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Drew Burdick is the Founder of StealthX, host of the Building Great Experiences podcast, and writer of this weekly newsletter. Learn more at drewburdick.com.
One day inside the system I actually run on.. 7am to midnight, $21, 863 blocked commands, and the hour I couldn't reach my own box.
Two years building StealthX, ten months rebuilding how I use AI, and the quiet thing nobody's naming.. the roles you know are collapsing.
The same forces reshaping startups are already at your door. Here's what I'd steal from them.
Five uncomfortable truths, and the same old lesson under all of them.
My founder musings on building an AI native company and having more questions than answers.
This week I had 16 operators for dinner at the CLT Startup House to chat honestly AI transformation within their organizations. Here's what they shared.
We've built a bunch of these over 2 years. Here's the slam-dunk use case for most B2B companies, plus 8 things we've learned the hard way.
Why I told someone not to pay me for my AI setup, and the 10 things that matter most if you build your own.
Two years in, more battle scars and more certain. Here are 11 lessons from my 2nd year running StealthX.
I run an AI company, and the best bet I made this year was the least automatable thing I could think of. Here's what a hundred-year-old house taught me about the one thing AI can't replace.
What I took away from two days at Seed the South, and what it means for how your company builds next.
How to create a strong gravitational pull so your team ACTUALLY uses AI tools, with carrots not sticks.
Many folks think building software in the AI era is like moving from VHS to DVD's. In reality we went straight to streaming and skipped the DVD.
When everything you think is certain falls away, what's left is simpler than you expect.
Before I get back to the regular rhythm, I need to share something.
Every conversation I have with leaders has revealed the same wall with AI. It's not budget, it's not people's abilities, and it's not that the tech isn't good enough.
What happened when we gave early-stage startups a clear strategy framework, 19 Claude Code skills, and one day to ship.
But design matters more than ever.
Your software doesn't need 50 knobs and controls. It needs to understand what you're asking for.
When code is cheap, the question isn't who builds it. It's... who owns it.
Here's what we figured out along the way to becoming the best AI consulting team in Charlotte.
Only 2 were worth keeping. Here's what I learned about AI workflow automation that actually sticks.
Stop planning like you know what will work. 12-month roadmaps don't work in the age of AI. Focus on 6-week bets.
Your job as a leader isn't to turn everyone into prompt engineers. It's to build systems that let people do their actual jobs better, faster, and with capabilities they didn't have before.
I set up a system of AI employees to help me run StealthX on easy mode with Claude Code. Here's how you can do it too.
