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Field notes
Shorter, faster pieces on AI-first entrepreneurship – the working notes between the essays.
AI Governance
We spent a week reading AI-governance posts. Everyone is circling the same missing gate.
We built a system to find the people writing about AI governance and joined their conversations. Across advisors, founders, and competitors, the same two pieces keep going unnamed: a human who owns the outcome above the loop, and a rights check on the data before and after the machine acts. That is the paper we already wrote.
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AI Governance
How we held our AI governance manifesto to its own gate
AI governance only counts if it governs you first. We audited all 25 of our own plugins, gated the high-stakes ones, and signed the manifesto through the gate it describes.
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AI Strategy
What Is a Frontier Founder? Building Smart, Not Big
A Frontier Founder builds a company with AI from first principles, not bolted onto an org built for people. The edge is the choice, not the tools. Read on.
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AI Strategy
Eating our own dogfood: how the 4D framework built the tool that built this post
We wrote a whitepaper on AI’s polish bias, then got caught by it: 500 emails, zero replies. Here’s the recursive proof of the 4D framework that fixed it.
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AI Strategy
What the polish bias means for SMB founders in 2026
Anthropic's 2026 study links polished AI to a 3-4 point drop in critical engagement. SMB founders are most exposed. Run the one-week experiment to measure it.
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