Salt Lake City
Meetup #1 · March 2026
Hosted by Mason Earl
Ambassador
Your Host
Mason Earl
Lead Estimator · Heavy Civil Construction · Cursor Ambassador · 18 apps shipped in 8 months
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10 years ago I shipped one app after a 4-month boot camp. Then construction took over and I walked away from code.
Last year with Cursor — 18 apps in 6 months.
Construction Takeoff — iOS estimating app · App Store
Swift Stakes — Blue Stakes locator for Utah · App Store
OpenMud — Agentic AI for heavy civil construction · openmud.ai
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This works in any industry. Cursor makes custom software accessible to anyone — not just developers.
Today's Agenda
What we've got planned
Casual, demo-driven, and a lot of fun
12:00
Doors Open
Get settled, grab a seat, meet the people around you
12:20
Welcome & Intros
Quick hello from Mason — a bit about the community
12:30
Demos
Real projects, real results — built with Cursor
Kevin Albers Cursor
Head of User Ops — walkthrough & best practices
Special guest
Martin Tejeda
Peridot — customer research to PRDs, presentations & tickets
~5 min
Morgen Glessing
Civic Star — AI pre-construction intel, surfacing city projects 12–24 months early
~5 min
Will Rowston
AI Agents — tool calling, memory & observability (fantasy football use case)
~5 min
Coleman Dunn & Team
Team showcase — what they've built with Cursor
~5 min
After
Open Networking
Chat, connect, and keep the conversation going
The Tool
What is Cursor?
An IDE designed for coding with AI
Its Own Editor
- Not just a plugin — Cursor is its own editor
- Interface optimized for coding with LLMs
- AI in all the right, additive places
Built on VS Code
- Originally forked from VS Code
- Feature-rich foundation you can trust
- Import your extensions & settings in one click
Codebase Context
- Vector embedding of your entire codebase
- Highly relevant outputs that fit your style
- Uses folders and files for deep context
What's New — March 2026
Cursor is growing fast.
Beyond the editor — agents, automations, and a full ecosystem
Cloud Agents
Virtual Computers
- Agents spin up their own isolated VMs
- Build features, fix bugs, write tests, open PRs — end to end
- Test in real browsers with screenshots and video
- Trigger via GitHub, Slack, Linear, or the web
Automations — Mar 5
Always-On Agents
- Set agents to run on a schedule or on events
- Triggers: GitHub PRs, Slack messages, Linear issues, PagerDuty, webhooks
- Agents learn from past runs and improve over time
- cursor.com/automations
Plugins — Mar 11
Marketplace
- 30+ partner plugins: Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Figma, Linear, Snyk
- Plugins bundle MCPs, rules, agents, and commands
- Interactive UIs (charts, diagrams, whiteboards) inside Cursor
- cursor.com/marketplace
By the Numbers
It's working.
$1B to $2B ARR in three months. The fastest-growing dev tool ever.
$2B+
annualized revenue — doubled in just 3 months (Bloomberg, Mar 2026)
1M+
daily active developers building with Cursor
$29B
valuation — $2.3B Series D raised in November 2025
Who's Building With Cursor
The world's best teams.
From startups to Fortune 500s — the best builders run on Cursor
Stripe
Salesforce
NVIDIA
Coinbase
Rippling
Upwork
Sentry
Cursor Salt Lake City
Thanks for being here.
This is just the start. More meetups, more demos, more people building things that matter — together.
More events to come
And seriously — thank you to everyone in this room. You took time out of your day to show up, be part of something, and build alongside people who care about the same things. That's what makes a community real.