Community sponsorship
We sponsor the Dirty South AI meetup
One night a month in East Atlanta, a room full of people who build with AI for a living show each other what they actually shipped. Autonomous Agent AI pays for the room, the food, and the gear so that nobody has to charge at the door.
- When
- Fourth Saturday, monthly
- Doors
- 7:00 PM
- Where
- South Park Lofts, Reynoldstown
- Members
- ~1,300 on Meetup
Upcoming events
Pulled live from the group's Meetup page. RSVP there so the organizers can plan food and seating.
Between demo nights we sometimes livestream a shorter session. Those are announced on Meetup when they happen — there is no fixed schedule for them.
What the meetup is
Dirty South AI is a monthly in-person demo night in East Atlanta. The format is deliberately plain: doors at 7:00, food and introductions, a short welcome, then people get up and show what they built. Working software, on a real screen, with the rough edges still visible. After the demos everyone stays around to talk.
The audience is practitioners — engineers, founders, researchers, and the occasional person three weeks into their first agent project. Roughly 1,300 people belong to the group on Meetup, and the room fills with a good cross-section of them each month. Presenters are drawn from that same room, so the talks tend to be about what someone genuinely wrestled with rather than a product pitch.
There is one event a month, on the fourth Saturday. Between demo nights the organizers occasionally run a livestream, but those are one-offs rather than a second standing series.
Why we sponsor it
Atlanta has a real AI community, and it was mostly meeting in Slack threads and conference hallways. A monthly room where people demo working systems to each other is the cheapest, most useful thing we know how to fund. So we fund it: the venue, the food, the A/V, and the operating costs that would otherwise land on the organizers or turn into a ticket price.
The self-interested part is not a secret. Sitting in that room every month keeps us honest about what is actually working in production versus what is working in a demo video. We hear which tools people have quietly abandoned, which patterns survived contact with a real customer, and where the sharp edges are — months before any of that shows up in a write-up. That feeds directly into the work we do for clients.
Fleming Slone, who founded Autonomous Agent AI, founded the meetup as well, and Curtis Frazier co-hosts it. Both are on our team page. Sponsorship does not buy us the stage — the organizers pick the presenters, and the community keeps its own name, its own site, and its own voice.
How to attend
It's free and it's open. RSVP on Meetup so the organizers can plan food and seating, then show up.
South Park Lofts174 Chester Ave SE
Atlanta, GA 30316
The venue is in Reynoldstown, a few steps from the Beltline and minutes from Downtown, Midtown, Buckhead, and Decatur. Use the side entrance rather than the main front gate; the pin on each Meetup event page is dropped on the right door.
If you'd like to present, say so on the Meetup event page or message the organizers there — they schedule the demo slate, not us.