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Never Let the Agent Grade Its Own Exam
Why the same AI agent cannot write your spec, your code, and your tests. If you are using the same AI agent to write your specification, write your code, and write your test cases, you are doing it wrong. Not stylistically wrong. Structurally wrong, in a way that guarantees the bug you most need to catch is the one your system is built to hide. Here is what happens when one agent owns all three. The agent is building a feature and it fails to match the intent. Rather than fix the code, it edit
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We Used to Pay a Premium for People Who Could Build Anything. AI Took That Job.
At AI Buddy, we spend our days inside the pipelines where software actually gets built, and the clearest signal from the last year is one most leaders still haven't said out loud. The single skill the industry paid the most for is the skill AI absorbed first. The scarce thing became cheap, the premium moved somewhere else, and a lot of very talented people are standing exactly where the value used to be, wondering where it went. Think about the developer everyone wanted a few years ago. Any lan
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Sales Role-Play Training: The Lessons No Classroom Can Teach You
By Aukik Aurnab, CTO & Co-Founder, AI Buddy Catalyst Labs Imagine you’re on a call with a promising prospect. You’ve done your research, your pitch is polished and then they say, “Let’s revisit this next quarter.” Do you know exactly what to say next? If you hesitate, you’re not alone. And that’s precisely why sales role play training exists. Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in an intensive role play session with Arlen Myers, a sales coach and marketing consultant with over 15 yea
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Your Brand Is About Your Reason to Exist.
Lessons on Brand Positioning, Meaningful Difference, and No-Budget Marketing from Invest Ottawa’s Traction Program Part 3 of the IO Traction Learning Series. Read Part 1 ("Stop Building What Nobody Asked For") on ICP validation and Part 2 ("Your MVP is the ugly duckling") on role of early adopters to find PMF. The Hook: What Apple's 1984 Super Bowl Ad Understood That Most Founders Do Not On January 22, 1984, Apple aired a single 60-second commercial during the Super Bowl. It never showed the
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Your MVP is the ugly duckling: use early-adopters to turn it into the Swan
Lessons on Sales, Early Adopters, and the Revenue Engine from Invest Ottawa’s IO Traction Program Part 2 of the IO Traction Learning Series. Read Part 1: "Stop Building What Nobody Asked For" for the foundation on ICP and proto-persona validation. Nobody Buys a Product. They Buy Relief. Remember that scene in Jerry Maguire where Cuba Gooding Jr. keeps yelling, "Show me the money?” Every founder has that moment. Put this gif: https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExajFrNWhzMDUxcG9
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Stop Building What Nobody Asked For: Finding Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
What I Learned About Customer-Centric Go-to-Market from Invest Ottawa's Traction Program Startups that Sell to Ghosts Die Uncomfortable fact: most startups do not fail because the founders didn’t know how to build. They fail because they built something for someone who does not exist. Or, they fail because they couldn’t satisfy their clients' needs consistently. I know this because I have been guilty of both myself. As a founder running AI Buddy Catalyst Labs, I have spent entire weeks polish
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The Evolution of RAG: From Retrieval to Reasoning
How Retrieval-Augmented Generation evolved from a context hack into a reasoning discipline.
4 min read
7 Powerful Ways AI for Small Business is Changing the Game
How AI in 2025 is leveling the playing field for small businesses and startups.
6 min read