AI Startup Playbooks
Building, launching, growing, and scaling AI startups.
AI Business Ideas Worth Building
A specific, opinionated filter for AI startup ideas — what makes them defensible, which verticals are real, and what to avoid entirely.
2026-06-10
AI SaaS Architecture Guide
A CTO-level blueprint for architecting AI SaaS products that scale: multi-tenancy, request pipelines, async jobs, cost attribution, and the data flywheel.
2026-04-02
AI Startup Costs Explained
A CFO-level breakdown of every cost category in an AI startup — LLM APIs, inference, hosting, vector DBs, and hidden costs — with real numbers at every stage.
2026-04-24
AI Startup Mistakes to Avoid
13 specific traps that kill AI startups — from building on a single model provider to scaling marketing before your product retains.
2026-05-25
AI Startup Unit Economics
AI startup unit economics are harder than traditional SaaS because COGS scales with usage, not seat count — and most founders discover this too late.
2026-05-02
Bootstrapping an AI Company
Bootstrapping an AI company is harder than bootstrapping traditional SaaS — but for the right type of business, it is entirely possible and often the smarter choice.
2026-06-02
Building an AI MVP
An AI MVP is not about the AI — it's about validating the job-to-be-done as fast as possible before you over-engineer the solution.
2026-05-23
Distribution Strategies for AI Products
Most AI founders figure out distribution too late. Here are the specific channels that work, what good looks like, and the honest tradeoffs for each.
2026-05-20
Finding a Problem Worth Solving with AI
How to find AI startup ideas worth building — the signals to trust, the methods that work, and the red flags that will waste your time.
2026-06-12
Founder Tools We Use Daily
The actual tools we use every day building an AI startup — honest takes on Cursor, PostHog, Railway, Stripe, and more.
2026-05-25
How to Get Your First 100 Customers
A tactical playbook for early-stage AI founders on how to get your first 100 paying customers without relying on SEO, word of mouth, or anything that requires scale to work.
2026-04-16
How We Built an AI Startup in 30 Days
A week-by-week account of building and launching an AI product in 30 days — the stack, the cuts, the mistakes, and what actually worked.
2026-05-25
Open Source vs Closed Models for Startups
A practical decision framework for founders choosing between closed APIs and open source LLMs — when to use OpenAI, when to self-host, and how to build a hybrid strategy.
2026-05-06
Pricing AI Products
Most AI founders price too low, ignore their cost structure, and get killed by usage at scale — here's how to price an AI product that actually sustains a business.
2026-05-13
Scaling from Prototype to Production
Most AI prototype-to-production failures aren't AI problems — they're product and infrastructure problems founders discover too late.
2026-04-01
The AI Startup Playbook
A comprehensive end-to-end operating guide for developers and founders building AI startups — from finding a real problem to scaling past $100k MRR.
2026-06-01
The Cheapest AI Tech Stack for Startups
The exact tech stack to build an AI startup for under $50/month — LLM API, frontend, backend, database, auth, payments, and more.
2026-04-29