La Ventana AI Night · May 2026

Paul Preibisch

Full-Stack Developer & AI Systems Architect

I use AI every day to run my business, teach salsa, and get more done — tonight I'll show you how to start.

💻15+ years building production web apps, APIs, and integrations for clients worldwide
🏰Creator of Agent Palace — a self-hosted AI life OS with 16 custom AI agents running 24/7
🎙️Creator of AgentVibes — open-source voice system for AI agents (50+ voices, 30+ languages)
💃BCS Latin Dance instructor — salsa & bachata classes in La Ventana & El Sargento
🌊Based in El Sargento / La Ventana, BCS — and available to help you build with AI
🤝AI consultant at preibisch.biz — handhold, co-build, or full handoff — you choose

👨‍💻

preibisch.biz

Tonight's Map

Your 4-Stage AI Journey

Stage 1

🌱

Curious but Scared

You've heard of AI. You haven't really used it. Zero setup required here.

Claude.ai — chat with AI free
ChatGPT — the one everyone knows
Google Translate AI — translate WhatsApp messages from Mexican contacts

Stage 2

🔥

Using It Daily

You use AI but want it to do more — connect to your real tools and data.

App Passwords (API Keys) — connect to anything
AI Controls Your Apps (MCP) — real actions
Claude.ai — AI thinking partner
Other AI sites — Gemini, Perplexity, Grok
Voice to Text (WhisperTyping) — speak, don't type

Stage 3

🚀

Ready to Build

You want to publish your ideas — a website, a tool, a business presence — without hiring a developer.

AI Developer (Claude Code) — builds it for you
Code Sharing & Storage (GitHub) — saves your work forever
Free Hosting (Vercel) — live in minutes

Stage 4

🏰

AI Team + Messenger Gateways

Full AI team with 24/7 agents — results delivered straight to your phone.

Build an AI Team (BMAD) — 12 AI agents
AI Controls Your Apps (MCP) — real actions
AI Developer (Claude Code) — the hub of it all
Push Notifications (Telegram) — AI in your pocket
Custom AI Agents (OpenClaw) — running 24/7

🙋 Show of hands — which stage are you at tonight? Remember it — it'll guide what you try first.

💚 Free La Ventana community to follow along after tonight → skool.com/ai-secret-sauce-8024

Everyday Toolkit

My AI Tool Belt

Plain-English names — the real tools I use every single day

💬

AI Chat

Claude.ai

⚡

AI Developer Tool

Claude Code

claude.ai/code · npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

💼

Code Sharing & Storage

GitHub

🚀

Free App Hosting

vercel.com

🖥️

Server Rental

hetzner.com

🗄️

Free Database

Firebase

🎤

Voice to Text

WhisperTyping / WhisperFlow

📱

Push Notifications

Telegram Bots

🎧

Docs to Podcast

NotebookLM

🤖

Build an AI Team

BMAD Method

npx bmad-method install

👥

Contact Manager

EspoCRM

📧

Free Email List

Brevo

🎓

Online Community

Skool / Kajabi

🔗

Connect Your Apps

Zapier

📝

Smart Notes

Notion AI

🏰

Custom Agent OS

Talk to me — I'll build it

Let's Start Here

Which AI do you use?

The five you'll hear the most about tonight

chatgpt.com

ChatGPT

by OpenAI

The one everyone's heard of

copilot.microsoft.com

Copilot

by Microsoft

AI built into your apps

claude.ai

Claude.ai

by Anthropic

Your AI thinking partner

terminal — claude

Claude Code

by Anthropic

AI that builds for you

codex · openai.com

Codex

by OpenAI

AI coding agent in the cloud

☠️ Let's Bust the Myths · Your Data & Privacy

What AI Cannot Do To You

☠️

What AI CANNOT do to you

💳 Access your bank accounts or passwords (only if you opt in & give it permissions)
📂 Read your files unless you paste them in
🖥️ Control your computer without your permission
🤖 Act on your behalf without your instruction
📷 Access your phone, camera, or microphone

👁️

What AI does see

💬 Only what you type or paste into the chat
📎 Files or documents you explicitly share
📊 Your conversations — Anthropic may use them to improve the model (turn off in settings)
🚫 Nothing outside the chat window

🎛️

You stay in full control

🔑 API keys = passwords that unlock specific capabilities (e.g. Google Calendar, WhatsApp). You decide exactly what access to give.
🔄 API keys can be revoked anytime — like changing a password
✅ Claude Code asks permission before every file action
🗑️ Delete your conversation history anytime

💬 "Can AI learn my bank passwords?" — No. AI chat is a sandboxed conversation. It has zero network access to your accounts unless you deliberately connect them, step by step, one permission at a time.

Side by Side

How They Compare

💬 ChatGPT

🪟 Copilot

🤖 Claude.ai

⚡ Claude Code

🖥️ Codex

🧩 Add-ons

Custom GPTs
GPT Actions
Computer Use

Extensions
GitHub & M365
Custom instructions

MCP Servers
Projects (memory)
Artifacts

MCP Servers
Skills (slash cmds)
Hooks

Skills & APIs
GitHub integration
API automation

🎯 Best For

General Q&A
Image gen (DALL-E)
Voice mode

M365 & Office
VS Code users
Windows workflows

Writing & analysis
Long docs (200K)
Business thinking

Building software
Coding & deploy
Agent workflows

Cloud coding tasks
Background agents
GitHub PRs

⚡ Can It Act Autonomously?

Partial
Operator/Computer Use
limited, extra cost

Partial
Agent mode (VS Code)
M365 file actions

Yes — via MCP
Gmail, Drive, Calendar
& 1000+ more

Fully agentic
files · code · deploy
any app with MCP

Fully agentic
runs in background
manages GitHub PRs

💰 Monthly Cost

Free · Plus $20
Team $30/user
Pro $200/mo

Free · M365 $10/user
Business $30/user

Free · Pro $20
Max $100/mo

In Max $100/mo
or API billing

API billing
or ChatGPT Pro

Power-Ups · Real Examples

Adding Capabilities

💬 ChatGPT

Custom GPTs

🎨

DALL-E

AI image generation — built right in

📊

Data Analyst

Upload data, get charts & code

🌐

WebPilot

Live web browsing & real-time search

📄

Scholar AI

Search & summarize research papers

🎨

Canva

Design & social media graphics

🤖 Claude.ai

MCP Servers

📁

Google Drive

Read, edit & create Docs/Sheets/Drive

💬

Slack

Read channels, post summaries

📝

Notion

Read/write knowledge base & tasks

🎨

Figma

Inspect designs, generate UI code

⚡

Zapier

Trigger 1,000+ app workflows

⚡ Claude Code

MCP Servers & Skills

🐙

GitHub MCP

Review PRs, manage issues & repos

🧠

Sequential Thinking

Structured reasoning for complex tasks

🗄️

PostgreSQL / Supabase

Query databases directly from chat

🎭

Playwright

Browser automation & E2E testing

🛠️

Skills (slash commands)

Custom /deploy, /review, /test workflows

Before We Begin · The Big Idea

What is an AI Agent?

An AI agent is software that can THINK, DECIDE, and TAKE ACTION — not just answer questions.

▶ Watch a 2-min intro

Real AI builds in action

💬

Regular AI chat

You ask a question. It gives you an answer. You copy the answer. You go do the work yourself.

You: "Write me a welcome email."
AI: "Here it is." → You copy it → You paste it → You send it

⚡

An AI Agent

You give it a goal. It figures out the steps. It takes the actions itself — in your apps, on your behalf.

You: "Send a welcome email to my new guest."
Agent: reads calendar → writes email → opens Gmail → sends it ✓

🏰

A team of agents

Now imagine 12 specialists — a developer, a designer, a strategist, a researcher — all working together on your project, 24/7.

That's what BMAD gives you. One conversation → a full AI team → your product ships.

Think of an agent like a staff member who never sleeps, never complains, and costs $20/month.

Start Here · Find Yourself

What Do You Want AI to Do?

🎨 Ian, the Creative

"Marketing, bookkeeping, and admin take time away from the work I actually love doing."

Start with

Claude.ai

First thing to try

Paste your last 5 Instagram captions and type: "Write 10 more in my voice." Done in 30 seconds.

🌐 Yana, the Builder

"I want a website for my business but I'm overwhelmed by the options and I don't know where to start."

Start with

Claude Code

First thing to try

Open a terminal, type claude, then say: "Build me a simple website for [your business]." Watch it work.

🔍 Alex, the Job Seeker

"I'm job hunting and doing cold outreach but I don't really know what AI is capable of doing for me."

Start with

Claude.ai

First thing to try

Paste a job description and say: "Write a cover letter connecting my background to this role." Edit once, done.

🙋 Don't see yourself? That's ok — Stage 1 is exactly where you're supposed to be. Every expert started here.

Tools 1 & 2 · The Brain

Claude Code & Claude.ai

Everything runs through Claude Code. It's the hub that connects to every other tool via API keys.

💬

Claude.ai / ChatGPT

Your AI thinking partner — like texting a brilliant friend who knows everything. Start here, it's free and requires no setup.

Start here — free, no setup

Business writing — proposals, emails, social posts in seconds
Research & summarize — paste any document, get instant insights
Projects — persistent memory that knows your business context
Translate anything — WhatsApp messages from Mexican contacts, medical forms, menus
Artifacts — generates real HTML, spreadsheets, diagrams

⚡

Claude Code — The Hub

An AI developer that lives in your terminal — reads your whole codebase, writes features, connects to apps via API, and builds your ideas from a single conversation.

Getting Started — it's simpler than it looks

1

Press the Windows key → type PowerShell → hit Enter

2

First time only: paste npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code → hit Enter

3

Type claude and hit Enter

4

You're now in a chat terminal that can build things — it looks scary but it's just a conversation

Free

$0

Limited usage

Pro

$20/mo

Best starting point

Max

$100/mo

5× usage

Tool 3 · Advanced AI Workflows

BMAD — Your Full AI Team

No copy-paste. No switching tabs. Give BMAD a goal and a whole team handles it — through Claude Code.

📋

John

Product Manager

🏗️

Winston

Architect

💻

Amelia

Developer

🎨

Sally

UX Designer

📊

Mary

Business Analyst

📚

Paige

Tech Writer

🧪

Quinn

QA Engineer

🎯

Alex

Scrum Master

34+

Workflows

43k⭐

GitHub Stars

Free

Open Source

🎉 Party Mode — right now in this session

Multiple AI agents debate your idea simultaneously — a PM asks WHY, an Architect checks feasibility, a UX designer paints the user story. You get 4 independent expert opinions in 30 seconds.

Get Started (one command): npx bmad-method install

⭐ Bonus — give your team a voice: npx agentvibes@latest install

Tools 4, 5 & More · The Connectors

API Keys, MCP & Open Source

The invisible wiring that lets Claude Code reach into your real apps — plus free self-hosted tools you can own outright.

🔑

API Keys — Connect Anything

A secret password that lets one app securely talk to another. One key unlocks an entire platform.

🌐

Google Translate

Translate WhatsApp messages from Mexican contacts instantly

📅

Google Calendar

AI schedules appointments, sends reminders, manages your time

📧

Gmail

AI drafts replies, filters inbox, sends follow-ups automatically

🔌

MCP — AI Takes Action

Model Context Protocol — the universal remote for AI. Gives Claude Code the ability to control apps and take real-world actions on your behalf.

Why it matters

AI + your tools — Claude connects to Gmail, Drive, Slack, databases
Real actions — AI doesn't just answer questions, it does things
1000+ MCP servers available and growing daily
Built by Anthropic — the open standard all AI companies are adopting

🔓

Open Source Programs

Free, self-hosted software you own completely — no monthly fees, no vendor lock-in.

📱

WhatsApp Bridge

github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

🏢

EspoCRM

github.com/espocrm/espocrm

📣

Postiz

github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-app

WhatsApp Bridge

EspoCRM

Postiz

🎁 Bonus AI Prompt — try this right now: Claude, please install for me WhatsApp Bridge from https://github.com/mautrix/whatsapp

Tool 13 · AI Everywhere

Telegram + OpenClaw

Self-hosted AI on your own server — controlled from the messaging app you already use, from any device, anywhere.

🤖

OpenClaw + Hermes

A self-hosted AI agent server running 24/7 on your own VPS. Your agents are always on — accessible via a Telegram DM from your phone, anywhere in the world.

What you can do from Telegram

Build things — "build me an HTML presentation" → AI builds it, sends screenshots in chat
Code + deploy — ask it to write features and push to your live server
Research & summarize — paste a URL, get a briefing back in Telegram
24/7 available — no laptop needed, runs on your server continuously
You text from your phone → AI builds → delivers results in Telegram

OpenClaw

Hermes Agent

🤖

OpenClaw

online · your AI server

add a blog post to bcslatindance.com about Tuesday night's salsa bingo — it was a disaster but hilarious