Five Questions to Ask Your Development Team This Week

Who builds it, and how are they employed. What it costs to run, today and at ten times the users. Whether it is a model, a pipeline or a prompt, and whose it is. The system, not the demo. And what someone else has already found.

For each: what a good answer sounds like, what a bad one sounds like, and why the difference matters.

Most CEOs who read it ask the questions, get answers they cannot evaluate, and that is usually the moment they call. From Trailyn Ventures, Los Angeles.