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Melas-Kyriazi: AI Has Eradicated Traditional SaaS Switching Cost Moats
“Because of AI, that's changing. It's cheaper for competitors to build software. It's cheaper for people to vibe code their own software. And it's also easier to migrate data because of AI agents. So I think switching costs have gone down. And so I think it's r…”
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Melas-Kyriazi: Standard Metrics Creates Marketing Content Engineered for LLMs
“We're creating content specifically for LLMs that's also human readable and useful for humans, but it's really engineered to make sure that LLMs understand what we do.”
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Melas-Kyriazi: You Cannot Vibe Code a Network or Proprietary Dataset
“You can't like vibe code a network. You can't vibe code a new data set.”
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Melas-Kyriazi: AI Enables Investors to Conduct Technical Diligence Within Hours
“I think like AI as a technical co-pilot for diligence is actually one of the most interesting use cases for AI. As an investor right now. I don't think it's a replacement for human experts necessarily, but it certainly is a huge help. If you're, if you come ac…”
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Melas-Kyriazi: AI Data Extraction From Unknown Documents Requires Human QA
“What's tougher is feeding in a completely unknown document and having AI extracted well out of the unknown documents. We do that currently, but we use humans in the loop to make sure that we QA. It is not a fully solved problem yet. We think it will be in the …”
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Melas-Kyriazi: Standard Metrics Tracks LLM Search Visibility With Daily Prompts
“So yeah, so we actually use software that helps us. It runs hundreds of prompts per day across four or five kind of major LLMs. It helps us to identify exactly where standard metrics is getting mentioned. Which pieces of content that are linked to standard met…”
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Melas-Kyriazi: Major Opportunity Ahead for AI-Automated Venture Valuations
“I think that there's going to be a lot of opportunity for innovation in, in automation around valuations, leveraging AI plus benchmarks, plus proprietary company data, as well as Public market comps and other.”
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Melas-Kyriazi: Claude Autonomous Task Duration Has Reached 20 Hours
“What there's a task that has a 50% chance of successful completion. How long does that task look like for a given model? I think Claude is now at like 20 hours or something like that. And it was at like, you know, one hour a year ago.”
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Melas-Kyriazi: SaaS Apps Must Go Headless to Integrate User AI Agents
“Some people are referring to this as like a headless model, and I think it's really important for companies to be thinking and building with that in mind and making sure that if their users are extremely sophisticated with how they're thinking about building t…”
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Melas-Kyriazi: AI Back-Office Automation Will Drive Explosion of Small Businesses
“I think what we're seeing now, which is really exciting is this explosion of small businesses getting started. And I think that people are going to be able to spend more time on what they're truly passionate about, probably spend more time on things that direc…”
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Melas-Kyriazi: VCs Use Claude and ChatGPT to Critique Investment Memos
“Another thing we're seeing is that firms are writing investment memos, and then they're using tools like Claude and ChatGPT to poke holes in them. What am I missing? Where, where's my argument weakest? And then using that to help to guide the diligence process…”
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Melas-Kyriazi: Singapore VC Uses AI Agents to Automate LP Reporting
“For example, we have one customer in Singapore that's using an agent orchestration tool, and it's building this wide variety of AI agents that interface with standard metrics, grab data, and fulfill a bunch of really critical internal reporting workflows. For …”
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Melas-Kyriazi: AI Agents Do Vast Majority of Standard Metrics Data Operations
“And the first place we launched AI agents in our product was to assist the data operations team. Now AI is doing the vast majority of the work.”
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Melas-Kyriazi: Claude Automatically Generates DCF Models in Excel
“Like one thing that we published recently was you can go into Excel, hook it up with Claude, hook up Claude with standard metrics, and then ask it to do a discounted cashflow for a portfolio company. It'll just build it for you.”
