to sit in the back of. The day is hands-on and built for working professionals with a real business and real clients. If that's you, you'll be among your own.
You walk in a professional. You walk out a Commander.
Charleston, this October. Fifty seats on each Commissioning day — fifty on Friday for The Deployment.