What Is the Optimus Mastermind?
Optimus is an application-only mastermind, framework library, and AI agent platform for founders — sweet spot $5M–$50M — who want to stop scaling by hiring and start scaling by deploying agents. The model is build-with, not done-for-you: you stand up your own FAST business (Factory of Agents with Skills and Tools) alongside a room of founders doing the same thing, with your first agent running in the first 15 minutes.
That last distinction is the whole identity of the thing, so let's start there.
What does "build with, not done-for-you" actually mean?
There are two ways to get AI into a business. The done-for-you way: hire an agency or consultant, they build something, they hand it over, they leave — and the capability leaves with them. Six months later the thing they built is stale, nobody in-house understands it, and you're negotiating a retainer to keep your own automation alive.
The build-with way: you — the founder, the person who actually knows where the money leaks — learn to direct agents yourself, inside a room where everyone else is doing the same, with a library of proven skills so you never start from a blank page. The capability lands in you and compounds from there. That's Optimus.
It's a harder pitch than "we'll do it for you." It's also the only version that survives contact with year two. A FAST business isn't a deliverable someone can hand you. It's an architecture you have to own.
What do members actually get?
- Multiple weekly support calls — wherever you're stuck, someone in the room has already solved it.
- Daily WhatsApp updates — what the team is shipping, what's working, what to copy.
- Feature Friday — something new ships every single week.
- Three in-person events per year — Phoenix base, intimate room, real founders.
- The full OSLO library — 300+ portable AI skills, updated weekly by the tribe.
- The FAST agent stack — agents, skills, tools, and the Orchestrator that runs them.
- Direct access to Brad Hart and the inner circle of founders building FAST businesses.
Notice what's not on the list: a video vault you'll never finish, a community forum full of tire-kickers, a certification. If you want a course to consume passively, this is the wrong room — we say that out loud, in writing.
How does the method work?
| Phase | Timeline | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| 01 — Talk to an agent | First 15 minutes | You get agents running locally and in the cloud before lunch. No setup theater, no two-week onboarding. You feel the difference immediately. |
| 02 — Deploy & Automate | Weeks 1–8 | Pick the highest-leverage workflows. Equip agents with skills from the OSLO library. Wire them to the tools that actually run your business. Replace recurring human work one workflow at a time. |
| 03 — Compound | Day 60–90 and beyond | Revenue-per-employee climbs. Your role shifts from operator to architect. You stop hiring and start orchestrating. |
Fifteen minutes to your first agent. Ninety days to a FAST business. The method sits on top of the eight Optimus Frameworks — the architecture the whole ecosystem is built from.
Does the guy running it actually use this stuff?
Fair question — most masterminds teach a playbook the founder ran once, years ago. Optimus runs the whole company on the thing it teaches, in public, this year. The 2026 receipts on the homepage: 65+ private repos, 20,000+ commits, 4M+ lines of code, 308 agent skills, 38+ live sites, 78 USPTO-filed patents with roughly 1,275 claims — produced by one founder directing a fleet of agents. Every number is on GitHub. The point isn't the commits; it's that one person commanding agents produced them.
Who is Optimus for — and who is it not for?
The sweet spot is founders running $5M–$50M businesses who want to stop trading time for money. Below that can work too — if your offer and sales process are already dialed and you just need leads or ops leverage. You should already get AI and want to operationalize it across the whole company, not dabble with a chatbot on Friday afternoons.
It's not for the pre-revenue (get to your first $1M, then come find us), not for passive consumers, and not for anyone who won't look at their business honestly — the work starts with a diagnosis. Before you apply, it's worth knowing how to evaluate any mastermind and what to prepare before you join one.
FAQ
Is Optimus a course?
No. There is nothing to consume passively. Optimus is a tribe — you build with the room. Members get multiple weekly support calls, daily WhatsApp updates on what the team is shipping, three in-person events per year, and the full OSLO skill library. The output is a working FAST business, not a certificate.
How fast do I get my first agent running?
First 15 minutes. You walk in, we get you talking to agents — running on your laptop and running in the cloud — before lunch. Then over the next 60–90 days you stand up the full FAST architecture on your real workflows.
How do I join Optimus?
By application only, at buildwithoptimus.com. Tell us about your business, where the bottlenecks are, and what you want the next ninety days to look like. Every submission is reviewed within 48 hours. No high-pressure call, no funnel theater.
What is a FAST business?
FAST stands for Factory of Agents with Skills and Tools. Instead of scaling headcount, you scale agents — software that reasons, uses skills, and executes through tools. Revenue per employee climbs as agent capacity replaces hiring, and your scale ceiling shifts from hours in the day to tokens per month.