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3 startups you should know

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Latest issues

Straight from the archive

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3 startups betting that agents should ship code, not just suggest it

The gap between an AI that drafts a PR and one you'd actually merge is enormous — and three teams are attacking it from very different angles.

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3 startups solving the thing nobody warns you about: pricing AI you can't predict

When your cost-of-goods is a token meter that spikes with usage, the old SaaS pricing playbook breaks. Here's who's rewriting it.

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3 startups getting rich on boring: the unglamorous infra everyone needs

The first issue. No hype, no demos-that-don't-ship — just three teams selling picks and shovels while everyone else pans for gold.

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Founder briefs

The insight worth stealing

Maya Okafor

Founder & CEO, Cindershell

How Maya Okafor turned a 2am on-call page into Cindershell

She spent three years being paged by other people's broken background jobs. Then she built the runtime she wished she'd had.

Insight worth stealing

Build the tool for the person you were 18 months ago — specific enough that they feel seen, not the vague 'everyone.'

Devraj Anand

Co-founder & CTO, Tenscroll

Devraj Anand built the boring tool nobody wanted — until everybody needed it

Evals aren't a demo. They don't trend. Devraj bet his company on the least exciting problem in AI — and it's the one that compounds.

Insight worth stealing

The unsexy problem with no competition is a feature, not a bug — if the pain is real and recurring.

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