Why it matters
Candid post-mortems from builders who shipped AI products reveal the real failure modes—model costs blowing budgets, bad latency assumptions, wrong model selection—that polished pitch events never surface.
The tokenmaxxing angle
Mistakes Hour is where founders confess they burned through token budgets too fast or routed everything through frontier models when cheap distilled ones would have sufficed. That's raw inference-economics signal.
From the organizers
Doors open 10 AM with coffee and coworking; registration requires host approval; venue is in Arlington, VA (exact address gated).