Dan Shipper: Every paused its hosted OpenClaw product due to harness instability
“We have this hosted OpenClaw product, which we had on waitlist. We actually had to pause it because we started to do all the waitlist and OpenClaw is just a very hard agent harness to make work.”
Shipper: Non-technical employees will increasingly execute technical tasks using AI
“You can expect that a higher percentage of your company or your users are going to be doing things that previously only technical users can do. And what that does is it creates all this pressure on the other end for the people who have to deal with all of the …”
Carson: AI agents should compound intelligence from mistakes via markdown memory files
“Your agent should be getting smarter every time it makes a mistake. And by updating agents.md, you are going to get that long-term benefit. This isn't just during this iteration. You're going to benefit every time from now on that you use amp or clog code.”
Dan Shipper: Every generates $1.3M ARR across nearly 7,000 paid subscribers
“I can tell you we have about almost 7000 paid subscribers across all the apps in the media. And altogether we do about like 1.3 million in ARR. Growing really fast. We grew ARR 45% this quarter.”
Shipper: Every raised $2M 'sip seed' from Reid Hoffman, Starting Line
“We raised 600 K in 2020, which is when we started the business. And then we just raised another round From Reed Hoffman and starting line DC. And that was a two million dollar round, but we raised it as what I call a sip seed round. So they have committed up t…”
Shipper: Every probably will not raise a standard VC Series A
“And I think the investors, this, in this round also are aware that we're probably not going to go raise, you know, ten million ten million dollar series A from Sequoia or whatever. I don't even know if ten million, maybe ten million is too small now for a seri…”
Shipper: Every requires an AI-first approach across all roles
“We're all using AI to do everything from coding to writing to editing to design to marketing, all that stuff. And if you're not doing it with AI first, you're kind of weird which I think is the reverse of how things are in pretty much every other company.”
Dan Shipper: Monologue's initial version was built over a single weekend
“Naveen, who's the GM of Monologue, just was like, I don't know. I like, I want an invitation app. The ones that I, the ones that I've been using, like aren't quite right for me. And he just like built it over a weekend and then demoed it and everyone was like,…”
Shipper: Prompting LLMs on internal meeting transcripts generates honest company handbooks
“I have a recipe on there that I made that I really liked it, that was really cool, which is, Go through all of my internal meetings and write our company handbook from what you see. And I want you to capture all of the unspoken ways that every works as a compa…”
Shipper: Every uses Claude Projects for developmental and copy editing
“Basically we have a cloud project with all of this stuff in it. That can do copy editing, can do developmental editing. So like helping you figure out like which ideas are interesting and why, or where's the hook for the article, that kind of stuff.”
Shipper: Every employs 15 to 20 full-time staff across six business lines
“We are more than 10 people. We are about 15, between 15 and twenty-ish, it's a little hard to tell, full-time. We have six business lines now, so yes, a lot.”
Shipper: Nobody at media startup Every is manually coding anymore
“Same thing for people inside of every, like, no one is manually coding anymore.”
Shipper: Every codifies executive editorial feedback into AI prompts for writers
“One of my big goals for us last quarter was don't repeat yourself. So I don't want to ever say the same thing in a meeting twice. If I can help it so for us at every, like one of the big parts of every is we have a daily newsletter and I'm spending a lot of ti…”
Shipper: Real-world 'vibe checks' beat standard benchmarks for AI model utility
“I think it's really important to do vibe checks and to call them vibe checks because they're about how does it feel to use this thing and how does it feel to use it for work, for things that you would normally use it for like in your job or in your life. Becau…”
Shipper: A dedicated AI ops lead drives automation by unburdening front-line workers
“Having an AI operations lead lets you basically identify those things and have them solved without people who are doing the work actually getting getting, like having to take time to do it, which I think makes it much more likely it happens.”
Shipper: Everyone at Every uses Claude Code to build software
“Claude code, everyone inside every, that's basically what we use. If you're building something, you're using Claude code.”
Shipper: Gemini is the primary model used inside Every's applications
“Because I think that that's the model that we use most for the apps that we build, like inside the apps. It's incredibly powerful and it's incredibly cheap, which is great.”
Shipper: Compounding engineering with prompt libraries creates massive team leverage
“Finding those little speed ups where every time you're building something you're doing, you're making it easier to do that, that same thing next time, I think gets you a lot more leverage in your engineering team.”
Shipper: Every's Cora app has 2,500 active users managed by two engineers
“Kieran and Nitesh and, you know, Quora has, it just came out of, it just became public. It was in private beta. It has 2500 active users, and like, there's like millions of emails going through it, and like, that's one of the products that we do as a 15 person…”
Shipper: AI-assisted development still requires underlying coding knowledge
“We're not at a point yet where the people that work at every could do what they do if they didn't know how to code.”
Shipper: GPT wrappers are unfairly maligned and extremely valuable
“I a hundred percent think GPT wrappers are amazing, and they've been much maligned for absolutely no reason, and people don't understand how absolutely valuable they are.”
Shipper: Every raised up to $2M via draw-down 'sip-seed' round
“And we did the same thing for this recent round where we raised up to two million from Reed Hoffman and starting line VC. And we did it as what I've been calling a SIP seed round, which is. Basically they've committed two million dollars, but we can pull it do…”
Shipper: Every built AI product Cora for roughly $300K total
“Like Quora, I think all in to build Quora, we've spent maybe 300 K maybe.”
Shipper: Every's AI consulting arm generated about $1M last year
“Like, last year we did about a million.”
Shipper: AI may shift the economy to smaller, generalist-led organizations
“The people inside of every can stay generalists for much longer, and I think that that may like sort of ripple out into the rest of the economy where instead of like gigantic massive corporations where like each person is doing like one little like button turn…”
Duffy: Every is releasing Monologue, a local Whisper-style voice tool
“Naveen's actually releasing something called monologue. You know, it's kind of like, I think a better whisper flow for the things that we do can run locally.”
Duffy: AI Diplomacy trace logs and dataset are publicly released
“I posted a video on X that shows you how to actually like, we released all the data, all the trace logs.”
Duffy: Effective LLM writing requires editing earlier context to avoid pollution
“If you're not reflecting on a message coming out and editing above, then like that's something you need to do because you don't want to pollute the context with anything that's not exactly what you're trying to say.”
Shipper: Every is incubating TLDR to turn meetings into NotebookLM-style podcasts
“One of the internal incubations we have is and I think we'll probably release it, I don't know, like in the next week or two. So it might be before this podcast is out. But it's called TLDR. And what it does is it takes all of the meetings that we have and the…”
Shipper: Every bundles all incubated products into its core subscription
“Our strategy is like everything we incubate, we bundle it into the every subscription.”