AuthorsStaff Writer, Startups
Theo covers AI-native companies, from two-person studios to the next unicorn. He hosts Bro Talks, our interview series with builders.
Once a month, a middle-school teacher fills a library community room with retirees, salon owners and skeptical teenagers. Theo Brooks asks her what people really want to know about AI.
by Theo Brooks
The founder of Northpaw Studio ships client software with nine people and a bench of agents. She talks pricing, hiring, taste and the day an agent nearly lost them their biggest client.
by Theo Brooks
Uses versus models, rules that expire, sandboxes that aren't loopholes: Theo Brooks talks with a nonpartisan researcher who tries to get both sides of the AI debate in one room.
by Theo Brooks
An AI homework tutor went viral in September and quiet by March. What killed it wasn't the model. It was the calendar, the parents and a missing definition of 'learning'.
by Theo Brooks
The illustrator and composer draws every album page by hand and builds her ambient tracks with a little help from generative tools. A talk about taste, credit and why 'unfinished' is a feature.
by Theo Brooks
Small makers are adding a new promise next to “handmade.” Without a shared definition, it risks going the way of “natural.”
by Theo Brooks
Seats, credits, tasks or outcomes? Every AI pricing model makes a promise about who carries the cost of the machine. Here's how to choose yours.
by Theo Brooks