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Laetro wants AI to keep the artist in the picture
A creative marketplace grew into a studio with AI tools and agents. Its most interesting experiment is deciding where human judgment belongs - and how the people supplying it get paid.
copyself_xyz wants AI to keep your peculiarities
Branko Lukic helped turn a portable speaker into a design statement. His next problem is more personal: keeping your own judgment in the work when AI can generate almost anything.
Arya Marwaha Learned Recruiting the Hard Way
After hundreds of rejections, the Contrario CEO stopped trying to automate recruiters and started doing their work. The lesson became a company: let software carry the paperwork, and leave judgment to people.
Lukas Bock Learned the Trades by Hand. Now He Is Teaching AI the Catalog.
A fourth-generation trades story took a detour through Allianz, Google X and Cambridge. At Mercura, Lukas Bock is bringing that education home - one unruly bill of quantities at a time.
Brian Meewes Is Building for the Moment After the Prompt
After two decades moving between code, finance, logistics and company building, the Shift Health founder is betting that useful AI will be judged by what it remembers, how it reasons and where humans remain in control.
Averi
Averi is a New York-based AI content engine for startups that blends generative-AI agents with a curated marketplace of vetted US marketing experts. The platform researches, drafts, publishes and optimizes content in one workflow - handling strategy, SEO/GEO, competitor tracking and analytics while keeping humans in creative control. Founded in 2023 by Zack Holland, Averi raised a $2M pre-seed in 2024 and a $3M seed in 2025, and reports roughly $2.1M in revenue with a small team of around a dozen people.
Ideaflow
Ideaflow is a Palo Alto-based AI company building an 'intelligence amplification' layer for knowledge work. Its flagship product is a notebook that augments your thinking as you type, letting people capture and stitch together fragments of information. The company has since expanded into team knowledge tools - Base, which surfaces context from Slack, meetings, and documents, and meeting intelligence - aiming to become an organization's collective memory. Founded around 2015 by MIT Media Lab designer Jacob Cole and Etherpad/Meteor veteran David Greenspan, it has raised roughly $11M in seed funding from First Round Capital, 8VC, StartX, Naval Ravikant, and Tim Draper.
Fleet AI, Inc.
Fleet AI is an applied research lab building training gyms for AI agents - high-fidelity simulation environments that model real work so frontier models can practice, fail, and learn under human supervision. The company partners with AI labs, hyperscalers, and enterprises to develop the next generation of embodied, drop-in virtual assistants.
Dan Thomson
Dan Thomson is the founder and CEO of Sensay, an AI platform that builds digital replicas - interactive clones trained on a person's voice, knowledge, and personality. A philosophy graduate turned restaurateur turned Web3 marketer, he started Sensay in 2023 after a head injury wiped out his memory and dementia took hold of people he loved. His pitch is blunt: capture what a human knows before it is gone, and let that knowledge keep working - for families, for companies, and for anyone who wants a version of themselves that never logs off.