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Why Your Voice AI Agent Isn’t Enough
For Vertical AI founders, half the stack is only half the moat
Oct 11
AI Is Making Sales More Human
Why AI SDRs flop in vertical markets
Oct 7
False Profits
The VC obsession with outcome pricing, and why it's bad advice for most Vertical AI founders
Oct 6
The Coming Wave of Vertical AI M&A
To date, have incumbents been too slow, too poor, or too proud?
Oct 2

September 2026

SaaSpocalypse Now What?
A year later, NRR is steady & prices are up... but markets are still pricing in one big AI fear
Sep 29
Venture Is Not an Asset Class, It Is a Handful of Charts
a16z makes the case for more ‘Big Venture’ using evidence that makes the case against it
Sep 24
What Veeva Can Teach Vertical AI
Vertical Intimacy & Dom DiNardo’s quest to bring AI to CPG
Sep 18
The Sriracha Problem
with Mike Duboe, General Partner at Greylock
Sep 9
Forward-Deployed Everything
with Quinn Litherland, Founder & CEO @ Revin
Sep 3

August 2026

Nobody Wants Your Software
with Yoni Rechtman, Partner @ Slow Ventures
Aug 26
The Verticalist Summit Is Back
Apply today to join 150 leading founders, operators, and investors in Vertical AI
Aug 25
$100M, Zero Churn, All Channel
with Sahill Poddar, Co-Founder & CEO @ Parafin
Aug 19
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