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Design Patterns for AI Trust: Juries, Libraries, and Agent Tiers — Alex Bauer, Upside.tech

Jul 11, 2026 · 17:09

Alex Bauer, co-founder of Upside, argues that go-to-market teams can solve AI's trust problem by managing agents like humans, using patterns such as a librarian for just-in-time knowledge and a jury-and-judge model for subjective decisions. He demonstrates three solutions: first, scaffolding an AI website rebuild with anchor assets like a product capabilities reference that ladders directly into homepage copy; second, a librarian that consults documentation and prior failed queries before answering questions like "How much pipeline in Q1?" to catch fiscal-year or stage definitions; third, a jury-and-judge workflow for multi-touch attribution where independent analysts research deals and a judge weighs reasoning quality before producing a consensus verdict. Bauer warns against low-intelligence models for important work, citing Slackbot's MCP integration as "horrifically stupid," and advocates using tier-two platforms with sub-agents, plan mode, and full MCP support.

The Next Unicorns: 7 Top AI startups from the HF0 Residency

Aug 21, 2025 · 22:16

Diego Rodriguez (Krea) presents an AI creative suite that generated 1M images/day for a Fox ad, while OpenHome debuts the first AI smart speaker with 10K developers and 500 free dev kits. Josh’s Coframe made $20M for a travel firm by making websites adaptive, and Eugene’s Featherless AI built QWERTY 72B without transformer attention, claiming scale is dead in favor of reliability. Jonas Bauer’s Upside uses LLMs to structure enterprise data, Lengyue’s OpenAudio introduces S1, the first instructable voice model beating ElevenLabs, and Alex Atallah’s OpenRouter provides a single API for all LLMs, growing 10–100% monthly.