Shepherd Secures $42M to Accelerate AI‑Driven Construction Insurance
Congrats to the @withshepherd team on their $42M Series B! They're rebuilding commercial construction insurance for the AI era. When a broker submits an account, Shepherd delivers an indication in minutes—not weeks. 1,500+ policies issued, $400B in insured value, 600+ commercial contractors and asset owners. https://t.co/Sjl2TT5WSv
Free 5‑day Migration Eliminates Email Chaos
Your email platform isn't working… but the only reason you haven’t made the switch is because migration causes a week full of chaos. It's not about the cost, but the time, the broken flows, the re-importing contacts, the week you don't...
Pair Outbound with SEO for Sustainable Growth
8 hours of outbound a day. Cold DMs. Cold emails. Reddit. LinkedIn. Repeat. I've seen this blueprint. I've watched it burn founders out. Miss one week and your pipeline goes to zero. I've worked with 30+ SaaS companies. The ones that stall out built everything...
Databricks Leverages Anthropic AI to Enter Cybersecurity
Databricks enters cybersecurity... with Anthropic's models inside. The company that stores data now wants to secure it too. The incumbents prepared for AI entering the market.... less clear they're prepared for the data vendor thats already inside the building Sitting down w...
Generated Vercel Apps Replace Legacy SaaS, Boost Efficiency
Almost every SaaS app inside Vercel has now been replaced with a generated app or agent interface, deployed on Vercel. Support, sales, marketing, PM, HR, dataviz, even design and video workflows. It’s shocking. The SaaSpocalypse is both understated and overstated. Over because...
Mbappé Joins to Champion Preventive Health for All
𝐓𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐭: 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤. Today, with @Gorintic and the team incredibly proud to share three major announcements that...
Health Tech Proves Resilient Amid SaaS Market Turmoil
Amidst the SaaS bloodbath fears, is health tech actually safer than people think? I sat down with @SeanDuffy (CEO of @OmadaHealth) and Stephanie Davis (Healthcare Industry Analyst) to dig into what's really happening in the markets and what it means for...
Automation Lets Startups Scale with Just a Mac
2012 → Instagram needed 13 employees for a $1B exit. 2024 → Startups needed a team of 5 to scale. 2026 → You just need Accio and a Mac. @Accio_official connects to your Gmail/Shopify/Slack/Github etc. this app can read, write, and execute across your...
Oracle Aims to Create World’s Largest AI Cloud
Oracle CEO outlines his company’s ongoing plan to build “the world's largest AI cloud”. https://t.co/ta5d8qqhOx
Old Kindle Highlights Resurface to Fuel New Writing
Most highlights die in Kindle. Readwise brings them back and connects them. The power isn't in the capturing. It's in the resurfacing. Sometimes a highlight from two years ago connects perfectly to what you're writing today. https://www.ssp.sh/brain/readwise
Claude's Surge Signals Need to AI‑Proof Careers
Users are quitting ChatGPT for Claude, with a 1,487% increase in sessions in March alone. Here's why that matters for the workplace and how you can AI-proof your career: https://t.co/VTWyD60A5D @Forbes https://t.co/rdCIAxeGu1
Fizzy SaaS Goes Free, Powered by Basecamp Support
Fuck it, we just made Fizzy completely free. The open source installable version was always free, but the SaaS version was pay. No more. Basecamp and HEY's largess will subsidize Fizzy for all. So go grab your account at https://t.co/pGxSDeGKNK. It's Kanban...
AI‑generated Code Makes Testing Essential, Says Momentic
In this episode of Founder Firesides, YC's @harjtaggar talks to @wuweiweiwu and @itsjeffan, co-founders of @MomenticAI, who just raised a $15M Series A. Momentic is the verification layer for software. The AI-powered testing platform impersonates end users to catch bugs before...
Beware: Cloud ERP Vendors May Change Features Unilaterally
Navigating cloud ERP transitions is tough. What's even scarier? Software vendors unilaterally changing functionality long-term. This risk is only starting to emerge. #CloudERP #SaaS https://t.co/8VSJGfUGJo
Real-World OpenClaw Uses Needed, Not Just Demos
OpenClaw is cool, but utility is king👑 Who’s actually using it for more than just a demo? Tell me your best real-world use case.
SaaS Success Now Demands Rethinking Core Purpose
No one knows the future of SaaS, if we're being honest. But one thing I'm confident about - most of the playbooks folks relied on aren't enough anymore: * Hire a new CRO * What to look for in a sales rep * Accelerate...
Backfill Shopify Metafields Now for AI Shopping
Shopify quietly laid the groundwork for AI shopping last year with category metafields. A lot of us skipped them. Now with UCP, those fields are how AI and ChatGPT query your catalog. Start backfilling everything now if you haven't. @ericalandyck and...
Auto‑apply Branding to Videos with a Single URL
This is the exact problem I deal with every week. For every new video, we're manually swapping fonts, fixing colors, and re-uploading the logo. The fact that you can now just paste your URL and have it apply everywhere is kind of...
Consumer Longevity Research Gains Momentum with Ginkgo Cloud Lab
Really excited about the use of @Ginkgo Cloud Lab for consumers to do research in longevity and other consumer apps. These areas are less well-studied than you'd expect as US research funding is largely oriented towards disease. Fun chatting with @LongevityTech about...
SaaS Finance Shifts to Real-Time Metrics and AI Close
Most SaaS finance teams are still working with delayed metrics… - Closing the books weeks after month-end - Reporting shaky metrics and data - And stitching everything together in spreadsheets That doesn’t scale. Tomorrow, I’m joined by NetSuite to break...
AI-Powered Marketing Runs Your Campaigns While You Sleep
Most brands I work with have the strategy figured out. They just can’t execute fast enough. Someone built a fix for that. It’s called Helena — the OpenClaw for marketing. Give it your URL, and it runs your marketing for you: → Reads your site,...
Saturate High‑intent Searches Before Scaling Ad Spend
Her team spent $200/week on ads and learned nothing. Now at 8-figure ARR, Sarah Ahmad says the mistake was not saturating high-intent searches first. You can't optimize what you haven't tested properly. https://t.co/uR81Qj6ubp
GStack: Accelerate Software Projects and Build Faster
I released GStack 2 weeks ago and we're still growing I made it because I was realizing: every software engineering project is changing. How could I accelerate the way I saw @steipete accelerate? GStack is my gift to everyone who wants...
Master SaaS Unit Economics for Confident Growth
Mastering SaaS unit economics is the difference between hoping growth happens and knowing it will. In our latest mastermind, we explored why every SaaS founder needs to know: ▪️ CAC, LTV, ARPA, churn, and customer lifespan ▪️ How to calculate...
Ahrefs Site Audit Adds Free Continuous Crawling for Lite+ Plans
Now you can get continuous crawling and near real-time issue reporting in @ahrefs Site Audit. One of the strongest features we ever launched was Always-on Audit and we just included it for free on Lite+ plans. (1 URL/min) With boosts, you can...
Build the Future First, Enable Rapid User Value
Christian (Chris) Bach (CEO @ Netlify )'s framework for becoming the obvious choice in your category: Start with a strong worldview about where the market is going. Then reverse engineer what needs to exist for that future to happen. Then...
Automate HR Paperwork, Focus on Your People
Stop digging through the paperwork pit. HR is about people, not forms. Factorial automates the boring stuff so you can focus on your team. 👥 #HRTech #Factorial #PeopleOps #HRAutomation https://t.co/vMM8SckLCh
Copilot's Market Share Plummets as Rivals Rise
I thought Microsoft’s consumer version of Copilot was a flop but it seems the real concern is the business usage. Only 3.3% of Microsoft 365 customers have upgraded to paid versions of Copilot but that’s not the bad news. Recon Analytics...
Ahrefs Adds Free AI Prompt Tracking to Paid Plans
Now that tracking your AI visibility is becoming table stakes, we decided to include it in @Ahrefs at no extra cost. Every paid plan (except Starter) now includes custom prompt tracking in Brand Radar: - Lite: 150 checks/mo - Standard: 300 checks/mo - Advanced:...
Four Decision Gates for Renewing Your LMS
Do you use an #LMS for #training? Eventually, you'll face contract renewal. But what should you do before that? Take a beat. Check my advice as a longtime consultant: "Should You Renew Your LMS? Navigating 4 Decision Gates" ➡️https://t.co/DQ4MXQo5oG #B2B #hrtech #onlinelearning https://t.co/TZZA7y1O34
Perplexity Launches AI‑driven Market Research Tool
Perplexity tests Market Research agent for Perplexity Computer "These are the kind of strategic tools that consultants and analysts typically assemble manually using expensive subscription databases." "Perplexity is developing a dedicated Market Research section, which would sit alongside its existing navigation categories...
AgentBay: Your AI Works Nonstop, Remembers Everything
Ever wondered what your AI does when no one’s watching? With AgentBay, it scrolls, clicks, taps… basically living its best digital life. It even remembers everything while you nap Feels like having a tiny robot intern who never complains. #AIautomation #AgentBay #CloudAI https://t.co/77QITwEyTM
Subscriptions Generate 700× More Revenue than Ads
Adsense is incredibly low amounts of money Photo AI would make $150/month with 156,000 visitors ($1 CPM) Now it makes $110,000/month with subscriptions instead so about 700x more
GStack Relies on Codex for Every Code Review
GStack actually will use Codex for code and plan reviews and I use it 100% of the time now
Unstoppable Flow Helped Me Crush 22 Tasks
Knocked 22 tasks off my hit list this past week thanks to Unstoppable Flow ✨ ✨ Try it here 👇 https://t.co/2GyyHn2yKD
SaaS Marketing Fails When Foundations Are Ignored
If anyone understands how broken marketing is inside SaaS companies— it’s me. I’ve seen the same scenario over and over. I’m brought in. Day 1: “We need campaigns.” “We need pipeline.” “We need results in 90 days.” Then you look...
Highlight the Middle Tier to Boost High‑value Deals
Founders: Price anchoring framework that works: 1. Show 3 tiers 2. Make middle tier 2.2x bottom tier 3. Make top tier 1.8x middle tier 4. Add 3 unique features per tier 5. Highlight middle tier Psychology = more deals at higher ACV.
Integrate Your Apps, Let AI Become Your Operations Partner
The single biggest thing that turned my AI chief of staff into an actual operational partner was connecting the tools I use everyday ↓ Once I did, I stopped logging into each platform and just ask my AI chief of staff...
Vertical AI Beats Generic Tools for Industry Precision
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗜. 𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄. Horizontal AI — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini — is built for everyone. Broad, general-purpose, impressive. But it doesn't know your industry,...
New 5‑Pillar SaaS Metrics Engine Enables AI‑Powered Benchmarking
My 5 Pillar SaaS Metrics framework has been core to helping SaaS & AI founders and students in my Academy. I'm about to release the framework in my next code push to production for my SaaS metrics engine. My framework...
SaaS Valuations Plunge, yet Growth Stays Robust
SaaS valuations have reset — but growth remains intact. Significant multiple compression - Median EV/Sales declined from 15–17x to 4–5x. Median subscription SaaS snapshot 👇 • EV/Sales: 4.7x • NTM Growth: 16.5% • 51 public companies • for SaaS companies (including device / fixed-capacity subscriptions and...
Specific, Data‑driven Prompts Outperform Vague Marketing Requests
Bad AI prompt: Give me marketing ideas. Good AI prompt: I run a SaaS for fitness coaches doing $2M/yr. My goal is to double leads in 6 months. Give me 10 strategies used by similar companies. Context = quality.
Real-World Claude Cowork Deployment: Process Revealed
As mentioned, we set up Claude Cowork inside an actual organization recently. Not as a demo or a pilot. As real infrastructure that runs real work. Figured I'd share what the process actually looked like because most AI content skips this...
Cloud ERPs Trade Flexibility for Convenience
Organizations unknowingly sacrifice control and flexibility for cloud ERPs. While seemingly outdated, custom on-prem systems offered adaptability that modern, off-the-shelf solutions lack. #CloudERP #TechDebt #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/LvE671u0MT
Google Drive's New Scanner: Real-Time Multi-Page Magic
i don't usually get hyped over doc scanners, but Google Drive's new update is insane 🤯 - Multi-page real-time scanning - Duplicate detection - Auto/continuous capture also lightning fast and UX is incredibly cool https://t.co/cF3ZIu9PA7
Kiro Token Pricing: Cheap per Token, Costly Overages
This makes no sense: ⁉️ ➡️ Every Kiro plan costs 💲.02 / token. ➡️ So I’m going to barely run out of tokens at the end of the month and overages cost 💲.04 / token. What? ➡️ So to get $.02 per token...
We Overhyped Valuations, AI May Follow Suit
It's easy to make fun of 2021 valuations. But how in the world did we ever think Asana should be at a 60x revenue multiple... Seems like we will look back similarly at many private AI companies 🤔 https://t.co/VK8CqatqTn
Ramp's Data Mirrors OpenAI, Anthropic Revenues, Proving Its Value
If your kid’s lemonade stand processes 0.5–1% of US GDP, then yes, that’s a fair analogy for @tryramp. Ramp’s data is useful for the same reason it gets cited at all: it is quite consistent with the revenue figures OpenAI and...
Automate Financial Model Checks to Prevent $2M Mistakes
Your financial model has an error right now. You just haven't found it yet. I know because I've been there. I once spent days building a model for a client. Board meeting. Next 12 months of projections. Felt great about it. Then a...
Anyone Can Code, Only Rare Founders Can Disrupt SaaS
Dharmesh (Founder + CTO of Hubspot) is right — nobody's going to vibe code Hubspot. Want to know why SaaS stocks are getting smoked? I’ll tell you why. It’s not that Lovable (or any other company) will start vibe coding...
