Kevin Qi
@thekevinqi
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Founder @usefesta — AI for Events | Ex-Amazon Alexa (Timers and Weather) | Lifting, leaping, & startups
New York City, New York, USA
Joined August 2025
100 followers 🚀 The first milestone of many to come. As promised, here is the special drop: my intro video. Who I am, why I left Amazon, and what I'm building now with Festa. This is just the start. Excited to have you all on the journey.
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The backstory is over here: https://t.co/kI7jXUGc1e
6 months ago I left big tech to build Festa. 2 years ago I didn’t even have an idea. Here’s the unfiltered story of how it all started 👇
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Two years in the making. In 2024 I started building Festa with a simple idea: what if an AI could coordinate an entire event from start to finish, answering every question, managing every guest, just like a real person? Today, that idea became reality. The world’s first
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Day 33 of building AI Event Coordination 🚀 Today, the world’s first AI-coordinated wedding took place in Colorado. 💍 I monitored the dashboards all day — zero issues, 100 % success rate. Festa handled nearly 400 guest queries across 40 attendees. Some guests even thought they
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The craziest part about today wasn’t that the AI worked. It’s that some guests forgot it was AI.
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The wedding’s over. The AI ran the show. No crashes. No chaos. Guests messaged Festa like it was a human concierge. The future of coordination just quietly happened.
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AI is only impressive when it moves atoms, not just words. Festa is where tokens meet tables and timelines. Guests, vendors, schedules, all in sync.
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10 months ago, Festa was just a prompt on my laptop. Today, it just finished coordinating a real wedding. Zero press. Zero ads. Just code, conviction, and caffeine.
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@cluely Interesting long-form piece I stumbled upon on Reddit. Highly recommend giving it a read.
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The cracks in the AI gold rush are starting to show. This piece on @cluely nails what a lot of people in the industry are quietly worried about: inflated metrics, shallow integrations, and hype > honesty. https://t.co/1Cu6fvoSHN
medium.com
PDF version of this report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSRBmG_Z9xmpACJMEODT3JaqnaQh1TGC/view?usp=drive_link
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5 years at Amazon taught me how to reduce latency in AI systems. Now I’m applying that same principle to human coordination. Weddings, parties, conferences, all under 2 seconds.
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The world’s first AI-coordinated wedding is happening today in Colorado. Festa is running it. Built solo by an engineer who quit a 500K per year Amazon career, in order to reimagine what “day-of-the-event” means.
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13 acts in, out of 23 total acts drafted. We have past the half-way mark on the Story of Festa. If y'all like an old-fashioned Tweet Storm. I just dropped the latest installment. https://t.co/kI7jXUGc1e
6 months ago I left big tech to build Festa. 2 years ago I didn’t even have an idea. Here’s the unfiltered story of how it all started 👇
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That insight would drive my next core project: turning Festa’s AI from a prototype into a battle-tested architecture.
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Our prototype’s prompt system was naive — fast, but untested. We needed evals to make it robust for real weddings.
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Most importantly, I met the team behind Scorecard — an LLM prompt evaluation platform. https://t.co/c2IGH3UuuB
scorecard.io
Looking for a simple way to build and test LLM apps? Use Scorecard to deliver predictable AI experiences that improve with every update.
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We met people building wild things: – AI for personal finance – AI agents for WordPress – Designer Discord communities
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Working from Industrious turned out to be great — surrounded by other early-stage founders chasing their own visions.
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