Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Agentic AI Is Here: How ATOMS Turns Ideas into Revenue with Ethan Ouyang

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

AI is no longer just a tool — it’s becoming a business operator. In this episode of Right About Now, Ryan Alford talks with Ethan Ouyang, Head of U.S. Operations at DeepWisdom, about the rise of agentic AI and how their platform Atoms enables anyone to build revenue-ready products without writing code or managing teams. Ethan explains how Atoms differs from traditional AI tools by running a full autonomous decision loop — from market research and planning to execution, launch, and SEO-driven monetization. The discussion covers real-world use cases including DTC brands, SaaS products, internal tools, and small-business systems. Topics Covered: What agentic AI actually means Why most AI tools stop at tasks — and Atoms doesn’t How AI coordinates multiple agents autonomously Building MVPs without engineering teams Human judgment vs AI execution Cost efficiency through open-source models Who this technology is really for This episode breaks down why the barrier to building businesses has fundamentally changed — and what that means for founders willing to adapt. Sponsors Are you interested in effortlessly growing your bitcoin portfolio?  ↳Gemini Crypto – https://www.gemini.com/card?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=right_about_now&utm_content=host_read&_bhlid=160d7f4fc923d552d3acfd8e1b631d57799c5196 🔗 Connect with Host & Guest 🎙️ Host Ryan Alford Website & full episodes: https://ryanisright.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanalford LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanalford 👤 Guest Ethan Ouyang Platform: https://atoms.dev Company: https://deepwisdom.ai X (Twitter): https://x.com/atoms_dev

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to get the most out of your business, out of your life. It isn't going away. That genie isn't going back in the bottle. But that's why we bring the best, the brightest, the coolest company is doing all kinds of innovative things today. We're talking about splitting things. We're not splitting Adams. We're talking about how you split up and do a million different things with one tool.

You can tell you more. His name is Ethan. O-Yang, he is the head of U.S. Department of Adams. It's the deep wisdom. It's the parent company. What's up? Ethan. Hi, Ryan.

How are you? I'm great, man. Thanks for coming on. I always like talking AI. I like demystifying it a little bit. I think we're getting past it. A lot of people are using it. I don't even think we've scratched the surface of how capable it truly can be.

I know that's a lot of what you guys are working on. What says you about the landscape of AI in business right now, Ethan? I can give you a brief introduction about our product, Atoms first. And then we can talk about in general about the AI and all these related businesses. But first, Atoms is a multi-agent system for building revenue-ready products with our autonomous AI team. So instead of helping people, people write code faster, with help to make decisions, esqed, and money type. More on the end-to-end side. You can imagine, in a single

prompt, atoms can research market, design a product, then build a system, launch it, and they can even optimize revenue for you. We have FEO agents as well. With all these kind of multi-agents, they coordinate, we orchestrate, and they bring you very good efficiency, and they deliver end-to-end. Really fascinating. Essentially, I'd call it a business in a box. Like, it's turnkey, all done by AI, in a way. Am I describing that right? Ethan, is that essentially what this Exactly, yes. We have an affluent audience.

They understand business. They understand AI at a high level. I think agintic AI, though, is a little bit misunderstood and not completely leveraged the way it can be. Talk to me about the way deep wisdom and Adams leverages these agents within the platform. Most AI's tools todays are still assistance. They wait for instructions and optimize isolated tasks, coding or copywriting. I think ATEMS is fundamentally different. Business is not just code or just implementation.

is decisions. Atoms run the full decision loop, autonomously, research, planning, execution, and integration. We don't help people just build or work faster. Atoms will walk on their behalf or with prompts. And on the technical level, it isn't a single model or just prompt. It's a system problem, right? What's priority for us is how agents coordinate, plan over no horizons, and actually execute in real environments, not just reason in isolation. On the other hand, our company and our team have spent years publishing and open sourcing the foundations. We have a website called Foundation Agents AACTA actually published a lot of top researchers all of the world. Our team try to gather everybody

together and try to focus on the same thing. It's called Foundation agents. And our system is built on top of that research and on top of those theories. Ethan, so if I need to train an agent, I need to build an agent. I need to call Ethan. Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. You can always call me. Yeah. Or you can use ATEMs to build your own agents or own SaaS platform as well. Now I'm going to ask for some specifics, Ethan, not like proprietary specifics, but just specifics of capability. Because I think people hear these things about agents and decision making. And I don't think they quite understand the level to what you're talking about.

Because you said most of it to now you can have these agents, but you're kind of still always prompting them. It's like prompt and prompt and prompt versus truly training and then real business decisions take place based on that training. Give some examples of how deep that can go with the decision making of an agent and activities they can actually do based on their own reasoning. We have already seen a lot of use cases that or a lot of products built from ATEMs. One example could be like a DTC brand, direct to consumer brand. So maybe you are a designer, you have your own taste of designs and you only have a rough idea and a few sketches. And then you probably upload to Atoms and you ask Atombs, hey, according to what I have, try to build a product I can sell.

And then ATEMs will, the multi-agent system just ramp up, right? They start and then the first start building first because they don't even know what to build with this like limited information. Our deep research agent will start to do a deep research first and try to explore the market and see what's actually had the opportunities here in the market. And then they will give you some recommendations and solid data for you. And you can actually, that's the phase that actually you can learn. you better understand what you actually want to do. Because most of the time, when you prompt, maybe you don't even have the full picture of all the product will look like.

Maybe you haven't saw through yet, but this will help you think through. And then you approve or say, hey, this is not what I want. You want to work. Then you can iterate. You can keep prompting. And after you made the decisions, you align with agents and they will start building. And when you build, there's a cool feature called grace mode. You can use, the system can use different models or foundation models to actually give you the first MVP version of the product.

and you can choose why you like most, and then you can continue with that version, with that model, a large-language model, and then it starts with the execution phase. In the execution phase, we keep human in the loop. Your human can make the critical decisions. Like most of the time, agents will just run and implement testing for you.

And then eventually you can publish, and then our SEO agents can also help with optimizing the revenues. This is an example that we build things, and we communicate with people, and everything is delivered end-to-end. People don't have to have a very clear, idea, they don't have to control everything. They just need to make key decision. Yeah, so they become

the manager, but not necessarily at a level where they know everything that how it's getting done. They're just controlling what gets done. We used to live in a world where the how really mattered because to get it done, you needed to know how. Now it's more what do you want in a lot of ways. Yeah. Or you can find some people, you can hire some people, they know how. But I think that's way more expensive or takes more time and in terms of turn time and capital. Are we replacing ourselves, Ethan? Is that what's happening? No, no. It's just the focus is different now because originally when you have a idea, you don't even know it's a good idea or not. You don't even know it's going to make revenues or not. You have to get some resources first. You don't need to have people

to actually implement for you. Then you go to the testing phase. But now the execution is near instant. The judgment, the taste become more important. That really changes how who gets to build a company who gets to build a product. You have your own resources. You have your own judgment, your own taste, your own preference. You can go ahead and try and test. And then you probably find something that's better. You are also growing. People are also growing from this iteration. Yeah. You get knowledge. I came up in a time working with brands and doing marketing. Spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and months and months. Big brands had that. But now it's more accessible for this research and knowledge that used to be only attainable by

large corporations, it's now attainable to guide small business decisions. And that's where the power of this comes from for the entrepreneurs that are willing to sort of put their, oh, I got an idea to the side and go, oh, I got an idea and it can actually generate revenue. Talk to me, Ethan, about what we ultimately output here. Because I go to a lot of different places. Ecom and D to C makes a lot of sense. Are you familiar with like Base 44? Yeah, I heard that. App building. It's prompt to app. It is all of that capability sort of built into Adams as well, that it can literally give you from prompt to visualization. I know that your tool does more than that, but does it have that capability if you want to do a SaaS-based or develop a tool that's used internally in a company or something? Is all of that here

as well? Yes. Actually, that's one of the reason we call our product Atoms. Our product is built on top of a lot of unit features or like functions. There's so many features or functions living in the software. where the world, right, about database, about storage, about payments. You need to be able to receive money and pay money to buy stuff. Also about recommendations, about deployment. After the code is built. You need to have a container or deploy your web or your application to the cloud. Everything end to end.

And those are the core features we support. You can preview your product. You can basically store your data. We can support like logging and log out. And there's a chemistry effect. If we use one ID for users, we can also like implement, we can also support the recommendations feature, right? If you build an eCom's website, we have a building recommendation engine for user logging and then see, hey, this product looks like looks fine. I probably want to buy that.

Actually, that's because we have some building features inside. We have all these features. That's the very core capabilities from our product. I'm very familiar with Base 44. I've used it to develop several apps. It's visualizing the app on the screen to the right. You got to write a left prompt. Give me a database and login for admin and users on app platform that looks like this example that does these things.

Building it in a web app environment that is usable right then. Exactly. That's our capability. That's only part of the end-to-end flow. It's more on the execution phase. That's also very important. Execution is very important. Ethan, I know that the tool, 80% less cost than a lot of other tools.

So Ethan, talk to me about cost here. What can people expect? We have our own foundation agents department or this group. We have spent years publishing. And that really gives us the cost efficiency from our algorithms and how we orchestrate our multi-agents and how we design our system. Everything is more on the technical side. Those researchers really help a lot.

And also, on the other hand, we model agnostic on the backhand. So basically, we use different foundation models. Sometimes we use open source foundation models, which is way cheaper. and those cross-source models. So it depends on the task, right? We have a good way to try to deliver the same impact, deliver the same performance with the whole cost. That's our advantage and that's pure technology.

It's a little meta, to be honest. You're using AI, I bet, to pick what AI you use model, what LLM in a way. That's what it sounds like. I'm hearing, correct? Yeah, we are an AI-lative company. Everybody in the company uses AI, not just like engineers.

In a classic software company, you may see like designers, and test engineers, back and front of the engineers. Now we go into AI Native, and our designers can also use AI to create the prototypes or dogs. And our engineers are more end-to-end. They use AI to write better performance code, and they use AI's help to actually code design the systems. I'd say from personal experience,

back to sort of this change of how to do it versus what you get. I find you have to be really good at debugging. That's a skill set when I've been doing apps, that's getting underneath the right questions to ask, not how it gets done, but asking in a way that you sort of sort out the things that inevitably come up. I'm just speaking from experience with Base 44, developing tools and apps and things. Inevitably, you run into these mismash of code that an activity you expect to happen does not happen. And they have self-correction in a way, but it's not always perfect. Help me understand how Adams works through those

types of challenges and things when sort of building out tools. Yeah, there are two aspects. One is from our product side. We pay polishing and improving our product. From internal, we've been like killing bugs. Your system. And that will help the system to create less buck or create more reliable or more higher performed outputs. And that's the thing that we are iterating quickly. We're also having a lot of talents joining our company and try to optimize those upgrade and optimize our product. That's one thing. And on the other hand, for the user experience, we are posting blogs. We are posting, like, documents and Q&As to majority of our users.

Because most of the time, our users don't know how co-work. They don't have an engineering background. But that's fine. Actually, they are our targeted audiences. And so we just try to help them on board. And we'll try to help them feel more better when they see about, they should know it's not the end of the world. You have a way to make it work, but just need to be patient. and they just need to probably use the correct way.

We try to give them support as many supports as possible, two aspects. How sophisticated can Adams go, and who is the ideal customer for Adams? Our product is a global product. We call it Atoms. We launched in the US, but actually it's launched worldwide. It's talking on solo founders, indie hackers, or small business or small teams, who doesn't have that many resources or domain knowledge, which means most of the time you need a big team to have all this,

in the house in the room that's our targeting audiences and in terms of what we can build I can give you some examples I already give you a DTC consumer brand example and there we have seen more reuse cases we collected from our existing users like a businessman who runs window cleaning business and they used to rely on multiple apps to get since done and now they build a single application that brings together booking estimate scheduling and the customer documents in one place and they all taken also that app can also handle payments everything So that's why we call Atom.

So the business depends on what kind of features or what the actual requirements you need. And then we just provide those features. And our AI agents try to select and try to query to select and to base on your requirement or your requests. And we can build with this combination, you can build whatever you want to build almost, right? Because we're not saying we're supporting all these kind of features you can imagine. By the way, we are iterating, right? We keep adding the recommendation feature maybe in the future. So it's not currently not now because it's more on the data side, we probably need more data

when it's actually getting top priority. That's one example. Also, like we've seen the Florida-based insurance company use ATEMs, build their landing pages and also all these queries on their features inside their company to brand their products. Ethan, where can everyone learn more about the software, website, details, social media, give any of those details for our audience? We have atempt.com. there. That's our official website and you can just visit that website and you know, you can sign up or you can try free and try to build your own stuff. We have all the social media live. We post on X. It's also called Aitans. And then we have linking for the reason. Talk with me. Just feel free to go to linking and X and all this social media. Try to search for us. Aetans.

Thank you for us. Ethan. Appreciate you having you. Thank you for having me. Hey guys. You want to find us. Ryan isright.com. You'll find the full episode here with Ethan. and Adams and deep wisdom. They're doing some cool stuff. We'll have links to all of the stuff that Ethan talked about and ways to get in touch with them on social media and learn more. Look, it's not time to fear. Time to get your ass on it. It's time to do it.

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