In June 2026, I started building a billing platform for real estate MLSs by myself to hit a big deadline, using a team of AI agents directed like a product team. Seven weeks later it was collecting real dues in production. Four months in, it’s a hardened product with 1,281 merged pull requests, nearly 37,000 automated tests, Stripe payments, autopay, dunning, reporting and accounting exports. Cost: $600 a month in AI, vs. a 8-person team a year ago.
AI alone didn’t make it work, product fundamentals did: a written canon of every decision, PRDs, acceptance criteria that become tests, adversarial AI reviewers, merge gates no one can override, and a “traffic cop” agent coordinating CI and parallel builds.
I’ll show the real system, including what I screwed up, what broke, and the opportunity each failure created.
You’ll leave with a high-level playbook for building a product or feature: the human-only decisions, tests, release gates and review lenses that let you sleep at night.
Join us at ProductCamp Atlanta 2026 to vote on this session and dozens of others! The attendees will choose the agenda for the day, and can be part of it!
Session Details
Type of Session: Workshop
Presented By
Scott Lockhart
Scott Lockhart is VP of Product at TRIBUS Group and a four-time founder with 20+ years taking products from idea to real-world use, revenue, and profit. He co-founded Atlanta-based Regator, which was acquired in 2013, then founded Showcase IDX and sold it twice. At eXp he led consumer technology for 80,000+ real estate agents. He’s a 2024 HousingWire Insider Award winner and Inman Innovator finalist. Since 2007, he and his wife Kimber have run Nonsense ATL, producing about 30 Atlanta nightlife events a year. He keeps busy.
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