Technical
The four parts of a Gen 2 fitness business: Intelligence, Tribe, apps and AI workers
A Gen 2 business puts one shared understanding of the business underneath everything else. Here are the four parts that sit on top of it, what each one is for, and an honest line between what you can use today and where it is going.
Level four of a Gen 2 studio: give AI work
AI is moving from answering questions to doing work. Level four is where a studio hands a job to an AI worker that works from the same understanding as the team, inside the same policy and permissions. Here is what that means, and what it does not.
The filing cabinet finally does the work
a16z's conversation with Lassie's founders is the best hour on small-business AI this year. Here's what a dental billing agent proves about the substrate thesis and where Kula made a different bet.
Your business doesn't have an AI problem. It has a meaning problem.
Six systems, six ID schemes, no agreement on what a customer is. Here's the method we used to fix that, and why the fix isn't a better model.
The audit you never ordered, already ran
The lake gathers your studio's history; the ontology tells it what everything means. Here's what the map found — rotating-identity fraud, an intro plan capped below the habit threshold, and gaps that read as zero.
The analyst you can't afford, already hired
People ask which AI model is behind Kula Intelligence. The model is the least interesting part. The real work is the data lake underneath, the thing enterprises hire a team to run and a boutique studio never could.