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 #AIAgents #AgenticAI
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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...
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
Fizzy Launches Under O'Saasy License, MIT‑style with SaaS Monetization
Fizzy is released under the O'Saasy License. Which is basically MIT with a carve-out for the original licensor to monetize the SaaS aspect of the code base. Feel free to use! https://t.co/guhoBdMBXC https://t.co/BtdlJBSC6n
AI Transforming Analyst Research and Vendor Evaluations
When you get Daniel Newman and me together in front of a microphone at Ingram Micro ONE a few weeks ago, you never know what we might say about research, vendor evaluations, and the role AI will play in an...
Jason's Fizzy Walkthrough Offers Deep Product and Code Insight
Jason's complete walk-through of Fizzy is a great way to get a feel for the product. And if you're technically inclined, you could even follow along in the code base to see every controller, every action, every view. https://t.co/XlaJRj0Ydt
Volunteer to Shape Future AI Project Management Certification
🌟 Calling All AI & Project Management Experts! Help Shape the Future of CPMAI Certification 🌟 We’re looking for a group of passionate volunteers to contribute to the development of the PMI-CPMAI Certification by writing and reviewing exam content. What’s...
Fizzy Launches Modern Kanban with Freemium SaaS
Fizzy is live! Our modern, beautiful spin on kanban for tracking just about anything. Nothing revolutionary, but just right, just nice. And we're launching our freemium SaaS version alongside an O'Saasy-licensed codebase for you to run it yourself too! https://t.co/AfDsofwNQ8...
Persistence Pays: Stay in the Game to Succeed
15 years, 1 exit, a semi-failed ecommerce brand, and 3 moderately successful agencies into my career, Alex Fine🌲 asked me for the best piece of advice I'd give my younger self, if I were just starting out today: Just stay...
Stop Rebuilding ERP; Use AI to Build New Capabilities
“Every hour spent recreating Salesforce or Workday is an hour not spent building the proprietary capabilities that actually move the business forward.” This is one of the more essential reason why most companies are not going to have AI clone their...
Fizzy: Simple Kanban, No Corporate Bloat
INTRODUCING FIZZY Have you noticed that every issue and idea tracking tool you loved slowly morphed into boring, sluggish, corporate bloatware? Trello put on 40 pounds of cruft. Jira started charging by the migraine. Asana tried to become everything to everyone. GitHub...
Vista Point Advisors Launches New NYC Office
I’m excited to share that Vista Point Advisors is opening a new office right in the heart of New York City! This is a big step for us as we keep growing and getting closer to the amazing founders, investors,...
Invest Time Upfront, Save Money and Avoid Vendor Lock
People saying I'm not valuing my time: Of course I do! At some point, I had to exchange my time for the money I'd use to pay for expensive cloud tools. Instead, I now pay upfront with a bit of my...
From Bootstrapped Success to VC Scaling: Duncan’s Journey
Bootstrap or raise? After scaling GoCardless into a multi-billion-dollar company, Duncan Barrigan knew he wanted to swing big — and VC was the path. Watch Episode 220 👉 https://t.co/r7Q1ZbKANk #SaaS #AI #Lunos https://t.co/9ssXthmWdb
Collaborate on Content to Expand Reach and Network
"An ally in creating content is an ally in promoting content." That's one reason why I never miss a chance to include others in my content. It's "organic influencer marketing" and there are plenty of good reasons to collaborate on...
Customers Spot Your Brand Blind Spots First
#Branding Blind Spots Your Customers Notice Before You Do - B2B Marketing Blog | Webbiquity - https://t.co/pDWtyE4928 https://t.co/cfP30zZcZL
Turn Silent High‑Fit Accounts Into Conversations with Proactive ABM Play
ABM is less about building a calendar of campaigns and more about building a system that listens and acts. And that’s super difficult. I’ve been spending a little more time understanding the new stage of ABM, and Tofu ’s dynamic...
Kling O1 Locks Style with Seven Reference Images
AI video creators know this pain: drifting characters, missing details, scenes breaking after one edit... Kling's new O1 fixes that. It now uses up to 7!! reference images to lock in style and character consistency 🔥 Feels like directing an assistant who remembers it...
Choose AI Roles Wisely, Validate, and Stay Accountable
AI can play many roles in decision-making: • Research assistant • Medical advisor • Expert witness • Creative assistant • Personal counselor • Trusted advisor Each role carries different ethical risks and responsibilities. The task is to choose wisely, remain...
Match CTAs to Audience Intent to Build Trust
You're not tricking anyone into buying anything. A "Learn More" CTA that goes to a form to contact sales, book a demo, or otherwise become a "lead" that will then be "nurtured" is not, in fact, increasing your conversion rate...
Avoid Nonprofits for AI Products: Simplify Legal Structures
another reminder folks - plz don’t start a non-profit if you want to build ai products, it literally makes no sense, you will have to do the awks conversion or spin out a newco don’t invent complicated legal structures that add...
Binary Enemy Narrative Limits Growth; Embrace Both PLG and Sales
I picked the wrong enemy. When I started ProductLed , I studied how great categories were built. - Inbound Marketers declared war on Outbound. - CROs fought against "gut-feeling" updates. - Content Marketers hated pure advertising. The pattern was clear:...
Growth Shifts When Market Conditions Change, Not Brand Effort
Growth is highly dependent on the conditions that surround us, and they are often a combination of factors. Take this global Share of Search example for Roborock and the robot vacuum category, where a strong upward trajectory in branded search...
Real AI Tools Founders Use, Not the Hype
Craig Hewitt spent 100 days building SaaS with AI and documented everything on YouTube. I had Craig on the pod to share what he learned including: • The AI tools founders are actually winning with • The ones that are...
B2B Must Match B2C Investment in Customer Research
B2C invests in knowing their customers. B2B invests in… another feature. In B2C, it’s normal (expected) to put a substantial amount of marketing budget into customer research (sometimes as high as 25-50%!) Why? Because they know the truth most B2B...
Stop Chasing Vanity Metrics; Prioritize Qualified Leads
The dangerous myth: more steps mean better qualified leads. I've been duped by this myth before as a Founder. So I'm sharing it here so it doesn't sabotage your pipeline generation efforts. 1. Optimizing for Vanity Metrics I watched Startup...
Entrepreneurs Drive Record BFCM Growth on Shopify
Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again. → Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year → 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands → 15,800+ entrepreneurs made their first sale → 136+ million packages tracked in the Shop App → 2.2 trillion edge requests →...
Cusp AI Appoints Renowned Materials Scientist Aaron Walsh as CSO
Our company @cusp_ai is incredibly excited to welcome globally renowned researcher in materials science Professor Aaron Walsh as our Chief Scientific Officer. https://t.co/BsJrGK5gt8
L’Oréal’s AI Personalization Threatens Traditional Beauty Model
L’Oréal’s AI Weapon Could Kill Traditional Beauty Industry Forever Personalised beauty via AI is no longer a concept — L’Oréal is using AI to craft custom skincare and experiences at scale. Could this spell the end of the traditional beauty...
FAIR‑Paris Celebrates Its Inaugural PhD Graduate’s Breakthrough
Awesomesauce from FAIR-Paris' very first PhD graduate @neilzegh and his team at @GradiumAI
Practical AI Tips for Sales‑Marketing Collaboration
It was great speaking with Dorien Morin-van Dam about AI, sales enablement, and modern marketing. I shared practical, step-by-step tips on collaborating with sales teams and using AI effectively in marketing. Take a listen while you work! 🤩 #B2BMarketing #salesenablement...