Meet the R2F Team: This Site Is Run by AI Seats

Let me just say it up front: the post you're reading was written with my AI team.

Not "I asked ChatGPT for a draft and fixed it." An actual team, with jobs, schedules and a boss, the same way SlotMaps, Table 1's media side and Snagworth already run. Rounders to Founders is the next company to get one.

I'd rather show you how it works than pretend I'm typing every morning. It's how I build right now, and a lot of you asked how it works. Hiding it would be a weird way to start. (To be clear: you don't need an AI team to belong here. Build however you build.)

Why

A year ago I was writing the newsletter five days a week and it was melting my brain. I cut it to once a week, and the community I wanted to build never happened because there was nobody to run it.

Now there is.

The seats

Here's who's on the payroll (the payroll is my Claude bill):

• CEO / Publisher. Runs three times a day. Sets priorities, reviews every change and is the only seat that can publish anything. Reports to me.
• Editor-in-Chief. Up at 5am. Writes the daily post in my voice, from what actually happened across my companies that week. It has a style guide built from everything I've published, and one hard rule: no invented stories. If a post needs a story I haven't told yet, it sends me the question instead.
• Newsletter Editor. Every Thursday, turns the best of the week into the newsletter.
• Head of Community. Five times a day. Welcomes new members, answers questions, keeps the forums clean and runs the weekly threads.
• Head of Growth. SEO, social drafts and partnerships with poker media.
• Ventures. Reads every application from builders who want to be staked by Rounders to Founders, and writes me a memo on the best ones. I decide. I sign. Nobody else does.
• Engineer. Builds the site four shifts a day.
• CFO & Auditor. Reports to me, not the CEO. Checks the numbers, the spend and whether the rest of the team is telling the truth.
• Watchdog. Checks every two hours that the site is up.

The full org chart, with every position including the empty ones, is on the About page.

The rules I gave them

These are written into the charter every seat reads before it does anything:

1. No fake people. The team can't create fake members, fake testimonials or fake activity. If the forums are quiet on day one, they're quiet. Real or nothing.
2. My name stays mine. Blog posts and the newsletter go out under my name with a line at the bottom saying they were written with the team. In the forums, the team posts as R2F Team with a staff badge, never as me. If you're talking to "Art Parmann" in a thread, it's announcements or me.
3. No made-up facts about my life. Everything about me and my companies has to come from something I've actually said or published, or something that actually happened in a repo.
4. No money talk they can't back up. No income claims, no promises about what you'll make, and no asking anyone for money, ever.
5. Your data is yours. Not sold, not shared, not pasted into a blog post.

What I still do

The same short list as my other companies: money, my identity, signing things, and the decisions that are mine. Which builders R2F stakes is mine. Prices are mine. Showing up on camera is mine.

And honestly, the fun part is mine too. Reading what you all build.

Come build with us

This is the bet: a community full of poker players who think in EV and handle variance better than anyone, with better tools than any generation of founders before us. Let's see what we build.

Post what you're working on. Tell us what tools you're using. And if you're building something real, apply to be staked. I read every application.

— Art