Founding Engineer
Kobe AIKobe is an AI superconnector. It finds the warmest path to a person through your own network (LinkedIn, email, Slack, Notion) and drafts the intro request, sending nothing without your OK.
~470 commits in 3 weeks (Oct 2026)- Three full-time weeks in October 2026: 509 of 918 commits in the v3 repository (Hono, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres), 157 of 750 in the Electron desktop app, plus the pitch deck and kobe-eve.
- Co-developed a six-stage agent pipeline in Python (Claude Agent SDK, about 20k lines) with full agent tracing and a debug dashboard.
- Wrote a 15k-line architecture handbook across 72 repositories in two days; it surfaced a probable live bug in the LinkedIn session handling.
Winner: Launchpad by Stan: USD 100,000, 30 teams from ~700 applications. As announced to the teams; written confirmation pending. The full story
- TypeScript
- Hono
- Cloudflare Workers
- Postgres
- Electron
- Python
- Claude Agent SDK
- MCP
- Playwright
Ask Kobe
Your personal Superconnector
Talk to a payments lead at a European fintech
Introduce me to someone who leads payments at a European fintech. We want feedback on our checkout API before the pilot.
I found three warm paths to payments leaders. Lena is your strongest: she led Finlo’s seed round and you talk to her often. Review the plan and the drafts below.
Talk to a payments lead at a European fintech
The Plan
Ask Lena on WhatsApp to introduce you to Tobias, with a short message they can forward.
Ask David on LinkedIn to introduce you to Mara, with a short message they can forward.
1 more contact path included below.
After you approve, Kobe sends the messages and follows up to arrange your conversations. For introduction paths, Kobe waits until you are connected before contacting the target directly.
Approves all current message drafts in this Mission. Sends after a 30 second countdown.
Lena led Finlo’s seed round. You have exchanged 14 messages with her since August.
Introduction request To Lena on WhatsApp Hi Lena, hope Lisbon was good!
Hi Lena, hope Lisbon was good! Quick ask: could you introduce me to Tobias at Finlo? We open our checkout API pilot in January and his view on European payment flows would help us a lot. I wrote a short note below that you can forward. Thank you!
Forwardable message
Hi Tobias, I’m Alex, building checkout infrastructure at Northbeam. Lena suggested you as the person to ask about payment flows in Europe. Would you have 20 minutes in the next two weeks? Happy to share what we learned from 40 merchant interviews.
Sent as a separate message immediately after your request.David and Mara worked together for four years. You met David at two founder dinners this autumn.
Introduction request To David on LinkedIn Hi David, good to see you at the dinner last week.
Hi David, good to see you at the dinner last week. Would you be open to introducing me to Mara? We’d love her take on our checkout API before the pilot. A short note to forward is below.
Forwardable message
Hi Mara, I’m Alex from Northbeam. David mentioned you know payments at scale better than anyone. Could we borrow 20 minutes of your time for feedback on our checkout API?
Sent as a separate message immediately after your request.Jonas is a first-degree connection and replied to you within a day last time.
Outreach message To Jonas on LinkedIn Hi Jonas, it’s been a while since the API meetup.
Hi Jonas, it’s been a while since the API meetup. We’re opening a checkout API pilot in January and I’d value your feedback as someone who ships payments products. Up for a 20 minute call next week?
Sent. I’ll follow up with Lena and David on Thursday if they haven’t replied, and tell you as soon as an introduction is made.
Rebuilt from the product prototype, with sample data. It plays on its own; pause it, jump to a chapter, or type your own request.
