One Day, $1,000 in Tokens: An AI War Room for Legacy Code — Ford Prior, GEICO

At GEICO, coding got fast but everything around it (decisions, sign-offs, context) stayed slow. Ford Prior's fix was a multiplayer, AI-native war room: the right decision makers, one driver, and fleets of agents wired into GEICO's knowledge, tools and code. His bet was that one day and $1,000 in tokens could map a legacy claims domain end to end and ship one real change. He ran it three times across rentals, damages and salvage. He covers FleetKit, the markdown rulebook that steers the agent fleet, plus the worksheets and diagrams it produced and what he'd change next. Chapters: - 00:00 Inner loop vs. outer loop - 02:05 Claims tech at GEICO - 04:37 The AI-native war room - 05:23 The one-day, $1,000 experiment - 06:33 Three modernization missions - 08:29 What the vendor brings vs. what GEICO brings - 09:47 FleetKit: running an agent fleet - 11:55 Inside the war room - 15:58 Lessons and what's next Ford Prior, GEICO: https://www.geico.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!