Long-form interviews with builders, investors, and policymakers working at the frontier of AI.
with Anonymous — EU AI Act drafting team
A long conversation about why every major economy is suddenly racing to build a national AI stack — and the policy levers that will decide who actually pulls it off.
with CFO, Series B AI infra company
A finance-first look at where the gross margin actually comes from when you sell tokens. Spoiler: it isn't where the deck says it is.
with Founder, autonomous-agent startup
A practitioner walks through six months of agent failures and the substrate they kept rebuilding. Honest, technical, occasionally bleak.
with Partner, generalist fund
A counter-case to the open-source-eats-everything thesis. Where the venture math actually points in 2026.
I'm Rijul. I write essays, host a podcast, and build small things on the web — all of it in service of one question: how do we leverage AI in the next decade without giving away what mattered in the last? New work lands here when it's ready. Subscribe and I'll send it once.