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What we are building, and what we are learning.
Metropolis builds companies using agents, governed workflows, and institutional knowledge, and takes on outside engagements doing the same. These are notes on how that actually works in practice.
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September 24, 2026
Why we start with consulting
Metropolis builds polis to plan, build, and launch companies. The first company running on it is Metropolis Consulting, because the best way to learn which companies to build is to work on real problems inside other companies.
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September 19, 2026
Good ideas die on economics
When a useful idea can't promise investors a big return, it usually exists only because someone sacrifices for it. AI can change what it costs to start and run a company.
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September 17, 2026
The difference a year makes
A year ago, I was leading a team of engineers at AWS. Today I do the same job with AI agents doing the work, and it scales in a way that team never could.
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September 16, 2026
Capital isn't enough
Andreessen Horowitz bet that software would eat the world, and built a firm that gives startups far more than money. Put those two ideas together, and the expert network itself starts to look like software.
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September 16, 2026
AI isn't a genie
If you think AI has been oversold, you're right. An LLM is a language tool, and it delivers when it is used for the right job with the right system around it.
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August 25, 2026
The studio is the first customer
Metropolis is the first company built on polis. What it needs gets built once, and every company after it inherits that work.
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