Field notes
On running data rooms, e-signature law, AI inference, and the economics of building a $10/month SaaS.
The best DocSend alternatives in 2026 (with prices, dated)
A polite, citation-backed walk through the category. Includes screenshots of each pricing page taken on the same day.
How much should an investor data room cost?
Spoiler: not $250/month. We pulled apart the unit economics of running a data room on Cloudflare's edge.
Dynamic watermarking, explained for non-engineers
What it does, what it doesn’t do, and why pairing it with a hash-chained audit log is more useful than trying to block screenshots.
A founder's guide to ESIGN Act and eIDAS e-signatures
What counts as a 'Simple Electronic Signature', when you need an Advanced or Qualified one, and what we generate.
AI investor intent scoring, without the snake oil
How we use a small on-edge LLM to turn dwell-time data into a narrative — and why the narrative beats the dashboard.
The Series A data-room checklist (with template)
Twelve folders, twenty files. The exact structure VCs scan-and-bounce through, and how to make the bounce easier.