The most powerful prompt a founder can ask isn’t “write this for me.”
It’s: “What am I missing?”
I just saw @brian_armstrong describe using an internal AI connected to everything:
Slack, docs, Salesforce, Confluence.
Not a chatbot. A company-aware brain.
Then he asks it questions like:
“As CEO, what should I be paying attention to that I’m not seeing?”
“Where are teams quietly disagreeing?”
“How did I say I’d spend my time… and how did I actually spend it?”
He called it reverse prompting.
Stop telling AI what to do.
Start asking AI what you should be thinking harder about.
That idea made me sit back for a second.
Because most founders don’t need another tool that helps them do more.
They need something that helps them notice.
Notice the patterns.
Notice the blindspots.
Notice the slow-moving risks hiding inside “busy.”
I’ve been using early versions of Catapult for exactly this.
It’s built a model of me + how I work from:
emails, Slack, Notion, docs, and call transcripts.
So I can ask the kinds of questions that are hard to ask humans (or easy to avoid):
“What am I consistently postponing?”
“What decision do I keep circling?”
“What’s the real bottleneck in what we’re shipping?”
And because it actually understands context, it drafts emails in my voice…
Often better than I would…
Without me having to re-explain my world every time.
Private alpha opens in a few weeks.
If you want to try it, comment “CATAPULT” below 👇
It's an awesome start to our week at Catapult!
Rundong Liu just started with us as a Founding AI Engineer.
He brings valuable experience in building Cursor-like developer agents on proprietary data, and has conducted independent research in Unsupervised Environment Design. He's also worked at AWS and studied at Oxford and Imperial.
He's already hit the ground running in his first few hours with us! If you want to do your life's best work, building Personalised AI models that understand you, your work and all its context - check out the link in the comments.
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It's such an exciting time at Catapult - we have THREE incredible engineers joining us this month! This week, it's Mayeul, who joins us as a Founding Senior Engineer!
Mayeul brings incredible experience to help build Catapult.
He previously co-founded a deep tech startup where he built a quantum number generator and developed cutting-edge solutions for research teams at Imperial and UCL. He also holds a PhD in particle physics and brings extensive research experience.
If you want to do your life's best work and work alongside Mayeul, building personalised AI models - check out our open roles at https://t.co/g4AmDsGlNx
We're hiring 2 more cracked Founding Engineers!
We’re pushing the frontier of contextual intelligence, by building AI systems that understand you, your work, and its complete context.
We're tackling foundational challenges that Apple Intelligence, Gemini, and others haven't cracked yet.
With Catapult you'll be able to:
▸ Find anything - from specific details to hidden insights in your emails, documents, and apps
▸ Know everything - by leveraging AI across all your data to answer complex questions
▸ Autocomplete work - through smart suggestions and automated actions across your apps and devices
Our early results are promising, we're well-funded, and we're building a team of brilliant minds!
If this sounds like you, or you know the perfect person, check out our roles:
▸ Founding Senior Engineer ➙ https://t.co/PfSLjbjmqT
▸ Founding AI Research Engineer ➙ https://t.co/IDD7PQ1ppi
You'll work side by side with @GregWilsenach and @ravsinghsandhu, as we shape the future of Contextual Intelligence!
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✨ At Catapult, we're hiring Founding Engineers! ✨
We're building AI systems that securely understand you, your work, and its complete context.
We're tackling foundational challenges that Apple Intelligence, Gemini, and others haven't cracked yet. We're pushing the frontier of Contextual Intelligence by combining our powerful multi-stage reasoning models with cutting-edge systems for ingesting and understanding data.
With Catapult you'll be able to:
▸ Find anything - from specific details to hidden insights in your emails, documents, and apps
▸ Know everything - by leveraging AI reasoning across all your data to answer complex questions
▸ Autocomplete work - through smart suggestions and automated actions across your apps and devices
Our early results are promising, we're well-funded, and we're building a team of brilliant minds. We're looking for sharp problem solvers, researchers, and engineers who thrive on tackling novel challenges in a dynamic, highly technical environment.
If this sounds like you, or you know the perfect candidate, check out our roles:
▸ Founding Senior Engineer (Rust) ➙ https://t.co/YKb6IBpQ6h
▸ Founding AI Engineer ➙ https://t.co/rZb1gpoDe3
You'll work side by side with @GregWilsenach and @ravsinghsandhu, as we shape the future of Contextual Intelligence!
#hiring #ai #rust #swe #startup