Welcome to Fontlume

AI is replacing jobs faster than it's creating them. The people who survive will be the ones who build something. But the number of founders is about to explode, and most of them will waste months building something that's either been done ten times already or has no real market.

We read millions of scientific papers every week to find what literally just became possible. Not startup ideas from a brainstorm. Real opportunities backed by real breakthroughs, with verified commercial demand and nobody building them yet. Free weekly email.

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Fontlume #10: Where the durable wedges live

Ten issues in. Five last picks for the cycle. Each one passes the same test: paper less than 24 months old, a real buyer, and a gap nobody is filling.

Fontlume #9: The moat is the customer, not the model

Five things where the technical breakthrough is real but the durable advantage comes from owning a specific buyer relationship. Read for which buyers, and why.

Fontlume #8: When the data is the moat

Synthetic data, automated annotation, document extraction, federal-grade local AI. Five places where the buyer wants the data more than the model.