AI Made Building Cheap. Staying Power Is the New Startup Moat
What Changed and Why It Matters AI made shipping fast and cheap. Foundation models, open weights, and orchestration cut time-to-product to days, not months. As a result, “uses AI” no…
AI chatbots scale fast, profit slow: inside the monetization gap
AI chatbots have raced to mass usage. Profits are still missing. Investors keep funding the buildout. Enterprises still hold back where money changes hands. This is the monetization gap: big…
The End of Free LLM Credits: Why Startup Perks Are Disappearing
What Changed and Why It Matters The era of free or nearly-free LLM usage is winding down. Promotional credits, generous free tiers, and subsidized API calls are being tightened or…