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8 articles matching / latest 01 Sept 2026
Monthly State of GTM
In one month the human approval step was deleted from the tool you build with, from the automation that emails your customers, and from the market where you used to buy review by the item. Something went in where each one had been, and it was a meter.
AI News
On July 30 OpenAI cut its cheap model by 80 percent and left the flagship sitting at $5 and $30. Over the weekend the flagship moved too, quietly, to $4 and $20, with an expiry date printed beside it and the software you actually pay for not a cent cheaper.
AI News
Every build-it-yourself piece in this archive priced the box at twelve to twenty dollars a month. Memory is up as much as 500 percent in twelve months because AI data centers bought the supply, hosting providers have raised prices three times this year, and the build math still wins. Just not on every project it used to.
AI News
One key, one card, four hundred models behind it. That account is why a non-engineer can build against every AI model without opening six vendor relationships, and on Sunday the company running it agreed to sell to Stripe for more than seven billion dollars. Stripe did not pay that for routing.
AI News
The EU transparency rules went live on Sunday, and for a normal small business the whole obligation is about forty minutes of unpaid work. The part nobody is saying out loud: the moment you build the customer-facing bot yourself instead of buying one, the duty moves off your vendor's desk and onto yours.
Monthly State of GTM
For a decade the default move for a small business was to buy the seat. In July the default quietly flipped to build it, and then the bill you thought you had escaped reappeared somewhere you were not looking.
AI News
The standard that lets ChatGPT and Claude actually touch your Gmail, your CRM, and your invoicing got its biggest rewrite today. What it displaces is the custom integration you used to pay an engineer to build and babysit.
Foundational AI: Do's and Don'ts
A small custom tool can remove a recurring workaround. Compare its full ownership cost with buying, and keep the foundation you already trust.
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