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The AI ROI Reality and the Rise of Model Routers
Quinn and Doom discuss why being in the same room with customers and teammates builds more trust and...
Why Chinese models are overhyped, OpenRouter Leaderboards, and the Rise of Specialized LLMs
Doom and Quinn question whether enthusiasm about Chinese open-weight models is overblown, arguing people may be over-indexing on...
Why Building with AI is Easy but Selling Is Hard: Churn, Moats, and your future of CRM Brain
Quinn and Doom argue that high-agency talent is less likely to join small startups unless there’s decacorn-scale upside,...
SaaS Is the New Cable: The Great Unbundling, AI Agents in Slack, and Why CAC is expensive now
Doom and Quinn discuss why paid advertising is getting more expensive as AI enables advertising at scale without...
Rise of GTM Engineers, the Age of Hyper-Personalization, and the New AI Pricing Loop
Doom and Quinn discuss trends in AI and go-to-market, including Frontier model updates (notably prompt retention changing to...
AI Moats Shift to the Harness: Token Costs, Multi-Agent Workflows, and Headless GTM
Doom and Quinn discuss how AI tools still require subject-matter expertise to produce high-quality outcomes, citing an AI-made...
Token Maxing comes to an end: AI Revenue, CRO Comp Bubbles, and Hyperscaler Economics
Doom and Quinn discuss signs that “token maxing” is peaking as AI token spend has surged (Ramp data...
The New GTM Stack, Token Economics, and the impact on budgets and headcount
Doom and Quinn discuss how AI agents are compressing work and reshaping organizations, arguing middle management and...
AI-Pilled Productivity, Medallia’s fire sale for debt, and Building a Second Brain with Obsidian + Claude
Quinn and Doom discuss how high-agency “AI-pilled” users are achieving outsized productivity gains, driving fear of a “SaaS...
Is AI eating software or jobs? (GPT-5.5 battles back, & SaaS Pricing Pressure)
This week discuss the accelerating pace of AI releases and launches—highlighting OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 shipping six weeks after 5.4,...
The AI-Knowledge-Gap, Google Stitch, and Claude’s Design Push
Doom and Quinns discuss the widening gap between people who use AI daily and everyone else, describing the...
Anthropic Hits $30B ARR, OpenAI’s Enterprise Problem, and the SaaSpocalypse Reality Check
Anthropic just hit a $30 billion revenue run rate — and that’s not even the wildest story this...
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