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Research, analysis, and field notes from Founder OS.

March 31, 2026·

The Only Moats That Matter: What Bloch's Framework Means for Founder-Operators

Michael Bloch draws a line between "hard to do" and "hard to get." AI is collapsing everything on the "hard to do" side. Analysis of the five moats that survive, plus a sixth that Bloch's venture-scale framework misses: installed operational intelligence.

Analysis
March 25, 2026·

How to Build a Claude Cowork Plugin for Google Ads Management

Reverse-engineered from the solo non-technical operator who ran Anthropic's entire growth marketing department with agentic AI. Search term mining, negative keyword deployment, mobile budget optimization, all with human approval baked in.

Guide
March 24, 2026·

Intercom Gave Claude Code to 1,000 Non-Engineers. Here Is What They Built.

Intercom deployed Claude Code company-wide, built guidance skills, and got 300+ weekly active users. They spent weeks building exactly what Founder OS ships on day one.

Analysis
March 22, 2026·

AI News Briefing: March 22, 2026

Six stories that matter for founder-operators: Anthropic winning enterprise spend, space data centers, $189B in AI funding, Google making Gemini free, data center backlash, and Atlassian's AI restructuring.

AI News Briefing
March 21, 2026·

The Claude Blitz: How Anthropic Built a Platform in 60 Days

While everyone watched OpenAI announce a superapp, Anthropic quietly shipped one. 20+ releases in 60 days turned Claude from a chatbot into always-on infrastructure. What happened, what it means, and what to do about it.

Special Edition
March 18, 2026·

Skills, Agents, and the Orchestra

A practical guide to building your AI team. The consulting firm analogy, four levels of AI usage, and how skill graphs create compound leverage.

AI Leverage
March 12, 2026·

The Niantic Data Loophole

How Pokémon GO became a robot navigation company without ever "selling" anyone's data. The legal mechanism, the COPPA gaps, and what every founder sitting on a user dataset needs to understand.

Research
March 12, 2026·

The Best LLM Isn't the Smartest One

Why the right AI co-worker isn't about benchmarks. It's about fit. A founder-operator's field notes on what changed when he stopped evaluating models and started building a working relationship with one.

Field Notes
March 5, 2026·

The Future of the Web in the Age of AI

AI agents are booking flights without visiting airline websites. Google answers queries without sending users anywhere. The web is thirty-three years old, and it has never faced a disruption this fundamental. Four-part research report covering agentic browsers, the visibility crisis, static site resilience, and five contrarian counterarguments.

Research Report