parth mistry

When all is said and done, and the final accounting is made of all human ambitions and achievements and follies, and the final historian turns to that strange realm of human endeavor that we call “computing,” that strange enterprise that gradually grew to encompass an unbelievable share of human life and redefine the entire world around its logic

If that loop closes, and the labs keep that capacity in-house, everything is on the table. Canva’s proprietary models become a 220-person research team competing against an AI that can improve its own architecture. Figma’s API dependency becomes irrelevant because the APIs point to something so far beyond current frontier models that the... See more

Figma could, in theory, make the pivot. It has enough R&D spending (97.53% of revenue!) to fund a proprietary model research program ten times over. The question is whether it starts now or waits until the margin compression forces the decision.

How to Apply

Skip the generic cover letter. Send us your resume, along with a short, punchy paragraph answering two questions:

1. What is your superpower?


2. Exactly how can you use it to accelerate the Airbase mission?

Today, the models are intelligent enough that in some categories the best place to start is as an autopilot. Crosby sells to the company that needs an NDA drafted, not to outside counsel. WithCoverage sells to the CFO who needs insurance, not to the broker. The customer is buying the outcome directly. The work budget in any profession dwarfs the... See more

Copilots and autopilots will converge. The copilot-to-autopilot transition has already begun in several categories. But the starting position matters because it determines where autopilots can win customers now and begin compounding the data that will eventually let them handle judgement too.

Every founder building an AI tool is asking the same question: what happens when the next version of Claude makes my product a feature? They’re right to worry. If you sell the tool, you’re in a race against the model. But if you sell the work, every improvement in the model makes your service faster, cheaper, and harder to compete with. A company... See more

You can have the most capable model on earth and still produce garbage outputs if you don’t have the scaffolding to constrain, verify, and route that capability through a specific professional workflow.

You can’t engineer load-bearing software from scratch and expect people to just agree on it, because load-bearing software contains social agreements for how a team will cooperate .