Ugly Talk: How to Actually Build at the Speed of AI and Outship A Bigger Team

Right now, AI is a sports car.

In the hands of a small team that knows what it is doing, the right AI stack outships companies 10 times their size. The advantage is no longer who has the bigger team. It is who can drive faster without losing control.

The same stack that lets you outpace a competitor 10 times your size can also send the company off the road. Bad data. Hallucinated decisions. Customer trust shredded by an agent doing what an experienced operator would have caught.

For this Ugly Talk, we are bringing in Greg Cucino. He has been inside enough AI bets at growth-stage companies to know what wins and what wrecks them. He will walk you through what it takes to drive the sports car, and the mistakes that put founders in a wall.