The CTO Show with Mehmet Gonullu #487 From Dream to Done: Cheryl Cunningham on Creating the Agentic OS for Solopreneurs
In this episode of The CTO Show with Mehmet, we sit down with Cheryl Cunningham, CEO of Huro AI, to explore how agentic AI is reshaping entrepreneurship as we know it. From her early days in the food industry to building a quantum-informed AI company, Cheryl shares the journey behind Huro’s mission: enabling solopreneurs and SMBs to go from vision to execution with a single personalized operating system.
Whether you’re a future founder, tech leader, or just AI-curious — this is an unmissable conversation about agency, survival, and the future of work.
🔑 Key Takeaways
• Why the solopreneur economy is growing — and how AI will fuel it
• How Huro’s AI agent “Gabby” acts like your personal COO
• The importance of hyper-personalization in future AI systems
• Cheryl’s perspective on quantum-inspired AI and sustainability
• Why entrepreneurship is no longer optional — it’s a survival skill
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🎓 What You’ll Learn
• How agentic AI can turn a non-technical founder into a one-person startup
• The mindset shift from tools-in-buckets to full-stack execution engines
• The role of empathy and personal context in the AI-human loop
• Real talk on how and when AI might really replace traditional jobs
• What Cheryl learned by moving from service entrepreneur to tech founder
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👤 About Cheryl Cunningham
Cheryl Cunningham is the CEO and founder of Huro AI, a company building a hyper-personalized, agentic operating system designed to help everyday entrepreneurs execute their vision—without needing to be tech experts. With a background spanning food service to frontier AI, she brings a fresh, grounded approach to what it means to build tools for the builder.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylecunningham/
Episode Highlights
[00:04:30] Cheryl’s first vision of Huro AI: A way to protect humanity from AI job loss
[00:07:10] Why siloed tools are failing new entrepreneurs
[00:09:30] The birth of Gabby: A hyper-personalized AI COO
[00:14:00] Human uniqueness as the “source code” for agentic agents
[00:20:30] Lessons from the food industry: Distribution is everything
[00:23:00] Quantum-level AI thinking: Feasible without quantum chips?
[00:35:00] Why we’re entering a “forced entrepreneurship” era
[00:40:00] A message to the non-technical dreamers: You won’t be left behind