Faizan Sattar

Building Ape, an AI investing companion for self-directed investors. Ex-DoorDash, Uber, Salesforce. Writing about AI agents, product, markets, and founder GTM.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

I do not think the best AI finance product is just a better chatbot.

It is a better harness and UX around the model.

At Ape AI, that means:

- the right market context
- memory of what a user cares about
- guardrails around uncertainty
- workflows that help people reason, not react
- UX built for finance instead of generic Q&A

The model matters.

But in finance, the harness is what makes it useful.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

If AI has proven anything, it is that naming is still one of the hardest problems in computer science.

Prompt engineering → context engineering → harness engineering.

The names keep changing.

The problem is the same:

How do you surround a model with the right context, memory, tools, guardrails, and UX so it reliably helps someone do real work?

That is the actual product layer.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

hmm havent used Pulse yet but i think there are already wrappers that do this but better

[Sam Altman @sama]

Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers.

Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in.

It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively.

This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized.

This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too.

Huge congrats to @ChristinaHartW, @_samirism, and the team for building this.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@Ze1ooooo lmaooo

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@BoujeeFinances got a trade setup for $QURE

https://t.co/w6rx5HfnnQ

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

been messing around with focus sprints again. 25 min work, 5 min break. feels basic but damn, it works. brain gets a mini reset and i actually finish things instead of just… fiddling.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

help us get to 5k users so @safuintech can go back to bali 🙏🏽

[Safat Kamal @safuintech]

take me back to bali asap 😭 but fr, got some exciting updates from @askApeAI in the next week

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

no one got me like @ignacio_ape fr

[alli @sonofalli]

“my co-founder” omg just say best friend

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

finally back in the states after weeks of building the next iteration of @askApeAI

couldn’t have asked for a better team

[ben hylak @benhylak]

i keep track of my weight-lifting PRs in GitHub.

so i have to make a PR for my PRs

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@StonkChris both were risky positions going both ways, never made any definitive call just provided an analysis

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@Jason $NE is looking interesting, full breakdown below:

https://t.co/eiBmFAO1cy

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

honestly, half the time the thing that holds you back isn’t lack of ideas. it’s just fear of making the first move. drop the perfection, send it anyway.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

MVP rule: build it quick, launch it quicker. 2 months max. no one cares about your progress until you ship. if you’re still tweaking features after 8 weeks, you’re procrastinating. just get it out the door.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

don’t waste months obsessing over a perfect idea. best startups solve daily headaches, not once-a-year problems. think uber, not niche car sites. if you need a calendar reminder to use it, probably not it.

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

wakeboarding instructor was cheesing a little too hard

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@Apple @AppleSupport wtf is this

apple thinks theyre slick by defaulting any search that sounds like “apple” to their own AI. make it make sense bro, this is why yall get sued for billions

matter of fact, we’re looking to raise a series A, a sweet settlement should be enough. im thinking 8 figures? lmk

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@optionscjp there could be a way back, more details in this chat

https://t.co/VGZTT2e4dj

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

man wish i could show you guys how GPT-5 made @askApeAI better. got some cool things cooking, wait on it

[Faizan Sattar @faizansattarnyc]

@optionscjp gotta be $UNH lol