Essays from Simsy AI

The 90% failure rate isn't a property of the universe. It's the absence of an operating system. Surgery, manufacturing, software, aviation — every field that built one watched the number fall.

Ten years to build, ninety days to understand. What the GLOPORE exit taught me about the difference between a great business and a system — and why it became the design brief for Simsy AI.

There has never been more startup content in the world. It has not moved the failure rate by a single point. We don't sell content. We sell proof — and we sell it as a ladder a founder can actually afford to climb.

Incubators, accelerators, free zones, innovation hubs — all built for a world where expertise was scarce. AI made the first half commodity. Governments now want ten times the founders, in their language. Two questions. Same answer.

Six years across 37 countries taught me the two diseases that kill EdTech at scale — the localization tax and the services trap. Both have the same root. Both are why Simsy AI is shaped the way it is.

Pricing is where a vendor tells you what they actually believe. Three dominant innovation models — seats, grants, capital — quietly leave the risk with you. The fourth, outcome-priced contracting, is the only one that shares it.

To the professional carrying an idea for two years: you were never the problem. The leap is badly designed — maximum sacrifice for minimum information, in the wrong order. Ninety days, while you keep your job, can invert the bet.

A target due in 2030 feels comfortably far. It is not. The lead time from enrolment to launched venture is two to three years — which means the founders who will produce your 2030 number must already be moving now.

Back a startup, you bet on a team. Back a fund, you bet on selection skill. Back a studio, you bet on something rarer — the machine that produces ventures. You're underwriting the production system, not the output.

Almost everything we call ESG is a report card written after the exam. Bolted on at the end, it can only describe. Baked in at the start, it can shape. Why structural greenwashing exists — and the one thing you cannot retrofit.

Most companies expand for one of two reasons, and both are usually wrong. Because Simsy AI is an operating system, our customers do not need us to be near them — which frees the footprint to do something else entirely.

Every founder knows the "first ninety days" post — a victory lap of wins and not a single word about anything that went wrong. This is the real accounting. The wins, the misses, and what we got wrong — because building in public means publishing both.