How to build products on a moving frontier | Dan Shipper (Every)
Every co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper explains how product teams can innovate on rapidly advancing AI frontiers by separating divergent lab experimentation from core product execution. He outlines how small, two-person teams pairing 'pirates' and 'architects' can rapidly test ideas against real work and filter the best prototypes through a staged research pipeline into the main product.
- Every CEO Dan Shipper separates exploratory AI lab experiments from core roadmap execution to prevent experimental chaos from breaking stable releases. Read →
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- Dan Shipper and the team at Every built "Kate Bench" by feeding three years of historical edits from Editor-in-Chief Kate Lee into frontier AI models. Read →
- Dan Shipper argues that forcing engineers to explore new AI models while executing sprints ruins both workflows. Read →
- Jeff Bezos designed the two-pizza team (8 to 10 people) for an era before modern AI tools collapsed execution time. Read →