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Notes from building an AI growth department.

Definitions worth pinning down, honest takes on what autonomous AI can and can't own, and working notes from building Machinai in the open.

  • You Built the App. Here's Why You Still Have Zero Users.

    A 30-day plan for solo founders who shipped a consumer app and got silence back: why B2B growth tactics don't work on individual buyers, how one idea becomes a week of social-first content, and the single goal — one paying customer — worth chasing first.

  • The trust problem with autonomous AI

    People don't trust software that acts on its own, and the reasons are mostly good ones. What the public reviews of autonomous-AI products actually complain about, why it's an architecture problem rather than an intelligence problem, and what trustworthy autonomy has to look like.

  • What is an AI cofounder?

    An AI cofounder is an AI agent given ongoing ownership of one function of a business — it plans the work, produces it, and learns from the results instead of waiting for prompts. The full definition, what it can genuinely own today, and what stays yours.