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Research, analysis, and field notes from Founder OS.
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.
AnalysisHow 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.
GuideIntercom 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.
AnalysisAI 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 BriefingThe 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 EditionSkills, 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 LeverageThe 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.
ResearchThe 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 NotesThe 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.
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