How To Save Your Scaleup: Applying timeless scaleup principles to a brand new world.
A little over a week ago, I released Scouut's Mid-2026 Startup & Scaleup Market Memo. If you
Scouut's Mid-2026 Startup & Scaleup Market Memo
How AI-native companies are approaching work, roles, teams, talent, hiring, compensation and capital.
The Unsigned Team: How the best startups hire 90% of their people without weeks of searching.
The vast majority of startups treat hiring like a tap that should be turned on and off. Whenever a hire
Paying for Outliers: How the best startups think about compensation and employee value to secure outlier talent.
The idea that salaries or employee compensation is a 'special' kind of spend - one that has to be
The Factory That Builds The Software: Why setting up production lines is the new job for software engineers.
The most popular summary of what AI is doing to software engineering is that "engineers can now write code
Team Debt: The biggest trap facing startups today, and how to reduce the risk of it accumulating.
The concept of technical debt is familiar to most founders. In an AI world, it's also becoming less
AI-Native Confusion: What it actually means to be AI-native, and why most startups and scaleups are far from it.
Many of the founders I meet claim to be building AI-native companies. Few actually are.
They've integrated
How to hire AI-augmented software engineers.
What you need to know about evaluating engineers in the age of AI-assisted software development.
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