More AI, Less Direction?

Aleph’s clarity playbook, AI-native workflows, Claire Vo on shipping fast, Harvey’s founder event in SF, Paris pop-up, and a template for smarter brainstorms.

Welcome to The Startup Stack - where we cut through the noise to bring you the real talk, tactical tools, and startup trends that matter. This week, we’re focusing on the most overlooked founder advantage: clarity. Aleph ’s founder Albert Gozzi shares how protecting thinking time sharpens decisions and product direction - especially before data exists. And Claire Vo , founder of ChatPRD , breaks down how AI-native workflows help lean teams ship fast without the chaos.

Featuring:

• Founder clarity as an edge: Aleph’s founder Albert Gozzi on rituals, intuition, and building AI-native
• Ship with confidence in the AI era: Claire Vo on high-velocity, low-chaos workflows
• Remote Brainstorming template: Async ideas → action
• IRL for founders: Harvey ’s SF founder event + our Paris pop-up

The stack is intentional - let’s think smarter and ship.

“I love when I can make a data-driven decision, but if your gut isn’t right, it’s going to be very hard to go through early stages.” — Albert Gozzi , Co-founder & CEO of Aleph

Albert Gozzi , Co-founder & CEO of Aleph , joins Maxi Tommasi , Notion’s LATAM Startups Lead, to share why creating space to think is a real founder advantage. From Bain and CFO roles to building Aleph - an AI-native FP&A platform designed for real-world workflows - Albert explains how running became his ritual for clarity, why intuition matters before the data exists, and how AI now powers every team inside the company.

Three founder lessons from Albert:

• Protect space to think → Creativity rarely happens in back-to-back meetings - build rituals to generate your best ideas.
• AI as an operating system → Don’t just add AI to product - apply it across GTM, ops, and eng to scale impact with leaner teams.
• Trust your gut early → Before the metrics show up, your intuition is the compass.

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“If you think of these tools as an extension of your team - not as tools used by your team but an extension of your team - you can include them in how you design your culture, how you design your rituals, and how you design your operating model.” — Claire Vo , Founder of ChatPRD

Shipping with Confidence in the Age of AI

AI isn’t just a new tool - it’s a new way to build companies. At our recent Make With Notion event, Claire Vo , Founder of ChatPRD , shared what AI-native teams are doing differently to move faster, stay lean, and ship with confidence - even with small teams and limited resources.

Three lessons from Claire:

• Build AI into your workflows → Don’t bolt AI on. Redesign how you work so AI handles the repetitive, and your team focuses on customers, creativity, and speed.
• Adopt a fast-experiment mindset → Treat AI as a testing ground. Run quick trials, share learnings openly, and remove process bottlenecks.
• Use AI to amplify talent → Give your team hands-on AI skills so they can ship more with less — and focus on the high-impact work only humans can do.

Watch the full session →

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November 12 | San Francisco: First Block Live - Reinventing Law with AI: Inside Harvey 's $5B Valuation. Join Notion’s co-founder Akshay Kothari in conversation with Harvey's co-founder & president Gabe Pereyra Gabe Pereyra to unpack how they scaled Harvey to $100M+ ARR while redefining what AI can do in one of the world’s most regulated industries. Request to join.

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Till next week - make space to think, then build with purpose.