Faysal Fateh

Faysal Fateh

Founder of Clarno.ai

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I'm Faysal, founder of Clarno. I built a brokerage, scaled it 27×, and exited on my own terms. Now I'm using what I learned about risk modeling to help indie founders validate their startup ideas before they waste months building. Clarno is a tool that makes validation impossible to skip. Evidence-backed problem discovery, research reports, validation surveys—all grounded in real data, not assumptions.

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JD Darr

10h ago

Hey everyone — I’m James Darr (JD)- Hospitality, consulting, product — one builder’s journey

You can call me JD, I ve spent the past several years building businesses in a few very different worlds: hospitality with Montrose Inn, consulting through ProLine, and now product-building with Provoke.

I wouldn t say I have it all figured out I just really enjoy building things, learning fast, and trying to create products and experiences that genuinely help people. Some of that has looked like running businesses in the real world, some of it has looked like solving messy problems for other companies, and some of it now looks like building new tools from scratch.

What's something AI is actually terrible at that nobody talks about?

I'll take the hit.

AI has no idea when someone is politely furious.

You know the email. "Hi team, just circling back on this again as I haven't heard anything. Thanks for your attention to this matter." Reads like a sweet grandma wrote it.

A human reads that and thinks "oh no, they are about to burn the building down." AI reads it and thinks "great sentiment, very positive, 98% satisfaction score."

Considering a Free Tier for Embedful (and we’ve started building it)

We ve been getting this request a lot, so we re taking it seriously.

We re currently exploring a free tier for Embedful and have already started the initial steps to integrate it. The goal is simple: make it easier for more people to try creating and sharing dashboards, charts, tables, and counters without friction. At the same time, we want to be thoughtful about how this impacts the product long-term.

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