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    • Stage 1: Baseline Fact Gathering — Building Your Intelligence Foundation
    • Stage 2: Forecasting the Next 12 Months — From Facts to Foresight
    • Stage 3: Win/Loss Analysis — Learning From Every Deal<
    • Stage 4: Battlecards & Enablement — Turning Intelligence Into Sales Motion
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  • SaaS Competitive Intelligence & Battlecards Consulting
    • Stage 1: Baseline Fact Gathering — Building Your Intelligence Foundation
    • Stage 2: Forecasting the Next 12 Months — From Facts to Foresight
    • Stage 3: Win/Loss Analysis — Learning From Every Deal<
    • Stage 4: Battlecards & Enablement — Turning Intelligence Into Sales Motion
  • AI-Accelerated Win/Loss Analysis
  • AI PMF Offering
  • Strategic Acquisition Exit Advisory for Early-Stage SaaS
  • Strategic Advisory Services
  • Bio
  • Hire Me
  • Book A Call
  • Split workspace showing human freelancer and AI robotic hand collaborating on laptops — symbolizing autoflation and the merging of human creativity with AI efficiency.
    SaaS Startups

    Autoflation: How AI Is Rewriting the Economics of Work for SaaS Founders (2025 Guide)

    AI is triggering autoflation—a new wave of cost compression across the freelance…

  • Pie chart showing that 73 percent of AI startups are wrappers built on GPT-4 and 27 percent are genuine builders, based on Teja Kusireddy’s 2025 analysis.
    Product Management SaaS Startups

    The Truth About AI Startups: Lessons for Early-Stage SaaS CEOs From Teja Kusireddy’s “I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI Startups”

    This featured image visualizes Teja Kusireddy’s 2025 investigation, “I Reverse-Engineered 200 AI…

  • Dashboard-style illustration showing SaaS analytics charts and research data visuals, representing a research strategy for early-stage SaaS CEOs in 2025
    Product Management SaaS Startups

    Why Early-Stage SaaS CEOs Must Build a Research Strategy Before It’s Too Late (2025 Guide)

    In 2025, research has become the new growth engine for SaaS startups.…

  • AI-driven synthetic survey responses reshaping market research in 2025
    Product Management SaaS

    Synthetic Responses in Market Research: Promise vs. Reality in 2025

    Synthetic responses are transforming market research by promising speed, cost savings, and…

  • SaaS founder choosing between top-tier VC firms like Sequoia and a16z versus smaller founder-friendly investors, represented by diverging paths—symbolizing alignment and strategic fit.
    Corporate Development SaaS Startups

    Why Your Pre-Seed SaaS Startup Probably Shouldn’t Pursue Top-Tier Multistage VCs (And Who You Should Target Instead)

    Pre-seed SaaS founders often chase brand-name investors like Sequoia or a16z—but doing…

  • he Synthetic Research Threat: How AI Could Undermine Your SaaS Customer Insights
    Product Management SaaS Startups

    The Synthetic Research Threat: How AI Could Undermine Your SaaS Customer Insights

    AI can fake “research participants” at scale. Learn the risks, limits of…

  • SaaS Startups

    When One Line Fails: What the Amazon Outage Reveals About Single Points of Failure—and Why Even AI Can’t Stop Them

    The October 2025 Amazon outage showed how one tiny DNS error can…

  • Uncategorized

    The Next Great Platform Shift: What SaaStr’s 16 AI Agents Reveal About the Future of Software

    SaaStr’s internal audit found that only one of its 16 AI agents…

  • SaaS exit crisis chart showing declining traditional exits versus rising AI investment trends in 2025 with blue and red trend lines
    Corporate Development SaaS Startups

    The SaaS Exit Crisis: A Survival Guide for CEOs Navigating the AI Era in 2025

    SaaS exits collapsed 85% as AI captured 58% of VC funding. Learn…

  • Comparison chart showing CASE Tools (1990-2000) and Vibe Coding (2023-2025) following identical rise-and-fall hype cycles, with Internet disruption and AI disruption marked as paradigm shift accelerators
    Corporate Development SaaS Startups

    The Ghost of CASE Tools: Why AI “Vibe Coding” Is Repeating Software History’s Most Expensive Mistake

    Software executives: before investing in AI vibe coding tools, learn from the…

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