08, Insights
Insights
Essays and field notes on AI products, leadership, startups and legal tech, by Ravi Daparthi.
Legal Tech
Why I'm Building LawVyn.ai
Three years of case history. Ask anyone what happened in March. Diaries, WhatsApp scrolls, old emails, someone's memory. No answer, just searching. That's the problem I've decided to spend the next decade on.
10 Sept 2026 · 7 min
Leadership
Broad > Deep: Why T-Shaped Teams Win in the AI Era
For twenty years the safe career was going deep. In an AI-native team, depth is table stakes and breadth is the differentiator, because breadth builds context, and context drives better decisions.
07 Sept 2026 · 6 min
Sales & Marketing
Sales Make Money. Trust Makes a Brand.
If your customer buys once, it's a sale. If they come back, you built trust. If they tell others, you built a brand. Most founders optimise the first line and wonder why the third never happens.
03 Sept 2026 · 7 min
AI & Product
Whatever Works Is Not Whatever Is Right
The build passes. The demo runs. Nobody in the room can explain why. Code you cannot explain is a plate washed in the toilet, clean today, unexplainable the morning it breaks.
28 Aug 2026 · 6 min
Startups & Growth
Product, Team, Market, and the Checkpoints That Kill All Three
VCs bet on the team. Engineers bet on the product. Almost everybody discovers the market last, after the product is built and the team is hired. Then they add checkpoints to make sure it never happens again, and that's the second mistake.
19 Aug 2026 · 7 min
Leadership
Every Great Leader Is Secretly Powered by Three Ancient Forces
Vision is what leaders put on slides. What they actually run on is grit when the Wi-Fi dies, calm when the scope changes again, and the instinct to reroute everything through a Plan Z that didn't exist a minute ago.
12 Aug 2026 · 6 min