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What Y Combinator's latest investment list teaches us about the digital future for companies

And which three categories we strongly believe in for ourselves to be working on, and worth thinking about for you too.

EMErik Mus·28 Apr 20261 min

We built our own AI-first Workspace, CMS, CRM, social media management tool, and more

Which means we don't use Slack. No HubSpot. No Notion, no Linear, no Asana, no Buffer, and no WordPress for our CMS either. We built it all ourselves, and everything talks to each other.

EMErik Mus·26 Apr 20261 min

The people working fastest with AI are also the most worried about their jobs

What 81,000 Claude users tell us about the economics of AI, and what that says about how you introduce AI in your organisation.

EMErik Mus·22 Apr 20261 min

Productiviteit

Build your own digital brain and always have all your saved knowledge at hand

How an LLM turns your bookmarks and scattered notes into a real knowledge base.

EMErik Mus·17 Apr 20261 min

AI Search

ChatGPT recommends your competitor. Why not you?

Admit it, you've probably asked ChatGPT which solution is best in your market. Your competitor came up. You didn't. The reflex is predictable: create more content, start tracking prompts, get a GEO tool.

PMPeter Minkjan·7 Apr 20261 min

One in three Dutch workers uses AI, saving 2 hours per week

Major international study reveals what AI delivers for users in the Netherlands, why two-thirds still don't use it, and the one factor that makes the difference.

EMErik Mus·31 Mar 20261 min

Productiviteit

Anthropic is quietly building its own OpenClaw and here's what you can do with it

In three months, Anthropic launched nearly every feature that made OpenClaw popular. Coincidence? We don't think so and we'll show you what you can do with it.

EMErik Mus·21 Mar 20261 min

The AI gain most teams are leaving on the table

Most organizations use AI as an individual productivity tool. One person working in one chat window, getting things done faster. And yes, that works — so by all means, keep doing it. But it doesn't scale, even where it could. The real productivity gains are elsewhere: at the boundaries between people, roles, and departments. Exactly where context is still lost every day.

EMErik Mus·20 Mar 20261 min

Opinie

Why AI improves faster than you think and why your brain can't keep up

An old story about grains of rice on a chessboard explains why the AI revolution keeps surprising you.

EMErik Mus·27 Feb 20261 min

Productiviteit

The Agent Race: How AI Labs Are Copying the Features That Made OpenClaw Viral

At the end of January 2026, an open-source project by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger went viral. OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot, then Moltbot after a trademark complaint from Anthropic) allowed millions of people to experience for the first time what a personal AI agent can really do.

EMErik Mus·25 Feb 20261 min

Kenniswerk

CBS: Almost half of working people in the Netherlands think AI can do work. What do you do with that?

New CBS research shows: those who use AI understand best what is coming. And that's exactly why you need to start now.

EMErik Mus·25 Feb 20261 min

Kenniswerk

The magic formula: why a less good professional surpasses you (and how to prevent that)

I was recently doing an analysis that would normally have taken me half a day. To be honest, I had already postponed it a few times because I didn't feel like it. Collecting and exporting data from different sources, merging, research, recognizing patterns, making connections, writing a clear story. Now it took me less than an hour. And the result was better than what I made in half a day.

PMPeter Minkjan·20 Feb 20261 min

AI Search

GEO goes much further than optimizing your own website

Since ChatGPT and other LLMs (Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) have been introduced, a fierce debate has raged between two camps. Both agree that these platforms are emerging as new search engines, but what really matters is how do you get your brand recommended?

PMPeter Minkjan·20 Feb 20261 min

Opinie

"This doesn't make any sense at all"

Why curiosity is the most important AI skill. And what questions you should ask yourself now.

PMPeter Minkjan·20 Feb 20261 min

Productiviteit

The five levels of AI: where are we really and what does that mean for you

You've probably heard someone say, "AI is just a chatbot." Or just the opposite: “AI will soon take over all our work.” Both statements are equally unhelpful. The reality is a lot more nuanced and a lot more interesting.

EMErik Mus·19 Feb 20261 min

AI Search

AI Search: visibility is a solution, not a strategy

Since ChatGPT and other AI tools emerged as search platforms, a whole new industry has emerged: Generative Engine Optimization, or GEO (we prefer to call it AI Search). The promise is tempting. People search differently, no longer via Google but on ChatGPT and similar. So you need to track your “AI visibility”. Optimize your content for LLMs. And pay a hefty monthly subscription for it.

PMPeter Minkjan·19 Feb 20261 min

AI Tools

Claude Cowork and skills: AI that not only talks, but also does

Why Claude, with Cowork, Skills and integrations in Excel and PowerPoint, when used properly, fundamentally changes the work you and I do every day and how you can use this too.

EMErik Mus·18 Feb 20261 min

Longread

The origins and exponential growth of AI: From wooden chess robot to digital colleague

How artificial intelligence went from trick to transformation in two hundred years and why the last three years changed everything

EMErik Mus·13 Feb 20261 min