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Week 2 of Summer into AI 2026 hosted by @advisoryhour — theme: Red, White & Boom.
The Convention runs five founding fathers as five independent Claude instances. Pick a question — slavery, standing armies, federal power, the Bill of Rights — and all five agents stream their opening statements simultaneously. Then the debate runs itself: every agent votes on whether to respond and to whom, the highest-urgency unheard voice gets the floor, and you hear it in their ElevenLabs voice. Up to 24 separate API calls per debate, all tracked live in the header.
How the AI works
5 parallel opening streams — all five founders hit
/api/speaksimultaneously. Five independent SSE streams, each with a historically-grounded system prompt. You watch all five stream in real time.5 parallel reaction calls per exchange — after each statement, every agent hits
/api/reactsimultaneously. Each returns structured tool-use output:{ wantsToRespond, targetFounder, targetArgument, urgency }. The highest-urgency agent who hasn’t spoken yet gets the floor.Structured synthesis — a final Claude tool-use call extracts points of agreement, fault lines (with which founders are on which side), the sharpest exchange, and a convention verdict.
ElevenLabs voices — each founder has a distinct voice chosen for character fit. Hamilton gets the dominant firm voice. Franklin gets the only “old”-age voice in the library.
How to play
Pick one of the six question chips or type your own, then hit Convene
Watch all five founders stream in parallel, then hear each one read aloud
Three exchange rounds follow — agents vote simultaneously on who should respond. Watch the founder cards pulse while they deliberate, then the winner lights up and speaks
Read the structured analysis at the end: who agreed, who clashed sharpest, what the Convention decided
Where to play
Demo: convention-1776.vercel.app
README: demo-08-the-convention/README.md
Summer into AI 2026 · Week 2: Red, White & Boom
Original source
Canonical Substack URL: https://jakestrait5.substack.com/p/summer-into-ai-2026-the-convention.