Ashrey Ignise R

Building Artus, the AI Product Manager

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

Artus has successfully closed its first funding round!

A huge shoutout to the entire Artus team for their tireless effort in building & distributing a one-of-a-kind intelligence layer for product strategy. In an age in which coding is automated by AI, ensuring the right decisions are automated is mission-critical.

A special congratulations to my partner, Yash Vahi- over the past year, we've both come a long way as builders & operators.

I want to express gratitude to @THubHyd. Beyond the cheque, T-Hub offers a thriving ecosystem of deep-tech founders, investors, and global partners, providing us with the perfect platform for a product like ours. We began working out of their office five months ago, and now there's nowhere we'd rather launch this rocketship from.

I also want to acknowledge our cohort of angel investors who bring valuable experience in building businesses to $100M+ and advising tech for Fortune 500 CXOs. This helps to strengthen the foundation of our engineering and go-to-market strategy.

With this funding, we will:

- Enhance the intelligence of our decision-making layer for enterprise products.
- Deepen the workflow integration within existing enterprise processes.
- Scale access to our platform for a larger pool of enterprises globally.

Artus is now in phase 2, with many more updates to come. #artus #artusai #funding #preseed #artusai

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

@jzhaos I've been thinking about momentum a lot lately. It should be the end goal for pre-pmf founders.

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

It really is starting to feel that way. We closed our first funding round recently (smaller than i had hoped) but it was purely because someone believe in me - not in my company yet hoping I’d figure it out eventually. The next round will be all about numbers grounded in reality - no convincing needed, it either proves a point by itself or it doesn’t.

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

Been a while, so here is a Wrapped of everything Artus in 2025:-

• 3k+ founders, PMs, and analysts joined the Artus product waitlist — not to build products faster, but to ensure the right thing gets built.

• Shipped our biggest product upgrade yet and released Artus in open beta.

• Moved from ‘Automate your product development’ → ‘Make smarter decisions, before letting AI automate everything.’

• Formed an advisory board + board of directors to keep us accountable.

• Built a fully in-person team because cutting-edge tech requires ideas & upgrades flowing 24/7.

➡️ And here’s what we have coming up in 2026:-

• Full launch across all platforms, including Product Hunt (where are my fellow hunters at?).

• Scaling Artus across org teams, higher stakes, and real scrutiny.

• Platform integrations and some insane features highly requested by our users.

Does anyone else have a startup Wrapped here?

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Did you know that we begin life the same age as our parents? Then during the first week of life we undergo a reset. A new study has just mapped how telomere lengths are also reset during this process…

[Artus @artusaiofficial]

Stripe didn’t start as a “risk-first” company.

It became one because payments taught them something early:
a single product change can lose money, break the law, and destroy trust, at the same time.

There is no safe failure mode.

[Artus @artusaiofficial]

Most product planning accidentally designs the demo, not the product.

#ProductDesign

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

Columbia profs logic implies that even humans can’t generate new scientific ideas. We too are entirely dependent on the “structured maps” that we’ve formed through our lives. Humans can’t even imagine a new color, much less complex protein formations.

Science is all about putting together existing information in new ways to get new information. Which LLMs obviously do very well.

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

Did @OpenAI just kill @n8n_io ?

#OpenAI_DevDay

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New from the Anthropic Economic Index: the first comprehensive analysis of how AI is used in every US state and country we serve.

We've produced a detailed report, and you can explore our data yourself on our new interactive website.

[Klaas @forgebitz]

if you say that within 10-15 hours you can build an entire saas

either ship it and show us or fck off

[Artus @artusaiofficial]

ArtusAI makes non-technical business owners operate as a technical expert and Product Manager.

You can conduct smart product discovery & planning,
and automatically have your ideas converted to a technical architecture, tickets, and code.

Then Artus handles all the coding 😎

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

@marcinzaremski You are comfortable fighting with each other and then come back the next day like nothing happened

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

@trikcode I dont. I just use @artusaiofficial to plan & write all code. Then i just have to put the pieces together

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

@frank_fdez I’ve seen this before… definitely bots. Especially if you have a sign up form somewhere without captcha

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

@trikcode its more annoying for sure haha

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

@AlexSSSaint depends who's asking

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

We don’t build tech to help technical people do less, we build it so that non-technical people can do more.

If tech was built purely for developers, we'd all still be writing assembly code to send an email

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

Having a heated debate with someone here ->

Should non-technical people be forced to become technical to leverage cutting-edge tools?

Or should the tech be simplified to be more accessible?

[Ashrey Ignise R @aignise]

I know nothing about devops but I can deploy my apps in minutes using @vercel