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Five Roles Will Define the Future of Work: How to Get Ahead of the Agentic Startup

Every technology cycle eventually collapses old job titles into new ones.

5 Claude Skills That Fill the Gaps in Anthropic's Sales Plugin (A Pack for Founders)

5 Claude Skills That Fill the Gaps in Anthropic's Sales Plugin (A Pack for Founders)


A practical map of what Claude already does for founder-led sales, what it misses, and a skills pack built to cover the gaps.

The AI Startup Cost Calculator: How to Find Your Real Gross Margin in 15 Minutes

The AI Startup Cost Calculator: How to Find Your Real Gross Margin in 15 Minutes


Why AI products don't get SaaS margins by default, and the levers that decide yours.

Stop Tab-Hopping: The 5 Claude Connectors Every Founder Should Turn On First

Stop Tab-Hopping: The 5 Claude Connectors Every Founder Should Turn On First


How to connect your calendar, inbox, docs, chat and issue tracker to Claude in about five minutes each, and what to ask once they're live.

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Your Whole Team, Minus the Busywork: Claude Inside Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
LockSimple

Sep 14, 2026

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6 min read

Your Whole Team, Minus the Busywork: Claude Inside Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook

How Claude works across Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook to cut startup busywork—without pretending AI can replace judgment.

AI

Claude for Small Business Is Built for Operators. Here's What Pre-Seed Founders Should Steal From It Anyway
LockSimple

Sep 14, 2026

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3 min read

Claude for Small Business Is Built for Operators. Here's What Pre-Seed Founders Should Steal From It Anyway

Claude for Small Business targets established operators, but pre-seed founders can steal its best workflows before they can afford a back office.

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Demand Radar: The Prospecting System That Keeps Working After Your First 10 Customers
LockSimple

Sep 15, 2026

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8 min read

Demand Radar: The Prospecting System That Keeps Working After Your First 10 Customers

A Claude skill that finds demand, scores prospects, and keeps your next conversation within reach.

AI

The Founder’s AI Agent ROI Playbook
LockSimple

Sep 15, 2026

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6 min read

The Founder’s AI Agent ROI Playbook

Score AI agent opportunities by time saved, frequency, autonomy cost, and error risk—before you automate a task that never deserved an agent.

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The AI-Assisted Fundraising Playbook for Founders
LockSimple

Sep 15, 2026

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8 min read

The AI-Assisted Fundraising Playbook for Founders

How Pre-Seed and Seed founders can use AI to make better fundraising decisions, find the right investors, prepare stronger pitches, and run a more disciplined process.

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How to Build the Bottleneck Audit Agent
LockSimple

Sep 15, 2026

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3 min read

How to Build the Bottleneck Audit Agent

What actually goes into any working agent — and the exact decisions that turn that into this one, specifically, by the end of this week.

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8 AI Prompts That Replace a $200/Hour Fundraising Advisor
LockSimple

Sep 15, 2026

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9 min read

8 AI Prompts That Replace a $200/Hour Fundraising Advisor

Eight AI fundraising prompts for pitch decks, dilution, investors, term sheets, data rooms, and readiness—without the $200-an-hour advice.

AI

How to Get AI to Recommend Your Startup in 2027
LockSimple

Sep 16, 2026

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12 min read

How to Get AI to Recommend Your Startup in 2027

A few years ago, getting discovered online meant one thing: Rank on Google.

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Stop Asking AI to "Make Me a Pitch Deck": 29 Prompts That Think Like the Investor You're Pitching
LockSimple

Sep 16, 2026

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6 min read

Stop Asking AI to "Make Me a Pitch Deck": 29 Prompts That Think Like the Investor You're Pitching

Use 29 AI prompts to build and stress-test your pitch deck like a skeptical investor—before generic AI advice kills the meeting.

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60 Claude Prompts to Run Your Entire Raise
LockSimple

Sep 16, 2026

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6 min read

60 Claude Prompts to Run Your Entire Raise

Everyone is sharing "the Claude prompts that close your round" right now. Most of them are one prompt, a paywall and an anecdote nobody can check.

AI

Five Roles Will Define the Future of Work: How to Get Ahead of the Agentic Startup
LockSimple

Sep 16, 2026

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3 min read

Five Roles Will Define the Future of Work: How to Get Ahead of the Agentic Startup

Every technology cycle eventually collapses old job titles into new ones.

AI

Stop Tab-Hopping: The 5 Claude Connectors Every Founder Should Turn On First
LockSimple

Sep 17, 2026

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4 min read

Stop Tab-Hopping: The 5 Claude Connectors Every Founder Should Turn On First

How to connect your calendar, inbox, docs, chat and issue tracker to Claude in about five minutes each, and what to ask once they're live.

AI

Delegating to GPT-6 Astra: What It Really Costs a Founder, and When It Pays Off
LockSimple

Sep 17, 2026

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6 min read

Delegating to GPT-6 Astra: What It Really Costs a Founder, and When It Pays Off

The new model can take on bigger jobs than any before it. Here is how to pick the right work, count the real cost, and keep only what earns its place.

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140+ AI Pitch Decks: How to Pitch an AI Startup Without Sounding Like Everyone Else
LockSimple

Sep 17, 2026

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5 min read

140+ AI Pitch Decks: How to Pitch an AI Startup Without Sounding Like Everyone Else

Most AI pitch decks blur into the same story. Study 140+ real examples to show your moat, margins, traction, and why investors should care.

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5 Lessons from ElevenLabs’ Deck to Make Your AI Startup Pitch More Concrete
LockSimple

Sep 18, 2026

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6 min read

5 Lessons from ElevenLabs’ Deck to Make Your AI Startup Pitch More Concrete

What a dubbing pitch teaches founders about customer pain, product proof, and market focus.

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Anthropic's Early Deck: The 10 Slides a 100-Person Startup Used to Sell Itself Before Reaching a $965B Valuation
LockSimple

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

Anthropic's Early Deck: The 10 Slides a 100-Person Startup Used to Sell Itself Before Reaching a $965B Valuation

A teardown of the talent pitch Daniela Amodei gave while Claude was still in private beta, and what founders can steal from it.

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Novoflow's 9-Slide Deck: How Two Teenage Founders Raised $3.1M to Build AI Employees for Clinics
LockSimple

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

Novoflow's 9-Slide Deck: How Two Teenage Founders Raised $3.1M to Build AI Employees for Clinics

A teardown of the YC deck behind Novoflow's seed round, and what it teaches founders about selling a big vision with five paying customers.

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The Competitive Intelligence Agent: How to Catch Every Competitor Move That Matters in 15 Minutes a Week
LockSimple

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

The Competitive Intelligence Agent: How to Catch Every Competitor Move That Matters in 15 Minutes a Week

Enterprise CI platforms cost tens of thousands a year. Here's how a founder builds the version that actually gets used — with one agent.

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5 Claude Skills That Fill the Gaps in Anthropic's Sales Plugin (A Pack for Founders)
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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5 min read

5 Claude Skills That Fill the Gaps in Anthropic's Sales Plugin (A Pack for Founders)

A practical map of what Claude already does for founder-led sales, what it misses, and a skills pack built to cover the gaps.

AI

Grok Bot, One Month In: 4 Things the Copy-Paste Playbooks Don't Tell You (and a 5-Field Charter That Does)
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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5 min read

Grok Bot, One Month In: 4 Things the Copy-Paste Playbooks Don't Tell You (and a 5-Field Charter That Does)

What early testers, security researchers and the official docs reveal about running AI agents for real.

AI

The AI Startup Cost Calculator: How to Find Your Real Gross Margin in 15 Minutes
LockSimple

Sep 20, 2026

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5 min read

The AI Startup Cost Calculator: How to Find Your Real Gross Margin in 15 Minutes

Why AI products don't get SaaS margins by default, and the levers that decide yours.

AI

30+ High-Interest AI Startup Pitch Decks: How AI Startups Attract Serious Investor Demand
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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3 min read

30+ High-Interest AI Startup Pitch Decks: How AI Startups Attract Serious Investor Demand

Some AI startups struggle to get a second meeting. Others have investors competing to get into the round.

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130+ AI Startup Pitch Deck Examples: How to Pitch AI Built for a Specific Industry
LockSimple

Sep 21, 2026

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4 min read

130+ AI Startup Pitch Deck Examples: How to Pitch AI Built for a Specific Industry

Most of the AI startups raising today are not building foundation models. They are applying AI to a specific industry: healthcare, legal, finance, logistics, sales, security.

AI

How Palantir Makes the Case for $1 Million AI Deals
LockSimple

Oct 15, 2026

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8 min read

How Palantir Makes the Case for $1 Million AI Deals

What founders can learn about moving enterprise buyers from an impressive demo to a credible buying decision.

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