Technical Advances in Document Understanding
Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack explore the rapid evolution of AI‑driven document processing, tracing the shift from traditional OCR through layout‑aware structure models to modern language‑vision systems and the latest Deepseek‑OCR. They highlight how multimodal models dramatically boost accuracy and flexibility for complex documents, while noting the higher compute costs compared to lightweight OCR solutions. Practical advice covers data preparation, model selection, latency, and integration trade‑offs, emphasizing that tool choice should match workflow complexity—from simple receipt scans to intricate contract analysis.
Focus Attribution on Predictable Outcomes via Marginal Gains
Who knew that a book about hospitality and a British cycling coach could give us a better approach to attribution and performance improvement. For too long we've been thinking about attribution wrong, two ways. First, it's not about who gets...
AI Amplifies Existing Organizational Blindspots, Not Root Cause
Everyone is blaming AI for the chaos in their company. AI accelerated it, but it didn’t start it. The real shift began years ago when the perimeter of the company expanded faster than the organization’s ability to keep it coherent. The touchpoints multiplied...
Focus Beats AI‑built SaaS; Stick with Proven Platforms
"Why should companies pay for SaaS (HR/CRM/ERP/etc.) when they could just vibe code them?" I get variations of this question or comment with some regularity (granted, it's sometimes just me talking to myself). Here are some biased (but hopefully, well-considered)...
Agency Survey Reveals Benchmarks, AI Perception, Growth Trends
Agency owners, don't miss: https://sparktoro.com/blog/the-2025-state-of-digital-agencies-its-still-rough-out-there-but-slowly-improving-and-is-ai-really-a-threat/ How does your revenue, leads, margin, growth compare to other agencies? Do your fellow agency owners perceive AI as a threat? Opportunity? Both? What's happening with juniors, remote work, pipelines? Thanks to @paddymoogan's survey of 100s of agencies, we've...
The 2025 State of Digital Agencies: It’s Still Rough Out There, but Slowly Improving; and Is AI Really a Threat?
The 2025 State of Digital Agencies survey shows a mixed but improving picture. Half of agencies reported revenue growth, while net margins rose for roughly a third. Concerns about AI as a business threat increased to 53%, and two‑thirds worry...
"The World Is Not Slowing Down" - AWS CEO Says AI Agents Will Be Bigger than the Internet, so Act...
At AWS re:Invent 2025, CEO Matt Garman proclaimed AI agents will become more transformative than the Internet or cloud computing. He highlighted an accelerating wave of AI innovation, noting that enterprises are already seeing agents reshape customer experiences and operational...
Eight Must‑Read Books That Built $25M Bootstrapped Startup
Over the past 10 years I’ve read over 250 books about startups. Here are the 8 books that got me from $0-$25m ARR with zero funding (in order of impact) and what I learned from each of them: 1. Four...
No, It's Not Just You – ChatGPT Is Having some Issues, but OpenAI Is Working on It
On December 2, 2025 OpenAI confirmed a widespread ChatGPT outage caused by elevated error rates, affecting both web and mobile interfaces. Down Detector recorded more than 3,400 reports as users encountered endless loading circles and unresponsive answers. By 3:12 PM ET OpenAI applied a...
Claude Opus 4.5 Outperforms Human Engineers on Real Test
Claude Opus 4.5 just beat every human candidate on Anthropic’s performance engineering exam. Here’s what this breakthrough actually means👇 Anthropic’s newest model outperformed every software engineer who has ever taken their real hiring assessment. And this isn’t a small quiz....
Google Is Bringing AI-Powered Notification Summaries to More Android Devices
Google is extending its AI‑powered notification summaries, introduced in Android 16, to Android devices beyond Pixel, starting with Samsung and other OEMs. The feature condenses lengthy chat messages and group conversations into brief snippets, but remains limited to messaging apps,...
The Next Android 16 Update Has Landed – Here Are the 7 Biggest Features
Google has rolled out a second Android 16 update, adding AI‑driven notification summaries, revamped notification organization, and expanded customization options. The package also introduces built‑in parental controls, a beta Call Reason feature, scam‑checking via Circle to Search, and a suite of...
Measure Content Success with 10 Essential KPIs
I'm so over "Likes" and "Impressions". Your business leaders are too. These 10 KPIs help you demonstrate that your content engine is functioning effectively and delivering business value. Content ROI is a 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰. It is not an asset measurement,...
Custom Policy Enforcement with Reasoning: Faster, Safer AI Applications
NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning, a model that blends dynamic policy reasoning with production‑grade latency. The system lets developers load natural‑language policies at inference time, enabling nuanced content moderation across e‑commerce, telecom, and healthcare use cases. It achieves low...
Clunky, Irrelevant ChatGPT App Promotion Misses the Mark
This is not an ad in the traditional sense (it's actually trying to boost ChatGPT Apps and Integrations and increase the stickiness and holisticness of their product), but the design is so clunky and the irrelevance of the recommendation to...
AI Agents = Stateful Workflows with Built‑in Resilience
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the...
AI Shifts From Answering to Executing Across Five Pillars
Modern AI = 5 pillars 🧠⚙️ ✨ Generative AI (create) 🧩 LLMs (reason) 🔎 RAG (ground + verify) 🤖 AI Agents (act) 🚀 Agentic AI (coordinate + scale) We’re moving from AI that answers → AI that executes outcomes. Which pillar wins next? 👇 #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #RAG...
ChatGPT Referrals to Retailers’ Apps Increased 28% Year-over-Year, Says Report
ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps jumped 28% year‑over‑year during the Black Friday weekend, according to Apptopia. Amazon captured a majority share, rising to 54% of AI‑driven referrals, while Walmart’s share climbed to 14.9%. Despite the growth, AI‑originated sessions remain...
Built $6.6M SaaS Solely Through LinkedIn Content
I’ve probably made more money directly from posting on LinkedIn than anyone else. In March 2024, I posted an idea for RB2B on LinkedIn. Solicited feedback, iterated in public, pivoted in front of everyone, and built the product while you watched. 18 months...
I Get Why some People Are Suddenly Freaking Out About AI Agents in Windows 11 – I'm Worried, Too, but...
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update embeds AI agents directly into the OS, offering conversational assistance and task automation. The company cautions users to understand the security implications before enabling these agents, highlighting potential data exposure and privilege escalation. Early adopters...
AI-Powered Unions: Workers Get Data-Driven Bargaining
Your AI might form a labor union. Or get you a better job in the future. For our free newsletter this week, we cover synthetic unions: AI agents bargaining on behalf of workers. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. Synthetic...
Most Sales Kickoffs Fail—Make Them Truly Impactful
Why Most Sales Kickoffs Are a Complete Waste of Time Few events in the business world get more run and have less impact than an SKO—the infamous "Sales Kickoff." Here's a question for you: When was the last time you...
Future AI Memory Needs Concepts, Tags, and Clustering
good intro to a couple of concepts/approaches to memory. not sure i agree agents need to forget, but I agree some sort of strategy is required to make sure you’re efficiently pulling only data you need into the context. i think current...
Global AI Compute Power Split: China, US, EU, Rest
What's the % of the world's AI computing power held by each of these players? 🇨🇳 China - ❓ % 🇺🇸 US - ❓% 🇪🇺 EU - ❓% 🌍 Everyone else - ❓% Got guesses? 👇 The answers to this...
Profit, Not Revenue, Is the Real Scoreboard
Revenue is a vanity metric. Profit is the real scoreboard. It’s not about what you make. It’s about what you keep.
Prompt Seeding: Embed Brand in Prompts to Dominate ChatGPT Recommendations
Wild marketing play for ChatGPT memory, especially with ad rumors flying: Don’t make an ad go viral. Make a prompt go viral. Put your brand inside the prompt by name, by image, by examples, by code words. Show people using it. Get thousands...
Modular Edge AI Tower: Stack Pi and Jetson Boards
🔥Part 1 is HERE: Building the Ultimate Edge AI Cluster from Scratch! Stacked Raspberry Pi 2, 4, 5 + Jetson Nano + Orin Nano into a fully modular, plug-and-play TOWER powered by Gigabit Ethernet! Watch me turn a pile of dev boards...
Communication Strategy: Broad, Flexible; Plan: Specific, Fixed
RT @VoxOptima Key differences between a #communicationplan vs #strategy | https://t.co/gmXQhny8cN @indeed "A communications strategy is less specific than a communications plan. This is useful when a team evolves over time and their goals and objectives change.
VPS Gives AR Glasses and Robots Centimeter‑level Spatial Awareness
VPS or visual positioning system... this is how AR glasses and robots will understand where they are in the real world and know where to go. It’s also how you can spatially annotate reality with cm level accuracy - all...
200+ Agency Owners Reveal Industry Health, Growth, Threats
NEW post: https://t.co/fMrZMJxj34 Thanks to the tireless work of @paddymoogan, our survey of 200+ digital agency owners is now live featuring answers to critical questions about the field's health, growth, and threats. https://t.co/O1PWZVpqWV
Bootstrapped SaaS Sold for $1.25M in 65 Days
We just helped a founder exit for $1,250,000 on @acquiredotcom. Business was a bootstrapped SaaS. Multiple 4.7x profit. Took about 65 days from listing to close. Another life changing outcome. https://t.co/z3cU78jzi5
Align Marketing and Finance to Invest in True Value
RT @VisionEdgeMktg 💼 When marketing and finance are aligned, it’s easier to invest in what truly creates customer and business value AND prove it. https://t.co/UiNSacxRrK #MarketingFinance #CustomerCentricity #Measurement
Open-Source Is the Antidote to AI Power Concentration
In my opinion, the biggest risk in AI is concentration of power, capabilities and wealth. Let's fight this with open-source! https://t.co/SH8KELONUB
Tangle Simplifies Shopify ML, Eliminates Redundancy, Now Open Source
Tangle is a major piece of our Shopify data and ML system. It makes complex things easy and automatically avoids doing things more than once, saving an insane amount of waste. Open source today: https://t.co/4KvIoFuetG
Prep, Docs, Communication Accelerate M&A Deals
Another awesome @acquiredotcom webinar tomorrow. We'll be showing buyers and sellers how preparation, documentation, and clear communication make deals move faster. Register here (you'll get the recording): https://t.co/9GxFHTo3dz https://t.co/tAD5US18j5
Consistent Habits Revive Teams During Performance Slumps
Every team hits a flat stretch. The ones that recover fall back on reliable habits. They keep talking to customers, sharpen the product, and finish work that restores confidence. Consistency becomes their anchor until progress begins to show up again.
AI‑Generated In‑App Guidance Updates With Your UI
Frigade (@FrigadeHQ) learns how your product works and creates in-product guidance from simple prompts. No flows. No selector tagging. No stale docs. Guidance stays up to date as your UI evolves. https://t.co/mdmrJKGBLU https://t.co/S7BzH2ybxs
AI Boosts Alaska Airlines' Ramp Safety Culture
Alaska Airlines Uses AI-Driven Technology to Transform Ramp Safety Culture https://t.co/nsaB9YY7QV @Samsara
Gemini 3 Reinforces Its Own Bias Without Self‑Check
The bigger problem with Gemini 3's glazing is it self-reinforces its own bias in the next output. You need to tell it to check itself because it gets in a loop where it starts getting too hyped up even if...
Ask Your Fizzy Questions for Tomorrow’s Live Walkthrough
Planing on doing a livestream Fizzy walkthrough tomorrow. Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like me to focus on. Design decisions, product decisions, why things work (or don't work) this way or that way, etc.
AI Agents Are Just Robust, Stateful Workflows
"AI Agents" are really just workflows, which consist of managing state, handling (sometimes very) long running workflows, with error handling and automatic recovery and retries built in. Great to see more attention on this important category. If you want the best...
Gemini 3’s Flaw: Overly Sycophantic, Stilted Speech
I love Gemini 3 but the glazing / sycophancy / weird stilted speech is way worse than any other big lab model.
Repeat Customer Feedback Loops For
How do you actually learn from your customers in B2B? I get asked a lot about my biggest learnings from my last company (Gainsight). It's hard to not feel cliched. Culture! Focus! Strategy! But there's a thing I did 1000+ times that...
Fizzy Adopts UUIDv7, Enables SaaS‑to‑on‑prem Migration
Fun fact: Fizzy is using UUIDv7 primary keys. Plan is to offer import/export between our SaaS hosting and people's own on-prem installations. Start on SaaS, grab your own SQLite DB, then run it yourself (or the other way!). Will upstream...
Support Team Publishes Fizzy Help Guide on Writebook
The Fizzy help guide was written by our support team, and it's hosted as a Writebook, of course: https://t.co/7NRogb3IYp
Fizzy’s Core and SaaS Code Now Open Source
Fizzy is split into a core codebase that anyone can run on their own and then our hosted SaaS setup. We've published the source to both! So even if you can't run fizzy-saas (since it relies on internal gems), you...
Introducing Picture Cards: Visual Guides for Easy Setup
I didn't show this in the Fizzy demo video, but it's one my favorite obscure features. Text is great, but sometimes a picture just makes more sense. So why not make picture cards? So we did. Here's an example for setting up...
Three-DC Deployment Delivers Sub‑80ms Latency Across Regions
Fizzy is deployed in three different data centers: US Mid-West (Chicago), US East (Ashburn), and EU (Amsterdam). Our writer is in US East, and the two other DCs are for reading. It's fast! P95 response time is 50 for readers,...
Fizzy Opens Full Development History with 1,792 PRs
Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase, Fizzy's public codebase has the entire life of the product development cycle out in the open. 1,792 pull requests of historical fun and insight into how we make things...
Fizzy's HTML Bugs Fixed and Deployed in 124 Seconds
We're barely a few minutes into the public life of Fizzy, and @marcoroth_ has already tidied up some HTML errors, which we've already deployed to production in 124 seconds with Kamal 🤘 https://t.co/lYwPHqLBrg https://t.co/5XjCHUNsJz
