Trey Fleming | iSPAI.eth

We built rollwithit.ispai.io as Waze for wheelchair accessibility. Those that live the issues of accessibility should have the ability to influence the built environment. We are starting our testing of the application and associated knowledge network on iSPAI in Colorado.

@piersmorgan @realDonaldTrump Marbles lost long ago, everyone is aware but afraid to tell the emperor they’re naked…

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

@brian_armstrong My prior company said the AI/W3 vision is built for the company (as CRO in line to be CEO) wasn’t going to happen, especially the W3 part. My ofc was empty 30-Mon later and I launched iSPAI the next day. We launch an enterprise context engineering platform in July. Let’s go!

Steve Wozniak famously went to his boss at HP and said they should build a personal computer. They said no, so he left to found Apple. It’s a lesson for leaders: one "no" shouldn't kill a contrarian but right idea in your company. Twice a year at Coinbase, anyone in the company can pitch a "next bet" idea to a panel of folks. It's structured similar to pitching a handful of venture capitalists internally. If you get any one of them to say yes and fund it, you're green lit. You need ONE yes, not a unanimous yes from everyone in the org structure from you to the CEO (a de facto committee). Lots more goes into this, around capping resourcing on next bets (most are small 2-3 person teams), knowing when to shut them down, or under what revenue/profitability criteria they graduate to regular products. But this is important to having a company that produces repeatable innovation.

@Reaper_NFT Perfect

Most companies don’t have a knowledge problem. They have a memory problem. They store what happened, but not how decisions were made. So the system keeps relearning the same things, instead of improving. AI doesn’t solve this. It exposes it. open.substack.com/pub/treyflemin…

Full piece: open.substack.com/pub/treyflemin…

That’s why AI looks good in demos but struggles in real environments. It’s missing how decisions actually get made.

And almost none of it gets captured in a reusable way. So the system doesn’t accumulate. It resets.

Every time someone: adjusts a plan makes a tradeoff recognizes something won’t work they’re creating context.

It breaks for context. Because context isn’t something you store. It’s something that happens while people are doing the work.

Most systems assume the information they need already exists: documents databases logs That works for data.

AI doesn’t just have a context problem. It has a problem capturing how context is created.

I wrote a deeper piece on the AI-based workforce and context issues here: open.substack.com/pub/treyflemin…

The next generation of companies won’t compete on data. They’ll compete on how well they operationalize their workforce.

And context doesn’t live in databases. It lives in: human experience workforce judgment unwritten rules

Most companies are optimizing data for AI. But AI doesn’t fail because of data. It fails because it lacks context.

AI doesn’t understand the enterprise. The workforce doesn’t know its role in the AI future. Those two problems are actually the same problem.

@tkexpress11 Appreciate the accessibility. iSPAI (I Spy) was made for a16z. We are the contextual knowledge layer for AI across the enterprise.

i'm opening my calendar for 15 min slots this Friday! a16z speedrun application opening is just weeks away - come AMA 1:1 first come, first served... drop a comment / like and I'll send you a link to schedule! (if there's space remaining)

@garrytan Agree. I’m 5 attempts for YC on AI-Human collaboration. We’ll see attempt #6 goes.

For agentic systems founders and dev tools founders: People do not want to pay for raw markdown and they shouldn't have to. But they may pay for orchestration, hosting, updates, collaboration, portability, analytics, and managed execution. These can be great businesses.