WNCP AI × The Guest House

Build Your Own
AI Agent.

A two-weekend build retreat where founders and operators leave with a personal AI agent — running on hardware they control.

Everyone is experimenting with AI. Nobody has an operating system. In two weekends at The Guest House in LeDroit Park, you configure, define, and deploy a personal AI agent — and learn how to run it with your team.

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12Seats per cohort
02Weekends + async week
05Layer agentic stack
01Working agent you own

01 — The Promise

Not a course. Not a demo. Not a subscription. A system you run on Monday.

This is a build retreat. Over two weekends, you bring your own computer and your business context. WNCP AI helps you configure a personal AI agent that handles real workflows — research, drafting, meeting prep, follow-up, and delegation to your team. Monday morning, it works.

01

A Working Agent

Your agent — configured with your context, your voice, and your priorities — running on hardware in your office, not a server someone else controls.

02

A Team Playbook

Step-by-step instructions for your operator or assistant: how to maintain the agent, assign work to it, and review output — no engineering required.

03

An Operating Rhythm

A weekly cadence for delegating, reviewing, and improving — so the agent gets better every week, without needing an engineer on staff.

LeDroit Park · Washington, D.C.

A center of Black intellectual life since 1873 — chosen deliberately, not decoratively.

Established 1873Historic District 19741948 2nd Street NW

02 — The Venue

Historic Grounds.
Private Space.
Black Excellence.

The Guest House is a 3,000-square-foot private hospitality venue in LeDroit Park — one of Washington D.C.'s earliest planned communities and a center of Black intellectual life since 1873. Founded by real estate investor Larry Braithwaite, the space is purpose-built for executives who value privacy, intention, and cultural legacy.

A private venue built for concentrated work.

The entire retreat takes place within The Guest House — a private venue with custom programming, on-site staff, and zero public traffic. No hotel ballrooms. No shared conference centers. Every detail of the space supports focused, unbroken work.

A · The Space

3,000 sq. ft. private venue

900 sq. ft. boardroom lounge, two breakout suites, private roof deck, 1,700 sq. ft. courtyard garden, secure high-speed internet, and commercial-grade AV.

B · The Names

Rooms named for Black leaders

The Hilda Brown Lounge, E. Franklin Frazier Suite, Ralph Bunche Suite, General Davis Roof Deck, and Mary Church Terrell Terrace.

C · The Experience

Curated end-to-end

Fine art by creators of color. Catering from Black- and women-owned businesses. Uncompromising privacy. On-site staff. Optional overnight accommodations.

1948 2nd Street NW · Washington, D.C.Visit The Guest House →

03 — Who Runs It

Built by Practitioners, Not Theorists.

WNCP AI is a boutique AI strategy and implementation firm founded by Damien Peters — former Meta Product Manager, MIT Sloan MBA, and founder of WealthNoir (exited 2022). The firm helps organizations turn AI curiosity into working systems they own and operate.

WNCP AI
16Years building product
03Companies — Meta, Zynga, Citi
01Exit — WealthNoir, 2022

Ex-Meta · Zynga · Citibank

16 years building product and technology across consumer, financial, and enterprise platforms. Not consulting — operating.

MIT Sloan MBA · UMD CS / Econ

Adjunct Professor of Product Management, University of Maryland. Board member at /dev/color. Advisor to MLT.

Agentic Operating System

Creator of the agenticos.md stack and the WNCP AI Agentic Operating System — a practical framework for building sovereign AI agents you own, inspect, and operate.

Notable work

MLT20 AI Buildathon·UMD AI & Agents Webinar·Access Mode Cohort AI Support·ELC Executive Leadership Council Retreat·Maryland DGS AI Proposal

04 — Schedule

Two Weekends.
One Working Agent.

Days are hands-on build time. Evenings are salon dinners, speakers, and unstructured conversation. The week between is where you implement — and come back ready to deploy.

Build · Weekend 01Implement · AsyncDeploy · Weekend 02
Weekend 01 · Build

Configure, define, and start running.

Sat · Morning

Agent setup, hardware check, WNCP AI Agentic OS installation, and context loading.

Sat · Afternoon

Soul definition — who your agent is, what it does, what it does not do.

Sat · Evening

AI Salon Dinner — curated conversation on agentic work, executive leverage, and the future of small-team operations.

Sun · Morning

Skill building — core workflows: research, drafting, meeting prep, follow-up.

Sun · Afternoon

Tool integration — connecting your agent to email, Slack, Notion, calendar, and files.

Sun · Evening

Optional social mixer or free time at The Guest House.

Between · Async

Implement with your operator. Office hours via Discord / Slack.

Week 1–2

Implement assigned workflows with your operator. Async support, weekly office hours, and structured check-ins so you return with real questions and real progress.

Weekend 02 · Deploy

Govern, delegate, and roll it out.

Sat · Morning

Progress review, troubleshooting, advanced workflow design.

Sat · Afternoon

Team delegation — designing how your staff requests work from the agent and reviews output.

Sat · Evening

Featured Speaker Session — a builder or operator shares how agents run in their business.

Sun · Morning

Governance and permissions — what the agent can access, escalation rules, audit trails.

Sun · Afternoon

Final testing, team rollout planning, operator playbook review.

Sun · Evening

Graduation and next-steps planning.

Evening Programming

Evening events rotate by cohort: AI Salon Dinners, featured speakers from the operator and founder community, general mixers with The Guest House network, or private working dinners. Exact programming confirmed after application.

05 — The Trade

Bring a Computer.
Leave With an Agent.

You arrive with hardware and context. You leave with a configured system, the playbooks to operate it, and a 30-day plan to put it in front of your team. No trial periods, no recurring fees, no vendor lock-in.

Output · 08

You Leave With

Eight artifacts you own and operate.

  1. 01

    Working AI Agent

    Your agent on hardware you own — not a cloud service that someone else controls.

  2. 02

    Agentic OS

    WNCP AI stack installed and configured to your business — not a generic demo.

  3. 03

    Agent "Soul"

    Role, voice, boundaries, and priorities defined.

  4. 04

    Skills Library

    Research, drafting, meeting prep, follow-up, intake.

  5. 05

    Workflow Templates

    How your team requests work from the agent.

  6. 06

    Operator Playbook

    Maintenance checklist, update process, common fixes.

  7. 07

    Governance Rules

    Permissions, escalation, and boundaries. What the agent can — and cannot — touch.

  8. 08

    30-Day Rollout

    A day-by-day plan for introducing the agent to your team — so it sticks.

06 — The Framework

Your Agentic Operating System.

Built on the agenticos.md stack — a curated framework for composing sovereign AI agents from five inspectable layers.

01

SOUL

Who the agent is — role, voice, values, operating principles.

02

SKILLS

What the agent can repeatedly do — workflows, procedures, templates.

03

MEMORY

What persists — preferences, context, project facts, durable knowledge.

04

TOOLS

How the agent acts — CLIs, APIs, MCP servers, file and database actions.

05

RUNTIME

Where the agent runs — local, self-hosted, inspectable, portable.

Your agent is a folder of markdown. You own it.

07 — Packages

Three Ways to Build.

Choose the seat that matches how you plan to run the system after the retreat — solo, with an operator, or with a fully-configured concierge setup.

A · Builder Seat

For the founder
who builds solo.

$5,000/ Seat

  • Retreat access (both weekends).
  • WNCP AI Agentic OS materials and walkthrough.
  • agenticos.md stack instruction.
  • Personal agent setup on BYO computer.
  • 30-day implementation roadmap.
  • Evening event access.
Select Builder Seat
Recommended

B · Founder + Operator

For the executive
who runs a team.

$7,500/ Pair

  • Everything in Builder Seat.
  • Second seat for technical teammate / operator.
  • Operator maintenance training.
  • Team workflow playbook.
  • Agent governance and permission rules.
  • Post-retreat office hours (4 sessions).
  • Optional overnight package add-on.
Select Founder + Operator

C · Premium Executive Salon

For the principal
who wants concierge.

$12,500–$15,000

  • Everything in Founder + Operator.
  • Premium hardware (pre-configured Mac Mini or laptop).
  • Saturday overnight stay at The Guest House.
  • Private salon dinner and featured speaker session.
  • Concierge setup support before retreat.
  • 30-day strategic advisory session post-retreat.
  • Architecture and governance review.
Request Premium Package

Payment plans available·Application required — 12 seats per cohort·Comparable executive programs start at $15K for access alone

08 — FAQ

Questions.

The ten questions we get most often. If you have one that isn't here, ask it in your application — we read every one.

No. The retreat is designed for founders and operators, not engineers. You bring your business context; we help you build the system around it. If you bring an operator, they learn maintenance. If not, you learn enough to manage the system yourself — no coding required.

A MacBook (M1 or newer), Mac Mini, or a Linux laptop with 16GB+ RAM. We send a full hardware checklist after your application is accepted. Premium package participants receive a pre-configured machine.

Yes — in fact, we encourage it. The Founder + Operator package is designed for exactly this. Your operator learns the system alongside you and leaves with a maintenance playbook.

You implement assigned workflows with your operator. WNCP AI hosts async office hours via Slack / Discord. You return for Weekend 2 with real questions and real progress.

1948 2nd Street NW, LeDroit Park, Washington, D.C. — a historic Black neighborhood in central DC, minutes from U Street and Shaw.

No. The retreat teaches you to build and operate your own system — that's the point. After the retreat, optional strategic advisory is available for architecture reviews, workflow design, and governance. But implementation and maintenance are yours. Your agent. Your hardware. Your rules.

agenticos.md is a curated index for the markdown agent stack — the open, inspectable framework for building AI agents from five layers: Soul, Skills, Memory, Tools, and Runtime. The retreat applies this framework directly to your business.

Full refund up to 30 days before the retreat. 50% refund up to 14 days. Cohort transfers available if another session has space.

Courses give you videos and exercises. You leave with instructions. This retreat leaves you with a running agent on hardware in your office — configured to your business, your voice, your workflows. The difference between watching someone build and building alongside them.

Subscription AI tools serve millions of users the same way. Your agent serves your business — your voice, your workflows, your governance rules, your memory. It runs on hardware you control, not a server someone else can throttle or sunset. You own it. You inspect it. You decide what it touches and what it doesn't.

Your Agent Is Waiting.

12 seats per cohort. When they fill, that's it. Apply now.

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