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WHAT PEOPLE ARE PROMPTING IN POSTHOG AI

PostHog AI's usage trends show founders often prompt late hours, with a quarter of prompts after 6 PM, while marketers focus more on revenue queries. Tuesday sees the highest prompt volume, peaking at 11 AM. Users become more informal over time, with increased swearing and only a minority using polite language consistently. Prompts frequently relate to dashboards, session replay, and database queries, reflecting user roles' specific interests, such as engineering's focus on debugging and marketers' interest in web traffic analytics.

THE RETURN OF THE FULL-STACK APP

Emerging AI app startups resemble infrastructure companies by training their own models and managing complex workflows, enhancing technical depth. Four key changes favor these startups: owning models, handling complex and costly agent operations, prioritizing security and governance, and building customer trust. Successful AI app companies focus on delivering outcomes, specialize in high-stakes verticals, integrate organization-wide workflows, and incorporate deep technical infrastructure.

PRINCIPLES FOR BUILDING EFFECTIVE VERTICAL AI PRODUCTS

Vertical AI takes the workflows of the best practitioners and codifies them into agentic systems that deliver capability, quality, and efficiency a third-party frontier model can't match. The challenge is finding workflows and translating them into products, context layers, agentic harnesses, data systems, and feedback loops. Seamless transition requires an organization and culture that brings world-class GTM and engineering to the same table every day. The organization's people need to speak a common language and rapidly build based on that shared vernacular and best practices.

HOW TO GIVE AI COMPANY CONTEXT AND BUILD A COMPANY BRAIN

Ramp recommends a one-to-two-page context document paired with live connectors to the tools where work happens, arguing AI gives confident but wrong answers because it cannot guess internal definitions, policies, and workflows. The guide compares five ways to supply context, from custom instructions to fine-tuning, and advises setting permissions first, testing with 10 to 20 known-answer questions, and assigning owners. Ramp says its most AI-forward staff kept personal setups few colleagues saw, which led to its Glass workspace.

EDIT ENTIRE PRESENTATIONS WITH GEMINI IN GOOGLE SLIDES

Gemini in Google Slides can now be used to edit multiple slides or an entire presentation with a single prompt. It can update content throughout a deck, refresh visual styles in bulk, or match the style of another presentation. The AI determines which slides need to change and applies edits directly. Users stay in full control and can make further adjustments. Gemini displays a summary of the changes in the side panel after it finishes editing.

INTRODUCING DEEL SECURITY: A NEW WAY TO DETECT AND PREVENT IDENTITY FRAUD

Deel Security connects key identity signals and flags risks before bad actors can gain access to a business. It assesses identity and looks for signs of fraud, bringing the findings together in one place. Teams are able to see how risks develop across the hiring process and spot patterns that individual checks might miss. It can spot fake applications, detect deepfakes and proxy candidates in live interviews, and verify government ID.

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