Hey there,

Yesterday I shared why we're building The AI Founder Accelerator – and why we believe the future of AI belongs to founders like you (even if you don’t think of yourself as one), instead of billion-dollar companies with military contracts.

Today, I want to show you the thing that's actually in the way.

Because the gap I described yesterday – between where AI tools can take you and where a real software business lives – isn't theoretical. It has a shape. It has stages. And when my cofounder Marc mapped the survey data from 149 IWAI readers, we saw a pattern – one that lined up with everything we've seen building software and working with startup founders.

Almost everyone building with AI right now is somewhere inside it and it can feel like you're in a canyon. The kind where the deeper you descend, the more treacherous things get, where you can't see the next problem until you've cleared the one in front of you – especially if you took a wrong turn somewhere.

Whether you realize it or not, you're a founder on a journey, and you're traversing through what we're calling…

The AI Coder's Canyon </>