When you’re starting a company today, AI is your co-founder.
We’ve reached a point where large language models have evolved in capability and intelligence to substitute much of what a human co-founder would typically do. This means execution is both faster and cheaper.
If you have an idea for a software product you want to build, AI is your co-founder who helps you bring it to life.
If you have dozens of customer interviews you need to analyze, AI is your co-founder who extracts actionable insights.
If you want to create creative assets for marketing your product, AI is your co-founder who generates them.
Surely, we’re not yet at the point where it fully replaces human effort in these domains, but as the three progress vectors—capability, cost, and speed—continue to evolve, this new way of building companies becomes truer every day.
Regardless, even today AI is your co-founder. Founders who learn to work effectively with the cutting edge of AI will accelerate their execution, creating successful companies faster and cheaper.
This is where the alpha currently lies—exploitable by those who proactively lean into this edge, rather than reactively clinging to the wrong heuristic “AI isn’t there yet.”