LAUNCHING TODAY: @mobbin and @paper are joining Every’s Builder Pack. The pack now includes 12 partner offers worth more than $9,000. This is the stack for the next generation of builders in a world where taste and creative is your biggest differentiator.

not surprising that @OpenAI is firing on all cylinders right now, and it’s an unbelievably interesting story - they launched GPT-5 summer of 2025 and positioned it as a pair programmer. we wrote at the time @every that they completely missed the new agentic coding that was starting to happen inside of Claude Code. they bet on agentic coding in the browser / vms and vibe coding in ChatGPT but it was too early - a small team broke off and began working on a separate Codex model line and product. didn’t have to serve the gigantic customer base of ChatGPT, and by November / December of 2025 with 5.3 it was clear they were starting to make something good and the progress was fast - Codex Desktop app launched in Feb and was just clearly superior. there’s a weird late comer advantage sometimes in AI because you get to skip to what works instead of your product having the scars of new capability improvements being bolted on every 3 months - Codex started getting popular it was clear it was a thing, and needed to get merged back in. Which they did, imo quite well—a super complicated thing that would’ve been very easy to screw up. most companies try to disrupt themselves and fail. OpenAI somehow figured out how to disrupt their main product, and then merge it back in seamlessly. incredible aura

Last night, @poojary_yash suggested we do one more targeted email send before our early bird discount expired on the @every Builder Pack. I screenshotted his Slack, shared it with Codex, and asked it to run a compound engineering flow pursuing the idea. Then I went to the gym and came back to four email drafts sitting in Kit, each speaking directly to a specific audience given what we know about them. I made a few minor copy tweaks — 5.6 is a very good copywriter when it's connected to @TrySpiral and has access to pre-approved language from previous sends plus marketing briefs — and let Codex schedule them for this morning. So far, this has driven $26K in new revenue. Compound eng + Codex for this kind of knowledge work is crazy. I don't do anything with out it.

Even when things are going great, running a $1.5 billion AI startup is a knife fight. @MeetGranola was one of the first AI apps of this generation to achieve near-ubiquitous adoption. But meeting notes are not the company’s be-all and end-all. The real battle is over owning the interface that everyone uses to get their work done in an AI-native world. I had Chris Pedregal (@cjpedregal), cofounder and CEO of Granola, back on @every’s AI & I to talk about the current state of the application layer, AI’s frontier, and the future of work. We get into: - Why meeting notes clones don’t matter. Three big companies cloned Granola’s core feature. To him, meeting notes were never the real prize. “Easy come, easy go” is his view of anyone’s lead, including his own. - How he thinks about building proactive features in AI. Granola pre-generates millions of pre-meeting briefs, which include context on the nature of the meeting and people participating, that most people never open. But when they do, they have a magical experience. - Why Granola is betting on “bring your own agent.” Chris says the API and MCP will get “a lot better” over the next few months, and we talk about their agent-native strategy and why they’ve pushed the product that way. This is a must-watch for anyone building at the application layer. Watch the episode! Timestamps Introduction: 00:00:59 Why running a company is a knife fight even when it’s working: 00:01:57 Granola’s counterintuitive view on competition: 00:04:33 Dan’s “pirate and architect” model for early-stage product teams: 00:10:44 Granola’s “shaping” and “validation” phases for building features: 00:13:09 Why Dan lives almost entirely inside Codex: 00:18:17 The case for “Codex-native apps”: 00:24:40 Granola’s “handrail” philosophy: 00:35:37 Why Granola is going all in on winning meeting-adjacent context: 00:38:12 What a transcript alone can never capture: 00:44:19

i run socials at @every and i am Not an Engineer™. last week i connected Claude and Codex to @Descript over MCP got a v1 edit. 2 months ago this was impossible. now it's a few prompts! if you're wanna build stuff, get all the tools for $500 (!!!)

if you are reading @every, you knew codex was about to take off 6 months ago :) success kid pointing to when i started getting extremely, absolutely, annoyingly codex pilled and we began covering it

we spent months (and a gazillion tokens) building our AI stack, the actual workflow we use every day then we worked with the best AI companies out there, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Cursor, to get it down to 1/10th the cost now we’re packaging the whole thing up and handing it to you been on the edge about an @every sub? here’s your chance to get on the edge of AI there’s never been a better time to build

GPT 5.6 SOL IS HERE! How to run your personal + business life with GPT 5.6 Sol + Codex (full 49 min masterclass) We tested it for 30 days and the video it's the CLEAREST look at the FUTURE of work: Here's what's possible once you set it up: 1. Your inbox becomes cards every morning, each with a summary and a reply drafted in your own voice. Y 2. Your Slack, meeting notes, and company updates can turn into one daily feed with a clear next action. It learns what you care about over time and rewrites its own prompts to get sharper. 3. You can give your agent its own email address, so your other tools and even your team's Slack bot email it directly and it just handles things. 4. You can have it watch you do a task once and turn it into a skill it repeats forever. 5. You can set a long goal and walk away. You can have it run for 20 hours straight, and fine-tune your own models, something that was out of reach for non-engineers 12 months ago. How to start: Open Codex, give it access to your computer, and ask it to suggest things it could do for you based on how you already work. Full episode on @startupideaspod (thanks @danshipper for sharing your entire workflow and review of GPT 5.6) Start with one boring task, get it working, and build from there. You'll learn exactly how to make something similar. GPT 5.6 Sol is impressive. Sol (according to openAI benchmarks) is the best coding model out right now. It set a new state of the art on Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 88.8%, and its "ultra mode" hits 91.9%, beating Claude Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and even Mythos 5 this masterclass is 100% free, like always. For more @startupideaspod Watch