Kai Shapiro
The machine behind you is your brain.
Creator businessesAI toolsSpeaking
An idea can become a tool, a product, and a business.
AI has changed how much one person can build. Your knowledge and judgment decide what’s worth making. The tools help you make it, test it and put it in someone’s hands. That’s the thinking behind my work. I invest in creator businesses and build them with my team. I make tools in kAI Lab, and I take the ideas on stage.
Built for AT Frenchies
What happens
after attention.
Alex and Tom are two Parisians sharing French language and culture in the U.S. and beyond. They have 6M+ followers across platforms. I build the offers, tools, launches and systems behind that audience.
From audience to business
There’s a whole business
behind the content.
With AT Frenchies, my work spans memberships, educational programs, launch campaigns and AI tools. Each one needs an offer people understand and a system that delivers it.
For The Code, I built AI tools that help people choose a niche, write hooks and plan how to earn from their work. The Read helps visitors work out their next step before joining the program.
See the tools I built More at Global 8 Group ↗Investing in 2027
I invest in creator businesses.
Then I build them with you.
$400,000 USD
That’s what I’m putting into selected creator businesses in 2027. You bring the audience and what they’re asking for. My team and I build the offer, launch it and sell it with you.
Apply to build with meA few sentences is enough. No deck needed.
kAI Lab
Ideas you can
try today.
I build small tools to test an idea fast.
One gets you ready for an important meeting. The other lets a billionaire pay a stranger’s bill. Both started as a question and turned into something you can open right now.
Inside kAI LabKnow what
to say first.
Swipe to pay
someone’s bill.
Out in the world
Some ideas leave
the screen.
A Los Angeles event I organized, a book campaign I built, and Creator Economy Room Paris, which I created and hosted.
Kai on stage
The machine behind you.
Your brain.
What could you build with what you already know?
I speak about AI through things I’ve actually made: tools, products and the businesses around them. How an idea starts. What you can test yourself. And where your own judgment matters.
Explore the talks ↗Why this matters
You don’t need a big team
to test a good idea.
You’ve probably had an idea and put it aside because you didn’t have the team, the budget or the technical skills to build it.
AI changes how much you can do yourself. You can research a problem, build a small version and see whether people want it. Your experience gives you a place to start. Their response tells you where to go next.
I do this in the businesses I run. It’s what I test in kAI Lab and take on stage.
The thinking behind the workThe book
The Machine Behind You is coming: a digital experience to help you turn what you know into tools, products and businesses.
How I work
Find out what people want.
Then build around it.
Ask about the problem in their words. What have they tried? What keeps getting in the way?
Put a small version in their hands. Watch what they use, where they stop and what they come back for.
Give them a clear next step. A purchase, a pilot or a booking tells you what interest is worth.
Meet Kai
I like the idea.
And making it happen.
I’m Canadian, based in Cannes. I develop creator businesses, build tools and run the systems behind launches. I enjoy the idea and the work it takes to make it happen.
My master’s in childhood education from the University of Toronto shapes how I think about learning. Whatever I’m building, I want the person using it to understand what to do next.
A little more about meThe Machine Behind You
Go on. Try something.
Explore the tools in kAI Lab. See what’s useful in your own work.