# Brian Douglas, Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute

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Brian Douglas is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco. Company: Paper Compute (https://papercompute.com).

## The talk

Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions

Most teams shipping agents have plenty of records and almost no memory. Every session produces a full trace. The next session starts cold. The lesson that would have saved 8,000 turns, or 8,000 dollars, lives in a transcript nobody rereads.

## About Brian Douglas

Brian is the co-founder and CEO of Paper Compute Co., building distributed systems primitives for AI agents. Paper Compute’s products include tapes (agent telemetry and skill capture) and cassettes (portable, on-prem enterprise compute units for AI agent workflows). Previously, Brian founded Open Sauced, which joined the Linux Foundation in 2024. He also led Developer Advocacy at GitHub, fostering early adopters through conversations with top open-source maintainers.

## See Brian live on October 26

Join Brian and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $200 (early bird) until October 7, then $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8

## More speakers

- [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations
- [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools
- [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced
- [Johannes Schickling](https://builders.day/speakers/johannes-schickling), Co-founder of Prisma: Declarative Agents
- [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced
- [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents
- [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced

## Links

- All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers
- Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule
- Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8
- https://x.com/bdougieYO
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianldouglas/
- https://github.com/bdougie