Guild & Build Retreat | Austin AI Collective

Here’s the Deal

AI just compressed
five years into five days.
We’re going to prove it.

The tools are real. The systems exist. Most people spend years figuring out how to wire it all together. Testing alone, between everything else, never quite shipping what they said they would.

This is not that. Five days, all-in. Twelve serious people. Every friction point removed: lodging, food, recovery, access. Nathaniel and his network on-site, building alongside you.

By the end of the week, you won't be talking about what you're going to build. You'll have already built it.

What people ship in a week like this

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Offer page. Live and converting

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AI content engine. Running daily

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Email sequences. Automated end-to-end

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Client pipeline. Systematized

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Video content. Produced and scheduled

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AI backend. Running your operations

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Social system. Weeks of content queued

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Sales process. From lead to close

Your daily rhythm. Designed to keep you in flow

Morning · 6–9am

Rise

Body on. Brain on.

Movement & breathwork protocol
Performance nutrition. First meal
Infrared sauna + cold plunge cycle
Intentions set for the build day

Midday · 9am–4pm

Build

Ship. Don’t plan.

Deep work sprint. Execute on what matters
Mastermind hot seat. Whole group
AI systems implementation
Afternoon nutrition. Clarity maintained

Evening · 4pm–late

Absorb

Inspired. Integrated. Reset.

Guest speaker or fireside session
Dinner. Performance-sourced, curated
Music, art, or sensory experience
Sleep protocol. Lucid dreaming prep

What You’re In For

The most productive, most fun,
most fulfilling week of your life.

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Mastermind Sessions

Small group. High signal. The kind of conversations that reframe a problem you've been stuck on for two years in forty-five minutes. No fluff. No networking exercises. Just real work with real people.

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Work Sprints

Dedicated build time with the whole group in flow. The environment is set up for deep work. No distractions, every tool you need, and accountability that holds. Shipped, not planned.

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Biohacking & Performance

Your body is the machine running the machine. Protocols for optimizing energy, focus, recovery. What's been working in the data, not the trends. Practical and repeatable.

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Nutrition You’ve Never Tried

Food engineered for performance. Sourced, prepared, and sequenced to keep you clear and energized. Meals you'll talk about six months later.

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Deep Sleep & Lucid Dreaming

Sleep is the biggest-payoff protocol in existence. You'll learn to not just recover, but to use your sleep actively. Lucid dreaming practice, sleep architecture optimization, and waking up genuinely different.

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Speakers & Experiences

People who've done it. Brought in to share what worked, what didn't, and what they know now that they wish they'd known sooner. Plus music, art, and sensory experiences you won't find at a conference.

The Compound

You won’t want to leave.
That’s the point.

This isn't a hotel conference room. It's a private compound built for exactly this kind of immersive experience. Production studio, community center, pool, sauna, cold plunge, volleyball court, massage, and food that performs. The environment is part of the program.

Austin, TX · Private Compound

Pool · Open Air · Nature

Infrared Sauna · Cold Plunge

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Pool

Full outdoor pool set against Austin's natural landscape. Recovery, reset, and genuine downtime between sessions.

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Infrared Sauna + Cold Plunge

The contrast protocol built into your daily rhythm. Heat, cold, clarity. One of the highest-impact recovery stacks available.

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Sand Volleyball Court

Because the best ideas sometimes come between sets. Movement, competition, and the kind of energy that resets the room.

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On-Site Masseuses

Massage on-site throughout the week. A protocol. Recovery is part of how you perform at this level.

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Production & Community Center

The heart of the compound. A full production and gathering space built for content, collaboration, and deep group work.

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Performance Nutrition

Foods you've never tried, sourced and sequenced for sustained energy and mental clarity. A stack.

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Music You’ve Never Heard

Curated sound experiences woven through the week. Intentional audio environments designed for state.

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Nature All Around

Trees, open air, Austin's cedar-and-limestone landscape. The kind of setting that lowers cortisol without you trying.

The Room

Built around one man.
Then he brought friends.

Nathaniel Solace is the reason this exists. Fifteen years of building online, running agencies, and living at the frontier of what's possible. Now distilled into one work week. Then he called in some of the most interesting humans he knows.

Your Host · Host & Founder

Nathaniel Solace

Fifteen years of building online. Agencies, products, content systems, client pipelines. Nathaniel has lived through every era of what it means to operate on the internet, and he's been at the frontier of each one. He built this AI system because the tools he needed didn't exist. Now it runs the back-end of everything he does, and the Guild & Build is his thesis made tangible: that this new paradigm of AI-assisted creation and operation compresses what used to take five years into a single focused sprint. He doesn't present from a stage. He builds alongside you, holds the room to an uncommon standard, and has the receipts to back every word of it.

15 Years Online Agency Builder GATO Creator AI Operations Next Paradigm

Nathaniel’s Guests

Guest Speaker

Amateo Kaplan · Amateo Ra

CMO of COTI. A leading crypto privacy tech company. One of the more unusual minds Nathaniel is bringing into the room. Amateo Kaplan has lived at the intersection of finance, tech, and crypto for years, building and marketing at the frontier of what money, privacy, and decentralized infrastructure mean. He also goes by Amateo Ra: a transformational speaker and conscious educator who has worked with thousands of people on the invisible architecture that limits output. Most people keep those two worlds separate. Amateo doesn't. He brings the inner game and the outer build simultaneously. His thesis, like Nathaniel's, is that new models make the old ones obsolete.

Crypto · Privacy Tech Finance & Web3 AI & Futurism Inner Work

Guest Speaker

Kevin Orosz

High performance coach, philosopher, poet, and founder of Mystic Misfit. One of Nathaniel's personal brings for the Austin week. Kevin operates at the intersection of evolutionary psychology, embodiment, and mastery, making complex ideas land in the body rather than just the head. Austin-based, he's exactly the kind of mind that belongs in a room like this: someone who won't let you settle for an intellectual answer when a real one is available.

High Performance Evolutionary Psychology Austin-Based

Guest Speaker

Roger Holden

Founder of Optimal Alchemy, builder of Reliable, HerbOS, and Fruiting Bodies. One of Nathaniel's closest collaborators and a member of The Order, the parent company over ThoughtLeaderAI and AustinAI. Roger has been deploying AI systems for service businesses at a clip few people in this space can match. He brings a builder's perspective shaped by real client work, real revenue, and real infrastructure. The kind of speaker who shows the build live, not the slide deck about the build.

AI for Service Businesses Systems Architect The Order

Guest Speaker

Hakeem Anwar

Founder and CEO of Above Phone and TakeBackOurTech.org. A former software engineer who walked away from corporate tech to build digital privacy infrastructure for people who actually want sovereignty over their devices. Featured at the Greater Reset and the Expat Money Summit, Hakeem operates at the intersection of technology, privacy, and personal freedom. The premium tier of this retreat ships with an Above Phone-configured laptop running your AI system. Hakeem walks you through how to actually run it without giving the rest of the world a window into everything you build.

Above Phone Digital Privacy Tech Sovereignty

Guest Speaker

Devon Seegers

Personal clarity coach, music producer, and peak performance coach for professional creatives. Brought in by Nathaniel because Devon operates at an intersection most coaches don't touch: the place where inner clarity and creative output become the same thing. He works with high-capacity leaders and visionaries navigating complexity, helping them cut through the noise, find their exact next move, and get their creative energy running in one direction. The music component of this retreat? Devon's fingerprints are on it.

Clarity Coaching Peak Performance Music Producer

What You Get

One work week on-site.
Thirty days of follow-through.

The Retreat · Five Build Days · Austin

The Week

✓Private compound. Lodging fully included
✓All meals & performance nutrition included
✓Daily work sprints. Build, deploy, ship
✓Mastermind sessions with the full cohort
✓Live guest speakers + fireside experiences
✓Biohacking & performance protocols daily
✓Infrared sauna, cold plunge, pool recovery
✓On-site masseuses throughout the week
✓Deep sleep & lucid dreaming practice
✓Music, food, and experiences unlike any event you've been to

Post-Retreat · 30 Days · Remote Support

The Follow-Through

✓30 days of direct Q&A access to Nathaniel
✓Troubleshooting whatever stalls after the week
✓Automation & infrastructure hand-holding
✓Keep the momentum. No drop-off after day 7
✓AI system fully deployed and running
✓Guild network. Cohort stays connected
✓Five-year savings verified at the 30-day mark

Who This Is For

12 spots. We’re selective.

This isn't for everyone and we don't want it to be. The cohort is the product. Every person in the room affects every other person in the room.

✓ You’re the right fit if

✓You're already executing, already shipping
✓You want to collapse years of iteration into a single focused sprint
✓You treat your body and mind as tools worth optimizing
✓You believe the right environment produces results no willpower can
✓You're willing to show up fully, as a builder
✓You're local to Austin or committed enough to make the trip

✗ This isn't for you if

✗You need someone to tell you what to build
✗You're looking for accountability to make you show up
✗You treat retreats as vacations with WiFi
✗You're not ready to be honest about what's stalled
✗You want passive learning rather than active building
✗The $5k investment is a genuine stretch right now

Investment

Two ways in.
12 spots. No application.

Guild & Build Retreat · Standard

$10,000

all-inclusive · lodging + food + everything

⚡ 12 spots total

✓ Full week at a private Austin compound

✓ Lodging 100% included. Stay on-site

✓ All meals & performance nutrition included

✓ Daily mastermind + work sprint sessions

✓ Live guest speakers & curated experiences

✓ Biohacking, sauna, cold plunge, massage

✓ 30 days Q&A follow-up support post-retreat

✓ Full AI system deployed by end of week

✓ Five-year money-back guarantee

✓ Guild network. Cohort connection maintained

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Split Payment Available

$5,000 now + $5,000 before the retreat begins. Same spot, same experience, two payments.

Pay in Full. $10,000 → Split Pay. $5,000 Now →

Split pay: $5,000 now to lock your spot + $5,000 before the retreat begins. Same experience, same guarantee. 12 spots. Austin. Dates forthcoming.

Premium · Above Phone Edition

Guild & Build Retreat · Premium

$15,000

everything in Standard + a sovereign-built laptop, yours to keep

🔐 4 spots

✓ Everything in the Standard tier

✓ An Above Phone-configured private laptop, souped up and yours to keep

✓ Your full AI system pre-loaded and running on the device by Friday

✓ Direct setup session with Hakeem Anwar (Above Phone founder)

✓ Sovereignty stack: hardened OS, privacy tooling, no surveillance defaults

✓ Leave Austin with the machine your operation runs on

Reserve Premium. $15,000 →

4 of the 12 retreat spots are reserved for Premium. The hardware is configured before you arrive and shipped home with you.

Questions

What people ask before reserving.

What are the exact dates in June?

Monday through Friday, dates forthcoming. Once enough spots are reserved, we lock the week. Reserve now and you'll be part of that conversation. Build days run Monday to Friday. Plan your weekend around Austin.

What’s the split payment option?

$5,000 now to secure your spot, $5,000 before the retreat begins. Same experience, same guarantee. Just two payments instead of one. Use the “Split Pay” button above to lock it in.

What’s the difference between the $10,000 and $15,000 tier?

Both tiers include the full retreat: lodging, food, programming, speakers, biohacking, every protocol, the 30-day follow-through. The $15,000 Premium tier adds an Above Phone-configured laptop, souped up and pre-loaded with your complete AI system by the time you arrive. You leave Austin with the machine your operation runs on. Hakeem Anwar (founder of Above Phone) walks you through the setup directly. 4 of the 12 spots are Premium.

What does the 5-year guarantee mean?

At the end of the week and through the 30-day follow-up, you look at what you built, deployed, created, and set running. If you can't honestly say this compressed what would have taken you five scattered years, full refund. No conditions. No questions.

Is everything really included at $10,000?

Yes. Lodging at the compound, all meals and performance nutrition, the retreat programming, speakers, biohacking protocols, massage, pool, sauna, cold plunge. All of it. You get there and you're set for the week. The only thing you bring is what you're building.

Do I need to be local to Austin?

No. You travel to Austin for the week, stay on-site at the compound, and return home after. The 30-day follow-up runs remotely. Austin-based people are already expressing interest, but this is built for builders everywhere.

What kind of things will people be building?

Whatever you're building. Courses, offers, content systems, client pipelines, automation infrastructure, apps. The mastermind is industry-agnostic. What matters is that you have something you're executing on and you're serious about it. The cohort will sharpen whatever you bring.

What does biohacking mean in this context?

Protocols that demonstrably affect cognitive performance, energy, sleep architecture, and emotional regulation. Things with real data behind them, applied practically. You'll leave with a personalized stack you can run independently after the week.

She left knowing exactly how to ship.

AI just compressed
five years into five days.
We’re going to prove it.

The most productive, most fun,
most fulfilling week of your life.

Austin was not
an accident.

You won’t want to leave.
That’s the point.

Built around one man.
Then he brought friends.

One work week on-site.
Thirty days of follow-through.

The Week

The Follow-Through

12 spots. We’re selective.

Two ways in.
12 spots. No application.

What people ask before reserving.

Five years.
One work week.
Your move.

Get on the list

She left knowing exactly how to ship.

AI just compressedfive years into five days. We’re going to prove it.

The most productive, most fun,most fulfilling week of your life.

Austin was notan accident.

You won’t want to leave.That’s the point.

Built around one man.Then he brought friends.

One work week on-site.Thirty days of follow-through.

The Week

The Follow-Through

12 spots. We’re selective.

Two ways in.12 spots. No application.

What people ask before reserving.

Five years. One work week. Your move.

Get on the list

AI just compressed
five years into five days.
We’re going to prove it.

The most productive, most fun,
most fulfilling week of your life.

Austin was not
an accident.

You won’t want to leave.
That’s the point.

Built around one man.
Then he brought friends.

One work week on-site.
Thirty days of follow-through.

Two ways in.
12 spots. No application.

Five years.
One work week.
Your move.