Recent thinking on the assumptions costing AI founders their runway.
14-09-2026
Regulatory
Sovereignty isn't a government-level question. It's a due-diligence question your buyer already asks, and most founders haven't written down the answer.
11-09-2026
Regulatory
The government's legal AI sandbox opens a real door for legaltech founders, and a real trap. One sentence in the fine print means participation confers no regulatory approval, no matter how it reads on a pitch deck.
10-09-2026
Regulatory
This is for a specific reader. Post-seed, AI, building in a regulated market. Burning £75k to £110k a month. Six to eighteen months of runway left.
05-09-2026
Founder Psychology
The follow-up to Silent Killer. Why a bloated roadmap isn't a productivity problem, it's a failure to name which item is load-bearing.
03-09-2026
Founder Psychology
Why AI made building cheap and choosing expensive, and what a 124-founder study found about judgment versus novelty.