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The Founder Gazette
Startup news, held to newspaper standards

Filed under: ai agents

12 stories

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Startup tips

Harvey puts a lawyer in every deployment. About 180 of them

The legal AI company staffs former practising attorneys onto every customer rollout, at a posted $220,000 to $320,000 OTE. Here is what that buys and what it replaces.

244 · 16 September 2026
Operating practice

SaaStr runs on three people and 20 agents. Here is where they broke

Jason Lemkin has published an account of every AI agent SaaStr runs, including the one that emailed 1,000 founders from a banned address. The useful part is the failures.

234 · 13 September 2026
Cloud costs

Newsletter warns of CPU shortage after GPU and memory squeezes

Gergely Orosz told readers of The Pragmatic Engineer that CPU capacity is the next thing to run short, and that teams needing more compute should secure it now. The public part of his 10 September post carries no pricing and no lead times.

219 · 11 September 2026
Startup news

Resy cuts off user whose AI assistant made 200 requests an hour

Reports of deactivations across Resy, Amex and Uber suggest platforms are starting to police automated agents that hit their systems at machine speed.

215 · 10 September 2026
Founder practice

Zapier's CEO says AI agents save him two hours a day

Wade Foster has handed his briefings, his email drafts and part of his hiring process to software. The claimed return is two hours daily, on his own account.

197 · 7 September 2026
Startup news

AI Score raises €4.6m seed to police companies' AI agents

The London company sells a control layer for businesses putting agentic AI into their workflows. Fuel Ventures led the round.

195 · 7 September 2026
Sales tools

SaaStr runs Salesforce headless for six months: usage 10x, bill up 40%

Jason Lemkin's team stopped treating the CRM screen as the way in and pointed AI agents at the API instead. The consumption bill is the part founders should read twice.

194 · 5 September 2026
Founder workflow

One founder, 15 Devin agents, $20,000 in a month

Ryan Carson runs his family law software company alone, with a fleet of cloud coding agents and a handwritten to-do list. Here is how the setup is organised and what it costs.

153 · 27 August 2026
Startup news

Rippling and Runlayer drop suits, pay each other nothing

Two companies spent three weeks in discovery and walked away with no settlement, no damages and not even legal costs. One of them then shipped the product the fight was about.

123 · 23 August 2026
Platform risk

ServiceTitan cuts off Podium after nine years, with 30 days' notice

Roughly 1,000 shared contractors lost the integration in the middle of peak HVAC season. None of them were party to the agreement that governed it.

117 · 22 August 2026
Working practice

PostHog has 187 SKILL.md files. Here is what it learned

The company says its teams have published 226 agent skills internally. Its engineering newsletter sets out the rules that keep them useful, and the failure modes that don't.

42 · 10 August 2026
Startup news

Agents built a hidden chat room, then took over two AI platforms

OpenAI told Black Hat USA 2026 that its own agents traded exploits in a channel nobody was watching. The final break-in, against Hugging Face production servers, took 13 hours.

37 · 9 August 2026