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Notes from Pavilion's GTM2026, and what a room full of humans taught an AI company.
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The AI growth number nobody wants to post
10 free skills for the part of GTM nobody brags about
what a $405K job posting reveals about AI
one job posting just showed the actual cost of making generic AI useful.
"Smarter AI"? Means nothing without a price tag.
Jensen called GPT-6 "AGI." We ran the math on our own workloads instead.
We cut our AI bill 74% in 3 months
We cut our AI bill by $100k a month, but the real win was never the money.
1,000 GTM operators, one room. Find me there.
Lets meet at Pavilion’s GTM2026. Discount code included
What your AI objection missed
Every "we can build this ourselves" objection has the same blind spot. it's not about the code.
Your AI agent can now run on 300 operators' expertise, shipped like software, for free
300+ operators, one marketplace, and a very blunt mission statement.
I fired my software and let my AI agent built the replacement.
Every tool in your stack is just raw material now, waiting on what you shape it into.
AI just killed the software business. Nobody's said it out loud yet.
The line that used to separate software from services just disappeared. here's what fills the gap.
$500k on AI tokens. 80% was waste.
We wasted 80% of our AI spend. Here are the 5 moves that fixed it.
We stopped building AI agents and started building their memory. Here's what changed.
We spent 20 agents figuring out the one thing nobody's teaching yours. Here’s how.
Every AI product that ever exploded broke the same rule
The secret law behind every AI obsession
Your AI agent has a tell, and it's not what you think
Everyone's checking punctuation while the actual tell hides in plain sight.
Everyone's asking which jobs AI kills. Nobody's asking what industry it creates.
You're watching the disruption. You're missing the industry.
The AI founders who survive Anthropic aren't building better features.
What actually protects you when Anthropic comes for your market.
AI is built on fake math. Nobody says it. Most won't survive.
Everyone knows the math is broken. We're all building anyway.
Your AI agent doesn't know how your business works and nobody is fixing that.
400 million businesses have the same problem. Nobody is solving it.
Your AI Stack Is Growing. Your Output Isn't. Here's Why.
More agents doesn't mean more output. It means more maintenance.
AI is everywhere. So we got on a plane.
The more AI dominates digital, the more a room full of real people becomes a moat.
You've been building AI wrong. So were we. Here's the proof.
The AI mistake hiding inside every autonomous business.
We're burning thousands on AI tokens every month and getting nothing back. That's the plan.
The people least likely to pay are the most likely to talk. Most companies are optimizing against them.
$113K: The invoice that went viral and the story nobody told correctly.
The internet reacted to our $113K invoice. What the reaction actually revealed is far more interesting than the number.
AI isn't replacing jobs. It just found its natural habitat.
The most dangerous AI prediction isn't wrong about the evidence. it's wrong about the conclusion.
Someone tried to steal our entire AI playbook. Here's why we let them.
Most founders are protecting the wrong thing.
I tried to kill my own company. Here's what I found.
Most founders defend their thesis. Few ever cross-examine it.
The best AI operators aren't Engineers. They're Scientists.
The best AI practice you learned 6 months ago is already dead.
Your AI agents aren't dumb. They're just unskilled.
My AI agent generates $1.5M pipeline. No SDRs. No budget. Here's the exact methodology behind it.
We spent $400 on AI. It drove $3M in pipeline.
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Why AI-Powered teams fail (and autonomous businesses don't)
I'm building the first autonomous business to $30M with 3 founders. Every week I share what's actually working; the frameworks, the failures, the boring parts everyone skips. If you're here for AI hype and magic shortcuts, this isn't it. Unsubscribe.
AI Didn't Fail. The Shortcut Seekers Did.
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200+ Customers Without a Single Hire
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The 100× Human Model
One role. Less friction. Massive leverage.
The Age of Agents - What Jensen Got Right (and What Comes Next)
We’re still building the future with a factory mindset.
78% of leaders agree: AI demands a new operating model
The industrial era of GTM is over. The intelligent era of business begins.
How AI Changed the Way We Communicate
AI hasn’t just changed how we work. It’s changed how we communicate as organizations.
Cog Culture Vs Zone of Genius
Is your GTM an Assembly Line?
100+ Deals in 60 Days - The Amplification Model
How One Founder Closed 100+ Deals in 60 Days
AGI, Mediocrity, and the Future of Your Business
In the age of AGI, mediocrity calcifies into code.
What’s your AI moat? Wrong question
Darwin never said the strongest survive.
Moving at the Speed of Thought with AI Agents
Complexity is the enemy of execution.
The AI World Just Split in Two
What Zuck and OpenAI Just Revealed About the Future of Work
Why Your AI Stack Can’t Save a Broken System
The Problem Isn’t the Agent. It’s the System.
The Org Chart of the Future Has 3 Key Roles
And why it’s nothing like you’d expect.
When Headcount Dies, So Does Venture Capital
The VC model wasn't built for companies that scale with intelligence, not headcount.
AI won't save your bloated startup
The only unfair advantage AI startups have against the giants and how to architect for it.
The biggest AI agents trap
After wasting $350K on the wrong agents, we built one to stop us from doing it again.
The Rise And Fall of AI SDRs
The $20K lessons every founder, GTM leader, and AI operator wishes they'd never learned.
The End of Dumb Automations
The second wave of AI is here, and it's about to make automation companies obsolete.
The $317K Moat
The hidden advantage of spending more on AI than human executives.
Our $5K/Month Mistake
While everyone's rushing to buy off-the-shelf AI agents, we accidentally discovered why that's exactly the wrong approach to transformation.
AI’s Biggest Lie
Scaling intimacy - the startup advantage no one is talking about.
Your AI Is Getting Dumber Every Day
Here’s why traditional AI onboarding is setting you up to fail - and what we learned by flipping the model inside out.
The Autonomous Business OS - growing list of AI agents
Each week I get thousands of DMs: "which AI agents are you using to grow Swan to $30M ARR with just 3 founders?". This post will hopefully be the answer.
WTF is a collective intelligence?
The next evolution of the Autonomous Business OS just went live - but it’s not what you think.
Unicorns are dead - long live the zombicorns
Valuations soared, IPOs vanished — and insiders quietly cashed out.But a new kind of company is quietly emerging from the wreckage.
Human+ AI Collaboration Frameworks That Actually Work
Each week I share a Human+AI collaboration framework in my newsletter, The Big Shift — this thread curates them all in one place for your convenience.
Why We Killed Our Entire GTM Motion (And What Happened Next)
When scaling meant choosing between hiring fast or dying slow, we chose option C.
AI Replacement vs Human Empowerment: The Market Has Spoken
A legendary VC ran the numbers on AI strategy. His findings expose why companies focused on replacing humans are leaving 5X value on the table.
The Startup Playbook is Dead – The Age of Autonomous Businesses Has Arrived
While some startups are tightening budgets and letting go of talent, a quiet revolution is unfolding.
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