
Even if you're not technical. Even if you're already slammed running the thing. Even if your business is already working...
WHEN
Aug 24–26, 2026
WHERE
Dallas, Texas
VENUE
Hyatt Regency
No payroll. No HR. No turnover. No Friday-payroll knot in the gut.
Just one operator and a stack of seven AI agents doing the work of a forty-person company — and keeping the spread.
That's not a prediction. That's 2026. And the operators running these things are eating the lunch of companies ten times their size.
Now here's the question that should keep you up at night.
If a business like that came after you tomorrow — copied your offer, undercut your price on margins you couldn't touch, poached your best people — what actually stops them?
For most businesses, the answer is nothing. Not a dang thing.
Most operators are running a company with no walls. A blue ocean and a screen door.
And here's the part almost nobody tells you: finding the open water was never the hard part. Keeping it is. The minute you start printing money, the sharks show up — and the only thing that holds them off is a moat.
That's what we build in Dallas. Not slides. Not theory. The actual moat — the agent army, the owned assets, the acquisition leverage — built on your laptop, in the room, over three days.
I'll be straight with you. This is a ticket, a flight, a hotel, and three days out of your business. That's a real ask and I'm not going to pretend it isn't.
So here's the math.
Walk out of that room having replaced even $340K of payroll with agents — or having pulled $100K out of a list you were already sitting on — and the entire trip pays for itself before your plane touches back down.
Everything after that is profit. For years.
That's why you get on the plane.
For most operators in a hot market? About eighteen months. Maybe less.
That's how long you get to enjoy the open water before competitors smell blood and pile in. Every blue ocean turns red. Every single time.
So the real game in 2026 isn't finding the water. Plenty of people will find it.
It's getting there first and digging a moat around your castle so deep, so wide, and so ugly that by the time the sharks arrive, they physically cannot get in.

Not "hard to copy." Impossible to copy. Can't catch you. Can't underprice you. Can't out-margin you. Can't out-ship you. Can't even figure out how you're pulling it off.
That's not marketing. That's a fortress.
And that fortress is exactly what we build — live, in the room — at Growth Hacking Live 2026.

I'm not going to hand you a stage full of motivational speakers and call it a transformation.
Here's what real operators did with this stuff:
MARC MCMAHON
ROSA FREEMAN
BILLY BATT
FRED SMITH
JOSE MORALES

I want to tell you what changed for me.
I’ve built eleven companies. I’ve exited a handful — a couple for eight figures, a couple for seven. So I’ve spent more nights than I’d like staring at a P&L wondering why a business that looked great on paper was causing so many late nights.
And the answer was always the same: There was no moat.
Nothing stopping the next guy from grabbing everything I made.
I had successes. Plenty of them. I’d find an opening, charge in, make a killing for a year or two…
And then watch some other SOB come in and steal my model, all while I scrambled for the next opening - because I had nothing keeping my systems locked down so no one else could grab them.
I was a great surfer. I was a terrible castle-builder.

That changed when I figured out the three things that actually make a business un-attackable in the AI era. Not three nice-to-haves. Three walls.
I’m not technical. I never built software. I can barely type English — I talk to the machines and they do the work.
WALL #1

This is the death warrant for every payroll-heavy operator still doing it the old way.
A $2M business with zero employees can now out-margin a $20M competitor carrying 200 of them.
Read that again.
Your competitor is bleeding payroll, benefits, management overhead, HR drama, and turnover. You're running a 7-agent stack: receptionist, lead follow-up, scheduler, dispatcher, support, bookkeeper, marketer.
You replace $340K of salary before Christmas and walk away from the operations entirely - all while your human team gets freed up to do the work that you pay 'em for.
Now they can't catch you. They can't underprice you. They can't out-margin you. They're carrying an anchor and you're carrying a feather.
That's wall number one.
WALL #2

Every channel you rent decays. Meta CPMs climb. Google query share collapses. The algorithm changes its mind on a Tuesday and your traffic evaporates.
Rented eyeballs are not a moat. They're a lease that the landlord can cancel.
So stop renting and start owning.
You build the 10,000-person email list that ships you revenue every time you press send. You build the membership that prints $30K–$300K a month in recurring revenue while you sleep. You go back into the CRM you already own and pull out the $100K–$400K that's been sitting there dead this whole time — before you buy another click.

These assets don't decay. They compound. Every month they're worth more, not less.
While your competitor's traffic is leaking out the bottom, yours is filling up from the top.
That's wall number two.
WALL #3

Here's the part that makes my accountant want to have a heart attack.
You don't have to build an un-attackable business from scratch.
You can buy one.
SBA financing lets you pick up a $3M cash-flow business for around $80K down. Then you bolt the agents on, triple the EBITDA in 18 months, and exit at 5x. No invention required. You buy what already works and you make it un-catchable.
Or you roll up the boring stuff nobody else wants — HVAC, plumbing, roofing - drop AI in as the management layer, and run a $5M portfolio from a laptop without ever swinging a hammer.
Most service businesses are owner-bottlenecked at a million bucks. The operators who learn to portfolio them are building the next generation of $20M–$50M exits.
That's wall number three.
Put all three walls up around a blue-ocean business and you've got something nobody on Earth can take from you.
That's the whole game for the next 36 months. And the window is closing faster than you think.
This isn't a binder and a "good luck." Every session in Dallas does one of four jobs — build the revenue engine (fill the castle), raise one of the three walls (make it un-attackable), or stress-test the whole thing to find the cracks before a competitor does.
Nothing here is filler. Every block ends with something built, fixed, or deployed. You leave with the asset, not the notes.
It starts with the frame:
The Operator's Era (Keynote): why 2026–2029 will mint more $20M founders than the last 30 years combined. Payroll, overhead, infrastructure — all becoming optional. The operators who see it in 2026 own the categories the ones who see it in 2028 are still trying to enter.
You leave with a 36-month plan and a stake in the ground.
The Revenue Engine
A moat around an empty castle is worth nothing.
First you build the thing worth protecting — the offer, the cash, the margin.
The 90-Day Revenue Sprint (Skill)
One offer, one channel, one follow-up sequence. You leave with a campaign that pays for your ticket before December.
The Marketing Forge (Workshop)
Headline, hook, stack, scarcity, guarantee, then the creative pipeline that finds winners fast. You leave with one sellable offer, 100 ads, and 12 emails — built and ready to ship Sunday night.
Close $10K–$50K Deals in 47 Minutes (Skill)
The high-ticket script for operators who hate selling. You leave with your close, scripted.
The 19% Price Lift (Skill)
Add profit without adding a single customer or another dollar of ad spend. You leave with the pricing tests that move margin this quarter.
Cash-Positive on Day One (Skill)
Because 82% of failed businesses were profitable on paper. Profit is opinion; cash is fact. You leave running on cash, not hope.
The Numbers Room (Workshop)
Pull up your real P&L, CAC, and AOV. You leave with three six-figure profit leaks found and plugged.
Sketch to Shopify in 30 Days (Skill)
AI-native product development, no designer, no warehouse. You leave with a path from sketch to first sale.
The Agent Army They Can’t Outspend
Replace the payroll. Keep the spread.
The 7-Agent Company (Keynote)
How a $2M business with zero employees out-margins a $20M one carrying 200. You leave with the full 7-agent stack and the plan to kill $340K of salary before Christmas.
The $497/Month Sales Department (Skill)
The 24/7 AI sales force that books, follows up, and closes. You leave with it deployable this week.
The Agent Army Lab (Workshop)
Whiteboard your org, map every role to an agent. You leave with your first agent deployed before lunch.
The Sales Stack Lab (Workshop)
Connect your CRM, phone, and scheduler to a working AI closer. You leave closing leads while you sleep.
Owned Assets That Compound
Stop renting eyeballs from Meta and Google.
Own the channel and watch it compound while everyone else’s decays.
The Dead Lead Goldmine (Keynote)
Pull $100K–$400K out of the CRM you already own before you buy another click. You leave with the reactivation playbook.
The Reactivation Room (Workshop)
Open your CRM, pick the segment, write the offer, press send. You leave having banked money before your flight home.
The 10,000-Person Asset (Skill)
The email list that ships revenue every time you press send. You leave with the owned-audience engine.
The $30K-a-Month Membership (Skill)
Recurring revenue, zero tech headache. You leave with the offer architecture that retains members for years.
The Membership Build Lab (Workshop)
Niche, offer, pricing, platform, 90 days of content. You leave taking signups by Sunday.
Cited by ChatGPT (Keynote)
The AEO playbook: be the answer when ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity is the question. You leave with the citation strategy.
Own the Map AND the AI Answer (Skill)
Google Maps + AI answers in one local stack. You leave owning both the map pack and the machine.
The AI Search Lab (Workshop)
Live audit of how the AI models talk about you. You walk in invisible and leave cited.
Acquisition Leverage They
Can't Buy Around
Don't build the un-catchable business from scratch.
Buy one and bolt the agents on.
The SBA + AI Play (Keynote)
Buy a $3M cash-flow business for $80K down, 3x the EBITDA in 18 months, exit at 5x. You leave with the deal-sourcing and post-close playbook.
The $5M Wrench-Free Empire (Keynote)
Roll up HVAC, plumbing, and roofing with AI as the management layer. You leave with the portfolio model.
The Deal Flow Lab (Workshop)
Pull live listings on BizBuySell and Quiet Light, run SBA-friendly valuations. You leave with three real acquisition targets.
The Local Empire Lab (Workshop)
Pick 3 verticals, map build-vs-buy. You leave with the org chart for a $5M portfolio.
The Teardowns
Bring a thick skin.
Better Perry finds the crack on stage than a competitor finds it in the wild.
The Offer Doctor (Teardown)
Perry rips apart 5 attendee offers live and shows the room exactly why they're not converting.
The Business Model Autopsy (Teardown)
Perry takes apart 3 businesses on stage: the model, the math, the moat, the exit path. The brutally honest read almost no operator ever gets.
The Acquisition Teardown (Teardown)
Live audits of attendee Meta, Google, and TikTok accounts. Most stacks leak 60%+ of revenue before checkout. We find every one of yours.
The Breakouts Are The Event
Plenty of conferences sell you a stage full of names and a seat in the back to admire them. That's not this.
The keynotes set the frame and the skills sessions teach the move — but the real work happens in the breakout build rooms, where you bring your actual business, open your actual accounts, and walk out with the thing built. Not a selfie with a guru. A working asset.
Build Room 01
Your offer, 100 ads, and 12 emails, ready to ship Sunday night.
Build Room 02
Your first AI agent, deployed before lunch.
Build Room 03
Your CRM, mined and monetized before your flight home.
Build Room 04
Three six-figure profit leaks, found and plugged on your real P&L.
Build Room 05
A working AI closer wired to your CRM and phone in 90 minutes.
Build Room 06
Walk in invisible to ChatGPT and Google Maps, walk out cited.
Build Room 07
Three real acquisition targets, sourced live.
Build Room 08
The org chart for a $5M home-services portfolio.
Build Room 09
A recurring-revenue membership taking signups by Sunday.
You don't leave Dallas with a notebook full of someday.
You leave with assets you built, deployed, and can run Monday morning.

Let me be straight with you, the way nobody else will.
This isn't a "register before prices go up" trick. This is the actual math of the next three years.
Right now, the moat works because almost nobody is building it yet. The 7-agent company is a freak advantage today. In 2028 it'll be table stakes — and being table stakes doesn't make you any money.
The operators moving in 2026 own the categories. The ones who wait become the case studies in the Business Model Autopsy two years from now, sitting in the audience watching someone else's business get torn apart and quietly realizing it's theirs.
Think about every window that ever closed on you.
You watched the internet happen and "thought about" building a website. You watched Bitcoin at fifty bucks and let your buddy talk you out of it. You watched the early days and you waited for it to feel safe.
It never feels safe. By the time it feels safe, the moat's already dug — by somebody else.
Don't tell that story at the bar again.
Three days. August 24–26, 2026. Dallas, Texas. Every keynote, every skills session, every build room, every teardown. You build your moat in the room and fly home with it live. Pick your seat.
One thing to know first. This is cheap on purpose. I'm building an army, and I'd rather pack this room with operators who'll go home and actually dig the moat than squeeze the last dollar out of a ticket. Maybe we partner. Maybe we cross-promote. Maybe I buy your company one day. That's worth more to us both than the ticket.
For operators who know that the best partnerships happen in the hallways. Secure your seat in the room and get full access to three days of actionable sessions.
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Come to Day One. If by 5:00 PM you don't believe you've already gotten 10x your ticket back in value, walk to the registration desk and we'll refund every dollar - no forms, no hoops, no hard feelings. The risk is mine.
Place one:
Right where you are today.
Same blue ocean, except now it's filling up with sharks.
Same payroll. Same rented traffic that costs more every month.
Same Friday-payroll knot in your stomach.
Watching some operator with half your experience post about the portfolio they just built — and knowing, deep down, that you saw this coming and waited.
Place two:
Behind the moat.
Out-margining companies ten times your size.
Owning assets that compound while everyone else's decay.
Running the whole thing from a laptop.
Un-catchable. Un-copyable. The operator everybody else is now trying to reverse-engineer.
Same person. Same brain. One decision in between.
Fair question. I've got a sneaky hidden motive, and I'll just tell you what it is.
I'm trying to build the biggest army of moat-builders in the world.
This is an us-versus-them situation. The "them" is every bloated, payroll-heavy, platform-dependent operator getting washed off the map. I want a room full of "us" — operators who own un-attackable businesses and back each other.
Maybe we end up partners. Maybe we cross-promote. Maybe I buy your company someday. Who knows.
That's worth more to me than squeezing every dollar out of a ticket. So the price is what it is.
But it's only $497 GA / $997 VIP until the Early Bird Deadline. After that it jumps, and the early-bird number never comes back.
One more thing, and I mean this:
If you're a collector (somebody who buys events to feel like you're moving without actually building anything) please don't register. I've got capped seats and I want them filled with people who'll go home and dig the moat. Tire-kickers take a seat from an operator who'll actually use it.
- Perry Belcher
P.S. 2026 is the build year. The next blue ocean is already out there — and it's already starting to fill up. The operators who get there first and dig the moat own the category. Everybody else spends the next three years trying to copy them. Get there first.
P.P.S. Capacity is capped and we are not adding more. There are limited Early Bird tickets left — when they're gone, registration closes. Early-bird pricing ends once we sell out. Decide before the math decides for you.
P.P.P.S. Your competitors are reading this exact page right now. Some already grabbed a seat. The rest are "thinking about it." In 2027, one of those groups owns their category and the other is studying the people who do. Pick which one you're going to be.
Right now, we're gearing up for our first speaker announcements at Growth Hacking Live 2026 - meet a few of the legends who joined us on stage in 2025 (founders, marketers, and builders running real businesses, not the speaker-circuit class) and stay tuned for our announcements!










Dallas, Texas — August 24–26, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas. A premier downtown convention hotel right next to Reunion Tower, with discounted attendee room rates available. Booking details will be sent to you immediately after you register.
Your ticket includes all keynote sessions, skills sessions, build-room workshops, live teardowns, marketplace access, networking events, and event materials.
Zero coding required. Everything is built for operators, not engineers. You'll get systems you can deploy Monday morning. I'm not technical and I built all of this - I talk to the machines and they do the work.
Don't register. This isn't a conference you sample. The moat gets built across the full sequence — Keynotes set it up, Skills teach the move, Workshops build it, Teardowns pressure-test it. Partial attendance is partial results, which is wasted money.
Only VIPs receive event recordings. Every VIP attendee gets full recordings delivered to their inbox within 24 hours after the event ends, so you can revisit and implement every insight.
After registering as a General Admission attendee, you'll have the option to upgrade to VIP (subject to availability).
We've had solo operators and Fortune 100 executives in the same room. Moat-building scales. Revenue doesn't matter — willingness to build does.
VIP tickets include lunch served each day, plus coffee, soda, water, and snacks throughout. Standard food options will cover common dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten-free, etc).
For specific restrictions, email [email protected] after registering and our team will coordinate with the venue in advance.
We offer a simple, generous policy: attend the first full day of Growth Hacking Live 2026. If by 5:00 PM on Day One you don't feel you've received at least 10x your investment in value, visit the registration desk and we'll issue a 100% refund. No questions asked.
Refund requests will not be honored after that first-day window.
We offer discounts for groups bringing more than 10 attendees. Email [email protected] for group pricing details.
The operators moving in 2026 own the categories. The ones who wait become the case studies. Decide before the math decides for you.
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