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I'll Build Your Whole "AI Product" for Only a Third of Your Total Raise

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It's 2026 and big checks are still being cut to pre-product "AI product companies." I get cold emails weekly about roles at these places — sitting on ~$5M raises with nothing built.

A typical cold email: pre-revenue, pre-product, just raised $4.5M

Still hoping one bites on my standard reply: "I'll build your whole app in 2-3 months for only a third of your raise." The tooling is there — TDD is dead, quality control is automatable, and a solo dev with Claude Code can ship what used to take a team.

My standard reply