They Built an AI Agent for People Who Can’t Code And It Spread Overnight | Houston AI
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📅 Publicado em: 2026-05-06T14:01:05Z
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Felipe and Julian are second-degree cousins who met in San Francisco to hack for 10 days.
They applied to YC, built AI agents for US tax firms, then hit a wall — their non-technical users were terrified of terminals. So they built an internal tool to fix it. They called it Houston.
Now Houston is an open-source personal AI agent for non-technical founders and knowledge workers. No terminal. No setup. Just simple UI buttons that give your agent access to everything it needs — powered by @Composio under the hood.
They shared it in a private workshop. It spread to hundreds of beta users overnight.
In this episode we cover:
– Why they pivoted from tax agents to a general-purpose personal AI agent
– How they made agentic work accessible to non-technical users
– Why they chose to go open source
– How Composio let them ship integrations faster without maintaining them
– What happened when they shared Houston in a private workshop
– Their plans for a public launch and a large non-technical builders hackathon in SF
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Intro
(02:35) Cousins to Co-Founders
(04:02) From Tax Agents to Houston
(06:15) Building for Non-Technical Users
(08:50) Discovering Composio
(17:14) Workshop Goes Viral
(19:18) How Houston Works
(23:20) Downsides of AI Agents
(27:53) Launch and Hackathon Plans
ABOUT COMPOSIO
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Try Composio: [https://composio.dev](https://composio.dev/)
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ABOUT THIS SERIES
Agents at Work is a show where we sit down with the founders and builders shipping AI agents in production. Each episode is a real conversation — about the origin story, the hard decisions, and what it actually takes to build in this space.
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👉 Try Composio: [https://composio.dev](https://composio.dev/)
ABOUT THIS SERIES
Agents at Work is a show where we sit down with the founders and builders shipping AI agents in production. Each episode is a real conversation — about the origin story, the hard decisions, and what it actually takes to build in this space.
👉 Try Composio: [https://composio.dev](https://composio.dev/)