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GTM Strategy · Apr 24, 2026

Data Sovereignty as a Solo Founder: What Actually Happened

I wanted everything self-hosted in Germany. Five months later, here's the reality. 20+ individual decisions, each with a different trade-off.

10 min
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Claude Code · Apr 13, 2026

Claude Code's Thinking Regression: Measured, Diagnosed, Fixed

Claude Code has been thinking less since February. I ran a controlled A/B test to measure the impact and found a fix that restores proactive reasoning in 2 minutes.

9 min
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AI · Apr 2, 2026

$200/Month on AI, and Every Session Starts From Zero

Over a third of new startups are solo-founded. Most use 2-4 AI tools. Every tool starts every session knowing nothing about the company it works for.

14 min
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AI · Mar 19, 2026

My AI Pipeline Shipped Fast. Then I Measured the Output.

My autonomous AI pipeline delivered features in 25 minutes. Then I measured: 10% success rate, 78% correct code, and QA that verified existence instead of behavior.

13 min
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Product · Mar 11, 2026

Your Users Don't Want a Dashboard. They Want a Mirror.

Most B2B tools lose their best users in the first 60 seconds by showing features instead of reflecting reality. Here's a framework I'm testing on a live product, including where it already broke.

11 min
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AI · Mar 5, 2026

9 Ways My AI Pipeline Broke (And Why Each Failure Made It Better)

Every rule in my autonomous AI development pipeline exists because something broke. Here's how 9 documented failures turned into a system that delivers features in 25 minutes.

11 min
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AI · Mar 3, 2026

Why Single-Prompt AI Analysis Is Fundamentally Broken

Most AI business analysis fails because we ask models to research, analyze, and synthesize in one step. No human analyst would. Here's why splitting the work changes everything.

11 min
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AI · Feb 25, 2026

How I Built a Development Workflow Where AI Actually Stays Useful

AI-assisted development breaks down after the first session. Here's the workflow infrastructure I built to keep it useful across hundreds of sessions.

12 min