See if you can solve this weird puzzle. One thing in today's startup stack is not like the other:
• Code: AI writes it
• Support: AI answers it
• Notes: AI takes them
• Design: AI builds it
• Collaboration: human cron job, everyone manually updates a 2010s database with some "AI" sprinkled on top
Notion is a decade old. Startups are running things like it's 2016, not 2026.
This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.
Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.
Why the hell are you still using Notion to run a startup in 2026? You didn’t start a company to become a full-time data-entry clerk.
Notion makes you its lackey: drag cards, flip statuses, chase dates, fill properties, assign tasks, comment everywhere.
Neglect it? Total chaos. Founders are literally hiring consultants to unfck their Notion setups. Nuts.
Oh, but it has AI FeAtUrEs? Right...the ones you pay extra for, have to build and maintain yourself like agentic Jenga towers, and they still pull answers from docs nobody’s touched since March.
Meanwhile, AI-first systems like Axamy can turn your ideas into team action on its own. It's a huge advantage when you can focus on what matters.
What @satyanadella wrote below is the reason AI native companies will outrun legacy companies that adopt AI or are AI-fied. The stock market and many investors do not yet understand this.
AI and humans are an ecosystem. AI is not a tool. Competitive advantage lives in the pace of AI learning and adaptability of the humans.
In classic @peterthiel style, starting very small and niche with AI agents that learn through interactions will build a hybrid human-AI flywheel that optimizes the organization for future interactions. In contrast, when big companies adopt AI, they are looking for efficiency gains. They are also, often, thinking about taking cost out of the business. That is applying a software or industrial revolution model to a now different era.
The same is true when P/E funds buy legacy companies in a fragmented industry and apply AI to the businesses. The AI may succeed in changing many of the work flows and create a more efficient business but the AI-Human learning flywheel that can create a truly different business for this new era does not emerge.
AI native businesses learn human knowledge, process by process, from the bottom up. The human learning process of how to be both a good API call for the AI and the ultimate arbiter and creative problem solver for AI is a sisyphean task, learned only through many interactions and complementary engagements in actual tasks, workflows and real world problem solving with AI. Bottom up, starting small and expanding out, creating a new style of AI-interacting human agency will win the game over the long term.
Over time, as more entrepreneurs build AI native businesses instead of models for legacy businesses, this will become obvious.
I confess, I'm saying this to sell you something, but I ain't wrong. Go check out https://t.co/TpbN8TFH1X if you want to be a unicorn instead of a dinosaur.
See if you can solve this weird puzzle. One thing in today's startup stack is not like the other:
• Code: AI writes it
• Support: AI answers it
• Notes: AI takes them
• Design: AI builds it
• Collaboration: human cron job, everyone manually updates a 2010s database with some "AI" sprinkled on top
Notion is a decade old. Startups are running things like it's 2016, not 2026.
All the grownups at work get treated like they are dummies by a system designed long, long ago, when we still had a king and most grownups couldn't read. It's run by other grownups called bur-eau-crats. So we designed a replacement system that means, when you grow up, you'll be happier and more pro-duc-tive...like your sister.
Hilarious. Always felt Grammarly less improved writing and more regressed it to the mean. Someone should make a Grammarly that only creates unique sentences. I would use that.