Topic · ai
AI SaaS
Building and selling AI software products - pricing, packaging, evaluation and the gap between a demo and a product.
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010Claude Mythos 5.1 and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: the safeguard became an access tierAnthropic and Google each shipped a frontier model at two safeguard levels within two days in September 2026, with the permissive version reserved for vetted organisations. The control moved from the prompt to the customer, and that changes what a security team has to prove.TECH NOTE · 7 MIN009Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol: flagship capability at mid-tier prices, three weeks laterOn 22 September 2026 Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna. The capability that was the flagship at the start of the month now costs a mid-tier price, which makes every model routing table written in August out of date.TECH NOTE · 7 MIN008Decision models: what Jev, Solar Decide and Span-01 mean for enterprise workflowsIn September 2026 three vendors shipped models that return a typed answer and a probability instead of text. For routing, triage and compliance flags that is a better interface than prose, provided you demand the calibration evidence and build a branch for "unsure".TECH NOTE · 8 MIN007Meta Muse Spark 1.3 and the Contributor tier: the discount is paid in training dataMeta released Muse Spark 1.3 on 2 September 2026 with a model trained to ask before it acts, and kept a Contributor tier that costs a fraction of Standard in exchange for training on your prompts and completions. The behaviour is the better story. The pricing is the one that needs a policy.TECH NOTE · 7 MIN006OpenAI Astra for Law: the model is not the product, the index isOpenAI launched Astra for Law on 17 September 2026. It is GPT-6 Astra plus legal instructions, settings and a US-only Legal Search Index, not a new model. The benchmark gain came from retrieval, and that is the lesson for anyone building legal AI outside the US.TECH NOTE · 8 MIN005OpenAI switched off the Sora API with no replacement: what a deprecation policy actually promisesOpenAI removed the Videos API and every Sora 2 model on 24 September 2026, exactly six months after notice, and named no successor. The policy was honoured to the letter. That is the part worth reading if you build on someone else's model.TECH NOTE · 7 MIN004The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline moved. The transparency rules did not.The 2 August 2026 date a lot of teams were building towards was deferred to December 2027 by the Digital Omnibus. But Article 50 transparency did start applying on 2 August, and it catches ordinary AI products, not just high-risk ones.ARTICLE · 6 MIN003"No source, no claim" should be the default for high-stakes AIIn legal, compliance and finance, a confident wrong answer costs more than a refusal - and unlike a refusal, it does not announce itself.OPINION · 3 MIN002AI agents are easy to demo. Production agents are different.The demo works because you chose the input. Production is where an agent meets a permissions model, a flaky API and someone who will not read the output carefully.AI NOTE · 3 MIN001The architecture behind a source-grounded legal AI assistantRetrieval as a gate rather than a hint, citations carried as data rather than text, and why corpus preparation matters more than model choice.SYSTEM NOTE · 2 MIN
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001MyAdvisor.aiAn Arabic-first legal AI platform for Saudi and international business law, built on one rule - no source, no claim.LEGAL AI
IN DEVELOPMENT→002MyAdvisor.ai Due DiligenceThe due-diligence module - built to produce evidence a lawyer can check, not answers they have to trust.LEGAL AI · DUE DILIGENCE
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IN DEVELOPMENT→002MyAdvisor.ai Due DiligenceThe due-diligence module - built to produce evidence a lawyer can check, not answers they have to trust.LEGAL AI · DUE DILIGENCE
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