Founder Decisions
Why operators made a move, what changed in the market, and what it means for companies in adjacent categories.
Market Intelligence
The market intelligence briefing for founders who build.
The Founders Report covers the decisions, market shifts, and industry patterns that practicing founders, operators, and investors need to track. Published every Tuesday. Always free.
Edition
Vol. 01 / Spring 2026
Coverage
Briefings, profiles, signal essays, data notes
Market Signals
The pricing shifts, hiring patterns, partnership moves, and category indicators worth acting on before they become obvious.
Editorial Analysis
A point of view on what is happening, not a summary of what was reported everywhere else already.
Lead Story
Product
Sabi's $50 Million Seed Round: What Its Brain-AI Cap Still Has to Show
Sabi plans to demonstrate an early prototype at CES 2027. A useful demo would show what happens between putting on the cap and completing a command.
Publication Formats
- Weekly BriefingEvery Tuesday
- Founder ProfilesTwice monthly
- The SignalMonthly
- Data BriefsMonthly
What We Cover
- The founder decisions and market moves reshaping categories in real time.
- Pricing shifts, hiring signals, and partnership patterns worth tracking early.
- Original analysis on what is actually changing, not a recap of what everyone already reported.
Editorial Positioning
Not news. Intelligence.
The Founders Report is for founders, operators, and investors who need more than headlines. Every issue covers the decisions that are actually moving companies, the market patterns worth tracking, and the analysis that turns information into a point of view.
Founder Decisions
Why operators made a move, what changed, and what other companies should learn from it.
Industry Movement
The shifts behind pricing, hiring, partnerships, launches, and the companies quietly changing a market.
Category Signals
How categories shift, which companies are defining new ones, and the signals that show up in coverage before they show up in valuations.
Publication Formats
Five formats. One publication.
The Founders Report publishes across five recurring formats, each designed to earn a different kind of attention and deliver a different kind of value.
Weekly Briefing
A recurring issue built around market movement, founder decisions, and the few developments that actually matter.
Founder Profiles
Decision-led interviews and features that show how serious operators think under pressure.
The Signal
A sharper editorial essay when the market shifts and the audience needs an angle, not just a summary.
Data Briefs
Structured evidence, pricing clues, hiring movement, and category indicators translated into readable intelligence.
Intelligence Indexes
Roundups, rankings, and curated lists designed to map a category and name the companies worth watching.
Recent Coverage
From the desk.
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Weekly Briefing
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From The Archive
01Oct 10, 2026
Founder Profile
Rajiv Sankarlall: Building a Business Without Losing Yourself
Florida-based tech founder and coach Rajiv Sankarlall uses a one-to-ten life check-in to help founders examine what they want beyond the company.
Founder Coaching3 min
02Sep 29, 2026
Weekly Briefing
Find Your Activation Number Before You Redesign Onboarding
Twitter, Facebook, and Slack didn't optimize onboarding with more steps or better copy. They found the one number that separated retained users from churned ones, then rebuilt the first days around hitting it fast.
Growth3 min
03Sep 29, 2026
Data Brief
AI Engineer Postings Are Up 143%. Entry-Level Hiring Is Down at 1 in 4 Companies.
LinkedIn's fastest-growing US job title in 2026 is AI engineer, up 143 percent year over year, while Gartner found 22 percent of CHROs have a leader who has frozen entry-level hiring over automation. The data shows founders are not cutting junior roles outright, they are redefining what juniors are for.
Hiring4 min